Pairing i7 980x with RX580?

[asad007]

Im getting a deal for i7 980X with mobo, case, hard drive, and 8 gb corsair vengeance ram for 150$. Do you think it is a good deal? If yes, should I pair it with RX 580 8 GB? What about the bottlenecking?

[Slayer3032]

X58 boards are going to be triple channel so it should come with 6 or 12gb. $150 for a 980X and a X58 motherboard is a decent price, anything more than that is a good deal.

 

You won't bottleneck it at all but you're going to see roughly 1st gen ryzen performance, it will bring down your fps in most games over newer platforms but nothing remotely as much as new hardware at that price. Just make sure to use a decent cooler.

 

The RX 580 would really be the best bang for your buck choice unless you can find a used card too.

[Jurrunio]

good deal? Hmm, just performance then no. This CPU doesnt play games better than a Ryzen 3 2200G when GPU's not considered (a bit more multicore performance, worse single core), and that's an X58 board which arent known for durability.

[SupaKomputa]

i will not getting anything older than sandy bridge (2nd gen).

1st gen ryzen is about sandy bridge ipc, but more cores.

and if it was used, i guess its near the end of its lifetime.

i wont be surprise if the motherboard suddenly die.

[asad007]

1 hour ago, Slayer3032 said:

X58 boards are going to be triple channel so it should come with 6 or 12gb. $150 for a 980X and a X58 motherboard is a decent price, anything more than that is a good deal.

 

You won't bottleneck it at all but you're going to see roughly 1st gen ryzen performance, it will bring down your fps in most games over newer platforms but nothing remotely as much as new hardware at that price. Just make sure to use a decent cooler.

 

The RX 580 would really be the best bang for your buck choice unless you can find a used card too.

Yeah, I was thinking the same, as it is an old chip (about 8 years old lol), newer titles won't be optimized for these chips, as a result, it may bottleneck or just simply die. I am planning to build a PC that can at least give me 2 years of future proofing. The other deal I saw was an i7 3770, mobo, 8 gb ram, 128 ssd, cooler master tempered glass casing (don't remember the model), PSU for 200$. What's your thoughts on that? 

[asad007]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

good deal? Hmm, just performance then no. This CPU doesnt play games better than a Ryzen 3 2200G when GPU's not considered (a bit more multicore performance, worse single core), and that's an X58 board which arent known for durability.

So, this isn't furtureproof at all?

[Jurrunio]

8 hours ago, asad007 said:

So, this isn't furtureproof at all?

futureproof? hahahaha, I hope you're using the wrong word here, but asking this from a 9 year old CPU is silly.

[grss1982]

On 1/13/2019 at 5:54 PM, asad007 said:

Im getting a deal for i7 980X with mobo, case, hard drive, and 8 gb corsair vengeance ram for 150$. Do you think it is a good deal? If yes, should I pair it with RX 580 8 GB? What about the bottlenecking?

What's the mobo? If it's some high end stuff like an Asus Rampage III Extreme; SABERTOOTH X58, the Ultra Durable series from Gigabyte boards or any other high-end brand then it could be a good investment especially with a 6-core Xeon upgrade.  Who knows.