Gona finally bite the bullet and upgrade from top to bottom for Shadowlands, and in general I suppose. I’ve managed to come down to a Ryzen 7 2700X and a 1660 Super with 16-34gb ram.
First of all, will that CPU and GPU run well when paired together, and will they get along with WoW and it’s temperamental code ?
Secondly, what kind of motherboard do I need ? I have no clue about mobos tbh and keep seeing this 450 vs 570 ? debate for “future-proofing” with AMD ? Is that a thing or what are they all shouting about ?
One last thing, atm I use a 550w Corsair PSU, I imagine I will need something a bit more powerful, what kind of wattage would you guys reccomend ? 750w+ or more ?
Don’t go with 2000-series, pick 3000 or wait for 4000. WoW likes CPU and Zen 2 design in 3000 series is a big improvement over Zen+ in 2000.
For 1080p/1440p should work fine although check AMD offering as in mid/low end they often offer more for the money. Also due to Ampere launch there will be some discounts/sales.
B450 is good choice for now. Support for 4000-series will be there but not necessarily on launch. B550 or more expensive X570 have Zen 3 support day-one and have new features. If there will be a good option then aim for B550, especially if you want to pair it with Zen 3.
Like @Bigkeg-twisting-nether said & from what I know personally; September will be a month for saving money & watching new releases to see what will be worth buying… my advice would be to keep an eye on current gen. kit to see if pricing falls into your catchment area or whether any of the new releases are worth the ‘early adopter premium’.
Yeah, I’m waiting to see what news comes out on the B650 and X670 motherboards and 4000 processors. Wish they’d hurry up with that.
Beginning to think that PCIE 4.0 will offer more benefit with this new nvidia HDD/SSD to GPU on dealing with loading up graphics in a game, bypassing the CPU altogether.
best overall value cpu atm, yes. you could make a case for the 10600k, but it ends up costing quite a bit more (more expensive, more expensive board, forced to buy aftermarket cpu cooler), so it’s usually not worth it.
yes.
roughly, something like this makes sense
value gaming pc: 550w
high-end gaming pc: 650w
high-end overclocked gaming pc: 750w
i’m curious to see as well. maybe now pci-e storage will actually matter for games.
also curious to see how the whole pci-e 4 on amd vs higher gaming performance on intel works out. different reviewers taking different routes there, hard to tell beforehand.
Assets loading isn’t a problem in WoW. Also if your GPU has more VRAM than needed the game will allocate more than it currently needs for assets that can be used for things in your vicinity etc. Some high fidelity games have much heavier assets and can’t do this as much as like WoW and there such tech could help. It will be in consoles and games should start using less and less loading screens
Nvidia commented somewhere than for RTX 3090 PCIe 3.0 vs 4.0 is usually few percent. GPUs weren’t PCIe limited while the 4.0 and 5.0 standards are heavily favored in server and storage usages.
