Yay my replacement 4090 is out for delivery today!
9800X3D reviews out and they look pretty good. 10% average gaming improvement over the 7800X3D, 25%+ better than the 14900K and 33% better than the 285K.
Nice to have at least one release that's not a huge meh.
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Yay my replacement 4090 is out for delivery today!
9800X3D reviews out and they look pretty good. 10% average gaming improvement over the 7800X3D, 25%+ better than the 14900K and 33% better than the 285K.
Nice to have at least one release that's not a huge meh.
I remember getting that thing. The box alone was hilariously heftly and huge.
Yeah I still had the original box and was going to use it to ship it back but didn't because a) it's comically large and b) it has actual gaps across the whole box, other smaller boxes would get trapped in there! I recycled that and used a different box.
Fortunately the box they shipped it back in is not much bigger than the card itself, gonna hold onto that I think just in case.
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Yay my replacement 4090 is out for delivery today!
9800X3D reviews out and they look pretty good. 10% average gaming improvement over the 7800X3D, 25%+ better than the 14900K and 33% better than the 285K.
Nice to have at least one release that's not a huge meh.
I was looking at the reviews for the 9800X3D and it looks like a good upgrade. But at 4K, is it probably better to wait for the 50X series before making a CPU purchase? Even with a 4090, it seems like a 5800X3D (which is what I have) is just as good as a 9800X3D because your GPU is the bottleneck. Did I understand that right?
Yeah that's fair, not all games will be bottlenecked by the 4090 at 4K but many will. Good point that not all upgrades will actually have the desired positive impact.
I've got a 5900X currently and I'm probably in the same boat.. I'd probably only see minor improvements.
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I'm just debating getting a 9800x3d system built up now and shuffling video cards, then getting the 5090 and reshuffling again. Or just waiting for the 5090 and getting the system then in one shot. Probably just wait a little I guess . . .
Do any of you guys have a cooler with the tiny little screen? I'm wondering if it's worth the extra hundo or so vs something without the LCD display. Part of me thinks it's cool to display the temp or a neat gif, part of me thinks its a waste of money.
Yes, I want water cooled; I prefer the look over air-cooled.
Do any of you guys have a cooler with the tiny little screen? I'm wondering if it's worth the extra hundo or so vs something without the LCD display. Part of me thinks it's cool to display the temp or a neat gif, part of me thinks its a waste of money.
Yes, I want water cooled; I prefer the look over air-cooled.
It looks kinda neat but I have a panel that tracks temps on the front of my case. With where I have it sitting on the floor I don't ever look at it or track it when I'm gaming. I think it would be wasted for somebody like me.
I don't need to know my temps I have a aoi/fan profile that keeps things in my desired range. But I could see a programmable screen displaying your current favourite gif being fun.
After toying with RGB I think my next build will ignore it, wouldn't work with the case I'm considering:
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Hardware Unboxed with a video about CPU performance and 4K gaming and GPU bottleneck.. While the 9800X3D does outperform across the board, in lots of cases the performance provided by a slower CPU is enough to give high fps. There are some games where the CPU can make a difference.
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