At least your GPU is good, i am on a r9 390 8GB, have not been gaming a lot in the past 2 years or so. Looking forward to 2-3X performance gains. That will come along with an monitor upgrade. 1440p 144hz or utrawide high refresh rate.
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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards
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Only rumours. Worth remembering that (wrt AMD).
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Only rumours on either side. Nobody has anything concrete yet, people are just swapping fantasies back and forwards here.
i think they call that a circle jerk
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Me too definitely!!I hope so Tommy my boy, I hope so
My main worry right now is they will only slap 8GB of RAM on it. Would like to see 12GB on 3070/3080 and 16GB on 3080Ti.
I don't see them using 8gb imo... I can see 10gb on the 3070/3080 and 16gb on the Ti.... hopefully we don't have much longer to wait!! I'm waiting for zen3 also as my 4790k is starting to age and I feel 4 cores/8 threads soon leading into 2021 with 16 core consoles isn't great...Yeah, Zen 3 is going to be a awesome. Going to try and hold off and wait for Zen 4 to come out and then get a 4900X cheap as chips my next upgradeMe too definitely!!
Unless Zen 4 turns out to be a beast, then I may look to just get that day 1 and pass what I got now down to my partners PC. Will have to wait and see what’s what when the time comes.
Yeah, Zen 3 is going to be a awesome. Going to try and hold off and wait for Zen 4 to come out and then get a 4900X cheap as chips my next upgrade
Unless Zen 4 turns out to be a beast, then I may look to just get that day 1 and pass what I got now down to my partners PC. Will have to wait and see what’s what when the time comes.
Well Zen 4 is 5nm, uses 4x SMT and supports DDR5... so yeah its going to be a significant upgrade
Depends on how much of n upgrade though. If around 10-15% better than Zen 3 then I would rather go half price Zen 3.
In the cpu industry the 10 to 15 percent is the norm in the modern era. We rarely see a huge leap. The Gpu industry has larger leaps but neither is leaping as they use to. I think zen 4 will definitely be good, I'll wait for sales to hit and then upgrade my 5820k. It should be enough to keep me going till then, I will have one eye on alder Lake too, but as things stand my money will to towards the red side.
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The rumours so far is that Zen 3 will be a big IPC lift, and Zen 4 will be not as much of an IPC uplift.
Zen 3 is sounding very good, especially if they are releasing the Zen 2 refreshes just before Zen 3, makes me think Zen 3 will be that much better than current chips for single thread stuff. I will likely go Zen 3 and skip Zen 4, or go Intel if they bring some magic huge boost in the next 1-2 years.
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It’s about what you get for your upgrade imho because different people will be coming from different hardware. I tend to upgrade about the time I can get double the performance of my current spec at a sensible price. I’d love to upgrade my monitor but no way am I paying £3.5k for one of those new Asus ROG or Acer Predator 32” 4k 144hz things, right spec wrong price.
The PC monitor market is extremely bad and has been for several years now. Almost every monitor on the market is simply overpriced for what it offers. It will take years before a 32 inch 4k 144hz Gsync FALD monitor becomes affordable - probably 5 years, and when I say "affordable" I mean under 500 pounds
Yes I am aware, hence not sure if I will get Zen 3 or 4 as once I do I likely won’t upgrade for a very long time after that.
If that is the case I would rather get a cheap Zen 3 4900X and be done with it just as Zen 4 is out.
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No. Maybe 10 years.
Last rumour i heard said that 4x SMT was pushed to back to Zen 5. The reasoning being that AMD don't want to gamble future performance gains on things that might work/be useful.
it's a crazy time. Back in 2012 or there about, I was able to pick up a new 4K 60hz monitor for 300 pounds and at the time it had the same panel specs as a high end 4K TV so it was exceptional value and far cheaper than 4K TVs. Fast forward to 2020 and monitors are now so expensive that to just match a high end TV panel requires 2000 pounds... that's such a massive jump in price for what is the same level of product in the market
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Ultrea high end £2000 PC monitors make less and less sense with things like the LG OLED 48XC on the market.
Personally I don't have the space for that size desktop monitor (Though my PC is connected to my 65" C9 OLED as a secondary monitor) but TV manufacturers are playing a blinder really.
Personally I don't have the space for that size desktop monitor (Though my PC is connected to my 65" C9 OLED as a secondary monitor) but TV manufacturers are playing a blinder really.
Agreed, it would be nice if we could get ultrawide oleds 144hz sometime in the future. I find 48+ screen sizes too big for desktop uses and
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They are good as a distance gaming screen but close up i wouldn't reccommend it personally. Too glossy of a screen finish and too large even at 48" for anything close up.
Do need smaller OLED gaming screens though that i can agree with. Can't imagine they would be cheap however
.I hope we get a 40” version next year. Would be perfect.
I will likely only upgrade my current monitor to an OLED. Not impressed with the price for performance of monitors currently. Also too much of a lottery getting one without issues. I got lucky with my current monitor on my second go.
I like glossy. Looks better. Happy to use curtains if neededThey are good as a distance gaming screen but close up i wouldn't reccommend it personally. Too glossy of a screen finish and too large even at 48" for anything close up.
Do need smaller OLED gaming screens though that i can agree with. Can't imagine they would be cheap however