On 25.06.2021 10:14, Lynne wrote:
The prices have dropped a little, but the biggest difference is that stuff is *actually* available now.Unfortunately, now is not a good time to build an entire system. Socket AM4's finished, so if I build an AMD system, it'll be obsolete within a year or so, and it'll be non-upgradable. Intel's Rocket Lake was such a giant slow flop, and its socket is also getting obsoleted by Intel once Alder Lake gets released later this year, and it doesn't support DDR5 anyway. And again, Rocket Lake was such a giant mess.
I don't think waiting for AM5 and DDR5 is worth it at the moment. You'll be early-adopting a platform, which is always a bit iffy. DDR5 prices will also be more than double of DDR4 initially.
Right now, I think what I ought to do is buy a box, a PSU, SSD, a GPU, and a monitor. And scavenge some old motherboard+cpu+ram from somewhere where no one will miss it. Donations accepted. I'm thinking of getting a: LG UltraGear 27GN950-B Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB POWERCOLOR RX 6900XT OC LIQUIDDEVIL Fractal Design Define 7 Compact Fractal Design Ion+ 860W Which I can find locally for around 3K euros, without any hunting for prices and just using Amazon. They'll likely be maybe 10% or even 20% cheaper in Germany, where geizhals.eu is usable and applicable.
Do you really need a 6900XT? Every review I saw of those commented on their horrible price/performance ratio. Similarly overpriced as the RTX3090.
Would a 6800XT not work fine as well?Or maybe a combination of two smaller cards, like one RTX3070 and one 6700XT, so you can test against both targets? Which would combined still be cheaper than a single 6900XT.
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