What's your latest tech purchase?

[JATownes]

Not true.

Chasing that 1440p, high refresh/frame rates gameplay makes me want a 5800x3D very bad, but then I'd lose so much on the other side.

Then I think, maybe replace my wife's 3800x with the 5800x3D, but then it's wasted on the 1080ti she has.

But I guess I could get myself a 4090, and give her my 3080ti so the 5800x3D isn't totally wasted.

But then the 4090 would be bottlenecked by my 5950x. Well, I guess I could just upgrade to a 7950x and x670e, so the 4090 isn't totally wasted.

Think my wife would accept that line of thought to explain me spending all that money? Or think that would lead to a divorce?

 

[Space Lynx]

Chasing that 1440p, high refresh/frame rates gameplay makes me want a 5800x3D very bad, but then I'd lose so much on the other side.

Then I think, maybe replace my wife's 3800x with the 5800x3D, but then it's wasted on the 1080ti she has.

But I guess I could get myself a 4090, and give her my 3080ti so the 5800x3D isn't totally wasted.

But then the 4090 would be bottlenecked by my 5950x. Well, I guess I could just upgrade to a 7950x and x670e, so the 4090 isn't totally wasted.

Think my wife would accept that line of thought to explain me spending all that money? Or think that would lead to a divorce?

just get the 4080 for $1199 on november 16th. compromise, cause at end of day DLSS3 is what will double your frames anyway, 4090 is only for 4k gamers honestly.

 

[The red spirit]

True, neither the 5950X nor the 5900X are bad performers. However, the 5800X3D is next level performance for many games and gaming use-case-scenario's. The the per-core boost difference can be worth the downgrade in cores.

That next level performance is merely just 15% boost, which is barely anything for CPU and some games can and do benefit from more than 8 cores, so benefit of bit faster each core might be cancelled out. Source of game benches:

How Many CPU Cores Do You Need For Great PC Gaming?

Find out what you really need for processing power as we test many CPU configs across a bunch of hot PC game titles.

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15% boost for each core isn't worth sacrificing 2 x boost in multicore performance and slight boost clock improvements.

 

[fullinfusion]

Complete new build. Parts listed in system spec.Just waiting on power supply.

 

[R-T-B]

You make it sound like 5950X is garbage in games, while it's clearly not. There's no benefit for you to switch to X3D even for gaming, not even with RTX 4090 overclocked until it explodes.

There would be a pretty huge benefit in one game in particular: Kerbal Space Program. It can realize gains from x3d well in excess of 50%.

That next level performance is merely just 15% boost

Wrong games.

 

[The red spirit]

There would be a pretty huge benefit in one game in particular: Kerbal Space Program. It can realize gains from x3d well in excess of 50%.

And I'm sure it runs perfectly fine on 5950X, so why should you care about that?

Wrong games.

You mean bad CPU design, that benefits only some programs?

 

[R-T-B]

And I'm sure it runs perfectly fine on 5950X, so why should you care about that?

Tell me you never seriously played KSP without telling me you never seriously played KSP.

No, it doesn't. It's very very singlethreaded with it's physics workload, and standard gameplay (let alone modded) easily overwhelms my rig into the low 30FPS range on a regular basis for large scale missions. Couple that with the fact I play with n-body physics and 10x realistically sized worlds and yeah, it gets outright painful.

You mean bad CPU design, that benefits only some programs?

It benefits the worst case games. And there's a lot of those running around, sadly. A lot more than well optimized >6-8 thread games anyhow.

 

[Deleted member 223428]

And I'm sure it runs perfectly fine on 5950X, so why should you care about that?

Because it doesn't run perfectly fine? Not talking about KSP here, but I've got games where the X3D over the 5950x can take a game from a stuttering mess in the 30-50 fps range, back into the 70-80's.

 

[R-T-B]

Because it doesn't run perfectly fine? Not talking about KSP here, but I've got games where the X3D over the 5950x can take a game from a stuttering mess in the 30-50 fps range, back into the 70-80's.

KSP is an example of a game that starts off at 240 FPS, but playing the game to completion will tank the strongest rig. It's very misleading.

300+ ridged-body part crafts are both needed later, and very very bad CPU wise. Then god help you if you ever do an orbital rendevous.

 

[The red spirit]

Tell me you never seriously played KSP without telling me you never seriously played KSP.

No, it doesn't. It's very very singlethreaded with it's physics workload, and standard gameplay (let alone modded) easily overwhelms my rig into the low 30FPS range on a regular basis for large scale missions. Couple that with the fact I play with n-body physics and 10x realistically sized worlds and yeah, it gets outright painful.



