NGL I’m not loving being a PC enthusiast lately.
Good news! It affects ALL hardware, even those for PS/Xbox/Nintendo/Phones/etc!
My decision to buy a Steam Deck has proven financially sound in the long run.
My 2019 gaming build still outperforms my SD, obviously, but yeah my SD was a great purchase. I use it a lot. And this is why PC gaming is the best. I could still play the latest and greatest, just with graphics turned down. And I can continue to do so until (hopefully) this whole thing blows over.
You know all those post apocalyptic shows where people are zap strapping turbos from different vehicles to their vehicle and doing all kinds of weird shit to bitch slap a working vehicle together?
This is our PC hardware future. Buying old components, swapping/trading, buying used.
I’m not convinced. I think there’s a decent enough chance that in a couple of years it’ll be the opposite, we’ll all have supercharged Hemi Cuda’s on our desks. Because there’s been a lot of production that’s all been allocated to the AI market, and when that implodes…
They will probably trash or recycle them than sell them. They are that petty.
Also the companies have grown so big that they can afford to eat a loss if it means telling us to go fuck ourselves.
It’s as if they want us all to touch grass.
It’s not. They want us all to use AI.
What they want isn’t what they’ll get. I could get into hiking anyways.
Black guy in the mountains. Crisp air and all.
Didnt Intel just release cheap CPUs?
And meanwhile, I’m wondering how I can upgrade an AM4 motherboard CPU so that it can keep up with my Radeon RX 9070 XT… Apparently the X3D chips are no longer made, maybe I ought to look for a second hand one (using a Ryzen 9 3900X now which is good, but which seems to have trouble keeping up in games which are a decent part of my usage). Although the used market prices are fucking insane (500 € +).
There were rumors of a new series of AM4 chips, but nothing came of it (as suspected).
I haven’t run into a real bottleneck yet with my 5600, but I’m also running 1440p. What are you playing that you’ve felt CPU constrained?
It seems most obvious to me in Insurgency, although I probably ought to run some kind of diag thing to pinpoint the problem.
The machine has 32GB RAM, Ryzen 9 3900X (not OCd), Radeon RX 9070 XT (slightly factory OCd), feeding a MSI 49" 5120x1440 display. In practice, I rarely get more than 100 fps at native resolution, often more like between 30 and 60. Looks nice though.
Well, you’re pushing 4K res at that point, which will always be a strain. Insurgency (Sandstorm?) is usually CPU heavy but at 4K, your CPU is rarely going to be the performance bottleneck. I’d just take a look at a resource monitor while you’re playing and see what’s capping out first.
It’s true that this probably requires more thorough testing.
