Want help? >State the budget & CURRENCY >List your uses e.g. Gaming, Video Editing, VM Work >For monitors include purpose & graphics pairing >NO Speccy or "bottleneck checkers"
CPUs >Athlon 200GE - HTPC, web browsing, bare minimum gaming >R3 2200G - Light 30-60fps gaming(dGPU optional). 2400G if you want a CPU which can last into a GPU upgrade >R5 2600/X - Good 60fps+ gaming & multithreaded use >R7 2700/X - If on sale for HEDT or home server usage >R7 3800/X - Best for gaming, launching 7/7 >R9 3900X - Budget HEDT, launching 7/7 >Threadripper - HEDT
>Intel CPUs are now defunct. Even used i7 workstations are no longer worthwhile due to vulnerabilities and performance regression >You may want to wait to buy an X570 board even for a sale price 2600/X, for future upgrades. B550 boards will likely launch in August
RAM >NEVER use only a single stick >8GB - very light use, and/or if you don't mind closing programs regularly >16GB - standard amount. If you have to ask if you need more, you don't >CPUs benefit from fast RAM; 2800MHz+ is ideal. Check "more" link for true latency formula
Graphics cards 1080p >RX 570/580 - value. >1660 - Slightly better perf for more demanding games on high/maxed 60fps+ > 1660Ti / Vega56 - higher framerates 1440p (WQHD) >used 1070Ti / Vega - 60-120fps+ in most games on high/maxed >Above Vega offers progressively poorer and poorer value. Wait for the RX 5000 series 2160p (4k) >Wait for better priced GPUs. 2080Ti is only 1.85x the performance for 4x the cost of a $300 GPU, and still only does 30fps in many games.
Other >Consider a larger SSD (better GB/$) instead of small SSD & HDD >M.2 is a form factor, NOT a performance standard >PLAN BUILD AROUND YOUR MONITOR IF GAMING
you literally wont even see it because whatever dumb fuck LEDS you have plastered everywhere will destroy any sense of detail
anyway lets talk vega 56 anyone here flashed it before and is it good for 1440p gaming especially if my monitor is capped at 75hz?
Jace Barnes
590 is weaker than the 1660Ti. It's even like 4% weaker than the 1660 AND uses a lot more power. 590 is only good if you can get it for like
Austin Clark
Threadripper 3000 when ?
Samuel Wood
what model v56 do you have
Wyatt Young
How bad are QLC SSDs for general use truly? Intel's 660p NVME QLC based stuff is dirt cheap. Like $100/TB. I was thinking of grabbing 2x 2TB models and putting them on one of those dual m.2 to PCIe cards. They'd be for game installation only, so they'd be getting read from rather than heavy writes.
Blake Rogers
Red Dragon. I did not get Samsung HBM with it.
There's been rumors that it won't come until Zen3 next year, but will launch early in the year before AM4 Zen3 as Intel will seemingly not have anything competitive with Ryzen 3000 for a while.
The expectation is that Zen3 will have 3-way or 4-way SMT, as there is no indication of increased core counts with Zen3 so far. So Threadripper will have 16c/48t to 32c/96t with new boards and likely octochannel memory. While AM4 Zen3 launching later in the year will have the SMT dropped down to 2-way and be 16c/32t max.
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Nathan Hall
What could I expect from GTS 250? Or maybe some AMD equivalent?
Ayden Bennett
I need a PC build for primarily virtualization, such as running 10 virtual machines simultaneously. I presumably need at least 32 gb ram, help me pick the other parts such as cpu etc, no graphics card is needed.
