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Tony Williams

Tony Williams

Tony Williams

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Hey guys, I've not been in the gaming scene or PC hardware scene for awhile so I have some catching up to do. I wish to upgrade my PC to run games in VR on high GFX at 90FPS. I have a normal Oculas Rift which I've only just started using. My current computer struggles a fair bit but I'd put most of that down to the fact I am using a 250GB SATA hard drive at the moment. I don't do a lot of other power intense processes. I would like to ideally do the new pc build/upgrade (whatever you want to call it) in two parts the mobo, cpu, ram then another date the GPU and a new monitor.

So current spec is this.

Windows 10 and it's running off a hard drive right now, so I would say I would see the most benefit from upgrading this to SSD.
CASE: Coolermaster Cosmos 2 (I plan to keep this)
PSU: OCZ 1250W PSU (I might as well keep this too)
MOBO Asus Crosshair IV Formula
CPU: AMD 8350 4GHz
RAM: 16 GB (DDR3?)
GFX: Nvidia 970 GTX

This is what I've laid out to upgrade it with. I'm undecided on what to get the PCIE3 SSD or the 2.5" SATA one? I'd assume the PCIE one would have more benefits than just small size and takes up less space.

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I'll need to order 2x USB 3.0 extenders, a third Oculas sensor, a VR pully also. Then in a few months I'll probably invest in a new GFX card and new monitor.
 
Rock and a hard place, ideally you'd like to upgrade both !

Sata 3 and NVMe will equal the same speed for gaming, don't get to drawn in with consoles using NVMe now. Moving data from storage to CPU etc was a different inefficient way .

Ryzen 3600 would still be a great upgrade for you and most VR games only really use up to a max of 4 cores/8 threads

Wondering if you could squeeze in gtx 1600 Super into your build ?
 
I'll price everything up first but a 1060 would be affordable. I was going to wait a couple of months because I could put more money into a better GFX card.

Thanks for the advice too. I'll probably get the SAMSUNG one as I know they were very reliable back in the day.
 
Just saying mate you're a legend, I actually thought about the carbon but decided against it. I always think when you buy a motherboard, especially a gaming motherboard that has a built in video card then you're paying ££ for that feature but you'll get less of a motherboard same with WiFi?

Anyway I'll take your advice. What benifets are there to this board over the tomahawk? Apart from WiFi, Bluetooth and better audio?

I'll be posting pics probably and also I'll be selling my old components too on here. If I can raise a good £400+ I'll buy a very good video card with it.
 
Tony Williams said:
Just saying mate you're a legend, I actually thought about the carbon but decided against it. I always think when you buy a motherboard, especially a gaming motherboard that has a built in video card then you're paying ££ for that feature but you'll get less of a motherboard same with WiFi?

Anyway I'll take your advice. What benifets are there to this board over the tomahawk? Apart from WiFi, Bluetooth and better audio?

I'll be posting pics probably and also I'll be selling my old components too on here. If I can raise a good £400+ I'll buy a very good video card with it.
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Vrms are slightly different . Same amount and units but wired better along with additional chokes to handle more cores better in the future
 
If you want CPU which lasts like five years then 3700X is the choise.
Next-gen consoles will bring "non-boosting" variant of it as base level for future games in fall/before Christmas.
So future games will be heavily multithreaded.

Tomahawk has also better VRM heatsink over B450-A Pro.
With working case cooling it would do decently well with 12/16 cores.

Kinston memory is too expensive for slow CAS18 latency.
TeamGroup's CAS16 kit is £10 cheaper:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/patr...dual-channel-kit-pvs432g320c6k-my-106-pa.html

That Samsung QVO is brand overpriced for class worser QLC Flash than TLC Flash.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-b...-solid-state-drive-wds100t2b0a-hd-54j-wd.html
In fact cheapest TLC drives are £25 cheaper.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/team...gbps-3d-nand-solid-state-drive-my-0a5-tg.html

If you thought SSD is always better than HDD, QLC Flash is that bubblegum and duct tape fixes needing crap version of tech:
Its native write speed without buffering takes beating from 10 years old spinning rust!
And its only point is cheaper cost because of needing less Flash cells/silicon for same capacity...
Now do you see that cheaper price anywhere in that Samsung?
 
PS4 and Xbox X already have multicore threading. Have done since cell CPU for PS2. Just poor porting jobs for 90% of games not intended for PC as main release or handled by 3rd party developer.

But Def grab 3700 if you can !
 
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