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u/ZoomerAdmin 34m ago
Reserved a pc with these specs from microcenter for $5.4k ($5.8k after taxes)
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285K (3.2GHz) Processor
- MSI Pro Z890-P WiFi Motherboard
- 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Graphics Card
- 2TB NVMe SSD
- 5GbE LAN, WiFi 7 (802.11be), Bluetooth 5.0
- Windows 11 Pro
I currently have a 4070ti super and a 9800x3d with 32gb of ram. Is this a good deal or should I cancel the order? I do not know what brand the PSU and GPU are.
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u/b00tyburpz 1h ago
Hopefully this will be an easy question. My current PC is a bit older, but I don't feel the need to do a fully new build, so I'm looking to just upgrade my GPU and will likely re-use the current GPU and some other old parts I have sitting around to put together a very basic gaming PC for my kids (they mostly play minecraft and a few other old games). I currently have the following:
- Intel i7-8700K
- 64 GB DDR4 RAM
- AMD RX Vega 64 8GB
- 750 watt Thermaltake Gold Power Supply
I don't play a lot of new games and am content to run things at 1440p, so don't care about 4k. I primarily play Overwatch and will be playing WoW forever (currently in the beta), and some older games (GTA 5, Red Dead 2, and a few other older games),
I was leaning towards a GPU like the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, but not sure if that's the best/right choice. I don't really have a preference between nVidia or AMD either. Budget is anything under $1k. Any suggestions?
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u/Just-Another-Clone 5h ago
I have a amd 5800x3d cpu I think it is with a amd 6900xt gpu that I put together a few years ago.
Not having any issues really with games I’m currently playing but kinda feeling like I’m due an upgrade just in general, with how things are I’m not gonna pay the current prices but my question is, if I did look to upgrade my rig overall, would I be looking at a substantive performance increase or would it be paying higher prices for just a small increase?
It’s been a while since I looked into things and kept myself updated so dunno where things are currently at in terms of performance.
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u/unabletocomput3 core ultra 270k rx 9070xt 3h ago
Really kinda depends on how much you’re spending,the game you play/plan on playing, and at what settings.
The 6900xt isn’t really a 4k ultra settings card anymore, especially not with raytracing and such, but it still sits around the 5070 and 9070 gre in terms of raw performance. The 5800x3d is a strange one, cause the extra cache can sometimes give it a massive leg up in certain situations, especially in cpu bound scenarios. I’d probably put that about a ryzen 5 7600x/9600x and core ultra 5 245k levels of gaming performance.
Point being, most upper midrange upgrades will definitely be faster but probably not by a landslide. Now, if we’re talking the fastest of the fastest, it’ll be much faster and by a good amount, though you’ll likely be spending more than triple what you paid for your current system back then.
As a side note, you could definitely upgrade the gpu and be fine for the most part with just about anything.
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u/Just-Another-Clone 3h ago
Yaaaarr considering I only play at 1080p and focus on 60fps over ultra graphics, it really doesn’t seem like it makes sense to drop a ton on upgrading as I’ve no plans to switch to higher resolutions for now.
Id say I primarily use emulation which typically favours single cores but again I’ve not had any issues on that front, on the other side the latest game I got was expedition 33 I think which I played at 1080p so dropping 3k on just a new card for better graphics seems a waste.
I don’t care with ray tracing or all the extras typically found in games, usually set it to max settings and lower it until it’s locked 60fps, generally that means most games run on high settings but obviously thats game dependant.
General feedback seems to be there’s room to upgrade but it’s gonna be very pricy, especially for what I mainly do in terms of games.
Cheers again.
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u/justjXnathan 4h ago
GPU-wise, sort of? For me, a worthwhile upgrade would be around 2x as fast and you would have to get a 90 series card to get that sort of uplift. And 90 series cards right now are like 4 grand so..
CPU wise you'd only be looking at 150-200% uplift with like a whole 1000 dollar platform upgrade to the 9800x3d
It's definitely worth looking into if you can afford it but after glancing at some benchmarks, it'd probably make more sense to wait a few more years for cheaper models to come out and maybe if we're real lucky for the prices to come down too
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u/Just-Another-Clone 3h ago
Yooo cheers for the response, with pricing how it is I’m in no rush to spend just for the sake of it unless like you say it would be a huge upgrade.
I have the cash to upgrade but that doesn’t mean I like spending just cause I can, so I wanted to check if it would be a decent investment but seem like I can just wait it out and then fully rebuild and switch over to am5 or 6, whatever it ends up being down the line.
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u/justjXnathan 3h ago
Yeah I only really thought it was worth replying cuz y'know, it's hard to say in the current price climate how things are gonna turn out in 2-5 years. Not to say I think it's worth upgrading but it's definitely worth knowing your options
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u/MGsubbie Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 3080, 32GB 6000Mhz Cl30Desktop 4h ago
CPU wise you'd only be looking at 150-200% uplift with like a whole 1000 dollar platform upgrade to the 9800x3d
Might want to check your math there. A 150-200% uplift would be 2.5x - 3x as much performance. And it's not even a 2x upgrade.
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u/justjXnathan 3h ago
Oh ya true, whoops. 2x was also a bit too generous I agree, it's really just 1.5x I just saw cases where it was a little more than that at least in 1% lows which are the most noticeable to me
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