Wow, thanks for all that. I didn't even know about ATX 3.0 with the PSU, so I'm glad I posted! Great to know about the RAM as well. What's PBO, is that a form of undervolting or something? I currently undervolt my RTX 3060 Ti FE, but not the 5600X CPU (I don't think, maybe I am because I remember doing something in BIOS! lol)
I liked the idea of the fan option at the rear to help pull the GPU heat out, I currently have a similar custom setup at the moment, except that the fan is in front of the GPU pushing the hot air out. But it's not a deal breaker, other than price are there any advantages to the Phantek over the Lian-Li?
I'm not a fan of WD, have a few failures in the past with HDD but I don't know what their M.2 are like. I've never had issues with Crucial drives though, I would probably stick with it for the sake of a tenner.
Are Zotac any good? I've got Palit ones in the past and they weren't good, which is why I've ended up going down the FE route.
Thanks again.
I'm upgrading from a 5600X, X570 Tomahawk MB, RTX 3060 Ti FE, RM750x PSU, 32GB DDR4 RAM, similar M.2 SDD but only 1GB.
I run a super widescreen monitor at 4k for desktop apps, but PC gaming is not overly intensive. However, I do game with PCVR on the Quest 3. I've got a dedicated TUF Gaming AX5400 router for it, so now looking at the computer side of things.
An alternative I'm also looking at is simply popping an RTX 4070 FE into my current rig instead, but now I'm worried about this ATX 3.0 thing. My current 3060 Ti came with an adapter to work with my RM750x, will the 4070 not also come with this adapter?
PBO precision boost overdrive... you just enable it in bios and that's it, it does the resyt...a bit like enabling expo for ram
you already have a good rig, and of course you're gaming at 4k resolution you say, so more of the grunt work moves to the gpu rather than the cpu, so really the best bet is a gpu upgrade
I don't see the point of the 4070, the 4070super is 16% faster for less of a % price upgrade, making it a no brainer...from 4070super to 4070ti super a bit more tricky
4070 £530 100%
4070s £580 116% performance of 4070 for 9.4% more money
4070tisupr £800 136% perf for 51% more money
4080super £959 161% perf for 81.9% more money
4090 £1549 199% per for 192.3% more money
so if a game scales at samer perf and lets say 4070 game is 100fps then cost per frame would be £5.30
4070s would get 116fps so £5 per frame
4070tis would be £5.88
4080s would be £5.95
4090 would be £7.78
now really the higher up the stack you go the price should stretch but in the 4070sup the cost per frame drops, so it makes it better value than the 4070
but the 4070ti goes the other way, which is to be expected as it's higher up the stack
the outlier to me in the 4000 series is the 4080super as it's nearly the same cost per frame as the 4070ti, where it should be way more as it's a higher tier gpu....now seeing as they're so expensive, in reality, that just tells me the 4070tisuper is too expensive(should be closer to £700 to be in line with performance for me, in the stck so to speak)
and the 4090 is premium, but look at the cost per frame
so for me I'd either look at the 4070super which will give up a 49% uplift in gaming vs the 3060ti or the 4080super which will give you a 107% uplift compared to the 3060ti...and is a true 4k gpu
caveat being at the end of the year new gen cards should be realease, but last rumour i saw is that the5080/5090 might be delayed to next year, and the lower cards will be much later, much like the 4000 series launch
