New PC

Rattly · April 20, 2020

Good morning to all,

I’m building a new PC and I’ve gone the way of the 3900X for the cpu but I’m having difficulty choosing a graphics card because I’m really hesitant to chose the 2080 super since it’s 700-800 dollars, so I reduced the budget to so that I can buy the 2070 super but then I started doing some more research on GPU’s and saw that although the Radeon RX 5700xt cost the same as the 2060 super the 5700xt is comprable to the 2070 super given the price point where the only GPU’s for the 2070 super that I’ve seen are close to or surpass 700 dollars and the 5700xt is only 450-499 dollars. Given all of this information I don’t know if I should go with the 2070 super over the 5700xt and.... the 5700xt has has had some driver issues but don’t know how it’s been doing lately... so what do you all think about this ordeal? What should I do team green or team red?

Please give me you perspective on this issue so that I can’t better make my decision.

Thank you!

boggy77 · April 20, 2020

is this for a gaming build? you don't really need a 3900x for that.

as for gpu, the driver issues with amd are ostly solved. the 2070 super is still 5% better than the 5700xt, but much more expensive indeed. the 2080 super is even better. nvidia should launch the 3000 series this year. if you want top end performance, i'd buy a second hand 2070 or 2080 for now and get the new 3000 series cards when they launch.

Rattly · April 20, 2020

1 minute ago, boggy77 said:

is this for a gaming build? you don't really need a 3900x for that.

as for gpu, the driver issues with amd are ostly solved. the 2070 super is still 5% better than the 5700xt, but much more expensive indeed. the 2080 super is even better. nvidia should launch the 3000 series this year. if you want top end performance, i'd buy a second hand 2070 or 2080 for now and get the new 3000 series cards when they launch.

Yes it is and stream a bit with a friend who’s also building a pc with me, already have the 3900x I definitely know that I don’t need the 3900x but I got it cause I’m not changing for the next 5-7 years. If I find a 2070 super for 600 I would buy it but haven’t been able to yet I haven’t given up I’m still looking around.