Do we know what kind of motherboard is on there? What kind of cooler?
Will the CPU throttle itself because of cooling? Will the motherboard throttle itself because of VRM?
Do we know what kind of motherboard is on there? What kind of cooler?
Will the CPU throttle itself because of cooling? Will the motherboard throttle itself because of VRM?
the things I do for you Sal
the mobo is a Z490 chipset most likely proprietary in design. It’s hard to get a good look at the VRM via the DELL manual. Cooling is a 120mm AIO (Asetek OEM) or Intel stock cooler. I would say either CPU (10700/k) would be fine at stock settings. In fact from the looks of the manual, the stock cooler should be easily replaceable to something like the ID-Cooling SE 914 XT cooler.
Oh, did I mention one of the features of either PC is a “Power Cord 125V”…as opposed to those stinking 250v European power cords
lol well, at least now we know for sure it will work in the USA
OK I did it. I made the purchase. I appreciate all the insight and suggestions. I just wanted to come back and let you know that your help wasn’t for naught. I ended up just purchasing one with minor changes and because of convenience as well. Below is what I purchased, is it everything that was recommended? No, but I’m sure it’ll do fine for WoW nonetheless. Thanks again! (I did change the case to the Lunar color instead of the ugly black one)
Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 (2x2) and Bluetooth 5.0
2TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
Lunar Light chassis with High-Performance CPU Liquid Cooling and 1000W Power Supply
Dual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8GB GDDR6 (OC Ready) with NVIDIA NVLink SLI Enabled
AMD Ryzen™ 7 3700X (8-Core, 32MB L3 Cache, Max Boost Clock of 4.4GHz)
Also in the bundle I added a monitor and keyboard/mouse combo.
Alienware 510K Low Profile RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - Wired/Wireless Mouse
Alienware 25 Gaming Monitor - AW2521HF
Again, I appreciate all the replies. I’m sure some are shaking their head, but it’ll be alright. Nothing that can’t be upgraded in the future! I’m going from a Geforce 550 Ti to this… lol.
I personally wouldn’t get 2 GTX 2070 Supers. SLI isn’t that great for gaming. Could use the money towards something else.
Wow I just realized this and thought it was the ASUS DUAL model
That’s a terrible idea lol
Hi. are you pointing out that the speed difference is not meaningful?
I think some reviews have stated as much, dependent on what type of usage the drive sees.
Or are you taking a crack at me? Nothing I wrote was Hyperbole. This however, a paragraph I copied describing the software, might qualify!
100%, right down to some damn thing.
The WD BLACK SSD Dashboard gives you the ability to optimize performance by enabling the gaming mode feature. This disables the low power mode function on the SSD, which keeps your drive firing on all cylinders during intense gaming sessions.
Going with that Dell link I wouldve just added the 3080 and 3200mhz ram, which brought it to $1999. For ryzen it’s either 3200 or 3600, usually cheaper to get 3200 cl16 and lower then 3600 cl16 or lower.
At least with Dell you should get the system before trying to get a 3080 from a store/website if you went to try to build your system yourself.
Hi. are you pointing out that the speed difference is not meaningful?
Meaningful towards what? Moving information across the SSD? Sure. For gaming? Not really. As per techspot
Why don’t games benefit all that much from faster SSDs? Well, it seems clear that raw storage performance is not the main bottleneck for loading today’s games. Pretty much all games released up to this point are designed to be run off hard drives, which are very slow; after all, the previous generation of consoles with the PS4 and Xbox One both used slow mechanical drives to store games.
Today’s game engines simply aren’t built to make full use of fast storage, and so far there’s been little incentive to optimize for PCIe SSDs. Instead, the main limitation seems to be things like how quickly the CPU can decompress assets, and how quickly it can process a level before it’s ready for action, rather than how fast it can read data off storage…For a gaming-focused build, we wouldn’t go out of the way to get anything higher end and certainly wouldn’t pay attention to any of the professional-focused drives with high-end controllers, like say the Samsung Pro line.
The WD BLACK SSD Dashboard gives you the ability to optimize performance by enabling the gaming mode feature. This disables the low power mode function on the SSD, which keeps your drive firing on all cylinders during intense gaming sessions.
You mean as opposed to disabling them in the UEFI yourself?
The WD BLACK SSD Dashboard gives you the ability to optimize performance by enabling the gaming mode feature. This disables the low power mode function on the SSD, which keeps your drive firing on all cylinders during intense gaming sessions.
This is just a marketing gimmick.
I hate the whole part list thing as I’v stated several times especially when you have a bunch of gamers answering rather then tech people.
Dudes on this forum are helpful and knowledgeable, but for the Average Joe? Asking for build advice? They just wanna price= performance.
helpful? for the most part they try to be
knowledgeable? Some are, some think they know more then they do , and some are just pushing their parts in their builds.
The “average joe” typically just sets a budget and wants to know what they can get for that budget. Few people realize that games and you monitor are the driving force for a gaming PC. If all you do on your PC is play torchlight on your 1600x900 60FPS monitor and have no interest in other games, software and monitor upgrades; what is a $2k PC going to do that a $700 won’t even if you can afford the $2k.