I broke my ankle really bad and decided to make myself feel better by overhauling my rig while recovering from surgery. It was already pretty capable (5800x and 3060 Ti), I just wanted good native 4k performance given I'm a tv couch gamer.
Sooo now have a 7800x3d (Microcenter bundle made it like $200), a 7900 XTX (like new for $700), 32gb DDR5 6000, an AIO for the cpu, and a 1000w PSU…oh, and a 65 inch 144hz qled TV with Freesync Premium (Hisense QD7, only $495, it's incredible)…
I'm just blown away…no wonder GPU sales are down. Why would I need to upgrade this for the next 8 odd years? It's an absolute monster.
4k 80fps is like the minimum performance I get with this…stuff like Doom Eternal with RT on runs so much faster than even my new TV can display.
Playing Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora with ray tracing maxed at 4k90 has been the most jaw-dropping gaming experience of my life. It often looks better than the movies…and goes to show that new gen AMD cards can chew through a very high RT workload when devs care to optimize their games. Of course Alan Wake 2 is an exception, but that game (and Hellblade 2, tbh) are in my opinion quite boring and optimized by drugged monkeys, so nothing lost there. Snowdrop engine (when optimized, unlike SW Outlaws) looks arguably even better than UE5 and runs like butter.
Rant aside, I'm mystified by how powerful this is. I spent half my life (38 yo) shooting for 1024×768 and happy with 20fps, so this has all been a 'died and gone to heaven' type experience. We can have our problems with the games industry, but just saying we should be so thankful to have all this horsepower under the hood!
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damn have fun
My first gpu was a 970 and I thought I was hot shit then. Now I got a 4080 super and it’s ridiculous how powerful this card is
I think it boils down to what you said “when devs care to optimize”, now a days devs just use a given game engine and don’t optimize it well to their needs. That’s how you get games running shitty on great hardware.
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Pretty much have the same components as you. Totally agree. I’m amazed every day.
My first gaming experience on the PC was the original DOS Test Drive in 4 colors so it’s just been uphill from there.
The technology worlds advancement is only second to the medical field I believe (could be the other way around idk)
Hello fellow TV user lmao. I’m glad I’m not the only one without a desk and monitor.
I really like your setup OP. Looks a lot like mine.
OP upgrades from what a 2 year old PC and asks how anyone can upgrade again?
You ain’t kidding anybody. You’ll be upgrading again in 2-3 years. Upgrade the tv for sure, a $500 tv aint touching LG’s oleds.
i never really had “that” kind of money until the pandemic money. I went from a 1070 non TI to a 3090 ti and the card is going to be 2 years ago that i bought it and it still amazes me running at 3440×1440 @ 165hz
lucky for me my wife is into PC gaming and wants my card so i might be getting a new 5000 series yay.
Avatar gameplay is eh, but it looks stunning in HDR, I played it just for the scenery.
What sort of performance would I get for CS2, Dust2 only….asking for a friend….sort of.
I’m a bit confused, they are really powerful. it’s just that games are not optimized, making it look like they didn’t progress much from 2012
I use the uhd 500
not sure this is the correct name but u can say I use intel’s sh###
I got my first PC earlier in the year with a 4080 super and can run literally any game that I want at 4K 60fps+ some games like CP2077 and Alan Wake 2 need a few small tweaks to get running smoothly but other than that I’ve loved every single second of it, going from PS5 to a PC is a game changer
the cpu and gpu prices in my country are so fucked up man i hate it!!!
How do you people have the annual gdp of a small country to spend on graph cards?
Snowdrop is better than UE5 any day of the week lol.
UE5 sucks, or unreal in genereal, sucks.
Yeah I built an in-between “mid-range” and it just crushed all the games at 1440p right now. Not only that but I can do so many things while I’m gaming. l’m watching YouTube while looking at discord while gaming while checking my email while coding while running a VM of windows, while running Linux apps via WSL, etc etc.
And not a hiccup. Super smooth. I’m really impressed with the power of these parts on the market right now. The human is the limiting factor now.
I had a more expensive cutting-edge PC in the mid 2000s and it would struggle with one cutting-edge game. Multitasking was possible of course but you had to tradeoff performance to do so with maybe just two apps depending on what they were.
Plus you had to upgrade every 3 years or so at least if you really wanted to keep up. PCs these days can last 8 years if you need it to.
How in hell is Windows Lock Screen this bloated now?
The 4090 made me taste the forbidden fruit and now it’s all downhill from here
A 400+ watt GPU should be very powerful indeed. If it wasn’t that why would be the actual question.
> Why would I need to upgrade this for the next 8 odd years?
