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"No-one should own one of these. They should have ben sold back to miners, and gamers should have bought a 6700 XT".
Still, an impressive showing for the 5700 XT. Not sure why they often used the Med. preset though.
@Avalon - my $.02 is to stretch and get a 6800/6800XT if you can. They look like they will have great staying power. I’ve said it before that the 6800 is the better power optimized part and has the same IC and memory performance as the XT, the 6800xt is the power house but if you are going to hold for some time I think they’ll have better upside than the 6700xt which is pretty much clocked out.
Given the relative stagnation of perf per dollar I think this is a rare stretch recommendation from me. I had a 5700XT and I just wanted a bigger step.
Does your house need a heater?Not bad advice! To be fair, I shouldn't even be looking, I just bought a house and still need to furnish half of it
We'll see how long I can hold out...
Not bad advice! To be fair, I shouldn't even be looking, I just bought a house and still need to furnish half of it
We'll see how long I can hold out...
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I recently sold a gaming PC, with a Ryzen 5 3600, RX 5600 XT, 32GB DDR4, and a 1TB SATA SSD.
Customer tells me that their younger cousin, for whom the PC was apparently purchased for, is experiencing "pausing" @ 4K in FIFA.
As per the system requirements, PC meets "recommended" spec.
My customer is telling me his cousin wants a PS5, but my buddy can't afford $700 for one. I sold him the PC for $300.
If you get a kick as gaming PC in your gaming room you won't care about all of the other empty rooms because you'll be too busy gaming your mind out.
And anyone who thinks gaming is expensive clearly hasn't had to buy furniture recently. The card will save you money.
Unless it's specifically an "e-sports" gaming rig, I'd be hesitant to get even 8 GB if you intended on keeping it around for several years.
I've still got a machine with a Polaris card in it and it and the shaders and speed are probably more of an issue than the 8 GB VRAM at this point, but I can imagine the 4 GB models of some of those cards suffering a good deal more.
I'd consider 12 GB the minimal amount for any upper-range GPU and 16 GB is what I'd feel most comfortable with, particularly for anything that'll be primarily used for 4K.