RodrigoRS

Hi! I have the option of buying a brand new Ryzen 7 5800X3D for €345 and I know a guy who uses Lumion 12 a lot (he is an architect) that is willing to buy my used Ryzen 5900X for around €250 (he will upgrade from a Ryzen 5 2600X). I currently have a 1080p-144 Hz monitor, 32GB of 3200Mhz ram, a RX 6800 XT and a Scythe Fuma 2 cooler. Even though I do use my PC for work related stuff (AutoCad and some Catias) I do use it primarily for gaming. Games I do play are: Cities Skylines 1 and 2 (I know the 2 is heavily unoptimized), Mechwarrior 5, DOS2, Frostpunk, Baldur's Gate 3, etc. In a lot of instances (except for CS2) I do see that the GPU does not get fully utilized (sits around 60~80%) and I think it may be because I have a CPU bottleneck (1080p...). I do understand that I may get around 30% less performance in some work related instances but I should get too a boost in gaming performance (I don't know how much) and may let my RX 6800 XT get fully used. So, if you were in my place, would you swap CPUs for €95 so I can squeeze every bit of performance for the next 3 or 4 years or do you think is not worth it? Thanks to all.

The 12700k has 12* cores, not 8. Has 8 "Performance Cores" with hyperthreading and 4 "Efficient Cores" without HT. See this review. Is a very capable CPU. The only critic I have with the build that is up there is that DDR5 is not worth it right now. You are paying a premium for a new technology that is not in it's prime. Go with a DDR4 motherboard and 32GB (2x16GB) 3600MHz Cl16 kit and you'll be just fine. For me, you should get a Ryzen 9 5900X or a I7 12700KF. Edit: When you see the expression "crushes" it means that now that AMD has competition again, they should lower the price a bit. The 12th gen Intel processors are more or less in par with the AMD ones so is just a matter of price. Intel CPUs are a bit cheaper but their motherboards are more expensive (even more if you go with DDR5) but AMD CPUs are a bit more expensier but with chepear motherboards.

About the cooler, if you do not intend to OC the CPU, the best cooler (for me) is the Scythe Fuma 2. I have it with a 5900X and works great. If you don't care about money, go with the Noctua. For the ram, it's almost always better 2x16 than 4x8.

Thanks a lot!

Ok! I'll look for reviews for that card. Thanks a lot!

It's almost always easier on the ram controller to have 2 sticks instead of 4 (most motheboards are Daisy Chain instead of T-topoly). Therefore, I would suggest to sell your current 2x8GB kit and get any 2x16GB 3200MHz (CL16 or lower) or 2x16GB 3600MHz (CL18 or lower) as the minimun base for your kit. About OC it, I just bought a 2x16GB 3600MHz (16-19-19-19) kit a long ago, turned on D.O.C.P. on in the Bios and never worried again.

The 5600X is better than 5700G for gaming. The 2 less cores are less important than half the cache. 5600x has 32MB of L3 Cache vs 16 MB of the 5700G. https://youtu.be/xKXMy0lUBhw Watch second half (dGPU part) and you'll see what we mean.

Hi! I'm almost 100% sure is a ram problem. 16GB is a bit to short for warzon and streaming as @Jonathan Lee said. I would suggest you to have 32GB. 16GB is the minimum for gaming only, now a days. Games line New World (or even Warzon) use almost all of it, even if you don't have more aplications in the background. Do you have the game on an SSD, right?

Hi, everyone! Last year I built my new PC and bought a Ryzen 5900X and 32GB (2x16GB) of RAM but didn't buy any GPU for obvious reasons. Now, almost a year ago, after saving a lot and using my old GPU in the mean time, I found a few options and I would like to know what do you recommend (6900XT is a bit cheaper but not a lot): - MSI AMD RX 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio. - Palit Nvidia RTX 3080 TI Gaming Pro LHR. - MSI Nvidia RTX 3080 TI Gaming Z Trio LHR For more information, I play at 1080p 144Hz (High - Ultra High) and when I thought about this build almost a year ago, the idea was to make it the more future prof posible. I don't intend to upgrade to 1440p nor 4K and want to last i the longest posible (3 to 4 years, at least). I play strategy, RPG and MMORPGs games such as Cities Skylines, Civ V and VI, HoI4, New World, WoW, AoE2DE, DOS2, Pillars of Eternity, DS, DS3 and the only FPS I play are CoD Warzone and CoD: Black Ops 3 to play with friends. So, after all my rambling, what would you choose and why to last the most time being able to play at 1080p 144Hz at High or similar? I don't care for Ray Tracing. Just better value (even thought of a 6800XT but the price is pretty close to the 6900XT in my country). Thanks for reading.

3200Mhz should be more than enough. My parts? I upgraded CPU, Mobo and Ram but I'm reusing all my parts for my previous setup. GPU upgrade is still pending. CPU: Ryzen 9 5900X Mobo: Asus Strix X570-E Gaming Ram: G.Skill Trident Z Neo (2x16GB) 3600MHz CL16 GPU: My old Colorful RTX 2060 6GB Storage: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB (for OS), WD 2TB Blue Nand SSD (games and aplications), WD 2TB Blue HDD (for mass storage) As you can see, is not that fancy. I'm waing since the end of last year for a new GPU but I'll have to wait longer till the prices lower a bit more.

I have the G.Skill Trident Z Neo (2x16GB) 3600MHz CL16-19-19-39 ram. Is really good if you don't want to mess with the timings by yourself. Just set DOCP on and let it be. Is, ofc, no the top of the line, but does a great job for the price.

