SSJGodemis

I game on a 144hz monitor and understand how it works. The is what I was thinking also. He can drop the resolution a bit if necessary by 80% and it would still look good.

Hey All, My family and I are building my youngest brother a new PC. He is turning 18 next week and for his gift we are getting him a new build and monitor. I was able to purchase a Vega 56 reference from my buddy for $175. Its pretty much a steal at this price. Sucks that its the reference but my brother games with headphones anyways. Anyways, I am conflicted on if I should get him a 1080p 144hz monitor or a 1440p 144hz monitor. I feel like the 1440p would last him longer and in the future he could upgrade his system to further take advantage of the high refresh rate. 1080p is also very cpu heavy and I am giving him my old 1800x. So, really I am leaning towards the 1440p and just wanted to get one final gut check before pricing the purchase button.

I would simply purchase an RX 5700 XT(when AIBs drop) or purchase a RTX 2070 Super. The 1080 Ti is used and could have issues. I dont mind used parts but they come with risks. Id rather take slightly lower performance and pick up a 5700 XT and have a warranty on it.

A single RTX 2080 Ti and then OC it. In 2 years sell it and purchase the most power GPU possible. In highly optimized games you will hit some really solid FPS. Strange brigade, Wolfenstien 2, Doom, Likely Doom Eternal,

A bottleneck is not a hard and fast thing in most scenarios. For example I have a buddy using a Ryzen 1600 and 2080 Ti. Some games he gets a large bottleneck and in others you cant tell the difference because the FPS are so high already. In this case though, an A4-6300 is old and a pretty low end CPU. An RX 560 would not be a terrible pairing for it though.

100% wait for AIB partners if you want AMD or with the RTX 2070 Super if you want Nvidia. The 5700 XT is a pretty solid buy at $399 but with after market coolers it will be $430-450. At that point get the RTX 2070 Super for $500 as its 10% faster.

Are you like 5?

The 3900x is a better buy because while it does lose in gaming technically, it is a better all around performer. For your average gamer it is a complete waste of money though. The 3700x performs the same in gaming and is the best high end gaming CPU in terms of price to performance.

Sucks bro. The RTX 2070 Super is a cut down RTX 2080 but retains the majority of the performance in the majority of games and is now priced at $500 dollars. So essentially, your RTX 2080 you bought for $700 is now worth $500. The RTX 2080 Super will not be that much better despite Nvidia's graph. It was comparing the RTX 2080 Super to pascal in games that support new shader tech that certain DX12 games have. If you look at the actual specs of the GPU, the RTX 2080 Super will be about 7-10% faster than a RTX 2080. Nvidia still has the RTX 2080 Ti and does not look like they plan to get rid of it anytime soon.

It is very unlikely that PC gamers will give up. I have some friends who moved from PC to Console once they had a family and had much less time to game. A powerful high end PC was not worth the investment and a console was just easier. However, with that said, I have plenty of friends who play PC still and just a build something more mid tier.

Yeah, the 2200g is superior As you can see with a GTX 1060 it pushes fantastic frames. With an RTX 2070 is would push even higher but thats not necessary for this specific build. Its only targeting 60fps at 1080p Ultrawide. Which will mean the GPU gets more engaged and the CPU would be even less of the bottleneck in the build. At the end of the day. Gaming is what the goal of the PC I posted was. Modern CPUs have become excellent even in the budget end. We are in a new era where the only thing that really challenges CPUs is trying to push 144fps at lower resolutions. As for my brothers build, the 2400g with a Radeon 7 will have no issues with bandwidth. 4k is essentially the great equalizer for CPUs. As time goes on though, he will need to upgrade.

The extra threads are nice but mostly in workloads. Not so much in gaming.

You dont have to OC either. A stock 2200g/1200 is not that far in IPC from a 1600 at stock. I also posted Benchmarks of what a Ryzen 1200 can do at 1080p and it easily pushes FPS above 60fps at ultra in most games. The only game shown was AC:Odyessy which is a monster on the CPU.

There is an official supported max and a real safe max. Rapid degradation in a few months? More nonsense.

I do understand. AMD chips support OC and there Mobos offer it. Unless you completely kill your CPU by cranking up the Voltage to dangerous level, It is fine. Anyways Im done. Your "advice" has honestly been wrong several times. Especially with the PCIE lanes. 4 cores are fine for now and 60fps gaming. In the next 3-5 years, they wont be but by then most will have upgraded. Same as most will have upgraded their Ryzen 2600.