Because games will increasingly assume you have this level of compute and be more demanding and less optimized. Reducing the benefits over time.
The power to show ads and crap before logging in, it seems. Thanks, Microsoft!
To be fair i played Doom Eternal on 3440×1440 on my 1070 and it felt amazingly fast.
So jealous, very nice!
I’m glad to hear that you’re enjoying your new PC and getting good use out of it. However, I wanted to clarify a few points about connecting your computer to a 4K TV. When you hook up your computer to a 4K TV, it does display in full 4K resolution, just like on a 4K computer monitor. The main difference is the screen size and pixel density; larger TVs have larger pixels due to their size, but the resolution remains the same. Achieving a 4K resolution at 144Hz refresh rate in gaming is demanding and typically requires very high-end hardware. Depending on the game and your PC’s specifications, it might not be possible to run certain modern games like **Black Myth: Wukong** at these settings without compromising performance. Running games at maximum settings in 4K can put a significant load on your system, so it’s important to ensure your PC has adequate cooling and possibly adjust in-game settings for optimal performance.
I had two 8800 GTXs back in 2006 for 1,499 each… I’m now using a vega 56 from 2017 on a ryz 7 3800x , 32gb DDR4, I got the gpu for 200 then and just now thinking about upgrading to a 3060 rtx to match the rest of my machine that’s been held back by the vega (which is quite capable still today)
The real question is what’s the response time of your new-fangled TV?
That actually might actually drop the framerate by tens of milliseconds…
imagine my “wow” levels after going from an ATI HD4530 256MB to an 750ti 4GB. Nothing has felt like that upgrade.
I have a tv and ultrawide monitor that are both OLED. Sometimes upgrading your peripherals will give you the reason to also upgrade your computer, then the cycle repeats.
As always it really depends on the games you play. Boot up something like path traced cyberpunk or Allan Wake 2 and it’ll bring your system down to its knees.
As far as upgrading goes, im personally holding off because of prices. Back when a mid range gpu was $300 I could justify upgrading every 2-3 years. Now my 3070 cost me damn near $700 after tax and shipping back in 2021 and im holding on to it till the wheels fall off. Probably won’t upgrade till 2026. Dlss goes brr.
Mr first GPU was a GeForce in my Dell in 2002. Allowed me to run Neverwinter Nights and Morrowind at 1024×768. I am now very old…
Don’t worry. We’ll soon bring you down to our level where all you’ll be doing is complain about GPU prices.
Imho the power of the GPU really depends on the game, my 4080 can curbstomp most games @4k60 then some are either optimized so badly or have “future proof” settings and just humble it,
If most games were actually optimized well I’d assume with dlss and such we’d be able to keep these current cards for years to come, sadly with new gpus already on the horizon you can bet games will be built just well enough to run on those with a heaping of AI nonsense,
Say what you want about ubi but some of their games and engines are fuckin beautiful
How?
Technology, progress, innovation, etc.
It isn’t really a mystery.
Isn’t the rgb distracting when so close to the tv?
Yo I remember upgrading from a 2011 office work laptop o bought for college to an actual desktop system in 2013. Went from laprop integrated graphics to a gtx 650. What an incredible overhaul in performance.
I went from 10-12 fps in guild wars 2, up to 60 over night. It was over a 400% performance increase according to user benchmark. I was running intel HD 3000 integrated graphics. Even modern integrated graphics (intels UHD 770) are only 7% below a gtx 650.
Then in years past, I went from the 650 to a 770, then from 770 to a 980. Held onto that 980 for a long while. Went from the 980 to a 3070ti. And now im sitting on a 3090.
Exponential growth
Wanna really feel old? Look up the release date of your first proper graphics card… It hurts.
How can you game with that ugly as pc in eyesight. It would distract me so badly
My first PC lagged when you would win solitaire and the cards would do the bouncing thing. Nowadays I’m running photoshop, a web browser, a video game, discord, and like ten other things at once
“Why would I need to upgrade this for the next 8 odd years?”
Because devs are gonna continue to pump out poorly optimized games and rely on daddy nvidia’s dlss/frame gen technology to save them. They’re going to claim that it’s ‘because their graphics are that good’ when in fact they just suck at their jobs.
See this trend starting with MH: Wilds
Hisense?
As someone who has worked at both Walmart and Target i always thought this:
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU GUYS BUYING $300 BLACK FRIDAY SALE TVS?! THAT 65 INCH IS $300 FOR A REASON!
PS: the reason isn’t because the manufacturers are nice
I have a 3080 10GB and I can run Destiny 2 at 4k on my 32” OLED with 160-180 FPS. It’s glorious.
holy who tf did you sue