I'm not mad neither I tought you were not appreciative! Sorry if I made you think that. Just want to emphasize that If you want a top of the line PC, get a top of the line PC. Is not wrong to have the money and spend it as you like. A lot of people want (and need) to save up money were they can in different components so that's why we try to emphasize that. Nevertheless, do as you like and is never wrong to learn all you can about something before buying it. It will help you easy some potential buyers remorse.

If you really want the X570, go for it. At the end, you are building a high end system with almost zero compromises. But regardless of that, we like to find improvements in the build you just posted. If money is not that important and you want the top of the top for future profing and you like Gen4 a lot, go for the X570 and a 5900X/5950X. But, as I said before, you may no notice any difference between a X570 and a B550 (and Gen4 vs Gen3) in your everyday usage. Have a nice day!

In the minute 15:10 you can see all the B550 tested and all are good. If you can choose anyone, pick the one that fits your needs the most. All three of them can handle a 5950X if you wanted to so no worries (check the graphs of the video). With regards of the two M.2 Gen4, to be honest, is really hard to notice the difference between a good Gen3 and a Gen4 M.2 in the real life, for normal use. So don't think too much about that and choose the one that fits your need (For example, if you want Wi-Fi/Bluetooth included with the Mobo. I thinkg there is a version of the MSI Carbon that has that.) Good luck! Edit: In the video, you can see a brief explanation of each of the three motherboards you are trying to choose from.

As @jaslion said, the Asus X570-E is a bit too much. I have one with an 5900X and is overkill. You can save a bit switching the mobo for a good B550. Regarding about the ram, I was to advice to get 32gb for that kind of build but I just read the **Note, so good for you. Have a good time and sorry that the GPU prices are so overinflated.

I personally have an Asus Strix X570-E Gaming and have no problems with it. Nevertheless, in USA is more expensive than in other places, not sure why. If you don't need all m.2 slots to run at pci 4.0, go with a good B550 and you will be more than fine.

As long as you use less than 16gb of ram, it will have almost the same performance as 2x8gb. The moment you need more, it will depend in a few factors. 1) Is the 16gb stick dual rank? (in CPU-Z --> SPD ---> Ranks will tell you if it's dual or not). Most 16gb sticks are dual rank, therefore you could have almost the same benefits. 2) You surpase the 16gb of use while doing something that requires faster ram? (gaming, i.e.) If you are working with large files in some programs that are not ramspeed sensitives, it won't affect your performance noticiable either. Even though is true 2x16gb will be ideal, I don't think the performance loss is really that big. Try playing or benchmarking some games/applications with 2x8gb (in games or programs that don't force you to use more than 16gb) and then put the same configuration as shown in the picture. That way you can see if it's worth it the cost of a new stick/sticks. Good luck.

Hello! If you want a good and cheap 24' 1080p 144Hz IPS monitor, I will recommend you the Viewsonic XG2405. It has good color accuracy out of the box, good calibration, and you can adjust heigh and angle. Anyhow, there are plenty of good 1080p monitors so just look for them and find the one that's best for you. Good luck.

Hello! About your ram, it will not make a lot of difference between 3200MHz and 3600MHz, don't worry. If you want quiet and good for the CPU cooler, get the Schyte Fuma 2. It's awesome, quiet and really good (if you are not planning to overclock). I have the Ryzen 9 5900X with the Schyte Fuma 2 and never had any problem with temperature. Lastly, even though you will mostly be fine with a 550W power supply, you may be in the 80-100% usage if you really work hard with both GPU and CPU. Therefore, I would really recommend that you get something a bit beeffier. I know is more money to spend but, considering the quality of your build, I would not cheap out on the only thing that could kill any/all of the parts if it fails or get overloaded. Good luck and congratulations with your system.

You will be more than fine with 750W. If you have doubts, see this: Don't worry. It will be able to handle an I9-10850K+RX6800 XT/RTX 3080. I wanna stress the importance on saving a few bucks to "upgrade" after. If you buy an I3/I5 to buy an I9 in the future, I get it. But if you are going for a 10700K, just aim for the 10 cores. There would be no more "upgrade" path neither with AMD nor Intel. Next gen will probably be DDR5 so we will all have to swapp Mobo, Ram and CPU. Furthermore, the 11gen CPUs from Intel are not worth it. Grab the 10850k that's at most 2-3% worst than the 10900K and enjoy. Oh, and you will NEED 32GB for streaming, gaming and having "several overlays/background aplications". I would recommend AMD but now is hard to find at reasonable prices.

Hi! If you are going need "Streaming and several overlays / background applications" I would think about getting 32GB of ram (2x16GB) and, streching the budged a bit more, get the I9 10850K (if you wanna go with Intel). The ram will cost you around $180-200 and the CPU is now sellig at Newegg and Amazon at $379. With all that, you will have to spend around +$175.

It's okey, man. I bought one and got it yesterday. It's the ViewSonic XG2405. It's cheap and seems quite acceptable for my needs.

Thanks again, dude! You were really helpful. I think I'll skip this generation GPUs and wait for the next one in 2023. My RTX 2060 should be plenty for my needs in 1080p, I think. One more question, is there a lot of difference between VA, IPS or TN?

I have a Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB of RAM and an RTX 2060 . I was planning the upgrade for a long time, buying the parts one by one but the GPU crysis/shortage hit me hard so I think I won't be able to upgrade my GPU until 2022, at least. So, I think, 1440p would be a bit to far for my rig, right now. And, to be honest, 1080p will be already a great improvement from 1366x768 60hz.

Thanks for the answer. I was not reffering at having a second monitor but if I should look for another one (as you recommended). I don't tend to play FPS but more strategy based games and RPGs as Cities Skylines, Age of Empires 2 DE, WoW, HoI4, Civilization, etc.