That’s certainly true but if you have a very old CPU it can make it worse, especially frametime pacing which can cause microstuttering and worse.
Basically if your CPU is pegged at 100% all the time you may not get a good experience, regardless of how powerful a GPU you put in
Very true. I stream and have dual 27 inch 144hz 2k monitors. For me, I needed the parts for horsepower.
Well of course but a modern mid-range cpu with at least 6 cores should serve you well for a while. But I can’t predict the future of PC gaming
6+ cores is quickly becoming the minimum for AAA titles. Not necessarily on spec sheets but for a good experience. More and more games are utilizing more cores because consumer CPUs have more cores now than in the last 10 years…(thanks Intel for stagnating the market for so long…
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3700x with 8 cores, I should be ok for a few years at least.
absolutely. i did the exact same thing. i ended up with the 3800x because it was on sale for only 30$ more and came with 2 games i was interested in instead of just 1
Yeah, I wanted the 3800x but they were out of stock. I paid $285 for my 3700x, so I thought it was worth it.
The 3800X is not worth the cost over the 3700X.
Generally I would agree but I got 2 free 60$ games I would buy anyway for 30$ more than the 3700x… The 3700x only gave me 1 of them…so I spent 30 to save 60. Still came out on top
Not Intel’s fault for having no competition for so long just thank and for finally doing good
It’s worth noting that even AMD didn’t have true 8-core CPUs until Ryzen, they put two cores on the same pipeline, so you really had 4-core CPUs with what amounts to hardware-level multithreading.
Games in general don’t like splitting up their tasks since they’re usually interdependent and can’t wait for half and instruction to be finished.
Yeah fx series was a dumpster fire. Apparently they were fun to overclock if you were into that, but otherwise they were terrible. I never used one and wasn’t really into computers at the time so this is really all hearsay
I had a build with a fx 8350 and it was fun to overclock for sure, and actually still usable imo in 2019, but I would not recommend them
Did you get your $35 settlement yet? 
Oh yeah amd has been the budget kings for a long time. Now all of a sudden they are also nearly on par with Intel for applications using only a couple threads, and thoroughly trouncing them in most heavily threaded and multitasking workloads.
Did you get one lol? I filled out all the stuff lol
Lmao…it’s really that specific? I heard it was a thing but I didn’t realize how restrictive the settlement was
Well, I didn’t pay attention to that lol, I bought it from amd directly but I don’t live in cali lol
The thing that concerns me is that AMD had to completely overhaul their architecture and go all the way down to a 7nm die process just to catch up to Intel’s 4 year old architecture on a 14nm die process. I worry this may be the best they can do, especially since they don’t have the R&D budget Intel does for post-silicon development. You can’t really go further than 5nm with silicon substrates.