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Guru3D Spring 2020 PC Buyer Guide





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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Embra
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Posted on: 04/20/2020 11:36 AM
Great read! Thank you team Guru3d!
Great read! Thank you team Guru3d!
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Posted on: 04/20/2020 03:48 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.
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.
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Posted on: 04/20/2020 05:44 PM
PCIe 4.0 is intended for the storage mostly...
PCIe 4.0 is intended for the storage mostly...
Mineria
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Posted on: 04/20/2020 06:48 PM
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.
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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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