Damn! Congrats mate! Just make sure to hide it from your partner haha!Looks like a change of plan, had a bit of a impulse buy & bought a 3090 FE. Damn...
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Advice for a temp gpu upgrade?
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Looks like a change of plan, had a bit of a impulse buy & bought a 3090 FE. Damn...
Now you just need the rest of the system.
Now you just need the rest of the system.
Yeah been racking my brain, atm its between a Ryzen 7 5800X & i9 10900KF system, the 5800X would be cheaper tho. Its only for gaming but im not sure which one would be better yet, any thoughts?
10900 might be a whopping 1% faster in games.
But 5800X brings you Pcie4 and lower power consumption. So in addition to being cheaper to buy, its cheaper to cool. No brainer to me.
Both are sort of dead end platforms. If you are willing to wait Alder Lake is rumored to come Q4 this year and Zen4 some time next year. Should have significant CPU improvements in addition to DDR5. I mean you spent all this time on Devils canyon...
But 5800X brings you Pcie4 and lower power consumption. So in addition to being cheaper to buy, its cheaper to cool. No brainer to me.
Both are sort of dead end platforms. If you are willing to wait Alder Lake is rumored to come Q4 this year and Zen4 some time next year. Should have significant CPU improvements in addition to DDR5. I mean you spent all this time on Devils canyon...
Either a 5800X or 10850K just go with the platform you prefer as it's not like you will notice a difference between either.Yeah been racking my brain, atm its between a Ryzen 7 5800X & i9 10900KF system, the 5800X would be cheaper tho. Its only for gaming but im not sure which one would be better yet, any thoughts?
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The 1080ti is the card I have now, im looking for something a bit better to use as the temp card until i get to upgrade & build a new pc later.
P.S Im writing this from a womb..
I'd get a 3060ti and just use DLSS to play at 4k. Just hope the games you play have it as an option.
Linus did a video on how essentially nobody really needs anything more powerful than a 3060 any more because dlss works so well.
You obviously missed the OP has a 3090 now.
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Mental is he still using ddr3? And a old CPU which will certainly bottleneck it?
Also does he understand DDR5 is going to be stupidly expensive also?
Some are still in the mindset that all you need for gaming is an old quad core, which is baffling to me as I saw them bottlenecking years ago with much weaker GPUs!
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Quad core is fine for older well optimised games like csgo however that will run on a 1050. If you need a 3090 it seems mad to not spend £60 on a b450 tomahawk. £100 on a 3600 second hand and £70 on ddr4 16gb.
£230 to get arguably an amazing set up.
That is the sensible thing which I keep repeating, but on the other hand if plenty of early adopter pay over the top for what will eventually be looked down upon like DDR4-2133 is now, then DDR5 will enter the somewhat mainstream faster.
Or would manufacturer just laugh about all that slow DDR5 they sold at high prices and competition won't enter into it? After all there are only three DRAM manufacturers remaining.
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The price of ram alone will outweigh a full modern upgrade like the one I suggested above.
Yes it is a bad move to buy new ram upon release because as you suggested it's not only expensive it will also likely be superceded and become obsolete quite fast in terms of what people recommend using.
A lot of you are making very good points, so im not gonna rush into anything just yet, the 3090 arrived today so im gonna try it out with my old cpu & ddr3 & see how it performs. Hopefully it will give me enough of a boost to games to keep me happy for a few months until we see whats new from Amd & Intel, & if the ddr 5 is stupid prices then i'll stick with ddr 4. Maybe there will be motherboards that will take both ddr4 & ddr5 that I could get & upgrade the ram when prices come down, I used to have a mobo that would take ddr2 & ddr3.
Or look for some second hand kit for cheap like Phycho Sonny says for time being..
Or look for some second hand kit for cheap like Phycho Sonny says for time being..
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B450 tomahawk is on special at ocuk for £60 new.
I'd buy that now and just do the upgrade it's a no brainer.
Buy crucial ballistix ram 16gb for £70 new as well.
CPU is the only thing that you will need to source second hand but plenty are upgrading to 5000 series so you should have no issues there. Plus CPU last forever so no risk with second hand
Specs say
4x DDR4 (max. 2.933 MHz, 3.466 via OC)
1x M.2 PCIe 3.0
Bit limited, Is this an older spec mobo?
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You don't need faster than 3200 MHz ram so not limited there at all. I just upgraded from 3200 to 3600 because I was doing a full rgb build and my benchmarks actually decreased within margin of error. Using a newer motherboard the b550 tomahawk.
As for 1 nvme drive. That is fine the speed difference in the real world is minimal. Stick your games that truly benefit if any on the nvme you can get 1tb for as cheap as £70-£90 regularly.
Sata SSD there is no noticeable gain outwith benchmarks so it's not exactly slow. There is nothing wrong with SATA SSD.
IMO you would be mad not to do the upgrade I'm suggesting. You can spend more on a motherboard but it won't give you any more FPS or any gain at all.
Ok I get what you're saying.
But I got some good news, I tested a couple of games at 4k max settings ultra & got good results with my old system, gonna run some more tests on a few more games today.
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Spending £230 will get you massive gains at minimum FPS and 1% average lows.
You can probably still sell your old CPU,mobo and ram as a bundle on eBay for £50-£100 to offset too.
Meaning it's circa £150 to do the massive upgrade I'm suggesting. Especially at 4k.
Ok thanks for your advice, I will certainly consider it.