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moody@lemmings.world 1 week agoWait for sales and you can spend half that. If you’re willing to settle for anything less than top of the line, you can go even lower. I picked up a 7900X3D under $450 CAD this summer. My Motherboard was under $200 CAD for an ITX board, and I got 32GB of 6000mHz RAM for $125 CAD.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
The 7900x3d isn’t that great of a gaming CPU, you’d be better off with the single CCD 7800x3d.
But if you’re going for high end why wouldn’t you go for the 9800x3d/9950x3d? The only reason I picked the 7000 series was the lack of availability with the 9000 series x3d at the moment. And if you’re getting 90000 series x870e offers a lot of features as standard over x670e.
moody@lemmings.world 1 week ago
If it’s just for gaming, you really don’t need the absolute top of the line in terms of CPU. I can’t think of a game I’ve ever played that maxes out my CPU on all cores.
Unless you’re also using it for CPU-specific and intensive work outside of gaming, you won’t gain much from spending more money.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
CPU bottlenecks start happening long before task manager reads 100% CPU usage. Any time a pipeline flush happens and your CPU is sitting there waiting for data to make its way through you’re going to feel it.
Also if you’re spending 5000 why wouldn’t you get the best?