Got my new system up and running. Installing WoW and other games now
I have basically the same exact set-up. 5800x, 3060 TI, 32GB of RAM. I can play WoW on ultra + ray tracing on with 100 fps. I’m surprised you’d dump out that much money for a 4TB NVME because those aren’t cheap.
I have 2 512 GB NVMEs and a 4TB regular mechanical drive.
Monitor is the weakest point I got right now.
True, but I have numerous VM’s and Install a lot more than just WoW. I get my content burn-out and resort to many of the other games I have of just about every genre dating as far back as the DOS days
I’m pretty much in that same boat too. I’ve thought about moving my VMs onto a dedicated drive just for them due to the setups I plan on having, and I occasionally go back and play old DOS games for nostalgia like Duke Nukem and Carmageddon.
Plus games are getting so large nowadays - the core install + expansions + minor DLCs + save files + patch fixes + potential mods; I have games nearing a 200GB installation.
Since buying a really large SSD is expensive, I’ve simply tailored my gaming installations. Frequently played games or those with large load times I’ll have on an SSD, while the opposite types will still be on an HDD.
I can’t even do that with a 3070 but I run at 4K. Did you lower some settings or something?
I have a regular ol’ monitor nothing fancy so probably has something to do with that.
Ah ok that makes sense then. Love my 4K monitor but getting GPUs to power the thing can be hard for some games. Raytracing WoW being of them. Though I don’t notice a difference with Raytracing unless I zoom on a face (only good for still pic).
Don’t settle for anything less than a 1TB m.2 drive. Don’t waste your valuable m.2 slots with low capacity drives.
That depends on one’s use case. I’d rather have a fast gaming drive (sadly those are generally smaller). AMD users can have 2 full speed m.2 slots running at the same time so they can get away with it.
The main thing to change if it had t be nit-picky is to get Radeon instead of a Geforce. This game runs much better on a ‘mid-range’ RX 6800 than the top end RTX 3090.