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That is similar to my bro's build, but with some differences: He has a 5950X instead of a 5900XT. It is maxed out with 128 GB of DDR4-3200 CL22 RAM. His GPU was recently upgraded to an RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, and he has multiple internal drives in his system (one 1 TB NVME OS SSD, one 1 TB SATA SSD...

If I were you, you actually need Windows 11 and a newer GPU. You see, newer video editing softwate will now require Windows 11 just to even install at all as Windows 10 is no longer supported at all by newer NLE (Non-Linear Editing) software, and that your current GTX 1050 Ti is now in...

Oh, that changes things a bit. In that system, which to prioritize on the upgrade depends on whether the 16 GB of DDR4 RAM was a single stick or two 8 GB sticks. And then, the GPU would be the bottleneck on that PC, especially when you have an 8-core CPU in that system.

Did you mean he has an RTX 550? You see, there has never been an RTX 550 at all. There was a GTX 550, but that GPU was from 2011, and its driver support ended in 2018. Given that, did you really mean to say he has an RTX 5050? Or you really meant a Radeon RX 550? Seems like you meant an RX550...

And here are the pics of my RTX 4070 Ti:

Here are the pics of my Sapphire Pulse RX 6700 XT:

I had the wrong brand listed for the Radeon RX 6700 XT. Sapphire is the brand for that card. Pics of both cards will be in the next post.

I am selling two of my GPUs to clean out some of the parts that I have accumulated over the past few years. These GPUs are for sale: Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 6700 XT OC (with 2 fans): $200 or best offer. Zotac Gaming Trinity RTX 4070 Ti OC: $425 or best offer. Selling both cards because not...

Expanding on what was in that video, the older AM4 system in the original post is limited to PCI-e 3.0 throughput due to the motherboard’s 400-series chipset whereas the 5800X3D in that video was using an X570 motherboard that supports PCI-e 4.0. In this comparison, the PCI-e 3.0 throughput will...

I get it. The problem is that I have been a relative latecomer to the platform upgrade path for most of the time. In fact, I did not get into Ryzen until well into the Zen 2 era (3000 series), at a time when my daily driver was still a quad-core Haswell Refresh i7-4790K, although I got into LGA...

The problem with your plan is the discrete GPU market itself. You can no longer purchase a new low-end discrete GPU whose support has not completely ended (that is, the most recent available driver is several years old), and that the least expensive still-supported discrete GPU is way too...

Here’s the problem: If all you’re going to play are games that are more than three years old, then your budget is in a very tough spot right now given your stated playing resolution. And your planned RTX 3070 Ti has too little VRAM for some games at even 1080p. But then again, you’ve literally...

Actually, you got the encoder wrong on the P1000. The T1000’s encoder is actually a stopgap between the P1000’s encoder (which is actually an 4th-gen encoder versus the T1000’s 5th-gen encoder) and the Quadro RTX-series encoder (which is a 6th-gen encoder that is also found in the RTX 2070). The...

Good choice, as long as you don’t mind CL36 timings at DDR5-6000 speed.

I agree with the responses here. If that case cannot fit a large tower cooler or a 240 mm AIO, then that case is unsuitable for a modern CPU to begin with. In addition, even without considering that, the selected cooler is completely incompatible with that CPU as it is designed for an 11th-Gen...

I agree with the others. I do not recommend spending a single penny on that system right now, in light of the fact that security support for Windows 10 is scheduled to end this coming October 14. There is a $30 paid security update extension for Windows 10 for individuals, but it’s only for one...

Unfortunately, there are absolutely no cost-effective components that you can buy for that PC. The only CPU and motherboard that you could buy for the RAM that you have are all old and used (Intel 4th Gen is about the latest that you can buy, and I would not spend any decent amount of money for...

echter, For your mobo the official Intel “stock” settings are in your board’s “Intel default settings performance” profile. The “Intel default settings baseline” profile restricts the PL2 to only 177 watts.

You are running your RAM at 4800 MT/s and CL40 timings, which is the rated default maximum JEDEC profile for that RAM. Enable XMP and you will see 6000 MT/s with that RAM. And yes, I agree with the poster who stated that even an RTX 3050 6 GB card is a significant improvement over your old and...

One simple answer: Current productivity applications do not utilize the 3D V-cache at all. Hence, the difference between the non-X3D and the X3D CPUs boils down to the clock speeds of the CPUs themselves–especially the single-core turbo clock speed.

