| JEMC said: Well, it looks like it's upgrade season for some of us here, because I've also (finally!) upgraded my PC! |
Christmas in March?
| JEMC said: I've upgraded everything but the GPU. I'm not too demanding and my GTX 1070 will still do the job for me for a while. Also, the only option available right now in my price range is the 6700XT, because an 8GB card to play at 1440p is not a good idea. So, this is what I've got: |
It's not the end of the world to hold out for awhile longer... We are seeing some significant downward pricing tends at the moment... Mostly in part to nVidia's Super series and AMD GRE cards placing downward pressure which has seen even cards like the Radeon 7700 12GB drop down in price by $30 USD.
It also depends on what games you run at 1440P, if it's older titles then 8GB is fine... A modern 8GB mid-range card can offer a 50% performance improvement or more over the older 1070 regardless of resolution. - But I am probably not telling you anything new here, you would have pushed a ton of games through that 1070 over the years.
Not ideal of course, but there are gains to be had... Just something to think about.
| JEMC said: I know, I know. I can almost imagine some of you writing something along the line of "I would never anyhting less than an 8 core CPU in 2024, and that would be the very minimum". And the truth is that I agree, an 8 core CPU is the way to go if you can afford it. The thing is that this whole build has always been the foundation for the definitive build, not the final one. You see, I've taken the gamble that AMD will launch another gen of CPUs after the launch of the zen5 based 9000 ones that we'll get this year and before moving to a new socket. And the plan is to wait for that and then get the equivalent of the 5800X3D/7800X3D of the time. Because of that, it doesn't make sense to overspend on a CPU that will get replaced in maybe three or four years, hence the 7600. Also, since I'm coming from an i5-4670K with 4 cores/4 threads, the jump is already big:
A 70% increase in single core and more than 200% in multicore is great. |
I wouldn't even go with only an 8-core CPU. Different horses for different courses. Haha
I'm still clinging to an old Ryzen 5950X, have to admit, been tempted to upgrade for faster single core performance, but I am trying my hardest to wait for the 8000 series.
I'm doing a ton of 3D design work for 3D printing, so the extra cores have come in handy when I have a few dozen designs all running at the same time without a single slowdown... Plus transcoding to devices for 4k quality media, not unusual to have CPU utilization at 70-80% across all 32 threads for a full day...
The Ryzen 7600 is a good chip and is probably the better option over having to regress to AM4 in my opinion... The slowest AM5 8-core chips tend to command a 50% AUD price premium over the 7600.
Your other potential option was the Ryzen 8500G, which would have hit the performance a bit, but would have saved $30 AUD, I assume you made that assessment and opted for the faster chip anyway.
The 7600 should still provide a better experience than the current gen consoles in gaming, so you are all set for a few years I think.
Happy gaming on the new hardware!
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