jones177

I use Pass Mark single thread bench scores to get a good idea were a CPU stands. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html IPC is very important with my modded games since my i7 8086k and i9 9900k(5ghz all cores) are a stuttering mess playing them but are fine with vanilla games. My 5800x played them smoothly as well as my 5900x, i9 10900k and i9 11900k. I would not get an i7 11700k since it does not support TVB(thermal velocity boost). This allows the CPUs like the i9 11900k to hit 5.3ghz while staying below 70c. This smooths out most rough spots in games. It does not help with any all core benches. I would get a 5800x.

I had 2k+ to spend and got a EVGA 3090 ti. On average it is 10 frames faster than my MSI 3090 and FTW3 Ultra 3080 ti. It is also about 10c cooler on the GPU and about 30c cooler on the vram.

There is a difference and if more games use more cores it will grow. I did not replace the 5800x with a 5900x because I was unhappy with the performance. I did it to see the difference. As for "heavily felt". The last time I "heavily felt" a difference between CPUs was going from 4 to 6 cores in 2017. Now it is just mild improvements and that best describes the difference between a 5900x and a 5800x.

Yes. If the game uses the cores. I had a 5800x and upgraded it to a 5900x. Both used a RTX 3080 ti. Shadow of the Tomb Raider uses cores but Horizon Zero Dawn doesn't. Here are my results. Shadow of the Tomb Raider does use the cores so the 5900x wins. 1080p 1440p 4k 5800x(8 core) 198fps 163fps 96fps 5900x(12 core) 211fps 175fps 105fps Here is Horizon Zero Dawn. It does not use the cores so they perform about the same. 1080p 1440p 4k 5800x(8 core) 156fps 138fps 89fps 5900x(12 core) 156fps 138fps 88fps

In games the i7 11700k and i5 12600k trade blows. 12 gen is designed for Windows 11. Do you want to use Widows 11? It took two years for all my apps to work on Windows 10 so I am not in a hurry to go 11. Hardware Unboxed reported issues with it using Adobe Premier. That was enough for me to scrap my plans for a i9 12900k build this year. Also this is the only good time to buy a 11th gen. At launch they were too expensive and not a good upgrade to 10th gen. They also did not outperform the Ryzens. I recently built i9 11900k rig, It runs about the same in games as my 5900x but any app/games that uses more cores and the 5900x wins. I only see this in benches since I am a 4k gamer and with my GPUs not even an i9 12900k is an upgrade.

I am 68. I came over on the boat so a true dinosaur and a real Boomer. The boat.

The last monitor I used with my i7 2600k/GTX 1080 it rig was a 3440 X 1440 60hz monitor. My i5 2500k computer used a 1440p 75hz monitor. Anything past 75hz will be a waist with your setup unless you plan to upgrade. I would go with a LG 27QN600-B for $250 or a LG 32QN600-B for $275.

I have my A/C on year round keeping the temperature a 21c. There is so much humidity were I live that things get ruined without it.

My 3090 ti is on an 1300 watt PSU as well. At first it was on 1000 watts and did fine. It is a bit shocking how cool it is compered to my other 30 series cards. If it would have come out a month sooner I would have 2 since I bought a MSI 3090 for $100 more 3 weeks before I bought it.

I have been using OLEDs since 2019 and have not had any issues. I can only compare them with my LG VA 4k monitor and my LG IPS 3840 X 1600 monitor and they seem just fine. Is there a test screen that can show this issue?

Maybe. 1000 watts was recommended for my EVGA FTW3 Ultra. That was just hype for clicks with some sites. My 3090 ti uses 450 watts stock and 480 watts with the power limit all the way up. The Suprim X is 480 watts and the Strix is 480 watts as well. Any time you want to know exactly how much power a GPU uses go here https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/ and just click on details.

I have not either. I have MSI Afterburner set up to show allocated and dedicated vram. I set it up to test my Strix 3080. This is with a 3080 ti. I had to use RT with SOTTR to get it that high.

I don't use the vram for games. The 3090 were bought for 8k video. They are rarely used for that since storing and handling of 8k video is more of an issue than the price of the video cards. My 3080 tis were good upgrades to my 2080 ti for gaming so that is really all I need. Also my FTW3 Ultra 3080 ti beats my MSI 3090s in game benches and it cost about $800 less. I bought the 3090 ti on a whim. I watch the LTT video on it at launch and looked on Newegg at the prices and they were in stock at $100 less than what I payed for the MSI 3090 3 weeks before. I then watched the Jay's two Cents video on it and decided if it was still in stock I would get one. they were so I did. The card produces about 10 more frames at 4k over the FTW3 Ultra 3080 ti. At 1440p it is about 14 frames and at 1080p back to 10. Meaningless at 1080p and 1440p but nice at 4k. My EVGA FTW3 Ultra 3090 ti is 450 watts stock and 480 watts with the power limit all the way up. The Kingpin is 430 watts stock and 450 watts with the power limit turned up on the stock bios. I was on auto notify for the Kingpin so I did the research but one never came up. I even bought a case for it since non of my cases could fit a GPU with a 360mm AIO. I love the 3090 ti since it is what the 3090s should have been. It runs over 10c cooler than the 3080 ti version and the vram is 30c cooler than my 3090s. I bought the MSI Gaming X Trios 3090s over better performing cards because they have heat pipes on the backplate so they have no vram overheating issues. There are a lot of people here that have enough disposable income to get 3090s without saving if they needed one. It is a lot to do with where you are in life. I am retired and have paid off my mortgage so my biggest expense is gone. I do not have much interest in the 40 series since I am not unhappy with the performance I am getting now. With the 3090 ti I am getting 142fps average at 4k with the ultra raytracing preset in CP2077. I use a 120hz tv for gaming. Something new will have to come out to motivate me to buy a 40 series card just for gaming. Also new cards are always better. That is more of an advantage to mid ranged buyers since usually top of the line performance becomes midrange with the next generation. Midrange is not a bad place to be. The AMD cards don't have CUDA so I have no interest. Most of my cards end up doing productivity using CUDA.

