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When using this resource, please read the opening post. The Tech Support forum regulars have helped create countless of desktop systems without any compensation. The least you can do is provide all of the information required for them to help you properly.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20318 Posts
April 20 2019 18:35 GMT
#13801
The FPS that your 4960k can get will depend on the game, settings, what's currently happening (e.g. in SC2, how many units are on the map). Same for the 960 and 1660 ti, just with different things causing their performance to scale.

Whichever is capable of the least FPS at the time would be the bottleneck. For many things that will be the 4960k with either GPU and for many others that would be the 1660ti even with a weaker CPU.

Generally for pushing higher FPS + sustaining high min. FPS (especially in MMO/RTS) the CPU is more important. For higher resolutions and graphics settings, GPU is.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
icystorage
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Jollibee19350 Posts
April 20 2019 23:37 GMT
#13802
Thanks! Very informative.
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arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
April 21 2019 04:44 GMT
#13803
If one was looking for a non 450 tomahawk motherboard(i.e a non msi product cuz fuck those guys) with ryzen 2700x what is another good mb for around or lower the same price point?
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4135 Posts
April 23 2019 09:17 GMT
#13804
If you use a fps-cap, it limits only the cpu-power or gpu aswell? I wonder if my pc is capped at fps=60 but my gpu is running on maximum?!
Grubby | ToD | Moon | Lyn | Sky
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20318 Posts
April 23 2019 19:26 GMT
#13805
It only uses resources required to make those frames. FPS caps increase input lag and can have other bad effects though, keep in mind
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10011 Posts
April 25 2019 02:26 GMT
#13806
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ab = tl(i) + tl(pc), the grand answer to every tl.net debate
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6983 Posts
April 25 2019 11:27 GMT
#13807
On April 25 2019 11:26 TT1 wrote:
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icystorage
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Jollibee19350 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-04-26 06:59:19
April 26 2019 06:59 GMT
#13808
Alright, I'm planning to buy a ryzen 5 2600x (or 2600), there's a bundle with a mobo I can choose:
Gigabyte ga-a320m-s2h

and

Gigabyte ga-b450-aorus-m

I researched a bit and what i got is that you cant OC A320. Given that I don't really OC my stuff, should I go for A320? Any reasons to choose B450?
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arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
April 29 2019 02:57 GMT
#13809
On April 26 2019 15:59 icystorage wrote:
Alright, I'm planning to buy a ryzen 5 2600x (or 2600), there's a bundle with a mobo I can choose:
Gigabyte ga-a320m-s2h

and

Gigabyte ga-b450-aorus-m

I researched a bit and what i got is that you cant OC A320. Given that I don't really OC my stuff, should I go for A320? Any reasons to choose B450?

prolly more modern software and updates id wager, if you dont plan on overclocking really a b450 is a solid way to go imo.
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4135 Posts
May 05 2019 10:06 GMT
#13810
let's say you have i3-8100 & gtx1050. How much power consumption on idle and maximal? When i see in tests, they take ~35watt on idle, i find it hard to believe because my pc (1055t & gtx1050) takes 78watt idle (my ammeter shows that).

I want to upgrade my pc this summer but I will keep my gtx1050.
Grubby | ToD | Moon | Lyn | Sky
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20318 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-06 16:22:11
May 06 2019 16:02 GMT
#13811
On May 05 2019 19:06 Dingodile wrote:
let's say you have i3-8100 & gtx1050. How much power consumption on idle and maximal? When i see in tests, they take ~35watt on idle, i find it hard to believe because my pc (1055t & gtx1050) takes 78watt idle (my ammeter shows that).

I want to upgrade my pc this summer but I will keep my gtx1050.


Power consumption on the 1050 idle in the right conditions is basically nothing, ~3 watts. Those whole-system-power-draws of 35 watts idle are legit.

With an i3 under a gaming load that maxes the GPU while putting some load on the CPU i'd expect total system power usage to be somewhere around, possibly slightly above 100 watts. Most of it's coming from the GPU which can ramp up from almost nothing to near 70 watts as modern CPU's at low clocks (and especially not full load on all cores, as you don't generally see that in games) use such a tiny amount of power that it's barely worth thinking about for a system that's plugged into a wall.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Phenom_II_X6_1055T/11.html

^Your CPU pulling 18 watts more idle than Intel's 1'st gen core quad cores which in turn (both the CPU's and the larger/dumber motherboards to power them) pull way more power than 8'th and 9'th gen core on minimalist motherboards.

The 9 year old CPU/mobo is probably using a ton of power at idle compared to a more modern design, especially when you consider that you're comparing a high end (6 core) CPU+mobo from 2010 to an easy low power design (4 core) that's new. The i3's are using leftover dies that are designed and built largely for laptops, they've had power efficiency at idle as a high focus for a long time now.

