That is interesting to hear about WoW favoring Nvidia cards?
The monitor I purchased is AMD Free Sync enabled?? And with an AMD CPU I guess I was leaning towards an AMD Graphics Card but I am very capable of overthinking that it would make sense to lean towards that setup?
What/why would it favor Nvidia?
Most game developers favor Nvidia. As to why I couldn’t tell you, but it’s something that happens. AMD cards are perfectly fine though.
The Monitor I purchased is not on the list for Free Sync to work with Nvidia…why I guess I feel it is a factor with a GPU.
WoW uses an older engine and Nvidia’s always been more brute force while AMD/Ati has tended to be more about efficiency. Newer games tend to be more optimized for AMD these days because AMD GPU’s are in both of the major consoles . If your monitor can handle freesync Over DP its probably Gsync compatible. Looks like Bestbuy is out of stock of 3060ti FE but they looks like they have some Gigabytes for 405. With the FE not in stock I think i a good 3 fan 6700xt like Power Color Red Devil or Sapphire Nitro+ might be a better buy.
Got this when I Googled about GSync:
The Gigabyte G34WQCA has a maximum refresh rate of 144Hz, which provides you with a significantly smoother gaming experience in comparison to the standard 60Hz/75Hz monitors – provided that you can output a higher frame rate.
It also supports [AMD FreeSync] with a 48-144 VRR (variable refresh rate) range for tear-free gameplay up to 144FPS.
While the monitor is not certified as G-SYNC Compatible by NVIDIA, you can use FreeSync with compatible GeForce cards (GTX 10-series or newer) over DisplayPort.
Unfortunately, as it’s the case with most VA panel gaming monitors, some units suffer from VRR brightness flickering when FreeSync/G-SYNC is enabled.
What 2 other things are you referring to?
if it’s your nvme and 5800x3d then
as long as you get a decent enough b550 motherboard with decent cooling for your vrm you should be fine.
But I haven’t caught up with the entirety of your previous posts. Outside of your already purchased cpu….
What is your remaining budget and what parts have been purchased already? Bonus points if you can provide location (Canada/US/etc) currency purposes. Can probably whip you up a list on pcpartpicker and you can question why each component was chosen.
I am US–trying to keep things as low cost as possible but get something I will be happy with. I have a G34QWC Ultra Wide monitor already and the 5800X3D–budget is best bang for buck without buying something that is overkill for the rest of the components.
Key next purchases are GPU and Motherboard.
After a post above, monitoring pricing on:
Sapphire 11306-01-20G Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming Graphics Card with 12GB GDDR6, AMD RDNA 2
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qbt42m
Sample build. You can cut cost here and there with sales and what not.
Going with 16gb ram will save you roughly $30
Different psu can save you roughly $40
you can switch out the cpu heat sink to an AIO unit if you want water cooling or don’t want a giant block of metal with two fans strapped to it.
There are also cheaper cases if that is what you prefer.
Motherboard has bios flashback so you can ignore the bios warning at the bottom. There are a slew of selection for a little more or a little less depending on brands/peripheral needs(Wi-Fi, USB/audio). Even though you’ll probably won’t make full use of a x570 chipset the Asus tuf x570 does have Wi-Fi on it and for not much more.
Awesome–I will check it out–and yea, leaning towards using Water Cooling of some kind but will look into it.
Good Karma and thank you and everyone above very much!
Fair warning AM4 is End of Life so the 5800x3d is the best you’ll get for your motherboard.
If you decide to go to a new platform, you will be their free beta tester.
Well–AMD announced they are scaling back production for AM5 motherboards–so the current demand is not their and have a feeling the world will sitting with DDR4 and PCIe 4 being mainstream for quite some time–the % of people will to upgrade past those points is not supporting them investing into it–but things change all the time too.
Is it important to get an SSD with a Heatsink? Difference in price is like $15?
And read this online–any truth to this and worth it:
If you are using a Ryzen processor, you will see a more meaningful improvement by moving up to 4 RAM sticks , but Ryzen processors are also heavily impacted by RAM speed and latency, which are harder to push with 4 Stick configurations.
So with a Ryzen processor, you should be using 4 sticks at high mhz?
You don’t need four sticks of ram You want Dual Channel Dual rank ram and with most ram being single rank the easiest way to get dual rank with dual channel is to use 4 matching sticks of ram. If you do some research it is possible to get dual channel dual rank with just 2 sticks but most ram made these days is probably high density single rank sticks.
For Gen 3 SSD you don’t need a heatsink but for fast Gen 4 you should get one but most Motherboard comes with at least 1 SSD heatsink but manufacturer integrated heat sinks are better.
Ryzen will always run better with faster ram since it will mean running the infinity fabric faster but with the X3D its less dependent on ram speed since less data will be transferred over the infinity fabric due to the larger cache
If the Motherboard says 3200mhz for Ram what happens if you put 3600mhz sticks in there…Does it help at all or is it harmful and cause issues with transfer (for lack of a better word)?
It may or may not work. If it doesn’t work then there can be instability or it will boot cycle and motherboard resets to factory setting which sets the speed to default speeds of 2133Mhz.
So with the build you suggested and that motherboard, the 32 RAM is caps and anything above that if I ever wanted to add would be really inefficient?
Not really. As long as your RAM stick is dual rank, its fine.
I used G.Skill 16GB DDR4-3200 C14 X2 (Samsung B-die) and managed to push 3800mhz (FCLK 1900 for 1:1). FCLK 1900 or higher is lottery. Depends on how good is your chip.
I believe the motherboard supports upward to 128 max. 32gb is just really because it’s not a significant amount more plus it gives you some flexibility since more and more things are becoming memory hogs.
You can easily get by with 16gbs for sometime. I believe with wow and miscellaneous things running in the background and a few tabs of chrome I was sitting under 12gb of ram used.
Trying to justify one over the other at this point:
CORSAIR RM Series (2021), RM850, 850 Watt, 80 Plus Gold Certified, Fully Modular Power Supply
VERSUS
Corsair RMx Series (2021), RM850x, 850 Watt, GOLD, Fully Modular Power Supply (CP-9020200-NA)
One uses German parts versus Japanese parts and supposed the X is quieter? Having trouble justifying paying $35 more for the X if that is all that is offers – anyone familiar with these?
I’ve been using the RMx for about a year now. It was a haste purchase from BestBuy when I upgraded to a 3080TI and I tripped my OC protection on my previous 750w when I loaded Snowrunner and maxxed out the graphic settings.
I can confirm it is very quiet with the Corsair Graphite 760T case, but I only bought it for the brand and watts, and was the only model I saw on the shelf at the time.