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Poll: BROWSE THE NVIDIA RTX 4000 SERIES AT OcUK !!

Are you buying 4000 series, if so which one?

  • YES: 4090 24GB

    Votes: 153 19.4%

  • YES: 4080 16GB

    Votes: 23 2.9%

  • YES: 4080 12GB

    Votes: 7 0.9%

  • NO: 3000 SERIES

    Votes: 55 7.0%

  • NO: SKIPPING THIS ROUND!

    Votes: 550 69.8%
  • Total voters
    788
Brun said:
It's not specifically the high resolution which makes VR very demanding on hardware. The entire scene has to be 'created' (before any pixels are actually rendered) independently for each eye, a process which is very dependent on the CPU. I reckon that 7700k would seriously limit the benefits of the GPU upgrade.
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+1

A 7700k with a 4090 ?

Surely the better upgrade would be CPU/Motherboard/RAM to latest DDR5 platform especially with a 3080ti ?
 
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MikoSkye said:
Here's hoping you have either the MSI closed loop card, or the Gigabyte version on day one in stock #fingerscrossed
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MSI no chance, only expecting Suprim X for launch.
Gigabyte yes will have both Aorus Master and Aorus WaterForce in stock for launch, but incredibly small numbers and the pricing is above 2k.
 
varkanoid said:
+1

A 7700k with a 4090 ?

Surely the better upgrade would be CPU/Motherboard/RAM to latest DDR5 platform especially with a 3080ti ?
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ljt said:
Indeed.

A 7700k has got to be bottlenecking his current card let a lone a 4090!
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well alls i can say is that when i use task manager to monitor cpu and gpu useage, cpu is usually around 50-70%, gpu is is 98-100%, thats msfs in vr.
when others talk about what fps they're getting, i'm getting fps in the same ballpark.
 
tyke_ said:
well alls i can say is that when i use task manager to monitor cpu and gpu useage, cpu is usually around 50-70%, gpu is is 98-100%, thats msfs in vr.
when others talk about what fps they're getting, i'm getting fps in the same ballpark.
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What you observed is overall CPU usage, amongst all cores. What it doesn't tell you is that a lot of main game threads sit on just one core (usually the core of the game logic) and then other cores do things like physics and sound, etc. What this means is that if your CPU's single core is lagging with performance, the whole game will be limited by that, irrelevant of other cores (as they will wait for the main one to do things). In effect, you might see CPU not being used in 100% but it might still be heavily CPU bottleneck. GPU usage might be high by that too and yet still have FPS to spare if CPU can feed it data faster. The whole thing is quite complex to monitor, hence game devs use much more advanced tools for that than just task manager or MSI Afterburner etc.
 
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ok i understand what you are saying and common sense does dictate that i'm hindered by such an old cpu. as i said i'm definitely considering a cpu/mobo upgrade anyway, more so now, thanks guys.
 
Gibbo said:
MSI no chance, only expecting Suprim X for launch.
Gigabyte yes will have both Aorus Master and Aorus WaterForce in stock for launch, but incredibly small numbers and the pricing is above 2k.
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Thought the Gigabyte version would be expensive, will have to check out some really early reviews to see if it worth the premium, or if I wait for the MSI one. Thanks
 
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