Discussion My 3DMark history results: from a 1070 to 3070 and a final 4070ti w/ a few cpu and monitor upgrades along the way

[Samduhman]

I thought some of you may find this useful. Now I do not overclock or tweak my bios. I also do not dive deep into the technical weeds. I upgrade either when I get the nagging hardware addiction bug or if my current hardware can no longer run games at very high to ultra. However in this case my 3070 died and I rushed out to MicroCenter and panic bought a 4070ti. :nailbiting:

Normally there would have been no way in Hades I'd spend $850 for a video card. The stink of it all. I didn't realize my 3070 was still under warranty until a week later but after seeing the improvement of the 4070ti I'm wasn't going back. I just received the replacement 3070 yesterday from EVGA so I guess I now have a backup card.

Anyway to the scores.

As stated above I do not deep dive in the weeds and I'm not sure how much changing monitors affects the scores. So be aware I did not run 3DMARK this past fall when I upgrade from a Asus PG297QZ 1440p 165hz monitor with 2560x1440 display to an Alienware AW3423DWF 165hz 3440x1440 display.

MB: MSI Z370 SLI PLUS
CPU: I5-8400
GPU: ASUS Dual GTX 1070 8GB OC
Overall: 5651
Graphics: 5785
CPU: 4999

MB: MSI Z370 SLI PLUS
CPU: I5-8400
GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 ULTRA GAMING
Overall: 10408
Graphics: 13108
CPU: 4803

MB: MSI Z370 SLI PLUS
CPU: I7-9700k
GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 ULTRA GAMING
Overall: 11502
Graphics: 12872
CPU: 7176

MB: MSI Z370 SLI PLUS
CPU: I7-9700k
Monitor: AW3423DWF
GPU: Asus RTX 4070ti TUF OC 12GB
Overall: 17217
Graphics: 22528
CPU: 7371

This is when then the hardware bug bit me and I decided it was time to upgrade the MB, CPU, Memory and PS and is my current build.

MB: MSI Mag Z790 Tomahawk Wifi DDR4
CPU: I5-13600k
Memory: from 32GB GSkill Ripjaw to 64GB GSkill Ripjaw
GPU: Asus RTX 4070ti TUF OC 12GB
Overall: 20622
Graphics: 22641
CPU: 13700