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Old CPUs and GPUs not really an issue in the real world

Sven Hassel

Sven Hassel

Sven Hassel

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My hand me down rig had an E3-1270 4 core 5/10 year old CPU with a 2070s scored 5000 ish in the heaven bench, upgraded it to a B550 mobo and my old 3700x cpu same 2070s...new score...? 5300. My son who plays fortnight on it cannot tell the difference...neither can I to be honest
Also cyberpunk...been playing it on my 4090 with ray tracing off...switched it on...kids couldnt tell the difference...to be honest I wasnt sure I could either...its is smother sort of and you do notice it a bit of u look for it but the game play/enjoyment if it wasnt there...would you notice?
 
Heaven bench is purely a GPU benchmark by the way. So a change of CPU won't make any difference.

You'd need to run 3dmark timespy etc which includes a cpu test to see a difference in scores
 
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Just a few observations thats all, the second now B550/3700x/2070s vs the old xeon set up the kids use they cant tell the difference when playing, I cant tell the difference with it on fortnite, it will run cyberpunk but all the effects have to be off, to be honest it plays fine, but obviously on the 4090 machine you have raytracing etc etc and yeah it does look amazing but you still get as much fun out of it on the lower spec machine...if your 9 all you want to do is run people over with a car and laugh your head off, they dont laugh any harder on the 4090 machine, but I can see the light bouce of bodies beautifully as they bounce off the bonnet.

Pity I didnt do the test ljt mentioned before I rebuilt it that would have been interesting
 
Sven Hassel said:
would you notice?
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This, I think is not the best question; a better question would be 'Is it still fun?' I have a RTX 4090 paired with a 13700k and an A770 paired with a 8700 (non-k). I run Tiny Tina's Wonderlands at 4k on both and both are still fun even though the former has totally maxxed GPU settings and the latter runs with medium settings.

Now, I couldn't run Portal RTX at 4k on my A770, but RT is a very different beast.
 
NZXT30 said:
Indeed and the 3080 VRAM thread is the finest example. I'm sure there are normal people following that mental circus and laughing.
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eeii said:
I think the mods should change that thread to "Why dont you stop useing this thread and get a life" :D
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It was and continues to be one of the stupidest threads in this section of the forum. Thank god the Mods closed the "is 12GB enough" thread as it was getting even worse.

Is 10GB enough? Yes.
Will it be enough for ever? No.

close thread.
 
I'm running a 6900XT on a 4790k system with a 4k/60Hz monitor and honestly I'm finding it difficult to justify splashing out on a new cpu/mb/ram combo. I want to but objectively its not making financial sense in my mind especially in this market.

Mostly playing single-player games like Red Dead Redemption 2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Far Cry 6 and these play smoothly at 4k/60fps. I'm sure if I dig into benchmarking/0.1% numbers there will be differences on newer CPUs but do those differences warrant the asking price for my use case. Heart says yes, mind says no.
 
Depends on what you're playing and what you're changing I guess. Going from a 3570k & 970 to a Ryzen 3600 & 970 had a low impact in some games but huge in others (such as BF1/5).

3600 to 5800x reduced stuttering and that's it for gaming, but that was expected and not why I upgraded it.

Going from a 970 to a 3070 was like switching on the light on a dark room and going "whoa, so that's what it looks like" :cry:

My wife's PC is about to go from a 4590 with a 970 to a 6800k. Not expecting a huge change but it will reduce stuttering again and improve performance in games that currently rinse the 4590.
 
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Not that I can really afford an upgrade, I'm finding my 4790K (@4.8Ghz) , 2x1080ti's in SLI and my 16Gb DDR3 2133 is still serving me just fine at 4K in most titles, those that struggle, I drop to 1440p and crack on...

The grand or two that I'd most likely need to upgrade is far more appealing to me to throw at a holiday...

When the time ultimately comes, do I smash the piggy bank for overpriced components, or, read some optimization guides for the games I play and lower a few settings?

Not exactly a hard choice - it won't involve spending any cash!
 
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chris85oc said:
I don’t know where some people got the weird impression that better gpus make the games more fun. Wtf?
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I switch between playing Skyrim at 4K Ultra preset and less than 720p lowest preset.

4k in the day when my solar panels pay the electric and at night i switch to resolution that as i understand it does not even qualify as HD.

I enjoy the game the same. But i grew up gaming at less than HD resolutions so maybe that makes a difference.
 
Scania said:
Not that I can really afford an upgrade, I'm finding my 4790K (@4.8Ghz) , 2x1080ti's in SLI and my 16Gb DDR3 2133 is still serving me just fine at 4K in most titles, those that struggle, I drop to 1440p and crack on...

The grand or two that I'd most likely need to upgrade is far more appealing to me to throw at a holiday...
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The problem with holidays is that a grand or two will last you for a few days, but an upgrade will grant you several years of enjoyment.;)
 
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