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Should I get a new build or should I wait for the next gen (RTX 60 series etc)? (infosec.pub)

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I'm a decently happy owner of a system with an i5-11400F and an RTX 3050. It just barely works for my needs (1080p 60-90 FPS ultra) but next year there will be some new games I'd like to play such as GTA 6 and FH6. With the current trends it's obvious my current system won't handle that on settings higher than low. So I'm thinking of getting a new PC.

For now I'm thinking something like a Ryzen 7 and an RTX 5070 Ti should work. That would be around 2.5-3k USD in my area depending on the components. Also I'd like a large monitor so I'll have to upgrade to a 1440p one which will increase the hardware requirements too.

AMD cards are quite expensive here apparently (9070 XT is significantly more expensive than 5070 lol) and I'm a massive fan of RT so those are not an option (I can remove the RT requirements if there's no way to use it with decent settings at no less than 60 FPS). Also NVidia 40 series is not good value here like at all.

Another interesting option is RTX 5080. It's still within my budget of around 3k but I'm very afraid of the connector melting issues. After all I can't build a PC myself (not an option at all) so a special well known company will handle it instead and nobody knows what connectors they use (I can ask as they're pretty open about this stuff but still). I've already worked with the company btw and it's not shady so that should be fine as long as I don't forget to edit a decent PSU in the specs instead of their common firework ones.

However with my limited knowledge I can't predict how far technology will go in the short term. We already saw that the latest gen showed pretty much no improvement over the previous one. So is it even worth waiting for the next year's tech or will it just be the same but with more AI frame gen slop and zeros in the price tag strapped to it? And will games get so much more demanding in just a year or two that trying to target ultra is already a bad idea?

What makes me even more worried is the slightly unstable financial situation in my country. It's possible that tech will get significantly more expensive here soon.

Yea this post is very long so I guess say gingerbread if you read it till the end lol.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

9070 XT is significantly more expensive than 5070

In this one instance you get what you pay for, and they're good at ray tracing now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Gingerbread?

As a general rule, don’t wait for the next thing in tech, you’ll wind up waiting forever. If you’re happy with your PCs current performance now, just wait. If you’re getting a bit unsatisfied with its performance, upgrade, but buy the best thing your budget will allow at the time and run it into the ground. Not being able to build your own PC (or presumably upgrade individual parts on an already purchased/built PC) makes running into the ground a little less viable though.

If you’re mostly only gaming on your PC Ryzen 7 is great, just make sure to get an X3D processor. The 7800x3d is phenomenal, and the 9800x3d is even better if it’s in your budget. A 5070ti would pair well with either of those. Again if budget allows a 5080 is going to perform better, but idk what $/perf is on those cards off the top of my head.

but with more AI frame gen slop

I just want to add something here. I’m also a huge RT fan, especially in Single Player games. At bare minimum you should be using DLSS (FSR on AMD), it does a much better job at antialiasing than TAA does, it doesn’t have the blurry image shit going on etc. I use it in pretty much every game I can in combination with DSR.

Second, the frame gen stuff is honestly pretty goated. If you want to play at 1440p or higher, at ultra type settings, with RT, you’re really doing yourself a disservice if you’re not using it. I wouldn’t personally use them in a competitive fps, but I’ll turn it on in any single player game I have the option for. This isn’t generative AI and your gpu has the tensor cores just sitting there. You paid for those cores, not using them is just wasting your money. To each their own I guess though.

On a similar note, if you have an Nvidia card, you use a mic to talk to people, and you’re not using Nvidia Broadcast you’re fucking up. You can set up your mic to go through it, cleaning up any background noise way better than Krisp or whatever. You can also set discord or in-game voice chat to go into the Broadcast virtual speakers, and it will filter everyone else’s voice like magic. You’ll never hear someone’s keyboard, their dogs, their kids, their shitty music, their coughing, or really anything but their voice again. I get not liking AI slop, but that doesn’t mean that AI is useless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Maybe just try and find a used 3080?