Deano727

Honestly it's one of those, smoother makes it feel better and makes you think you're better. CS is more strategy than shooting a pixel the split second it appears around an angle... Put S1mple on a 60Hz monitor and he'll still beat most pros. But when the technology becomes a bit more affordable I'll be bumping up to 1440p at 240Hz for sure. Also, try find some videos that explain the relationship between fps and hz a bit better I think you may have a misconception somewhere. It will help you down the road if you understand it better now.

I have the 5600x which I bought for about $370 at the time and can confirm it has phenomenal performance in most games, heavier workloads though it lacks due to the number of cores. Coupled with a 3060Ti and I max out my max fps in CS of 400 all the time. Haven't bothered to test what it gets up to because why bother, I only have a 144hz monitor and it's amazing, don't think I'd benefit from a 240Hz much like someone said earlier in this thread...

At your resolution I can see it doing about 200 considering your specs although I find it strange that it's constantly 200. Double check your max fps setting in your autoexec file or change it by going into your console and type without the quotes "fps_max #value" where #value is the number representing max fps ("fps_max 400") for example which is the default. GPU isn't utilised as much as CPU in CS and it's very much a game that uses one or two cores primarily (even with multicore rendering on) and as such, more cores won't help as much as newer architecture and raw clock speed. In any case, 200fps is prime unless you have a 240hz monitor. Also double check your fps with the built in steam fps counter and the net graph fps counter in game. Hope this helps.

Honestly man, 3600X with a 3060 you're going to absolutely smash all of the games you mentioned. For a good few years.

@Electronics Wizardy I really appreciate your help! I think you're right, it's a far simpler approach and will probably work out cheaper.

@Electronics Wizardy We manage each desktop independently although they are on a LAN setup to connect to printers and the server. @NelizMastr Yeah that's something similar to what I had thought about although I wasn't even aware of CALs... Reading up on them it sure would be more cost effective. I'd still have to put out for the clients and it might not solve the issue with the 3 laptop users. Is there a way to manage windows 10 desktops from one place?

@Electronics Wizardy, thanks so much for the feedback. I definitely see your point. In my country due to the poor infrastructure and unreliable internet & power it is really important that we keep the server on site. The business has also gone through very irregular changes, downscaling and relocating which was then just one person and has now scaled back up to 6 employees. This has left us in a strange place with mismatching hardware, operating systems and processes. Do you think the best would be one central server and then new, updated physical workstations for each user?

What games are you looking at playing? List your top 3-5 so people can better advise you... For reference... I have a 1600AF (6 cores) paired with a 1650 Super and I get great FPS in CS:GO (180 at the absolute worst). I get good FPS in more demanding titles like COD, Battlefield etc but at lower quality settings.

Hiya I am wondering if anyone has had any experience with what I'm trying to do or if anyone is able to offer up any advice... All of this is in the context of a small business with roughly 6 employees (pc based). We currently have a windows 10 desktop PC acting as our primary server. From this PC we manage our databases, store all of our files and run our proprietary software for our employees (as it needs live access to the databases). All of our company data is stored on and backed up to this server and from here we backup to another on-site physical device which is hidden in an undisclosed fire-proof safe which in turn backs up to the cloud. 3 users have physical desktops on which they work and access the server. We have a 4th desktop pc for processing and specific tasks and then 3 users who access the server via laptops either connected to the network physically or remotely via RDP/VPN. For particular security, legislative and efficiency reasons, we need to do a fairly large upgrade which would involve new windows licenses, new hardware etc. In evaluating my options, there are two main options I see solving the problem. Upgrade the server and all physical desktops. Upgrade the server and set up VM's for all users, on-site and remote. (has particular security features I'm very interested in and also less to break or upgrade in the future.) Cost isn't really a big concern although it needs to be justifiable. I have no experience with VM's. My concerns/questions: Can we configure the VM's to run on the existing desktops/laptops? For basic operation, office suite, adobe acrobat, very low demand proprietary apps and basic web browsing (mostly simultaneous) what would the requirements be for each user in terms of CPU and memory allocation? Or rather, if all 8 users (and server overhead) were running, what would the ideal/min server hardware specs look like? I estimate on average 4GB memory making 32GB total? CPU something like an i7 (gen?)? In the event of a hardware failure on the server, how quickly/easily could we have it back up considering we have data backups and potentially replacement hardware? Would I need to purchase a copy of Windows for each VM or is there a way around that? Would Windows 10 be suitable for the server itself or would I be considerably better off with something else? My hope is that we would have a similar cost input to upgrading the physical machines with the added benefits of security, less physical hardware to break, better future upgradability, scalability etc. I chose Hyper-V because it's made by Microsoft and seems the best fit. Please feel free to leave your thoughts or make other suggestions.

Very simply, yes, yes you can. Once connected to your second monitor, Windows defaults to duplicated mode so both monitors will show the same thing. Right click on your desktop and choose the display settings option. Scroll down to where you see Multiple displays and choose the option "extend these displays". Apply if it prompts you to keep changes and then you can go back to the top of that same page and move the box with the number 2 on it to the left, right, above or below the box with number 1 to match the physical configuration of your monitors.

I have a GTX 1650 super paired with a Ryzen 5 1600AF and I get the following: CS:GO - 180-240FPS @ 144Hz (highest settings, depending on the map). Warzone - 80-90 FPS on mostly ultra settings set to 144hz but obviously not reaching that. ( i could drop to medium and get 150FPS but meh) Rocket League - 200+ FPS @144Hz on highest settings. Cyberpunk 2077 - 40-70FPS on lowest settings, dependent on the scene and lighting. Unfortunately I can't remember exactly what I get on Minecraft but I can tell you it surpasses 144 on max settings and render distance.

I use a standard cctv multichannel system for my external cameras that connects to the web and I use iVMS4500HD to remote access those 8 cameras. Internally I use old smart phones running the app Alfred Camera. No subscription unless you want the premium features. Its really great!

It depends entirely on the pure amount of data you're wanting to store and number of games you frequently play. my 2c... I would get an NVMe drive for your OS and "documents, excel files, pdf, game saves etc." (because they don't take up a whole lot of space. Depending on the size of this drive you could save particular programs, games etc that you use frequently and want ultimate performance for. The rest of your programs and games etc can go onto a slightly larger SSD for very good performance (only slightly less than NVMe). You could also run an HDD with an SSD cache to improve performance and raw storage capacity... I think 3 separate SSD's is kind of overkill but if that's your flavour it will be pretty awesome and clean.

Thats awesome! Thank you. I'm going to have to do a lot of research and fiddling around with it but I'll try!

This was super helpful! Thank you! I had no idea you could do that and that would be easier now than getting an SSD (prices have gone crazy where I live). Thanks again!