Guru3D Spring 2020 PC Buyer Guide

Posted by: Raffaele Lagattolla on: 04/17/2020 01:50 PM [ 23 comment(s) ]

It has been around 4-5 months since the last version of this guide, and the world is very much a changed place since then. The pandemic of the SARS-COV-2 / COVID-19 virus has thoroughly left its mark on 2020, having shut entire nations down. This article has been in the works for a fair while but we wanted to wait, but then decided that during this outbreak, many people will purchase or buy a (Game) PC for home-usage.

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HybOj
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Posted on: 04/20/2020 10:14 AM

Thanks for the article, its well though out. Yes this year will be slow I think... I will personally think twice before any purchase. And that gtx970 of mine - believe it or not - still holds pretty nicely for 60fps gaming. With r5 3600 and 16gigs 3333mhz ram I will just wait for a next gen of GFX cards and than most likely buy RX 5700 XT anyway on sale

Embra
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Posted on: 04/20/2020 12:36 PM

Great read! Thank you team Guru3d!

Mineria
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Posted on: 04/20/2020 04:48 PM

Scaling is a whole different issue though. Most games at least even memory intensive ones won't have a huge difference from say cl16 to cl14, maybe 1-2 fps or so.

Also CL16 kits are super cheap, and a dime a dozen right now.
Wasn't it something like 3000Mhz CL14 = 3200Mhz CL15 = 3600Mhz CL16 ?
I found a set of G.Skill 32GB 3600Mhz CL16 pretty cheap, so that is what I'm going to use with my R7 3700X, the 2 sticks are also confirmed to run on the Crosshair VII Hero.
Did go for X470 over X570 cause of that annoying little fan, plus I doubt that there is any benefit having PCI-E Gen.4 for a while, the drives supporting it don't really push the envelop and graphics cards can still push quite some out of gen.3.

HybOj
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Posted on: 04/20/2020 06:44 PM

PCIe 4.0 is intended for the storage mostly...

Mineria
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Posted on: 04/20/2020 07:48 PM

PCIe 4.0 is intended for the storage mostly...

Seen some benchmarks with several PCIe 4.0 M2 drives, for the price of two 2080 Super you can get a disk that speeds up professional productivity in selected applications, but when it comes to mainstream there is marginable little difference, and from there to gaming fast gen 3 drives still do better.
So unless you have some real intensive workloads going on the disks there is no point picking X570 over previous chipsets for the time being.

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