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Discussion in 'Geek Cave: Computers, Tablets, HT, Phones, Games' started by sphinxvc, Oct 9, 2015.

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  1. wadec22

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    I love EFT. I've been playing for a couple years. Nothing else like it.

    I like playing warzone with friends. Ive been almost exclusively into PvP for a very long time now though. I think my last single player games I tried were fallout 4 and bloodborne.

    I liked bloodborne but not as much as their first game in the genre, demons souls.
     
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    Playing Insurgency Sandstorm again. Super cool for casual off time for a couple of rounds. Gives me that cool Battlefield vibe that was lost in the newer games. Great community as well
     
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    obsiCO Thai Fish Experiment Gone Wrong

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    6 months later and I'm still playing Doom Eternal every day. id Software has perfected old-schooled FPS combat with this game IMO and I expect to see more "Doom Clone" (felt a bit ticklish typing that in 2020!) from other studios in the near future. A good game for aim training, too, if you are into competitive shooters. And a little flex, recently finished the game in Ultra Nightmare which is basically the hardest and proudest achievement I've ever done in any game -- still riding that high weeks later!

    A damn shame what happened to Mick Gordon, though.
     
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    fraggler A Happy & Busy Life

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    How much do CPUs, especially core counts impact gaming nowadays? I have an old i5-4690 (4 core, no hyperthreading) that has been fine coupled with my 1070GTX. The system does what I expect it to. I am likely going to get a 3XXX card later this year to primarily be able to play Cyberpunk at max settings and do some VR visualizations the following year for work. With something as powerful as a 2080ti (allegedly the 3070 will be close), will CPU matter beyond a few FPS or some possible stuttering?
     
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    Short answer. Get at least 8 Cores and 16 threads from Intel or AMD. Both have great options now. Why.. because 4c4t CPU will be 100% in many modern titles. I had 3570k @4.2GHz that didn't cut it anymore.

    2700X is great, I can multitask and nothing makes it go over 50%

    Conclusion why I chose 16 threads is that your CPU will run cool and you have a lot of headroom.
     
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    If you don’t want to go full upgrade the i5-4690 will still pulls its weight around with some overclocking. That’s only you’re not doing multi threading intense work.

    The new i5 that just recently came out is a beast when it comes to single threaded performance but I’ve yet to see any game that taxes all processors and gpu at the same time.
     
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    If you can afford to wait, I would see what Intel comes out with, once they start to produce desktop chips on the new process (10 nm?). Personally I'm hoping for more clock speed - as this is what counts in older stuff, or stuff that's less well optimized for multi-core.
     
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    I am sure you don't need to wait for anything. What you have got in the market right now are proper 6 core, 8 core even higher core count CPUs for a good price. Some of the 1-year-old release models are really cheap and if your CPU isn't doing Constant workload, who cares? I can see in our stores a lot of options. I like Ryzen's approach more atm but as we see the performance is almost equal now.


    https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/intel_core_i7_10700k_processor_review,8.html



    2700x , 3700x, 3900x, 10600, 10600K, 10700, 10700k. A lot of option there.
     
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    Might need to swap out my 3770k for Cyberpunk. Too bad the swap means changing the mobo and ram as well.
     
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    Tbh, If I were you, I would get 2700x for 200eur plus mobo plus ram. 200+60+80 So like 340 or less and you have powerful modern rig updated.

    Check CineBench R15 (raw performance ) comparison, here you have all the older gen CPUs.

    https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/intel_core_i7_10700k_processor_review,7.html



    If you want maximum fps (10%more on some titels, when no GPU bottleneck), then you could go with 3700X, Intel 10600 or 10700.


    P.S Stock cooler is good and quiet but not optimal for running Ryzen at 4Ghz so this might be extra. Ryzen Stock auto clock settings(as it comes out of the box) are really aggressive. They are taking full advantage of what the chip can do at any give time and clocks back when temps get high. So if you want max performance get a simple 60-80 eur water cooler for it.
     
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  11. Riotvan

    Riotvan Snoofer in the Woofer

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    There is evidence the RTX3000 series will be limited by pci-e 3.0, so better off going with pci-e 4.0 like AMD B550/X570 mobo's with Ryzen 3000. Intel doing pci-e 4.0 will be maybe next year?
     
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    I'm running a 2080 Super. I'm kinda looking at the 10700, but daaamn, the hassle of changing out everything but storage, GPU and maybe power sucks ass.
     
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    I am late to the game on this but I have been playing Mario Kart 8 on Switch with my 4-year-olds daily for a couple of weeks now. It is fantastic. The drive assists are so great for them. We started with motion controls on, but turned them off in favor of the sticks. The kids had too much trouble keeping the orientation of the joycons right for the motion controls. When they get tired of steering, they just throw items and let the assists pilot them around the track.
     
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    Riotvan Snoofer in the Woofer

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    Yeah well games are starting to use more threads, anything less than 6/12 cores/threads is getting a bit too underpowered. 8/16 to be safe imo.
     
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    Or just see if your current system is good enough and wait. Even if you have a very compelling reason to swap the GPU, you might still see that PCIe 3.0 performance is fine.
     
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    Which games? I am curious to test my system. Shadow of Tomb Raider is probably the most intensive game I have played recently and certainly my computer struggled but was pretty close to what I should have expected from my 1070 according to benchmarks.

    I'm itching to build a new PC simply because it has been about 4 years since I built mine and all the tech has advanced since then (DDR4, NVME SSDs, several die shrinkages, etc.). But looking at $1200-1500 just to play a couple new AAA games with potential MR and VR later is harder to swallow, though I did free up about that much selling off headphone gear.
     
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    I'm not too concerned about the GPU performance. My 3770k is getting a bit long in the tooth, so that's what I should prolly swap out.
     
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    Riotvan Snoofer in the Woofer

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    Horizon zero dawn, and i guess more console ports in the future will use more threads.
     
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    Cyberpunk will probably run ok with your CPU. At least it’s not an i5. People were recommending those to everyone a couple of years ago.

    as always, it probably pays off to wait and see. Always something new coming out
     
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    LetMeBeFrank Won't tell anyone my name is actually Francis

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    Finally caught up on the 30XX information, looks like the 3080 will be more than double the performance of my 1080ti, so I think it's time to upgrade, especially with cyberpunk coming out later this year supporting ray tracing. Thankfully my birthday is this month so I have a good excuse.
     

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