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.
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Grats! Sounds like a massive upgrade and will make for a fine high end gaming experience to enjoy for years to come.
WoodenPints said:
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.
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I don't know a single person who cares about frame generation I see no reason where you would ever want to use it they recommend a 70+fps as a baseline but if your getting a solid 70+ base then why would you degrade your experience by enabling frame generation it's just another few letter pointless technology that companies can spin the PR on and give people fomo for me it's already thrown in the bin with FSR, DLSS, PhysX, Hairworks, AFMF, Ray Tracing, Power of the cloud, Cell processor, Power of the SSD etc... it's very full now I will need to hire out a bigger dumpster soon to fit everything in as we will rapidly see more and more come out.
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Hmm I think framegen is fairly decent, but not without its limitations. At least on Nvidia's side of things, and its only in its starting year. Not sure if AMD will get there will FSR 3 but they'll improve upon the tech.
In my experience when running CP 2077 with FG its largely been an enjoyable experience. I've been playing Phantom Liberty at 1440P native with Overdrive (with PT mod, no DLSS RR) at 60fps and the input lag is largely non issue when playing on controller. That's just not possible without FG. Heck pathtacing rn on current hardware just isn't all that feasable going above a ray couple bounces at reasonable fidelity and resolutions on anything but a RTX 4090, before looking into FG. Its easy to get into the marketing hype though for the other tech but in this case I'd say its certainly has its uses. But yeah, watching PL with all everything turned up is a tranformative experience. Really haven't been been blown away by most games visually or otherwise. But the game is spectacular in almost every way, the visuals are just the icing on the cake.
Last edited by hinch - on 13 October 2023
