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Princess Luna

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  1. I know the feeling, I also have a 1080 Ti... a Founders Edition one which I got literally on release month and nowadays I can genuinely resell it for higher than I paid for it then 3 years later which is both crazy and tempting given my country of residence reality. Thing is, there's absolutely NO RX5000 series cards for sale in the entire country and the RTX 3080 also comes at a massive premium so as much as I'd love the brand new stuff I'm also just keeping the old Pascal beast. One thing that is worth checking on to increase performance is always making sure you run games on DX11 or Vulkan instead when available and if you need DX12 make sure you know how to disable Async Compute. Gotta also make sure to disable "high precision event timer" on both windows and BIOS. High Precision Event Timer is a very old legacy piece of driver from the early 2000's that has lost it's purpose nowadays and actually harms performance a little due to adding a bit of latency:
  2. Given the 1080 Ti is a 3060 Ti rasterization performance wise and it can still play most games just fine if you adjust settings rather than crank everything to max I think the right call is keep it until things normalize.
  3. Daaww Hey there! I appreciate the nod, surely an air of nostalgia! It feels like it's been so long ago! OP; you might end up hooked up to the forum or not, it depends on how much of a hobby the tech deal really grows inside you. I'd say that learning more in order to help folk in here can be a really nice drive, otherwise simply seeing this place for consultation time to time will usually work out nicely too. To both cases, being part of a thread and mainly making your own the first to consider is if you're putting enough will and effort into it because it is very easy to spot meaningless threads where those experience with good stuff to speak will ignore. Give a little googling on the matter first, watch some tech channels in youtube and then come here with constructive doubts to nail down what you're up to~
  4. Userbenchmark database is filled with all sort of inconsistent systems, it is by no means a reliable benchmark to check on. Every single person running it will have the hardware in different condition what messes up with the with apples to apples comparison, instead you should find reputable sources that conducts the testing with brand new devices. I have some low budget SSD charts I can show though:
  5. Pretty much, single core wise all these processors are pretty much the same and 6c/12t is still perfectly adequate for anything mainstream. It is incredible how GPU bound you're likely to be even at 1080p.
  6. i5 10600K or if you can afford it the i7 10700K, F variants works too since you don't need iGPU.
  7. It really depends on whether you have adaptive sync (freesync or gsync).
  8. It should bottleneck some depending on how cpu intensive the game is, latest gen games are already putting the 'high end tier' to expect recent 6 cores at least.
  9. Princess Luna

    Remember when AMD and Nvidia made GPUs starting…

    Top GPU at 250? No I do not remember it and I've been around for a long time. Also just to burst your bubble the fastest way: Inflation is a thing.
  10. Princess Luna

    Should I use grammarly or something similar? An…

    I don't think it's needed personally, Firefox has built in grammar check which works universally, pretty sure the same is true with Chrome so why bother with an external tool known to cause issues in many websites including LTT?
  11. You need display port.... but if you don't play games at all or anything of the sort and just want to browse the internet I fail to see how 100hz is not enough.
  12. You'll be getting the most out of it one way or another, the PS5 is limited to 1080p120fps since it has TVs in mind more than monitors and all this depends on the developers supporting it or not.
  13. Highly depends on what type of gamer you are... competitive with high refresh rate vs casual/SP only with eye candy are both valid ways to go.
  14. I'll accept the compromise, being honest! Appreciate the reply as a whole, I'm usually less pick there and more image orientated hehe but I understand it perfectly, cheers!
  15. Why? 240hz is a gimmick, past 165hz the frametime windows becomes too narrow to be meaningfully perceptible so any 1440p165hz panel is a better purchase for the money, you'll even be getting IPS or VA for better image quality on top of it. If you still want 240hz no matter what because CSGO and what not then yeah get a 3070 and put all your money into a CPU and memory config to push that many frames. You know i7/i9 or this new Ryzen releasing soon.
  16. If you're sticking to 1440p then it is perfectly enough for now and anywhere the near future.
  17. There's the soundtrack and artwork etc... I preordered it because like you I also love The Witcher series and believe in CD Projekt as a studio and CB2077 painted itself like a game I really want to play. If I'm buying it either ways might as well do it so already every little helps CD Projekt... Steam will open downloading the game a day earlier it seems... on the 18th so there's that?
  18. nVidia naming schemes confusing people since always xd NVLink is a Quadro only feature, only the connector is shared so for all intents and purposes the RTX 3090 indeed only has SLI which like stated is discontinued. OP: Buying 2 RTX 3090 unless you have ultra specific hardware acceleration task that can benefit from it would be a giant waste of money for "bragging rights" that are more likely to backfire as people will mock you for it.
  19. First thing you need to figure out is what refresh rate you want. If you want 60hz then you will not have to worry yourself with bottlenecks using a R5 3600, this processor can keep up 60fps on any game yet and it'll ever only not be enough by the time you're comfortable replacing it. The thing about the highest end video cards not being recommended for 1080p any more is that you'll likely not be able to get every last fps possible from them as the CPU will limit you before it but then you're already on the hundreds of frames, therefore if you want to limit yourself to 60fps there's nothign to worry about regarding CPU. Then having a RTX 3070 or specially the RTX 3080 for 1080p will allow you to max settings any game you want, throw all ultras for fun... RTX 2060 will never be bottlenecked by a R5 3600 but might also not manage ultra all in the latest games where you'd need to balance settings.
  20. I mean if you want 1080p60fps at "MAXIMUM SETTINGS" on any game you try then having more power is never too much, stuff like RDR2 already punishes video cards hard and the latest games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Cyberpunk 2077 will certainly be no exception. a R5 3600 is likely to keep up with the 60hz target just fine on w/e game you try.
  21. For the same reason why mATX builds are becoming so scarce... the manufacturers thinks they know what the majority wants and only pushes that to the market, then the market on the other hand only has that for an option so that's what public in general buy making it a vicious cycle. People think the market is dictated by the consumer but in reality it is the consumer who's dictated by the market.
  22. What are you going to do with the computer? if its gaming only you actually can go i7 8700K + RTX 3080 and have it all for gaming. The i7 8700K specially at 5ghz will still deliver pretty much on pair gaming performance with the r9 3950x and i9 10900K the difference is not that meaningful at all if you just game without heavy multi-tasking on the side and like stated above the RTX 3090 barely improves on things over the RTX 3080.
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