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Off Topic / Re: buy a new pc or change current one's parts?
« on: October 06, 2022, 10:32:41 PM »
some other notes:
gpu stuff:
-i personally wouldnt recommend amd gpus. this is anecdotal but i had a radeon 6600xt for a few months and while it had decent performance it had buggy drivers and i'd get issues with display flicker and eventually my entire system locking up to a green screen while playing games. i eventually sold it off and got an rtx 3060 instead and it hasnt had any issues. ive also seen several other people online discuss issues with amd's drivers so unless you use a non-windows operating system i wouldnt go for one. that being said your mileage may vary and there are plenty of success stories with these cards as well.
-intel just hit the dgpu scene with their arc series of cards, which do seem rather promising in terms of future improvement however be warned that these are first gen products that currently have several caveats (poor performance in dx9/11 titles, driver instability) and i wouldnt go for them right now
other stuff:
-considering you have first gen ryzen your motherboard is likely b350/x370. while these boards should according to amd work with newer ryzens i am going to reiterate what i and others have said in that you need to verify that your motherboard manufacturer has released a bios update for your board that adds support. additionally you will also be missing out on features in newer boards such as pcie 4 and resizable bar that can provide some performance benefit.
-ddr5 is starting to become prevalent however do note that it's not an absolute necessity; improvements to gaming performance are, at least currently, minimal versus ddr4. we are currently in a weird transitional state with cpus that support both ddr4 and ddr5 with whichever one you can use being motherboard-dependent. i personally went for a ddr4 board for my 12600k and its been fine, you also save a bit by being able to reuse your current ram
gpu stuff:
-i personally wouldnt recommend amd gpus. this is anecdotal but i had a radeon 6600xt for a few months and while it had decent performance it had buggy drivers and i'd get issues with display flicker and eventually my entire system locking up to a green screen while playing games. i eventually sold it off and got an rtx 3060 instead and it hasnt had any issues. ive also seen several other people online discuss issues with amd's drivers so unless you use a non-windows operating system i wouldnt go for one. that being said your mileage may vary and there are plenty of success stories with these cards as well.
-intel just hit the dgpu scene with their arc series of cards, which do seem rather promising in terms of future improvement however be warned that these are first gen products that currently have several caveats (poor performance in dx9/11 titles, driver instability) and i wouldnt go for them right now
other stuff:
-considering you have first gen ryzen your motherboard is likely b350/x370. while these boards should according to amd work with newer ryzens i am going to reiterate what i and others have said in that you need to verify that your motherboard manufacturer has released a bios update for your board that adds support. additionally you will also be missing out on features in newer boards such as pcie 4 and resizable bar that can provide some performance benefit.
-ddr5 is starting to become prevalent however do note that it's not an absolute necessity; improvements to gaming performance are, at least currently, minimal versus ddr4. we are currently in a weird transitional state with cpus that support both ddr4 and ddr5 with whichever one you can use being motherboard-dependent. i personally went for a ddr4 board for my 12600k and its been fine, you also save a bit by being able to reuse your current ram
