Anyone slightly nervous about going red?

Mercutio · 31 Oct 2020 at 20:08

Nope, all red as soon as possible.

cityfaninlondon · 1 Nov 2020 at 18:11

I'm planning on going to AMD. Currently have an intel build and looking at 3600 as I have seen it cheap. Would get the 5600 however I'd rather put the money difference into new graphics card as I'm still using my 970. Was going to get one earlier vut decided to wait snd see what happens. Judging as j won't be able to afford a 3070 or new amd 6000 card I don't thibk I need to spend the extra on the 5600.

XeNoNF50 · 1 Nov 2020 at 19:31

On the slightly nervous theme I've no idea what is the best RAM I can get for this (probably 5900x but maybe 5950x).

Would I be better off buying CL16 3600mhz or CL18 4000mhz?

AMD seem to think 4000mhz is the way to go?

GregI · 1 Nov 2020 at 21:39

XeNoNF50 said:
On the slightly nervous theme I've no idea what is the best RAM I can get for this (probably 5900x but maybe 5950x)

Literally wait 3 days.

TonyTurbo78 · 1 Nov 2020 at 21:43

I'll be going from a 8700k @ 5ghz and a Pascal Titan to a 5900X 6800XT combo so yeah I'm a little nervous of the amount of improvement I'm going to see with that CPU over the 5ghz 8700k I got.

LtMatt · 1 Nov 2020 at 21:54

TonyTurbo78 said:
I'll be going from a 8700k @ 5ghz and a Pascal Titan to a 5900X 6800XT combo so yeah I'm a little nervous of the amount of improvement I'm going to see with that CPU over the 5ghz 8700k I got.

Should be looking at a nice upgrade I think Tony.

XeNoNF50 · 1 Nov 2020 at 21:56

GregI said:
Literally wait 3 days.

Fair enough. I'm assuming some earlier reviews will cover this?

GregI · 1 Nov 2020 at 22:15

XeNoNF50 said:
Fair enough. I'm assuming some earlier reviews will cover this?

Yip. The one to look for will be Gamers Nexus who will do the most on this subject. He knows about the FCLK stuff and he has a variey of B-Die to try. Ofcourse one CPU is not entirely reflective of what can be achieved but I'm more than sure in Discord groups or whatever the reviewers discuss this.

Joxeon · 1 Nov 2020 at 22:22

TonyTurbo78 said:
I'll be going from a 8700k @ 5ghz and a Pascal Titan to a 5900X 6800XT combo so yeah I'm a little nervous of the amount of improvement I'm going to see with that CPU over the 5ghz 8700k I got.

If gaming is your main pass time then I doubt you will see much of an improvement from the CPU for the money spent especially at 1440P

TonyTurbo78 · 1 Nov 2020 at 22:24

LtMatt said:
Should be looking at a nice upgrade I think Tony.

theres no questioning the 6800XT being a big jump up from this Titan, the CPU is the upgrade I'm not sure of as I'll be buying a x570 motherboard also. Wondering if maybe I just get the 6800XT and an EK block for now, drop it in the current system and wait for the next gen motherboards and chips.

@Joxeon I do a lot of production also, editing videos for YouTube etc so it's not just for gaming purposes.

LtMatt · 1 Nov 2020 at 22:26

TonyTurbo78 said:
theres no questioning the 6800XT being a big jump up from this Titan, the CPU is the upgrade I'm not sure of as I'll be buying a x570 motherboard also. Wondering if maybe I just get the 6800XT and an EK block for now, drop it in the current system and wait for the next gen motherboards and chips.

Have a look at the reviews not long to wait now.

TonyTurbo78 · 1 Nov 2020 at 22:27

LtMatt said:
Have a look at the reviews not long to wait now.

Indeed. How you been anyway? not seen you around for a while, I guess you'll be doing a big upgrade also?

LtMatt · 1 Nov 2020 at 22:32

TonyTurbo78 said:
Indeed. How you been anyway? not seen you around for a while, I guess you'll be doing a big upgrade also?

