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[Xelene]

Looking for upgrade here, I bought a vega56 but it didn’t fit my case so it’s been sat in its box for a year and could flip it on market.

meant to spend 300-350 here + whatever offset the vega gives.

need something shortish and 1440p

 

[Gray2233]

Is it to go with the system in your signature?

 

[Xelene]

Have a Ryzen 2600 atm

 

[Gray2233]

You can get a 5700XT for around that price range, assuming you have a decent PSU also.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Pulse 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card *BLACK FRIDAY DEAL*= £379.99
• 1 x Powercolor Radeon RX 5700 XT Dual Fan 8GB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £368.99

Total: £748.98 (includes shipping: £0.00)


5700XT trades blows with the slightly faster 2070S.​

 

[Xelene]

sweet, PSU can handle that; I’ll flip the vega - these look small enough

 

[Xelene]

updated sig, hows the noise on these XT's? can probably stretch to a 2070 super tbh; can sell the vega56 on for a couple of hundred I reckon. the ryzen 2600 was always a stop gap (got it cheap) - it'll get swapped out for a 3700x at some point.

 

[Gray2233]

The noise is fine, look up the reviews of whichever interest you.

I wouldn't personally spend the extra on a Super but that's your call.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

updated sig, hows the noise on these XT's? can probably stretch to a 2070 super tbh; can sell the vega56 on for a couple of hundred I reckon. the ryzen 2600 was always a stop gap (got it cheap) - it'll get swapped out for a 3700x at some point.

Just get a 3600X or 3600 instead. No need for a 3700X.

 

[Xelene]

Just get a 3600X or 3600 instead. No need for a 3700X.

I can always find use for extra cores

 

[Psycho Sonny]

I can always find use for extra cores

Really mine barely breaks a sweat. 6 cores and 12 threads is the right amount for most tasks unless you are doing some crazy encoding or photo/video stuff.

if you genuinely need it fair enough otherwise it's a waste of £100 better spent on the GPU.

 

[4K8KW10]

6 cores and 12 threads is the "right" minimum amount one would want for a system as of today.
Just last days, I have experienced a sudden micro-stutter in gaming on my 4 cores and 8 threads Ryzen, which was caused by some Windows background processes.
Even though, it lasted only for 2-3 seconds, it was so severe, that it damaged my gameplay and I had to restart the level.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

6 cores and 12 threads is the "right" minimum amount one would want for a system as of today.
Just last days, I have experienced a sudden micro-stutter in gaming on my 4 cores and 8 threads Ryzen, which was caused by some Windows background processes.
Even though, it lasted only for 2-3 seconds, it was so severe, that it damaged my gameplay and I had to restart the level.

I never had stuttering but I did find it slow to alt tab whilst gaming which has now vanished. And that was only on 4 cores and 4 threads. 6 cores with 12 threads likely be okay for gaming use for the next 10 years easy. just need to boost performance per core instead now.

 

[4K8KW10]

I never had stuttering but I did find it slow to alt tab whilst gaming which has now vanished. And that was only on 4 cores and 4 threads. 6 cores with 12 threads likely be okay for gaming use for the next 10 years easy. just need to boost performance per core instead now.

Blessed are the believers. I reckon 6 cores and 12 threads will be dead by end of next year or early 2021

 

[Psycho Sonny]

Blessed are the believers. I reckon 6 cores and 12 threads will be dead by end of next year or early 2021

when were 4 cores released? i only just started struggling this year. so i'm sure 12 threads will be fine for a good while yet. i'll need to stick a cpu monitor on in game to see how much i actually use. My fans hardly ever ramp up so that is what i normally go by.

 

[4K8KW10]

when were 4 cores released? i only just started struggling this year. so i'm sure 12 threads will be fine for a good while yet. i'll need to stick a cpu monitor on in game to see how much i actually use. My fans hardly ever ramp up so that is what i normally go by.

First quad core processors were released back in September 2009.
First hexa core processors were released back in September 2010.

I have noticed severe micro-stutter and CPU bottleneck on a quad-core Core 2 sometime in the period 2011-2013. NFS and F1 games at that time began stuttering.

What you want is complete stop of the industry and its progress for 10 years, so you can use your old hexa core. Which is very wrong of you.

I want the 8-core processors available since 2017 as Ryzen 7 to be utilised at least with 80-90% in every new game, so we have more realism in gameplay and the CPU bottleneck which drags the fastest videocards backwards to be resolved.