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Darc Requiem said:

I recently did a total upgrade of my main rig. I went from a 5800X, 32GB DDR4 3600, and a 6900XT to a 7800X3D, 32GB DDR5 6000, and a 7900XTX. TLDR; The 7900XTX was on sale, I had like $60 in Best Buy certificates, and selling my 6900XT made the card cost as much as a 7800XT.

I basically had enough left over parts to build another system out of the old parts with a case and new GPU. I literally had no reason to but I bought an Arc A770 16GB and a Fractal case just to mess around with Intel Arc. Honestly the experience has been pretty smooth. I've, ironically, had more issues with my 4080 laptop (it's a gimped desktop 4070Ti I hate laptop naming schemes). The only game I've tried that runs terrible is Star Citizen. I know Starfield isn't supposed to work well but it runs fine for me to bad the game is mid. I'd be pissed if I didn't get the game for free with GPU and CPU.*. I like having first hand access to all three GPU manufacturers.

I prefer AMD's software by a mile. I only game so I have no insight into productivity tasks. Intel's software certainly looks nicer than Nvidia's but I haven't delved deep enough to it to judge it's functionality. I don't like GeForce experience at all. Am the only that doesn't care about Frame Generation? The games you need it for, games that run at 30-40fps, look smooth but feel like crap. The games that don't need it, games that run 60fpd+, feel fine but it's pointless because I'm already getting a high frame rate.

Side note: Did anyone else have to roll back to the previous GeForce driver? The lastest driver was causing my laptop to hard lock up or crash. I thought I got another bad laptop. I had to RMA the first one. Ended up being a bad CPU. I guess I was due. I've never had a bad CPU in 30 years of PC gaming and only have had one bad GPU

*Gave the second copy away....AMD didn't make easy. I had to do the hardware verification and then give the person my AMD Rewards login info to claim it. Wouldn't recommend that unless you trust the person.

Congrats on your builds. Glad to hear that Intel GPUs are working quite well as I really hope they do well since we need more competition. Sounds like you got a great deal on the XTX.

For my experience with laptops in general, the a lot of the issues that I experienced seems to stem from the laptop manufacturer than the hardware makers. Like for example, I have had my Dell XPS with 2060, sister had alienware with 3070, Asus gaming laptop with 2070 and the list goes on. All of those had issues until an eventual firmware/bios update that fixed it. Some of them made no sense as the game was stuttering so I thought it was the GPU but it turns out that the firmware that was shipped locked the GPU to a specific clock speed under certain circumstances. The Alienware especially had a 3070 that had fewer cuda cores than an official 3070 until they released an update that fixed the issue. I also hate all the random crap laptop manufacturers put in out of the box. The amount of times Dells "Support Assist" caused bluescreens was insane until I uninstalled that crap.

I personally don't use Frame Generation myself outside of like very demanding Ray Tracing titles like Cyberpunk or the upcoming Alan Wake 2. I prefer to use DLSS Upscaling at most if possible since that looks quite good at 4k without the latency penalty that you get from FG. The issue of course is that we get further into the generation, FG will help GPUs last longer in theory as games become a lot more demanding. And of course, there will be times that developers will use it as a crutch. But overall, I am not as impressed with FG than I was with DLSS 2.0. But FG from both companies are relatively new so maybe one day, they will improve enough to be more viable.

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 13 October 2023