Topic: Meta, a very simple question
Anonymous A started this discussion 5 years ago #100,438
How are you?
Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 17 minutes later[^] [v] #1,132,693
Pretty okay! My new motherboard is coming in on Thursday. I'm upgrading to a Ryzen 7 3700X and a 5600XT. I already have the new CPU and GPU (bought last week) but I think the full potential of the R7 and 5600 is being held back by my shitty old A320 motherboard. So I got an Asus Tuf Gaming X570 Plus. Going full tilt on this one.
I gotta say though, even on the old A320 motherboard the Ryzen 7 3700X is insane. I kind of doubted the benefit of 8 cores but no matter what you throw at it the big Ryzen barely breaks a sweat. Pretty glad I didn't go for a 3600, despite that being more popular and $100 cheaper. Quite a substantial upgrade from the Ryzen 3 2200G I was using.
The graphics card too is awesome, I'm easily getting 2X the framerates I was getting on my 1050Ti. I thought about getting a 2060 but ray tracing is still a meme and very few games support it. Those that do (like Minecraft RTX) run like crap even on a 2070. I'll get a ray tracing card when they're better. I'm gonna skip it this generation.
Going to need a new case too since my current case only fits micro ATX and this is a full size ATX board. Debating whether 3200MT/s RAM is fast enough or I should aim for something higher.
I won't do any overclocking since there's no real point: the R7 3700X is already pushed to the limit by AMD. (https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/ryzen-7-3700x-overclocking-benchmarks-performance).
I gotta say though, even on the old A320 motherboard the Ryzen 7 3700X is insane. I kind of doubted the benefit of 8 cores but no matter what you throw at it the big Ryzen barely breaks a sweat. Pretty glad I didn't go for a 3600, despite that being more popular and $100 cheaper. Quite a substantial upgrade from the Ryzen 3 2200G I was using.
The graphics card too is awesome, I'm easily getting 2X the framerates I was getting on my 1050Ti. I thought about getting a 2060 but ray tracing is still a meme and very few games support it. Those that do (like Minecraft RTX) run like crap even on a 2070. I'll get a ray tracing card when they're better. I'm gonna skip it this generation.
Going to need a new case too since my current case only fits micro ATX and this is a full size ATX board. Debating whether 3200MT/s RAM is fast enough or I should aim for something higher.
I won't do any overclocking since there's no real point: the R7 3700X is already pushed to the limit by AMD. (https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/ryzen-7-3700x-overclocking-benchmarks-performance).
Killer Lettuce? !HonkUK.BIE joined in and replied with this 5 years ago, 6 minutes later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,132,695
@OP
I was literally on my way to make this exact topic after I read Matt's one. ?
I was literally on my way to make this exact topic after I read Matt's one. ?
tteh !MemesToDNA (OP) replied with this 5 years ago, 20 hours later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,132,900
@1,132,693 (Meta !Sober//iZs)Nice! I have an AMD Radeon R9 390, Asus Z97-A mobo, and i7 4790k. All about 6 years old! But I don't play many video games anymore, so all I need is virtualisation support (for work) + decent RAM.
come @ me bro
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Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 5 years ago, 3 days later, 4 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,134,137
@previous (tteh !MemesToDNA)
Okay last piece of the puzzle arrived today: a new Western Digital 1TB M.2 PCI Express NVMe SSD to replace the 120GB PNY SATA SSD I was using for the OS install. The Acronis disk clone was easy and totally painless, the cloned drive booted right up.
I'm also running my RAM slightly overclocked to 3400MT/s. I have also overclocked the GPU.
Here is my build:
Case: Corsair iCUE 220T
Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
RAM: PNY 16GB XLR8 Gaming DDR4 3200MHz
GPU: XFX AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT RAW II
SSD: WD Blue SN550 1TB NVMe
PSU: EVGA 500 W1 (already owned this)
Some final thoughts, really answers to questions I had going into this:
1. Does a better motherboard improve gaming? Answer: no. I got the same framerates with the Gigabyte A320 which is literally the oldest, cheapest, least-powerful motherboard you can run Ryzen 3000 series on. Ryzen 3000 isn't even officially supported on the A320 chipset.
2. Does PCIe 4.0 make any difference in gaming? Answer: no. It will someday but for now PCIe 4.0 is a meme.
3. Is PCIe NVMe SSD any faster than a SATA SSD? Answer: maybe but the difference is minor at best.
4. Are glass-sided cases a good idea? Answer: no. The embarrassment of your sloppy cable management should be hidden from view.
5. Can you overclock the VRAM on your GPU? Answer: no. The screen blanks out and the computer crashes.
Okay last piece of the puzzle arrived today: a new Western Digital 1TB M.2 PCI Express NVMe SSD to replace the 120GB PNY SATA SSD I was using for the OS install. The Acronis disk clone was easy and totally painless, the cloned drive booted right up.
I'm also running my RAM slightly overclocked to 3400MT/s. I have also overclocked the GPU.
Here is my build:
Case: Corsair iCUE 220T
Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
RAM: PNY 16GB XLR8 Gaming DDR4 3200MHz
GPU: XFX AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT RAW II
SSD: WD Blue SN550 1TB NVMe
PSU: EVGA 500 W1 (already owned this)
Some final thoughts, really answers to questions I had going into this:
1. Does a better motherboard improve gaming? Answer: no. I got the same framerates with the Gigabyte A320 which is literally the oldest, cheapest, least-powerful motherboard you can run Ryzen 3000 series on. Ryzen 3000 isn't even officially supported on the A320 chipset.
2. Does PCIe 4.0 make any difference in gaming? Answer: no. It will someday but for now PCIe 4.0 is a meme.
3. Is PCIe NVMe SSD any faster than a SATA SSD? Answer: maybe but the difference is minor at best.
4. Are glass-sided cases a good idea? Answer: no. The embarrassment of your sloppy cable management should be hidden from view.
5. Can you overclock the VRAM on your GPU? Answer: no. The screen blanks out and the computer crashes.