u/Saltimbanco_volta

A 50% performance uplift? More?

How does that work in the current situation when a new generation might bring big improvements to ray tracing and path tracing, while offering only a modest improvement in rasterization? Do you look at just one of them in order to make your decision?

Would new exclusive FSR features be enough to entice you?

Or do you refuse to buy a GPU from the next generation, regardless of what it brings to the table, and will only allow yourself a new GPU after skipping one generation or more?

This is all assuming a regular pricing situation where the new generation equivalent card costs 5~10% more than the previous one, rather than 50% more. Unless anticipating a price hike is something you take into account when making your decision to buy or not.

I've loved the series since the launch of Nioh 1, but I've postponed playing 3 until the DLC is out and, hopefully, the performance improved.

I know about the problems when not hitting a consistent 60 or 120fps. However, all the benchmarks I've seen, even with really good CPUs like the 9800X3D, didn't seem to manage that.

Is there a specific hardware and setting configuration that ensures stable 120fps? I'd prefer to not play it at 60 if I coult.

fwiw I play at 1440p, have a 9070XT and just upgraded to a 9800X3D.

No início do ano tive um problema de superaquecimento da minha 6900XT. Em jogos pesados ela chega a 93° e o hotspot em 110° e dá throttling. No conserto vi que meu cooler também não estava funcionando direito, mas a GPU continuava com esse superaquecimento mesmo depois de trocar ele. Acho que o cooler ruim sobrecarregou a placa que aguentou até onde deu.

Os fans da placa ainda funcionam. Dá pra ouvir bem o som deles durante o uso pesado. O que eu acredito que seja é que a pasta térmica da GPU deve ter secado completamente e precisa ser trocada. Porém, nunca gostei nem tive aptidão pra mexer na parte de hardware, e as lojas de PC na minha cidade só sabem formatar PC, desligar e ligar de novo, e de vez em quando trocar pasta da CPU. Não encontrei ninguém que tivesse aberto uma GPU pra fazer isso, e nem queriam se arriscar a tentar por ser uma 6900XT.

Acabei comprando uma placa de vídeo nova, e a 6900XT tá parada, mas não acho que ela seja lixo eletrônico. Alguém ainda deve conseguir dar vida nova à ela.

O que seria um preço justo pela placa nesse estado?

Não quero ser que nem aquelas pessoas que vendem uma 580 quebrada por 1500 reais kkkk

I love the Nioh games but I've been waiting until the DLC is out to get Nioh 3. Heard terrible things about the performance when it launched. Have they improved on that?

Is it doable to keep the 120fps cap on a 9070XT and 9800X3D at 1440p native or will it still drop to 90 in the open areas?

Did they fix the slowdown that happened when the fps dropped lower than target?

If it weren't for that slowdown I'd be perfectly happy with that amount of performance. It'd be a shame if with rig I'd still have to lock the fps to 60.

I know that AMD themselves might not know for sure, and we can only guess, but how far away do you think it is?

There's been recent reports, including one from Microsoft, saying that memory prices are expected to double within a year. It will not get better until at least 2028, and even then it might be just 20% better after prices tripled.

Given that situation, and how AI will gobble up all the DDR6 it can as soon as it's available, I don't think AM6 will be viable for desktop PCs for a long time still.

AM4 got Zen 1, 2 and 3. AM5 got Zen 4, 5 and will get the upcoming Zen 6 probably next year. It's so difficult to predict the post 2028 market, but unless something drastic happens, like a major AI bubble pop (which would probably lead to a worldwide crash like in 2008), I don't think AMD can afford to not put Zen 7 on AM5 as well around 2029/2030. I don't know what will happen after that. Might the generation after that still be on AM5?

I'm curious as to what everyone who has been following the recent developments thinks about this.

Part of the reason it's difficult to predict is that it's hard to separate our personal feelings of what we wish would happen, to what we think will happen. I know that most AM5 owners would be happy if it got several more generations. I'm on AM4 and was hoping to skip AM5 entirely, but now I don't know how viable that would really be, and wondering if it's not better to upgrade now before prices skyrocket.

I came across some news today that memory prices are expected to increase by 50% on Q3, another 40% on Q4, another 40% next year. There was that Microsoft report alongside the Xbox price hike announcement that they expect memory prices to double within a year. Production should increase by 2028, but only about 20%. Chinese memory production might increase enough to sell more beyond their domestic market. Prices should go down by then, but it might not be enough to reverse all these hikes, much less make it cheaper than what we're at now.

I have a 5900X and 32GB of 3200Hz RAM. I was hoping it would be enough to wait out for AM6. That was assuming that AM5 would get one more gen and AM6 would come around 2029. Now I'm thinking that AM6 and DDR6 will take even longer. I don't know how well my CPU will hold up once it's a decade old or more.

Do you think it's better to bite the bullet and upgrade now before things get even worse, rather than try and weather the storm?

Edit: btw I game on 1440p with a 9070XT.

I'm cancelling all my streaming services. Just bought a huge external hard drive and will be filling with video files. It came formatted to exFAT and upon first opening it my OS gave me a warning about compatibility. Now I'm wondering if I should leave it as is or format it to NTFS.

I will not use it for games. Just video and audio files. I have a dual boot system with Bazzite and Windows 11, but I rarely boot into Windows. Just when a game doesn't run well on Linux. However, if my future PC turns out to be an Nvidia one I might end up gaming and using Windows far more often. Since this will be my main media hub I would want it to remain accessible across both OSes to ensure future compatibility.

My main concern is reliability and not losing my files, and to a lesser extent speed of access. Anything truly important and personal will be backed up elsewhere, but I want to avoid the pain in the ass of having to redownload everything. For reference, power outages during storms do happen on occasion where I live.

I've been on Linux since November and never paid attention to my filing systems before. Checked my current internal hard drive and my previous external hard drive and they're both NTFS. Bazzite just read them out of the box. Should I go out of my way to change this new drive from exFAT to NTFS? Or is it better off as exFAT?