I totally agree with this purely in terms of what his 1650 is able to offer him. But you simply can’t ignore the fact that both AMD and Nvidia are releasing new GPUs before the end of the year. That will not only increase the choices for a potential GPU upgrade, but it will also drive down the cost of “older” cards. Buying a new GPU right now would be like the person who bought an iPhone 13 Max for full price the day before the iPhone 14 Max was released. It’s simply bad timing to buy a new GPU right now and I don’t think that it should be a big deal to wait a month or two.
The 5800X3D only had a limited production run as it was sort of a “test” of the 3D cache concept. It also happens to be the best gaming CPU for the entire AM4 platform. You have people with 3 generations worth of AMD motherboards (3xx, 4xx, and 5xx series) all going for the 5800X3D as their last potential major CPU upgrade. Meanwhile AMD has shifted production of new CPUs over to Zen 4 now. I wouldn’t count on the 5800X3D prices going down any time soon.
Is that a Ryzen 5 3600? 3.6ghz clockspeed, 4.2ghz Turbo Boost? 6 cores, 12 threads?
Pair this cpu with a 1660 Super or Ti , and you should be fine at 1080p.
I am currently running wow on max settings with my little R5 3600 and the 1650 super with up to 100+ FPS. However, all of that is supposedly changing with Dragonflight expansion as the requirements are going up…yes, I will meet the min requirements but I will loose the quality I have now as my gpu won’t meet the recommended requirements of an 8GB GPU…
I am the sort of player that prefers high quality graphics over high FPS rates…max graphic settings with 80+ FPS high and 62-68 lows to me is more important than mid low to medium settings @ 200+ FPS
I am hoping that an R5 5800x with a 6600 XT or a 3060 with my 1080p 165hz monitor will get me the experience I’m accustomed to or prefer…
Side question, are online bottleneck calculators worth the effort of using?
If you’re running WoW, then the prepatch would have upgraded the graphics for the game anyway.
Along with the new UI i see there are more graphics options under settings then there were before, including some ways of rendering that are only available for new gen cards, and maybe a couple last gen cards.
HOLY CRAP!
I just read the new requirements and discovered I’m sitting at minimum settings now FFS, im a bit shocked, its not like this game is turning into Cyberpunk 2077 (which im at the minimum currently).
I sure as hell hope they did this to future proof the game for a couple years lol.
Now i have to get a newer PC for my self and hand this one off to my wife that rarely plays these days.
Except that most of the updated graphics are tied to new content that has not been released yet. This is similar to how Ardenweald is much more GPU intensive compared to The Barrens, despite using the same rendering engine.
I’d slap a new GPU in there and call it good for a start. I recently upgraded from a rx480 8gb, which was beginning to seriously struggle while paired with a 5600x. I chose a 3060 with 12gb memory. I have had everything maxed and rarely drop below 50fps in oribos on Stormrage. I have a cheap Asus board and 32gigs of RAM. I’m very happy with the performance in everything I play. Including Cyberpunk.
When WoW started pushing pre patch data, lots of add-ons were borked. That can cause (and did) serious performance issues.
Im still on z68 with an i52500K and 16gb of ddr3 1600mhz and a 1660S
This computer is seriously ancient (z68 is pcie2. 0 )
but the Game runs 99% smooth with everything at ultra except shadows are turned down a bit. How it runs in a raid environment is yet to be seen though.
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