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I’m thinking of picking up a pre-built PC since this one even with a new SSD is still slow and parts are so hard to find right now or are being price gouged. I can get the same setup prebuilt for almost the same price as building it myself.

I can go with one company that only uses the Nvidia RTX 3080/3090

Or a different one that’s uses the AMD RX 6800 XT/6900

I’ve read both the 3090 and 6900 are more work station cards so I’m not going to spend the extra on those and the 6800 is at most 10% slower then the 6900 and in some tests the 6800 beats it.

I’m leaning towards the 6800, does anyone have real life experience with it instead of just review sites or experience with the 3080?

Thanks.

I’m thinking of picking up a pre-built PC since this one even with a new SSD is still slow and parts are so hard to find right now or are being price gouged. I can get the same setup prebuilt for almost the same price as building it myself. I can go with one company that only uses the Nvidia RTX 3080/3090 Or a different one that’s uses the AMD RX 6800 XT/6900 I’ve read both the 3090 and 6900 are more work station cards so I’m not going to spend the extra on those and the 6800 is at most 10% slower then the 6900 and in some tests the 6800 beats it. I’m leaning towards the 6800, does anyone have real life experience with it instead of just review sites or experience with the 3080? Thanks.

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I can relate. I recently upgraded to a Ryzen, because my old motherboard gave up the ghost. It's a marked improvement over the stuff it replaced, which was around 7 years old, the exception being the video card which is a couple of years old. I just find that when I have time, I'm playing older games because the new stuff doesn't appeal.

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I just find that when I have time, I'm playing older games because the new stuff doesn't appeal.

Same, I asked about WWII non-sjw infected games here and most were ones I already play and are older. I bought COD but uninstalled it, too much sjw shit in it. So I can play basically everything on high or ultra still.

I really don’t need a new PC but you now you get the itch for one even though I know I don’t need it since I just put in a new ssd which is amazing and supposedly the end of 2021 or the beginning of 2022 it will be completely outdated with the new AM5 platform with dd5 and 5nm CPU’s and new graphics cards that will hook into your non-used cpu cores and ram and work in unison for a significant boost.

DDR5 will start at 3200 MHz and scale all the way up to 8400 MHz as time goes on.

Hynix plans for all of its DDR5 memory to run at least at 4800 MHz, and speeds below 4800 MHz will simply serve to conserve power. This means DDR5 memory will have 50% greater bandwidth than DDR4 at launch and only get faster.

I have dual channel 1600, quad channel 8400 will be nuts. it will be theoretically a little more then10 times faster.

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Memory really is the bottleneck of the times. AMD made a lot of bandwidth sacrifice for the miracle that was Ryzen.

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Haha, yeah, the itch never really goes away. I just don't scratch it as much as I used to.

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Yeah I grew out of it also, I used to constantly upgrade then a new system ever 2 years. 4 years for the build before this one and almost 6 1/2 this time. I only replaced the power supply that went out 6 months ago and a new ssd for 199 the other day so $400 in 6 years.

I used to get ram and CPU together, then a GPU whichever refreshed first. Get faster or tighter timings on my ram and the new slightly faster processor. Then over clock it all.

Then one day about ten years ago I realized this is a lot of money and in a year or two it’s outdated and I’m barely scraping by to get a new gun and ammo every two years. So I switched the spending around, new guns and ammo and skimp on the PC upgrades instead lol.

Here’s something stupid I used to do, you should get a laugh. I got a gaming mouse with a 1000mhz refresh rate but the polling rate of the usb was only 125HZ(haven’t kept up usb polling rates since I stopped doing this stupid thing). I downloaded a program that would overclock your USB port up to 2,000HZ, increase the usb voltage(I believe) and also change the windows kernel to keep up I believe.

So I’d overclock the usb to 1500HZ and around a couple months later my motherboard would go out lol. off to the store to get a new one for a couple hundred. I did this like 7 or 8 times. After the second time I stopped overclocking my cpu, ram and GPU thinking that was the problem but it kept happening.

I finally went to a repair shop and had the guy diagnose what was going on since there’s no way I could get that many faulty motherboards(even switched brands a few times)

He calls an hour or so later and says your USB ports are fried, what did you plug into this thing lol. I lied and said I don’t know, because I realized what I had been doing and felt so stupid.

I went to pick it up that evening after he replaced the motherboard and he showed me the old one, yup the they were fried and took out the rest of the MB with it. He asked again and I actually told him what I had been doing and he shook his head and said do you think that’s wise? lmao.

I went home and overclocked my ram, CPU and GPU and never touched the USB ports again. It took a few weeks to get used to the sluggish mouse, that overclock was amazing but $200 ever 1-3 months wasn’t worth it.