3090 FTW3 Hybrid paired with a 2600x

[brightgamer]

So long story short, I was able to get in the queue for the EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid.....and before my 8 hours was up to respond I decided to buy since it so hard to get any 30 series GPU at the moment(I was shooting for a 3080 but can't complain I guess lol). I had no plan on getting a 3090 let alone the FTW3 hybrid version. But I'm lucky enough to have extra cash put away. So now I'm curious and I wanted to get some take on how much of a bottleneck this pairing might be at 1440p and 4k gaming(mostly 4K) may be. Don't have the card in hand at the moment, definitely don't see myself upgrading the CPU anytime soon after this huge purchase especially during holiday time.......thanks in advance

[Dedayog]

Pretty unbalanced system.  2600x isn't all that fast a chip compared to more recent offerings.

 

I'd return the incredibly expensive thing you bought and get something more reasonable, in terms of balance as well as price.

 

3090... hell of an impulse buy.

[brightgamer]

It wasn't that much of a impulse as I had set aside some stuff planning to get a new GPU, CPU, PS5 and 4K monitor all within the same month. It's just that over half of those items is unavailable and it's Christmas time.......I don't know what that last part have to do with anything just threw it in there. But I appreciate your reply

[Dedayog]

16 minutes ago, brightgamer said:

It wasn't that much of a impulse as I had set aside some stuff planning to get a new GPU, CPU, PS5 and 4K monitor all within the same month. It's just that over half of those items is unavailable and it's Christmas time.......I don't know what that last part have to do with anything just threw it in there. But I appreciate your reply

Yes, either drop down to a 3070 with that 2600x and stay 1440p or upgrade your CPU if you're keeping the 3090 and gaming in 4k.  My opinion, others may vary.

 

[brightgamer]

Yeah, I'll eventually upgrade my CPU but it just won't be anytime soon that's all. Plus it will be better to wait anyways when Ryzen 5000 actually become widely available to get 

[jones177]

I don't consider at match a big issue. With the pricing of things now leapfrogging upgrades makes sense.

 

I think the issue will be putting it in your case. The 20 series used 120mm radiators so they were not that had to fit. The 30 series use a 240mm radiators. 

My case already has a 360mm AIO on the top for the CPU. Putting it in front may restricted air to the parts that are not water cooled.

That is what is stopping me hitting the autonotify button on one.

   

 

[brightgamer]

5 hours ago, jones177 said:

I don't consider at match a big issue. With the pricing of things now leapfrogging upgrades makes sense.

 

I think the issue will be putting it in your case. The 20 series used 120mm radiators so they were not that had to fit. The 30 series use a 240mm radiators. 

My case already has a 360mm AIO on the top for the CPU. Putting it in front may restricted air to the parts that are not water cooled.

That is what is stopping me hitting the autonotify button on one.

   

 

Oh, I have a Thermaltake View 71...so I'm not too concerned with space. I just need to figure out how I will arrange it as I do already have another 240 radiator for the CPU in it. I can put it at the top with the other radiator since there space to hold 480 radiator in it or I can put it on the back right in between the motherboard and the front fans

[SteveGrabowski0]

I don't think you'll be able to do a (mostly) locked 60 fps with an R5 2600x in Cyberpunk, as the R5 3600 just scrapes by that line in Gamers Nexus' cpu benchmark at high settings. So maybe just wait a few months for either CDPR to optimize their mess or for the Ryzen 5000 series to actually be available before playing Cyberpunk, and enjoy the hell out of your system at 4k with literally every other game ever made.

[jones177]

2 hours ago, brightgamer said:

Oh, I have a Thermaltake View 71...so I'm not too concerned with space. I just need to figure out how I will arrange it as I do already have another 240 radiator for the CPU in it. I can put it at the top with the other radiator since there space to hold 480 radiator in it or I can put it on the back right in between the motherboard and the front fans

Thanks for the info. The View 71 may be my next case.

[ewitte]

At 4k your probably fine I do UW 1440p and got a huge boost going from a 3900x to a 5900x even.

[brightgamer]

On 12/17/2020 at 5:34 PM, ewitte said:

At 4k your probably fine I do UW 1440p and got a huge boost going from a 3900x to a 5900x even.

Yea, it not too bad for example with Cyberpunk im running max setting with Ray tracing on high and DLSS on quality at 38-45 FPS. I mean I could lower some setting to get 60fps but it just look soooo good lol

[D13H4RD]

You can do far worse, but the 2600X will definitely be the limiting factor outside of 4K and perhaps intensive 1440p.

 

As I understand, you are planning a CPU upgrade, right? It'll get you by just fine until that upgrade comes.

[brightgamer]

2 hours ago, D13H4RD said:

You can do far worse, but the 2600X will definitely be the limiting factor outside of 4K and perhaps intensive 1440p.

 

As I understand, you are planning a CPU upgrade, right? It'll get you by just fine until that upgrade comes.

Yea, its holding up good. I even went ahead and started overclocking the 2600x. I got it to 4.2GHz at the moment, will probably keep tweaking it higher to see where it max out