Ya i kinda find this hilarious in some twisted way, even folks with some mid towers have limited options. and god forbid if you want to use any of you PCIE slots for anything other than a GPU
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Normally a fan of Steve being a troll…until he starts saying “jif”.
Damn, now I can’t wait to see Buildzoid’s teardown of Galax’s Hall of Fame 4090. That’s going to be hilariously stupid.
On the gaming side there just isn’t much that justifies buying the 4000 series, especially if you have a 3000 series card. As long as you have something on par with current gen console hardware you’re pretty much set unless you absolutely need high refresh, 1440p+ resolution to be satisfied with your rig.
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I’ve been itching to upgrade from my RX 570, and still don’t think I’ll even be considering 40x0 series.
Well you do have the AMD 7000 Series coming up real soon, so you have options
P.S hoping you got the hardware to support that sort of GPU
Truth be told, I’ve been wanting to upgrade my R5 1600 anyways. I’ll probably end up building a new system and convert this one into something else. It works, it’s just not able to play to where I’m happy with it.
Edit: I’ve got a SeaSonic PX-750 so I should be pretty safe for an upgrade. I went that big for that reason. I’ll probably move it over with the new system and put something a bit more appropriate in this system when it gets repurposed.
I’d run it the a power supply caculator to be on the safe side, 750 used to be the sweet spot with the power draw of new CPUs and GPUs you might to go bigger.
Also if you are running a 1600, buy a cpu + MB first, otherwise you will be handicapping the GPU due to the older and few PCIE lanes on 1600. Also upgrading the CPU first might give some time for the GPU prices to stabilize.
Even before 4000 series launch, I was looking at 3070 at most. I’m looking at 5700X right now, maybe zen4 if the prices aren’t too fucked when my budget finally lets me do this. I’ll be going with 32GB of RAM either way since there are some applications I’m feeling the limits of 16GB in some applications.
I’m still self studying 3D/2D CAD software, video editing, some casual streaming, and coding (trying to learn more Python and HTML5, thinking of adding on C#).
Problem isnt Zen 4 itself, its the other stuff like RAM and MB.
The price of DDR5 is still fairly high so depending when you plan on upgrading, because it should come down in price eventually but with zen 4 (and 13th Gen Intel also close by) i dont think it will anytime soon. Same goes for the MB, a lot of PCIE lanes, a butload of differet chipset and also being a new product on the market i expect MB to be 250$ + even the basic ones
I don’t think I’ll be ready until January-February at the earliest. I’m gonna be moving away from mATX and over to ATX. May take most of the old storage over with it (take the 1TB SATA m.2, 1TB and 2TB HDD and throw a new m.2 for a boot drive for the new system) and put larger capacity HDDs in the old system and make it a media server/HTPC.
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Well i think your PSU might have to go as well
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That depends on what I go with. RTX3070/20 series or RX 6800 or lower, I should be fine. The biggest concerns seem to be:
- Extremely limited cycles
- GPUs pulling way too much power especially on start up which should be getting caught by over current protection
- Wire gage being too small to handle the current
Will be curious to see if all of the people who were ragging on Intel for high power consumption and temps will give AMD the same treatment, or if they will try to give them a pass by saying, “but it’s intended!”
I don’t believe it’s the power consumption so much as the odd “Let it run hot” as shown in the Cinebench r23 benchmarks. That is odd. Otherwise, AMD’s power consumption is still lower then Intel’s.
Also they seem to be much more manageable in terms of heat than 12th gen Intel.
Though i think im going to way for the 3D versions and Intel 13th gen, before i even consider an upgrade, that probably 18 months or so, DDR5 and the costs of the MB will most like also stabilize
So far, Jayz2Cents and GN are the only two who talked to EVGA. Everyone else is just speculating.
I call BS on that theory.
Axing the business segment that got you to where you are for a PR-stunt is unheard off.
Other difference to “other companies” is that EVGA is based in the US, not in Taiwan, China, or other Asia/Pacific. I would also like to point out EVGA has a history or extremely good customer care, unlike some other companies in the computer market.
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Not to mention that they also have a history of not fighting things when issues pop up rather then finding a fix for them. Granted, I can’t say I’ve found many… Glowing reviews of their cases, but their after purchase care has always seemed to be a highlight of the company. Even when I was getting ready to build my first(and current) system, I was oddly heavily leaning towards their PSUs.
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Now that GN has all four reviews out.
Now, yes, these are running at stock. So no overclocking power figures here, where Intel would almost certainly pull ahead. But the 7900X pulls more power than the 10980XE. The 7950X tops the chart, and people were losing their minds over the 12900k’s stock power draw. The 7700X, an 8-core CPU, is pulling more than the 16-core from 2 generations ago.
I’ve got an OC’d 10900KF in my system that pulls ~250W at load. I clearly don’t care what kind of power they draw personally as long as the performance is there to back it up. Which it more than is. What I do care about is people blasting one company for something and then turning around and giving their competitor a pass for the exact same thing.
That’s one way to wave the fanboy flag, but sure.