Are you only measuring the PC as well? Monitors that are turned on use a substantial fraction of the idle power depending on the backlight size/settings. In some funny circumstances they can use more power than the PC itself. https://www.tftcentral.co.uk/images/asus_rog_swift_pg258q/power.jpg
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20318 Posts
May 23 2019 20:04 GMT
#13812


Great overview of a gsync lab here!
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20318 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-24 19:30:52
May 24 2019 19:30 GMT
#13813
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-amd-storage-test-mds-zombieload-ridl-fallout,6146.html

More performance losses with recent security mitigations, up to a 41% qd1 IO performance loss compared to unpatched. That puts AMD well in the lead for IO performance.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Lmui
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada6214 Posts
May 27 2019 04:28 GMT
#13814
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14407/amd-ryzen-3000-announced-five-cpus-12-cores-for-499-up-to-46-ghz-pcie-40-coming-77

Probably well worth holding off on a new computer if you can.
Ryzen 3000 series looks very promising, with higher performance/lower power/cost than anything on the market today, and ~1.5 months out.
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20318 Posts
May 27 2019 06:00 GMT
#13815
That it does! I'm especially interested in some disproportional performance gains in some games that Ryzen previously performed badly in compared to Intel. That's a strong indicator of big improvements to one or two specific areas of the CPU architecture that were relatively lacking before, likely some memory/cache related stuff which would also affect Starcraft 2 and WoW. https://i.imgur.com/5Qq9zZX.jpg
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Lmui
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada6214 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-27 07:54:54
May 27 2019 07:53 GMT
#13816
Going over the specs, I think the Ryzen 7 3600X is probably going to be the sweet spot for price/performance or gaming.
Turbo clocks are only slightly (200mhz, ~4%) behind the top end chip, and literally no game on the market can make use of 6 cores, let alone 12 threads.

The 3600X, 3700X and 3900X are all linearly scaling in terms of performance and pricing ($/core)which boggles my mind considering what Intel's done in the last 10 years.

I don't see a spot for the 3800X in the lineup. It's competing on frequency/binning with nothing really compelling pushing for it over the 3700X IMO.

There's likely going to be a 16c 32t threadripper down the line, topping out he range. It's definitely a monster of a chip/architecture going by the AMD released benchmarks.
Lmui
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada6214 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-27 07:54:40
May 27 2019 07:54 GMT
#13817
edit: accidentally clicked quote
Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20318 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-05-27 09:05:25
May 27 2019 09:01 GMT
#13818
literally no game on the market can make use of 6 cores


That's not true. A wide range of games get substantial performance improvements going from even 4c8t to 6c12t and they're becoming more common and larger with every passing year. They should also continue to do so with more and more PC's getting 6c12t+ CPU's and consoles getting these 8c16t ryzen 3000 chips.

See this almost-2-year-old review


Beyond 6c12t is much flatter.

ST perf is extremely important and i'm the first to point that out but it seems in many cases that Ryzen 3000 doesn't have a disadvantage over Skylake based Intel CPU's for that.
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Lmui
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada6214 Posts
May 27 2019 16:07 GMT
#13819
On May 27 2019 18:01 Cyro wrote:
Show nested quote +
literally no game on the market can make use of 6 cores


That's not true. A wide range of games get substantial performance improvements going from even 4c8t to 6c12t and they're becoming more common and larger with every passing year. They should also continue to do so with more and more PC's getting 6c12t+ CPU's and consoles getting these 8c16t ryzen 3000 chips.

See this almost-2-year-old review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIVaGcax70

Beyond 6c12t is much flatter.

ST perf is extremely important and i'm the first to point that out but it seems in many cases that Ryzen 3000 doesn't have a disadvantage over Skylake based Intel CPU's for that.


I guess so, I actually completely forgot about next gen consoles since I don't own any.
Probably a good plan to get a cpu at least as good as the ones in the consoles to start (given that the PS4 uses 8 cores, I wouldn't expect the next one to use any less)

I'm still running a 4670k OC'd to 4.1ghz, so it's looking like it's pretty much time to upgrade for me. Higher IPC across the board, better clocks, better minimum framerates, and 2x physical cores, 4x threads with the 3700X. I'm running up against the limits of what a 4670k can do with a gtx 1080 with WQHD 144hz gaming + netflix/watching streams since the stutter gets pretty noticeable.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43183 Posts
May 30 2019 00:43 GMT
#13820
Hello friends. Could someone recommend a good desktop for playing SC:R, watching youtube, playing medieval total war 2, Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri, and maybe getting two HTC Vive headsets + controllers in the future.
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