Maybe they bought the cards for the vram. I bought my 2x 3090s and 3090 ti for the vram and they will be used for years for that reason. It is like my GTX 1080 tis. They ran along side my 2080 tis because they had the vram(11gbs). Other cards like my GTX 1080 sat in boxes for years.

I tested my i9 10900k with a DH-D15 and it was a fail. The reason is the i9 can't use TVB(thermal velocity boost) since the CPU needs to stay below 70c while gaming. In most games TVB beats an all core 5.1ghz overclock. It does not beat it on all apps like Cinebench. An EK 360mm AIO can keep the i9 10900k below 70c while gaming. Not all 360mm AIO are cooler than the Noctua. My EVGA and Silverstone 360mm are about the same as DH-D15. Also the FTW3 Ultra3080 it heats up a case a lot. I had one with the i9 9900k for a while(now with the 5900x). It uses a DH-D15 and the 3080 ti heat soaked the case. That is why a XC3 Ultra 3080 ti is paired with the i9 9900k. At 350 watts VS 400 watts for the FTW3 the heat is manageable.

I do not like gaming on a 6 core any more. Even though I built an 8 core i9 9900k rig in 2019 it went straight video editing so my first high core count gaming CPU was the i9 10900k and it is still my favorite. I ended up giving my i9 10900k rig to my Son for a video editing upgrade and went back to my old i7 8086k for gaming. That lasted less than a week. I did not like it so I ordered the parts to build another i9 10900k rig. I don't mind 8 core CPUs. My R9 5900x rig had a 5800x in it at first. When the prices dropped on the 5900x I bought one. They feel the same so I won't miss it when I get a 5800x3D.

With the i7 6700k 1440p and later 4k. For 4k gaming it used 2x GTX 980 tis and later 2x GTX 1080s. The game is only utilizing the GPU in the 90s interiors. Out in the open it is in the 80s or less. Shadow of the Tomb Raider was one of the games that convinced me to upgrade. My i7 6700k computer with the GTX 1080 was in use up until it was parted out and sold last December.

A stock 3080 usually uses 350 watts stock. There are some budget ones like the MSI Ventus that use 320 watts but that is the lowest they go. 9th and 10th gen Intels don't use a lot of power gaming. My i9 10900k in most games uses about 89 watts. It is only on all core applications like Cinebench that it uses 220 watts stock and 320 watts overclocked. So even i9 10900k with a 3090(370 watts) only uses about 500 to 550 watts gaming.

My i7 6700k was great with a GTX 980 ti and later a GTX 1080 but with a GTX 1080 ti it did not get the most out of the GPU so I replaced it with an i7 8700k. A GTX 2080S is a bit more powerful than a GTX 1080 ti so I am not surprised with 80% usage. The down side with the upgrade was that getting 100% on the GPU only got 3 to 5 extra frames. On the plus side the 6 core was so much smoother that I never wanted to play on a 4 core ever again.

I have had MSI Afterburner freeze a GPU bios causing it to underperform. This freeze could survive a reboot so I had to switch the computer off and on again. Easy to test use another overclocking tool and see if it happens.

My Dynamics are about the same size as the H500s. Thy are just shorter and wider. I use Noctua NF-12s on the bottom with all the other fans as exhaust. I have no cooling issues. Looks like this.

The 200mm fans on the H500 works well with big air CPU coolers. I have 3 versions. The H500P Mesh, H500M and H500 ARGB. What they are not good at is keeping GPUs cool with the exception of the H500M but that is a $230 case. My i9 9900k is in a CM H500 ARGB and the GPU temps were fine with a FTW3 Ultra 2080 ti and a Strix 3080 with the stock case fans. It needed 2 extra fans for the EVGA XC3 Ultra 3080 ti. It also got a FTW3 Ultra 3080 ti for a while but at 400 watts stock it was too much for the H500. For better GPU temperatures on my gaming rigs I switched to Lian li o11 Dynamics. Big air coolers will not fit in them so they use 360mm AIOs.

I have the 3080 ti version of the FTW3 Ultra. At stock or at idle the hot spot temperature is the same as the GPU temperature. Overclocked it is 6 to 7c higher. I also have an EVGA XC3 Ultra 3080 ti. The hot spot temps are the same as the FTW3 version.

I am using a 49" IPS 120hz TV to type this in and I am comfortable with the size. I game on 55" OLEDs and have no issues with that size either. I am going for the C2 that is the cheapest around Black Friday and if need a TV sooner I will go for a 55" C1. They are only $1100 right now.

I doesn't remember Return to Castle Wolfenstein being hard. I am going to install it to see how far I have fallen. Sometimes I like to play tourist in games that I have no interest in playing. If they have an easy mod that is fine with me. Cyberpunk was one of them. Now that is has a bench it is less of a waist. What I don't like in games is jumping through hoops. I like to play my way.