I’m not as familiar with and GPUs but are they able to do ray tracing? The new doom game supposedly will require a ray tracing GPU and if other games follow suit, I don’t want to be stuck with a card that can’t do ray tracing. I do like the pricing of the and cards and nvidia is getting too pompous at this point lol.

EDIT: I looked up reviews and see the 7900 does do ray tracing but still seems to be behind nvidia. I also plan to use DLSS, how does FSR compare?

Yes I do plan on getting the super versions of whichever card I choose. I do have an AIO already but I’m planning on selling my old rig. I do prefer the look of AIOs but maybe I’ll look at those air coolers.

It looks like the 7800x3d is in stock again, would the AIO still be overkill for that? My other goal is future proofing my system.

I built my system in 2019 and and everything needs upgraded. I also wanted to switch to AMD, so figured I’d just do a full build

I’ve been looking at doing a new pc build but wanted to wait for the new GPUs coming out. Looks like I should just my new build before prices are stupid.

Yes. I’ve made posts about my problems before. But I use an E drum kit to trigger vsts in a daw. It’s just easier for me to use windows.

I recently made the switch to linux as well and I have it on my laptop and gaming PC. I do keep a portable install of windows on an external drive for more niche cases, such as music production which I had terrible luck with on Linux. When I booted up my laptop with the windows drive, I noticed that my keyboard backlight wasn’t working. And it took me a second to realize that Windows doesn’t come with basic drivers… In Linux mint, my keyboard backlight worked right away. I also wish I made the jump to Linux much earlier.

I didn’t realize that Intel has been changing the socket that often. That’s really lame, and gives me another reason to move to AMD. And my 3070 is pretty much the max for my case and MOBO.

I use mangohud overlay and while I don’t track each CPU core, I track the overall percentage and it hardly over 60% while gaming.

I actually have a really nice monitor, 4k and 144hz. I would like to change to AMD, but I’m at the point where I’d have to upgrade my whole system. Oh really? That sucks, glad to know I wasted all that time waiting for shaders to compile lol

I didn’t even know this site existed. This is really helpful, thanks!

That’s what I was thinking too. And right now I can’t upgrade my GPU anymore without also upgrading my PSU. I also didn’t think about the mobo socket component, so that does limit me more anyway. I will just keep this one until it doesn’t keep up with the newest titles and then go to AMD for my next PC.