Excellent post
@orbitalwalsh, I knew I could find an expert in this forum.
I have some questions
- Does the branding of the graphics card really affect performance? For example, would a £100 more expensive gtx 1080 really make a difference to frame rates?
- Am I going to notice a big difference between the Samsung monitor and the AOC monitor?
- How does the Ryzen 5 1600 compare with the i7? I'm wondering if it may bottleneck the GTX 1080 and 3000MHz Ram.
- Am I likely able to upgrade to a 2080 in the future?
Would hold off the expert comment till other have given their lay down
Good to get different view points across to get a wide set of opinions
With 900 series, the extra £100 could get you a card that would allow more power to the GPU to run higher speeds, gigabyte Xtreme/Asus Strix, MSI lightning and Evga kingping - but now Nvidia kind of knocked this on the head
What extra hundred gets you is possibly longer warranty, better cooling, lower noise, less chance of coil whine with a bad psu, bling and higher clock speeds out of the box .
I believe the Samsung colour is spot on, if you've seen the TVs with the matrix dot tech then you'll know how the monitor will look, not to say the other screen is anything to scoff at.
I7 will always be king of FPS just purely because you can run it faster , but as you go up in pixel count, the CPU is bottlenecked less as the GPU has to go more work so CPU has a chance to catch up .
A way of combating it for Ryzen would be naturally having everything to ultra as well as upscale the resolution in game. Games like BF1 can render 1440p on your 1080p screens to make it work a bit hard .
Worth reading and watching some YouTube videos on it from rate rate comparisons , but at Intel's current pricing and AMD, I lot of people here will recommend the 1600 pushed to 3.8/9 with 3000hz ram .
I think the next generation will be named 1160/70/80 but hopefully you'll skip that gen
Vega might cause less of a bottle neck then the 1080 , even with flashing a 64 Vega bios to it as it'll perform just slightly under .