is 4060 good enough?
world pvp quests, m+, raids
from what I understand 3060 12Gb vram & 192bus should destroy 4060 8Gb ram 128bus in any RTX scenario
World of Warcraft is a very unique animal it cares more about your CPU than GPU. It is a CPU intensive game. I need to know what platform you were on before I could suggest the right CPU.
Since you will be streaming and doing a bunch of other things in the background on top of full screen gaming an 8 core cpu just isn’t going to cut it. I mean it’s feasible but it’s definitely not ideal. You’re streaming and other background tasks you have going will fall more on your CPU than GPU. This is even more true at 1080p
Just as an example if you are on am4 a 5900x over a 5800x may be the difference between a smooth stream in a congested area like a boss fight versus some choppiness here and there. I can help you with CPU choice but again I need to know what platform you’re on.
I’m curious about something on that point. My system has a 12700k CPU paired with an Asrock 6700 XT Challenger D GPU. If hypothetically I wanted to upgrade one of these parts for better performance, which one would make more sense to upgrade, the CPU or GPU?
12700k CPU ---->14700k will be night and day. All aspects of your rig. Everything will just feel smoother and snapier. But Sub 4k resolution CPU and ram choice have the most noticeable expleriance.
Just get the CPU from Amazon or BestBuy who has a no questions asked return policy. Not happy with it? Return it.
Id recommend a 360 aio btw. This is a steal and will keep your upgrade ice cold. Arctic LF II 360
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WoW also really likes cache, so if you’re on AM4 a 5800x3d will probably out-perform a 5900x.
Not once you start streaming and using task in the background aka using the cores. Think of the cache as a pool of water with a hole in it. The more things you do in the background that utilize cores the bigger the hole gets.
This is more true at 1440p+ How much this effect would affect 1080p gaming? Im not sure I have not done any 1080p testing in years. Op specifically mentioned 1080p so in regards to that it could be more of a toss up
Bottomline Flawless streaming uses up a lot of resources CPU wise.
Maybe if he’s running the encoder on the CPU, but at 1080p he should have enough headroom to process the stream with nvenc.
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Probably true. Like I said I have done zero 1080p testing on modern CPUs. Im a 4k gamer now and for the past few years I was 1440p
Last time I had to stream anything, I was running a 11700k, and a 3080 at 4k, so I just set it to encode with QSV on the intel igp. (since then, the 11700k died, and got upgraded to a 7800x3d) since the 5800x3d doesn’t have one, he can probably use nvenc on the 4060 and not notice an impact at 1080p.
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I was more thinking “elaborate” setups I guess. You know once you start factoring in you are not using 1 display but 2. 1 Monitor for your gaming another for monitoring the stream/chat in real time. Was thinking the more cores would be more useful there due to the performance hit you would take taxing an 8 core CPU. Especially once factoring in 2 displays. Especially since its 1080p using more CPU resources than GPU. If you were at 1440p getting a better GPU would fix most of these issues since CPU doesnt do as much at 1440p+
You have some good valid points