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Thanks but the 7900X3d seems like overkill for just playing games. I can't imagine games right now and in the near future will make use of 12 cores 24 threads.

I meant AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

How does the newer Ryzen 7 7800X3D compare to the older Ryzen 7 9800X3D. From doing some recent reading it sounds like the 9800X3D is a beast of CPU for gaming which is the main purpose of this new build. Also what RAM speed should I get? I've been out of the loop for a while. Last I remember...

Thanks I'll take a look at that article now.

Hey everyone. I'm looking at doing some PC upgrades. I'm looking at getting a GTX 4070 or 4070 TI. I plan on getting a new monitor to play at 1440. Which one would be better? EDIT: How does the AMD counterpart to the 4070 or 4070TI compare?

Hi Everyone, After a long time of being away 'm slowly starting to get back into computer/gaming again. Right now I have an Intel Coffee lake I5 and a GTX 1070. I'm thinking of doing a new gaming build and I was thinking of getting an AMD Ryzen this time around. The last I remember AMD was...

Yea we are talking about gaming only. I was actually going to ask if the X3d from AMD was worth it.

Hi everyone, so I'm starting to plan my next build for gaming. Before I get started picking parts I have a few questions. First is an I5 (or its AMD equivalent) still good enough for gaming or is it wise to go up to an I7 (or again it's AMD equivalent?) It seems like anymore when I watch...

I really don't care much about power consumption. I am in the US and our power bill isn't that expensive, plus the amount of time I'll actually have the computer running will only be a few hours at night to game after work.

I'm heavily starting to lean that way as I don't care about raaytracing or DLSS. I see both as gimicky and really I just want performance.

Well I've been waiting and waiting for the GTX 4070 to come out. Its out and as expected it is disappointing and over priced ad I am now re-evaluating my options. That said would it be worth getting a 6950XT instead? It has more memory is only a little more expensive than a 4070 and compared to...

Yea I noticed that. The prices of DDR5 are crazy. I'll just reuse my DDR4 that I have in my current build.

Thanks.

Starting to look at doing another gaming build and I have a question. Is there a known sweet spot for DDR5 yet? What I mean is like back in the day of DDR3 the sweet spot for a gamer was DDR3 1600 CL9. More recently the sweet spot for DDR4 seems to be Is DDR4-3600MHz CL16. So is there anything...

I agree with what you said. I think I’ll wait until more info is leaked then I’ll make a decision.