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I did a 5800x3d/4070ti/128gb AM4 refresh three years ago, and honestly the thing still absolutely cooks. I'm not even sure why you would ever need more. Maybe if you game in 4k, or bragging rights or something. I'm more than content with the 1440p plebes though.
Because there's about a 20% performance increase with DDR5
Yeah and about a 400% increase in weight loss to my wallet.
I'm good with the 20% reduction, if that's the cost.
We weren't talking about money. You said "I'm not sure why you would ever need more", that's what I was addressing. At the time I built my PC it would have been pennies on the dollar.
Pennies on today's dollar. When I was looking at doing it in 2023, it was still pretty expensive. The ram was about twice the price, plus you'd need a motherboard upgrade. Juice just wasn't worth the squeeze. I get that stuff like this can be 10 or 20% more efficient or whatever, but then you consider on the other hand that quite a lot of games get released in a trash alpha state where it's ~~CPU~~ (edit meant to say GPU) bound, or your NVME hard drive isn't operating at peak state, or something stupid like that. Stuff you never really think about.
If I could rewind, I'd maybe would have done it just to stay ahead of the need to upgrade down the road. I'm hoping to skip the AM5 generation, if I ever build another PC, big if (I'm getting kinda old, don't game as much anymore).
Yes that's what I was saying.