re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

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Josh - are you going to do a separate thread when you do your mythical 4k gaming build? Not that I am going to leech off your research (which is what I'm going to be doing, of course), but it might be interesting to shadow along, perhaps at a lower budget tier. I only ask because it has been about 8 years since I did a new build. (Is LSU Coyote still a going concern around here?) And, at least conceptually, we will be broadly pursuing the same goals for the build - at least the key components of CPU, MB, GPU, monitor.

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I wasn’t planning on it, but I certainly can

Eta: Fair warning that I’m probably going to do a rear connector build, so my motherboard might be on the niche side

AMD just wants us to relive through the shitty driver days of the early 2010s

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is DDR5 still expensive as it was 3 years ago?

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Significantly cheaper. Scroll down for your chosen speed, and this only shows the last 18mos: LINK /

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AMD just wants us to relive through the shitty driver days of the early 2010s

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It's always been a Windows issue, glad to see MS get it corrected finally though as AMD has picked up enough market share to get things done now. Years ago it was said MS had no desire to optimize for AMD chips, and this is the culmination of years of optimization in one large Windows update so the gains are quite substantial even on previous gen chips.

Still insane the 5800X3D sees +17% gains across the 8 games tested. That CPU is quite literally GOATed. Not sure we will ever see a CPU that good again.

HardwareUnboxed with similar gains reported as well

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The channel found that, on average, across dozens of games, average frame rates increased by about 10 percent for a Zen 4-based Ryzen 7 7700X. Ryzen 7 9700X improved more, as AMD said it would, by 11 percent.

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Nothing quite like installing a Windows update and getting +10% frames.

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I don't monitor FPS. Should I be?

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Um… kind of? If you’re getting good performance, it doesn’t really matter beyond dick measuring. If you’re having poor performance, then monitoring both fps as well as hardware usage is important.

As an example, I recently installed and played GRIME. Nice graphics, but 2D platformer which isn’t all that intensive. Yet, stuttering was awful. I looked at my fps and it was terrible. Like 40fps terrible. Then I noticed that my GPU was at 99% utilization … but clocking at like 200mhz. After a significant amount of trouble shooting that doesn’t matter (short version was an issue with Afterburner), I was able to get my hardware to play nicely with the game, which then shot me up to a solid 120fps.

But if I wasn’t prepared to monitor all of that when I ran into some odd behavior, I never would have figured out the issue.

Not really. Only if you're having issues and want to see if it's low FPS or big dips in FPS causing it so you can tweak settings to get more frames. Could always be bad game optimization too/bad port.

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Um… kind of? If you’re getting good performance, it doesn’t really matter beyond dick measuring.

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I don't be winning any of those. But I haven't observed any issues related to performance. If I get curious, I turn on the Rivia overlay but I have had it off for months now.

I saw an article this morning commemorating four years since the release of the 30 series, which then reminded me for the first time in a while of the absolute saga that was MTech. What a fricking ride, those "shipping" pics and videos were like fricking crack

r/mtechtx

That’s actually a pretty old guide at this point, so I wouldn’t expect significant price reductions moving forward, as those are mostly already priced in. You say you’re rebuilding; are you carrying any components forward? What’s your price range? What does he play, at what resolution, and with what target frames per second?