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System Name | Veral |
---|---|
Processor | 5950x |
Motherboard | MSI MEG x570 Ace |
Cooling | Corsair H150i Elite |
Memory | 4x16GB G.Skill TridentZ |
Video Card(s) | Powercolor 7900XTX Red Devil |
Storage | Crucial P5 Plus 1TB, Samsung 980 1TB, Teamgroup MP34 4TB |
Display(s) | Acer Nitro XZ342CK Pbmiiphx + 2x AOC 2425W |
Case | Fractal Design Meshify Lite 2 |
Audio Device(s) | Blue Yeti + SteelSeries Arctis 5 / Samsung HW-T550 |
Power Supply | Corsair HX850 |
Mouse | Corsair Nightsword |
Keyboard | Corsair K55 |
VR HMD | HP Reverb G2 |
Software | Windows 11 Professional |
Benchmark Scores | PEBCAK |
So this has plagued me since Ryzen launched and maybe when the 5820k came out too. I've been used to four cored/thread chips for a good while and just recently in the last 6 months have been able to really use my 4790k's eight threads for goodies. (VMs, WCG, multiple programs and games all at once)
Then I see all these builds with those 6c/12 and 8c/16c chips for games and I can't find the understanding of do they really, honestly, truthfully require all of those threads for games or are they running a large amount of Odin-knows-what in the background? Do we need to have a mass movement to introduce these people to WCG? I feel as if we do.
The upgrade itch is there but when I look at it I always stop and think. "What in seven hells am I going to use 16 threads for? Second strongest GPU on the market (currently). A good chunk of memory which would be costly to replace, but for what?" I feel as if unless I'm dinked out my current chip and still REQUIRE more, there is absolutely no reason to upgrade and I hope I'm correct about that.
TL;DR dragon is having major sleep issues and has junk on his mind.
Then I see all these builds with those 6c/12 and 8c/16c chips for games and I can't find the understanding of do they really, honestly, truthfully require all of those threads for games or are they running a large amount of Odin-knows-what in the background? Do we need to have a mass movement to introduce these people to WCG? I feel as if we do.
The upgrade itch is there but when I look at it I always stop and think. "What in seven hells am I going to use 16 threads for? Second strongest GPU on the market (currently). A good chunk of memory which would be costly to replace, but for what?" I feel as if unless I'm dinked out my current chip and still REQUIRE more, there is absolutely no reason to upgrade and I hope I'm correct about that.
TL;DR dragon is having major sleep issues and has junk on his mind.