What is the cheek bustinest CPU/GPU combo to max out settings? Without spending an insane amount of duckettes?
9800X3D is by far the best gaming CPU. It’s not necessarily the best for high core usage productivity apps, but it’s completely unmatched in gaming, it’s a good 20% ahead of the #2 spot. If you want to run high core productivity apps but still have the 9800X3D gaming performance, wait for the 9950X3D.
As far as GPU…WOW doesn’t need much. A 4060 should be able to completely max out WOW.
4060 is probably fine for 1080p, but at 1440p or higher the 8GB of vram will be a problem. I’d say 4070 super would be a better match for the 9800x3d.
Yeah good point…I was just going by WOW, obviously if the OP wants to play other games a much better GPU will be needed as well.
If you’re just playing 1440p, you can get a 5800x3d and an rx 7700xt. Will be able to max out settings just fine.
depends on your definition of “insane amount of duckettes”
CPU side
you can go intel 13600k/14600k w/ DDR5 or AMD 5700X3D/5800X3D but both platforms really have no upgrade path that’s worthwhile past that (AMD’s would have none)
that basically leaves you AMD’s AM5 with a 7600X3d if you can find one or the 7800X3D for more. 9800X3D would be the top dog but you pay for that performance
GPU side @ 1440p it would be something like the RTX 4070 (or AMD equivalent)
not for WoW, I play(ed) it on recent 8,10,12 GB cards @ 1440p with no issue
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Like I don’t want to spend a grand for a GPU. 400 tops
even the RTX 4070 is going to be the in the $500 neighborhood. New AMD RX 9700 will start at $450 (XT will cost more). $400 will be the AMD 7700 XT, more than capable for WoW @ 1440p but if your not itching to buy anything just yet maybe wait for Nvidia to launch the RTX 5060 & 5060ti and see what they can do. Might even lower some AMD prices.
9800X3D, b850 Pro RS, 32gb 6000mhz c30, 9070 (out soon) is what I’d likely do.
Both the 9070 and 9070XT will be 16gb cards.
rather than making my own thread, I guess I’ll ask here since I have a similar question.
What would be a good GPU to pair with a 9800X3D? When it comes to games I only need to run WoW with 4K resolution - would the 5070 Ti be a fine choice for this? Will potentially be upgrading to 5k later this year with the new acer 5k 144 Hz monitor, so I’d want to be extra safe here.
(most resources for wow discuss needing a good cpu, but I never really saw many gpu recommendations for the game @ higher resolutions which is why I’m asking this)
Honestly, the 9070XT, 4080-4080s performance, 4070ti-4080 RT performance, rumored at $549.
7900XTX is still a great choice too.
WoW isn’t really hard to drive, it’s mostly CPU bound in PvP / Raids.
My 2080ti is more than enough for 3440x1440.
The 5070ti is going to be hard to get, and expensive, especially with the founders MSRP being $750.
9800X3D is the top dog gaming CPU so it pairs with every flagship GPU and down. 5070ti “should” handle WoW @ 4k with no issue but without 3rd party benchmarks no one can 100% say until launch. It sounds like a sound plan though, just have to wait for reviews.
pcgameshardware (a german site) is the only place that does professional hardware reviews of the game this late in WoW’s life and last expansion they benchmarked was dragon flight but still fairly new. @ 4k you would need an RX 7900 XT or RTX 4080 to have 100 FPS avg or better (12900k CPU with DDR5 ram test system)
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imo the best budget combo you’ll get for games is a 5800X3D and a 6700 XT graphics card
hi thanks for the responses!
Is the 5070 Ti actually likely to suffer from the same issues that the 5090/5080 have wrt availability? Looking to buy an nvidia gpu so the 9070 XT isn’t an option, unfortunately - why would it be easier to get?
Hard to say but it would not be surprising if it does as Nvidia cut down (off) on the RTX 4XXX chip supplies to the AIBs to keep pricing up. That also creates a higher demand for the RTX 5XXX at launch unless the cards are a pure dud in price and/or performance.
Any reason in particular? FSR 4 looks fantastic and RT performance is finally going to be on par.
As someone with an Nvidia card, AMD drivers have been superior lately.
Afaik (correct me if i’m wrong, I haven’t been paying too much attention) we don’t know anything concrete about the amd 9000 series cards besides some unsubstantiated rumors, and the launch / reveals have been perpetually pushed back when they were slated to be showcased in early January, so I don’t have a lot of faith. DLSS 4 and the new multiframe generation technology are also really cool and I imagine FSR isn’t catching up anytime soon despite its improvements?
Of course when there’s an actual showcase of the new gpus I’ll be happy to see a cool product, it just seemed a little dubious right now.
The main reason though is wanting to learn to work with pytorch - obviously nothing too serious is going to be done on my own computer, but playing around with toy examples and such is a lot easier if you have an nvidia gpu.
AMD 9070 XT is on my radar, but over the past year, I have read of many people with AMD cards having driver crashing issues. Most recent being just few months ago.
Hence I’m a bit apprehensive of getting an AMD card right now, as having the driver crash unexpectedly when it matters is a big no-no.