u/vroomvroom79

Hi. Mine son loves Minecraft on PC. He used to have a pc with i9700f, 16 GB RAM & GTX 1660 super GPU (6 GB). He had sodium mods installed and was getting around 80 fps but the CPU and RAM would often hit 100% and then lag/freeze. He wanted to get better FPS and stop the hanging so we just bought him a new PC for his birthday. It has AMD Ryzen 5 7600X, 32 GB RAM and RX 7700XT GPU (12 GB).

If he installs the Sodium mod on the new PC, Minecraft just crashes on the start-up (AMD driver timeout), so we had to remove that mod. Without it, he is only getting 30-60 fps. It has had a completely fresh install of windows, AMD drivers etc.

Is there any reason why it should be crashing with the mod when the old pc was fine? What can we do to improve the fps? Is this an AMD vs intel issue? I have also found that Among Us was work with the 7700 XT GPU, I have to set it to use the integrated GPU for it to get past the start screen.

Any suggestions? At the moment he just wants to go back to his old pc which seems nuts considering how much we just spent on the new pc (used from ebay).

I am trying to get a gaming PC for my son. He already has i5 9400f with 16 gb RAM and 1660 super GPU but is maxing out his CPU and RAM on minecraft. GPU sits around 70%.

I am looking at a used pre-built rather than components. I have found 3 options for £800 (don't want to spend more).

Option 1 - RTX 3070 Vision OC, AMD 5700x3d, 32 GB DDR4

Option 2 - 5800X, RA 9060 XT 16 GB, 32 GB DDR4

Option 3 - Ryzen 8400F, RX 6700xt, 32 GB DDR5

I think the 5700 x3d is probably best for gaming so option 1 looks good but the 9060 XT should be best GPU due to larger VRAM. Option 3 gets me on new platform for future upgrades but I feel the CPU and GPU in the other systems may be better?

I have looked at 100s of options and these are the best so far. They will both big a big upgrade. Which do you think is best?

Help, thanks!