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Poorfag here. If most of the more "demanding" stuff I'll be doing with my PC is more CPU heavy than GPU heavy (emulation, badly coded japanese pc ports, not modern big budget western gayms), is a 3060 12gb a fine choice? Would a 3070 8gb be enough of an improvement over it for the things I mentioned above to justify the extra cost and less memory (I was intending on getting into Blender at some point, but by the the time I get good enough at it to matter, I imagine we'll be a few generations ahead and I'll have money to upgrade again anyway).
Already asked a similar question but I'm thinking about it again and want another opinion or two. Almost done with picking the parts out for my (first ever) build.
3070 ti if you can, especially with the current price cuts
Jordan Ward
>power outage >when computer turns back on, display is all grey >put gpu into new motherboard >it works again any theories on what happened? i didnt see any burns on the motherboard or gpu pcb
Brody Russell
This is why you buy Seasonic.
Anthony Campbell
It would cost me at least 30% more than a 3060 12gb in my region. Would the potential performance improvement in the things I mentioned really be worth it?
The vram on the 3060ti (3070-lite) and 3070 are "faster" but I'm not certain anything takes advantage of that as we're only just now seeing how OSs bottleneck storage to memory speeds, if the game engine is even trying to take advantage of it. But higher vram will help with multitasking, say if your browser is eating up 2gb of vram to render 4channel and youtube, but you still want to do something else with the gpu. And some games just reserve whatever vram they can get. But I wonder if anyone ever addressed this issue? Previously when the 1660 super came out with faster vram, it was performing slightly better than the 1660ti.
Usually, partner 3060 cards cost the same as Nvidia's own 3060ti Founder's Edition, so that's ideal if you can find one.
Daniel White
>so that's ideal if you can find one. Probably not, I'm in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. nz.pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/pD8bt6,GzgFf7/ Of these two would you say one is a better purchase than the other?
Brayden Phillips
I'm so fucking glad I'm not a poorfag anymore >Just look at top parts >Click buy >Put together No fucking guessing about bang for buck, whatever. When you can just drop 3 grand on a build and not even care, I bet that's how bill gates feels when he spends 30 million dollars on an island to rape kids at.
Jaxson Ward
Why do people recommend Nvidia over AMD for gaming when AMD drivers are better now and FSR 2.0 is good enough?
I miss the days when you had slots for days and now you at best get 2 16x slots and maybe, if you're a good boy a 1x with a little, itsie, bitse, cut so you *don't* have to buy a riser. Good boyo!
Carson Phillips
Is lower CAS latency on RAM just always a better option if the clock speeds are the same? There seems to be a pretty big range, is CAS16 low enough?
Angel Roberts
The ironic thing is that as chipsets and CPUs get more lanes you somehow get less available slots. People make the argument that nobody needs slots anymore, but I think the reason is a little more insidious.
Nolan Hernandez
nvidia works with newer games first (because that's part of their marketing campaign) next build, hopefully soon, is an intel/amd because i'm one of those retards who refuses to use windows
Justin Green
Alright, this should be just about my last time inflicting myself upon these threads until I manage to fuck something up during assembly and come here in a panic
The cooler is $123 on Amazon right now and the monitor is in stock at Best Buy for $219 (basically a decent placeholder; if and when the G7 goes on sale later this year I'm getting one) for a total of ~$1910 pre-tax. Any suggestions?
Yes, I am keeping the HDD; I have 3TB+ of weebshit mouldering on old HDDs and I want them on a new drive. Yes, I am keeping the 12600k; the $30 for ~12% better performance over the 12600 is worth it to me and I like having an integrated GPU just in case Yes, a 750W PSU is overkill but better safe than sorry for $20.
Oliver Martin
because AMD driver on windows filters NPC or they want CUDA feature
Owen Wright
I think it's worth waiting 4-6 months to see what the new cards are like. You'll also be able to get a 30 series card for a bit less too. As for 3060 (12 gb) Blender performance vs a 3070, it depends. Realistically, as a hobbyist, it's unlikely you'll use more than 8gb of VRAM in Blender starting out. The 3070 also renders significantly faster than the 3060 (anywhere between 40% to 60%) according to tests done in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=cP0ifLyDxXM. This means that if you're animating a bunch of frames, you'll get significantly more seconds of animation done on the 3070 compared to the 3060. The caveat is that if your scene uses more than 8gb of VRAM, your 3070 will be significantly slower than the 3060. The price difference is about 200 CAD too.
If you're animating a lot, I think that's a fair price increase to pay. Personally though, I'd wait to see what the next gen is like (because it's so close). If it's shit, just get a 30 series card for a decent discount. If it's good, then you might be able to pay as much as you would for a 3070 now, but get a card notably better than it.
Matthew Gray
You want higher bandwidth frequency along with lower cas latency. The general rule is that decreasing your CL by 2 is the equivalent of adding 400mhz. Viceversa increasing your CL by 2 is taking away 400mhz. 3200cl16 has the same latency as 3600cl18 for example.
Adrian Torres
4000 cards aren't coming till 2023, huh?
you'd expect a release to coincide with new AMD/intel CPUs so they sell more cards (new systems) and that's next month.
Noah Hill
I thought the 4080 and 4070 were coming in the late Fall? Did they say the cards have been delayed until 2023?
Jace Rodriguez
I don't know, but rumor is nvidia delayed stuff cause crypto died compared to before.
Christian Ward
My current system is kind of shitting the bed so I don't really feel like waiting, especially if the new stuff ends up getting delayed or something. Isn't there the possibility of other stuff going up in price again if I wait, too?
I haven't had anybody call me a complete retard for considering a 3060 yet so it sounds like it should be fine for my use case.
Going from an Phenom IIx4 955 to an Optiplex 7010 MT (I7-3770) w/32GB ram and Geforce GTX 1650 OC. Didn't really need to upgrade but I had the money so what the hell you know... Sides now I can ogle Claire and Jill to my hearts content. Yeah I could've gone much "faster" but I wanted to reuse my old ram and SSD to save money and like I said I didn't really need to upgrade anyway. Old system will be kept largely intact (minus the PSU/ram/and SSD) and placed in storage. Hey it did me well for a long time. Be a shame to toss it.
Carson Clark
I need help getting new monitors. It seems like 144hz is blatantly superior. Is there a good budget option or should I dump a lot of money on some decent monitors?
Caleb Perez
What's the best 4k 165hz+ 27" OLED monitor out there ATM?
