Gaming PC any good?

SteveMo

Thanks to all for the detailed information and links.

I'll have a look through everything and go from there

SteveMo

Me again...so I think I’ll take your expert advice and go with the AMD Ryzen.

Now I’m unsure about the Ryzen 9 3900 X paired with the RTX 2080 Ti or the Ryzen 7 3700/3800 X with the RTX 2080 Super.

Will I see that much of an improvement for the extra cost?

I only play FPS games by the way.

EntryLevel

From Techspot's test of GPU scaling for 3900X and 9900K:

aslird

The next gen consoles are going to be 8 core afaik, and there is a good chance games will utilise those cores a lot better than current games do.  Would it really  be worth saving £100 now, just to spend an extra £300 in a year or 2 time?

Delvey

But how will they compare to actual PC processors? The computing power I imagine will be no where near. Cores are not everything. That's  why I binned my old X58 Xeon, 6 cores, 12 threads but it didn't not have the raw power.

aslird

They are apparently going to be on par with the latest Ryzens in terms of gameplay power, but since it is a combined gpu/cpu you can't really compare the 2.  Of course this is all rumour currently.

HRL

If you can afford it, go with the 3900X and 2080Ti as they’ll last you longer.

What resolution are you gaming at? The 2080Ti may not be worth it unless you’re gaming on ultra wide or 4K.

aoaaron

Just get a 3600 and a 2080 with 16GB of 3200 samsung B-die RAM and call it a day.

anyone stating the 3600 is going to become irrelavant due to the next gen consoles is being silly. The next gen consoles are going to suck just as hard as consoles always have compared to PC hardware.

and processing compute power has up until now in console gaming never affected much outside of the latest assasin's creed game. I don't see this changing with the resolution race to 4k.

Also at the end of the day, the processor's job of hitting at least 60fps will always work and at higher resolution's we're GPU limited.

On the 2080 vs 2080ti debate, its just not the right time to buy the overpriced 2080ti when we have a refresh of GPUs coming next year with hopefully something to come from AMD to push Nvidia to try at least a little bit.

For the price of upgrading from a 3600 to a 3900x and a 2080 to a 2080ti, you'd be able to buy probably 50% of your components for a second rig in a years time, and 2 rigs is always better than one.

Trying to future proof a PC has always been stupid because tech moves too fast and sadly we're also on the cusp of 4k/60 so getting over that finishing line is going to be much easier next gen.

Loki808

This is an interesting watch:

SteveMo

Thanks again guys. So something like this should tick all the boxes?

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