This is going to be a bit of a all-over-the-place post, so bear with me.
I'm currently running a Core i7 2600k, Geforce 1080 and SSD setup.
It's working fine, but I am sorely tempted to finally upgrade after seven years for a ryzen based platform, planning on giving the wife my old rig.
However, I can't see any reason to upgrade from a 1080, so I was considering buying a new card to give her, and carry the 1080 over with me. Thoughts on that? Any recommendations? It's not that money is an issue, but 2080Ti seems like the obvious upgrade, and I just don't think I'll get as much bang for my buck as I want. Frankly I think it's laughably expensive right now.
She just needs to play the sims, world of warcraft and other such titles, so I'm thinking it would be well within reason to buy a smaller GPU to sate her needs until I have a clear upgrade from the 1080, at which point she could get the 1080.
Secondly, before getting Ryzen, I need to know about the return of the motherboard fan cooling, which makes me shudder with the bad kind of nostalgia from times past.
I am very noise sensitive, day to day, which is why I'm using the Define R5 case to dampen as much as possible, and why I opt for large Noctua air coolers to reduse noise over all.
I don't mind spinning up during games, but I often do transcoding jobs and I don't want to sit next to something that'll make a ton of noise while doing transcoding for a few days non-stop. Any real-world experience in this arena I can draw on?
I'm currently running a Core i7 2600k, Geforce 1080 and SSD setup.
It's working fine, but I am sorely tempted to finally upgrade after seven years for a ryzen based platform, planning on giving the wife my old rig.
However, I can't see any reason to upgrade from a 1080, so I was considering buying a new card to give her, and carry the 1080 over with me. Thoughts on that? Any recommendations? It's not that money is an issue, but 2080Ti seems like the obvious upgrade, and I just don't think I'll get as much bang for my buck as I want. Frankly I think it's laughably expensive right now.
She just needs to play the sims, world of warcraft and other such titles, so I'm thinking it would be well within reason to buy a smaller GPU to sate her needs until I have a clear upgrade from the 1080, at which point she could get the 1080.
Secondly, before getting Ryzen, I need to know about the return of the motherboard fan cooling, which makes me shudder with the bad kind of nostalgia from times past.
I am very noise sensitive, day to day, which is why I'm using the Define R5 case to dampen as much as possible, and why I opt for large Noctua air coolers to reduse noise over all.
I don't mind spinning up during games, but I often do transcoding jobs and I don't want to sit next to something that'll make a ton of noise while doing transcoding for a few days non-stop. Any real-world experience in this arena I can draw on?