Good thanks mate.

Yeah I think I’ll be upgrading, tented by the 5950x and a 6900xt, but may end up with a 5800x and a 6800xt. It will depend on availability I suspect which I end up going for.

it’s been too quiet with you out of the AMD threads.

TonyTurbo78 · 1 Nov 2020 at 23:22

LtMatt said:
Good thanks mate.

Yeah I think I’ll be upgrading, tented by the 5950x and a 6900xt, but may end up with a 5800x and a 6800xt. It will depend on availability I suspect which I end up going for.

it’s been too quiet with you out of the AMD threads.

Haha yeah sold the vega64, popped in some older Pascal Titans and 1080tis in my 3 rigs. I'm excited for the 6800xt more than the Cpus (although it's all looking incredible, kudos to AMD)

4k60 looks pretty much nailed on with these cards but gaming at 1440p 144hz should mean loads of grunt in there on the card to serious eye candy and also be able to drive 144hz freesync to its limit or there abouts.

denigor777 · 4 Nov 2020 at 12:52

I'm switching to AMD for a different reason to most. I have a USB webcam, keyboard, mouse and headset that I use on my work laptop and on my home PC (one shared screen, each is separately connected to it so it displays from one ir the other). I switch them using a very simple USB2 KVM switch and a usb2 hub, so they are connected to whichever PC I need.

Each device takes up a number of 'USB Endpoints' on the USB bus. Intel chipset, even the latest, cannot support the total number of endpoints required. Devices randomly drop out, Windows reports a resources error. It wouldn't be a problem if they each connected to different physical ports, but with this setup they all come in on one port.

AMD chipset supports way more (256) endpoints than Intel. There is no sign that Intel plan to extend their chipset USB endpoint limits, thus it makes changing my home PC to AMD to match my AMD laptop and have a smooth setup for both. That AMD has a beter CPU also helps of course.

There ya go, another chipset advantage, which for me is more important than that of PCIe-4.

liquidphantom · 4 Nov 2020 at 17:58

Every new build I've switched teams, From the 166mmx to K6, then PIII (I actually miss those slot packages, so easy to handle) then a Phenom 2, currently on a geriatric I7 4770K.

I was eyeing up the 5900x and getting it at launch but seeing as I want to do a full system rebuild with the RTX3090 but the 3090s are still more rare than rocking horse poop so I might just save a bit more and go the whole hog for 5950x in the new year.

I was tempted by the 6900xt GPUs but I'm still not sure about the productivity support and performance, Nvidia definitely rule the roost there.

golden751 · 4 Nov 2020 at 20:52

I'm already all AMD build but I'm still nervous of upgrading. I''ve got a r9 270x and personally haven't had any driver issues. But the 5700xt issues have me nervous of buying a 6800xt

mr griffin · 4 Nov 2020 at 20:55

XeNoNF50 said:
On the slightly nervous theme I've no idea what is the best RAM I can get for this (probably 5900x but maybe 5950x).

Would I be better off buying CL16 3600mhz or CL18 4000mhz?

AMD seem to think 4000mhz is the way to go?

I've gone for 3600mhz 8pack rams.... I'm hoping that 3600mhz is enough if not with a bit of luck they might overclock, but not sure if they would reach 4000mhz????

XeNoNF50 · 4 Nov 2020 at 21:05

mr griffin said:
I've gone for 3600mhz 8pack rams.... I'm hoping that 3600mhz is enough if not with a bit of luck they might overclock, but not sure if they would reach 4000mhz????

I didn't go 8 pack but I went for crucial ballistix 32gb 3600mhz cl16 - hoping the same if this is the case but I suspect it won't be 4000mhz, more 3800mhz.

mr griffin · 4 Nov 2020 at 21:22

XeNoNF50 said:
I didn't go 8 pack but I went for crucial ballistix 32gb 3600mhz cl16 - hoping the same if this is the case but I suspect it won't be 4000mhz, more 3800mhz.

Still should be ok