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[–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

And meanwhile, I'm wondering how I can upgrade an AM4 motherboard CPU so that it can keep up with my Radeon RX 9070 XT... Apparently the X3D chips are no longer made, maybe I ought to look for a second hand one (using a Ryzen 9 3900X now which is good, but which seems to have trouble keeping up in games which are a decent part of my usage). Although the used market prices are fucking insane (500 € +).

There were rumors of a new series of AM4 chips, but nothing came of it (as suspected).

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I haven't run into a real bottleneck yet with my 5600, but I'm also running 1440p. What are you playing that you've felt CPU constrained?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    It seems most obvious to me in Insurgency, although I probably ought to run some kind of diag thing to pinpoint the problem.

    The machine has 32GB RAM, Ryzen 9 3900X (not OCd), Radeon RX 9070 XT (slightly factory OCd), feeding a MSI 49" 5120x1440 display. In practice, I rarely get more than 100 fps at native resolution, often more like between 30 and 60. Looks nice though.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Well, you're pushing 4K res at that point, which will always be a strain. Insurgency (Sandstorm?) is usually CPU heavy but at 4K, your CPU is rarely going to be the performance bottleneck. I'd just take a look at a resource monitor while you're playing and see what's capping out first.

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