nvidia Help me choose

[Captain Kirks Son]

I need some one more educated than me to help me decide between the PNY GeForce RTX 3060 Dual 12GB XLR8 Gaming VERTO or ASUS GeForce Dual RTX 3060 12G V2 GPU.

Before judgement is laid upon me - I understand that fundamentally, they are the same card with the same Nvidia backing, HOWEVER - this is a question for the following:

• Stability

• Software

• Compatibility

• Trust

I have heard of ASUS as I am upgrading from an ASUS Dual Radeon RX580 8GB, but I have never heard of PNY before. I do not want recommendations to go and buy the latest and greatest, as I am restricted by case size, motherboard, budget and availability. I am a gamer, student and part time graphic designer/content maker. This is not for mining or anything extravagant. Please understand this, as I am not wanting trolls.

Thanks in advance

 

PNY GeForce RTX 3060 Dual 12GB XLR8 Gaming Verto GPU: https://www.umart.com.au/product/pny-geforce-rtx-3060-dual-12gb-xlr8-gaming-verto-graphics-card-65979

ASUS GeForce Dual RTX 3060 12GB V2 GPU: https://www.umart.com.au/product/asus-geforce-dual-rtx-3060-12g-v2-graphics-card-68097

[191x7]

What is the rest of your system?

[Digideath]

Pny are fine. So are brands like inno3d and gainward. They wouldn't be nvidia partners if there was something wrong with them. There are plenty of systems i've built using those cards and never had an issue with them. I'm rocking an inno3d 3060 ti atm fyi.

[Captain Kirks Son]

@191x7 as requested:

• ASUS Prime B450m-A
• Asus Ryzen 9 5900x to be installed (current Ryzen 3 3400G)
• 32gb G.Skill Ripjaws 3200mhz RAM
• Several HDDs/SSDs/M.2
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 2TB
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 1TB
  • Seagate Barracuda SSD 480GB
  • Kingston A400 M.2 480GB (Main Drive)
  • Gigabyte SSD 240GB
  • Total Usable Storage (3918.44 GB)
• Windows 10 64-bit
• (Current GPU) Radeon RX580 Dual 8GB

[191x7]

10 minutes ago, Captain Kirks Son said:

@191x7 as requested:

• ASUS Prime B450m-A
• Asus Ryzen 9 5900x to be installed

 

PLEASE DON'T.

That board can't handle a 5900X, the VRM-s will blow. The 5900X is the most power hungry and most heating AM4 CPU.

You are going to have issues and then probably a bang followed by some white smoke.

And the board going out might take the CPU, RAM and maybe even the storage with it.

 

Consult this:

That board can barely handle a 65W CPU. The 5900X is a 105W base.

 

I've seen that board having memory compatibility issues, issues with a Ryzen 2700, issues with a 3500X, VRM protection (shutdown) kicking in under 3DMark with a 2700X (far less power hungry than a 5900X!)...

 

The highest I would recommend for that motherboard is a Ryzen 5 5600 (non G, non X), eventually a Ryzen 5700X.

Both are great upgrades over the 3400G.

 

Also, you forgot to name your power supply. That is importan.

 

And is there a reason you're choosing nVidia when you can get a noticeably stronger AMD Radeon in the same price range?

For example a Radeon RX 6650XT.

[Jurrunio]

6 hours ago, 191x7 said:

the VRM-s will blow.

Unless it has no protection of any sort, it wouldnt blow... it will just slow down the CPU so you dont get all its performance

[Captain Kirks Son]

@Jurruniohere's hoping it comes to that instead then.

 

@191x7I certainly hope not. The current PSU is being replaced with a RM750e at the same time the CPU is/was going to be placed. Is there a board that you can recommend then that will handle it?

 

[191x7]

11 minutes ago, Captain Kirks Son said:

@Jurruniohere's hoping it comes to that instead then.

 

@191x7I certainly hope not. The current PSU is being replaced with a RM750e at the same time the CPU is/was going to be placed. Is there a board that you can recommend then that will handle it?

 

Any B550 board with a VRM heatsink or any X570 board or any X470 with a heatsink or B450 MSI boards (MSI X570 have the weakest VRM-s but their B450/X470 boards have the best out of the 400 series chipset boards; Gigabyte is usually fine, Asus too, ...).

I linked the AM4 motherboard tier list. Just find the boards you can afford and then check how they rank on the list, higher ranked = better choice.

[Captain Kirks Son]

Thanks @191x7 I will check it out