To the OP: I agree with the last response. If you have to purchase new RAM anyway in addition to a new CPU and a new motherboard, you’re better off going all the way to AM5 and DDR5. The AM4 plus board and DDR4 RAM combined would be too expensive for the performance improvement and platform...

In addition to what I stated above, your planned GameMax PSU is also terrible due to that brand’s being a total scam. It pays its buyers for good reviews, and its units suffer from frequent quality downgrades without changing the model or revision number. So, once again to the OP: Don’t ever...

Buying anything from an unknown name brand is always risky, IMHO, especially since there are no proper reviews on that PSU.

Yep. All Gamepower PSUs are F-tier PSUs: Replace them immediately! To the OP: Do not buy any new computer parts without also buying a new higher-quality power supply unit with them!

You have not properly diagnosed your existing desktop (as I had stated in your other thread). If your existing (and now “non-functional”) PC died due to bad quality PSU power output, your soon-to-be-new PC would die an even quicker death if you keep on using that garbage-tier power supply unit...

As someone else noted, your board is the DDR5 version. Although your board lists a maximum memory capacity of 256 GB, the highest practical amount of RAM in total that you can easily purchase is currently 192 GB (via four 48 GB sticks) – and then, you’ll likely have to lower the memory clock...

Sorry. I got a bit carried away with that. I had assumed that the productivity apps utilize the GPU almost equally as much as it does the CPU. Hence my original response. My intended response was to prevent someone paying a lot more money than it is worth for a GPU that’s potato in performance...

Just throwing another monkey wrench into your plans: Some of the programs that you will be running actually recommend a Quadro or its successor “RTX Pro Workstation Edition” GPU in order to run properly, and may not work well with a consumer GeForce GPU. If this is the case, then you’re even...

In that case, unfortunately, you’re in no-man’s land. Both your current system and your planned system are grossly imbalanced in terms of the performance balance between the CPU and the GPU. That can, and occasionally does, result in corrupted video renders and exports compared to a system with...

You are still thinking that the only difference between the two RTX 3050’s is the memory size. Your quoted score for the 3050 is for the OG 8 GB version. The 6 GB version is significantly slower than the OG version.

To the OP: I think that you’ve become overly biased, and have succumbed to brand and core-count fanboyism. You have utterly rejected any reasonable hardware upgrades that we’ve suggested (and we are open-minded about what we recommend). Simply put, you’ve boxed yourself inside a tiny cubbyhole...

As a poster stated, both. The RTX 3050, even in its OG 8 GB version, was not meaningfully faster than an old GTX 1650 GDDR6 version while costing much more money. The 6 GB version was, and still is, a complete ripoff at any of the prices that it ever sold for.

Also true of the standard RTX 3050, as well as all of the xx60-series GPUs from the 4060 onwards.

“Gimped”, in this case, is the fact that the 6 GB version has fewer CUDA cores (2304 versus 2560 in the standard version) and lesser GPU memory bandwidth. In order to achieve the target 6 GB size, the memory bus had to be cut down from 128 bits down to 96 bits, which directly impacts the memory...

Unfortunately, GPU prices are going through the roof right now, and that RTX 3050 6 GB card is a gimped version of the standard RTX 3050. As such, both of those GPUs are very poor buys at their current street prices; in fact, the 3050 6 GB card simply does not perform sufficiently better than...

Why are you paying full price for a retail copy of Windows if you're building a new PC? And you do not need two CPU coolers, nor can you use them both because two CPU coolers would require two CPU sockets and a much, much bigger case just to even use them both simultaneously at all?

It is possible that one of your sticks of RAM is defective if you have some stability issues even at the fail-safe default memory speed of 4800 MT/s. I recommend that you troubleshoot the RAM, one stick at a time, by running something like Memtest86+ or another memory testing program that’s...

I have experience with recent (newer) platforms from both AMD and Intel. Both have their issues with stability. Standard JEDEC speeds are no problem but XMP and EXPO are crapshoots with both platforms. The last time that I had a platform that was stable was back in the Kaby Lake era - but then...

I’ve actually noticed that on my current Asus TUF Gaming Z690-PLUS WIFI motherboard when I had an i7-12700K. Some of the BIOS versions broke stability with any RAM that was rated/tested to run much above the potato-like JEDEC speed and timings where I had to manually set my RAM speed to lower...

I echo pendragon1. The so-called “different” BIOS version numbers simply tell you the lowest (or earliest) BIOS version that supports the CPU(s) in question. Nothing more.