Current rig is an (aging) 8086K with 32GB DD4-3000 and Asus ROG Hero mobo. Last week I swapped out my old 2080ti for a 5080. Framerates in games (4K, ultra settings) are now through the roof, as desired.
However, my CPU is having a really hard time pulling this off. There were already games which pushed it to its limit (Helldivers 2, STALKER 2,…) but now with the new graphics card, CPU load in these games is anywhere from 85% to 100%. As a result, my cooling water gets hot (50°C) in about half an hour and my CPU starts thermal throttling, often leading to stutter etc.
I’ve selected the following components for upgrade:
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D
GIGABYTE X870E AORUS PRO socket AM5 mobo
Corsair 64 GB DDR5-6400 Kit
Noctua NH-D15 G2 LBC
This would set me back around €1.556 right now. What are the chances this is going to go up significantly in the short/medium term in the EU?
I’m also still running Win10 since I absolutely loathe Win11, so I was thinking of starting off with Linux for this one since I don’t really have another €150 lying around to hand to Microsoft for shits and giggles. I have some professional experience with Linux but not in terms of daily driving it. I suppose I could also go with dualboot if need be.
Hardware aside, I migrated to Linux as my gaming machine about 6 months ago. Overall, it has been excellent, not least of which due to Steam making most games virtually work without anything extra. On a couple of titles, I’ve had extra steps, but they’re fairly documented and help has been available. Only one still doesn’t allow multiplayer due to anticheat. GPU passthrough to a w10 VM solved that one.
Note though, I use AMD GPUs, so that’s one less barrier.
The only thing that irks me is that I didn’t swap earlier.
X670E + 7900x + 7900xtx + 96GB DDR5-6400