It benefits the worst case games. And there's a lot of those running around, sadly. A lot more than well optimized >6-8 thread games anyhow.

So far it's only 1, but okay, you found something. Most games don't see anything like that and KSP frankly should just use FP64 and do calculations with GPU. I personally play Victoria 2 and in late games it runs at like 5 fps with my 10400F. Even worse if you have mods. Some games are not well coded, but buying a whole new and expensive CPU just for that sounds very unreasonable to me and I still think that 5950X is overall better chip.

 

[Solaris17]

Lets try and keep it on topic. Pretty sure there are plenty of other threads to talk about your performance metrics.

 

[lexluthermiester]

That next level performance is merely just 15% boost

Merely? 15% boost can mean the difference between good and sub-par framerates. I'll take a 15% boost any time, Thank You very much! The purchase @wolf made will serve them well in games.

 

[The red spirit]

Merely? 15% boost can mean the difference between good and sub-par framerates. I'll take a 15% boost any time, Thank You very much! The purchase @wolf made will serve them well in games.

And you pay half of 5950X cost for that 15% boost, which is made irrelevant by just getting next gen CPU. You are trying hard to justify overpriced upgrade and downgrade all in one chip.

 

[Solaris17]

Hi all, absolute last warning

What people buy share and use is there decision and they are proud of it here. Lets see some pictures.

You can talk about performance anywhere else.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

Phone case!! I swear by these - Spigen ToughArmor. Well-nigh indestructible.

Edit: it looks a little pink, but it is a flat gray. The table is a reddish wood.

 

[R-T-B]

Lets try and keep it on topic. Pretty sure there are plenty of other threads to talk about your performance metrics.

Agreed, apologies. If I buy something fun I'll be back.

Come to think of it, I never updated with my Thinkpad T14s purchase... Can I just say that things APU kicks butt way above what I expected from integrated? I can play DRG pretty decently even. Only issue is it shares system ram, and 16GB gets tight faster than I'd like...

Oh, and the panel supports (unofficially) freesync in the 24-60hz range, at least the 400nits IPS variant.

 

[GerKNG]

 

[P4-630]

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Nice, but those SSD's are somewhat questionable imo..

 

[GerKNG]

Nice, but those SSD's are somewhat questionable imo..

it's for a budget build (for a friend)
my brother has a 1TB since 2019 and it's completely fine.
and it even writes with 400-450MB/s constantly.

 

[dont whant to set it"']

@GerKNG it is the Corsair RAM that's questionable more so than the SSD. But, since its a budget conscientious build... .

 

[GerKNG]

@GerKNG it is the Corsair RAM that's questionable more so than the SSD. But, since its a budget conscientious build... .

and what exactly is the problem?
i had so many different corsair kits over the years (at least 10-15)

 

[dont whant to set it"']

But..., Hey man , if it works , it works , like not having to dial in the ram timing settings every time to some custom values ( tested and known) just to get the ram working at or near rated speed.

 

[GerKNG]

But..., Hey man , if it works , it works , like not having to dial in the ram timing settings every time to some custom values ( tested and known) just to get the ram working at or near rated speed.

well the RAM is tested at the timings in the XMP Profile.
if it does not run even with the normal XMP profile i'd take a look at the Motherboard or IMC.

 

[ThrashZone]

@GerKNG it is the Corsair RAM that's questionable more so than the SSD. But, since its a budget conscientious build... .

Hi,
Corsair memory can be a lot of miserable fun
Hopefully you're at least using a complete kit and not mixing 2... kits

Corsair tags sticks with a VER# on each stick of memory
If these VER# don't match you'll not be to happy.

 

[Space Lynx]

My latest tech purchase:

i5-13600kf, arrived last week.
z690 Aero G motherboard, arrived yesterday.
2x16gb dual ranked fury beast ram arrived a few days ago. (its qvl with this mobo I already checked, yeeehaaa)
lga 1700 bracket for vetroo v5 cpu cooler arrived yesterday.
my NZXT monitor arrived a week or so ago as well, 27" 1440p 165hz, was on a one day lightning sale direct from NZXT official website for $124, absolutely insane value considering it covers 97% DCI-P3 color space.

all that is left is RDNA3 and I am ready to rock.

Nice, but those SSD's are somewhat questionable imo..

they are not questionable at all. that is a German brand with German design. I know, because I bought a Intenso usb flash drive a couple months ago in the UK, and its built like a tank, better than any Sandisk drive I ever owned. its been rock solid, and honestly it seems like windows detects it faster than my sandisk drives too. Nothing beats German Engineering.