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CT_Biker said:
That is going to be prohibitively difficult if you use Intel hardware. Even if you have a K skew CPU AFAIK there chipset support on the current Z490 is spotty at best. AMD have PCIe Gen 4 support on the CPU at the moment right? I forget the hardware race is getting a bit much for me to follow and retain everything I read
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Yup my new motherboard and CPU are PCIe4 ready (Ryzen 5 3600 on an X570 board).
Not that I will be able to justify one of these new monsters yet - just holding out for some 2080 price drops :D
 
CT_Biker said:
That is going to be prohibitively difficult if you use Intel hardware. Even if you have a K skew CPU AFAIK there chipset support on the current Z490 is spotty at best. AMD have PCIe Gen 4 support on the CPU at the moment right? I forget the hardware race is getting a bit much for me to follow and retain everything I read
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it will depend on your motherboard if you can get pcie 4. Mine does not actually support it, it's a B350. But yeah AMD has already adopted pcie 4 so if you're on the amd side you have better luck.
 
cerebus said:
it will depend on your motherboard if you can get pcie 4. Mine does not actually support it, it's a B350. But yeah AMD has already adopted pcie 4 so if you're on the amd side you have better luck.
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You need a gen3 ryzen as well afaik
 
Sinbad said:
You need a gen3 ryzen as well afaik
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AFAIK most AMD Zen2 CPUS support PCIe Gen4 natively on the CPU, but you only have 24 PCIe gen 4 lanes - so one GPU(16 lanes) and one NVMe(8 lanes) on a B550.

I think when next gen Zen is released they will patch the B450 boards, some of them are rumored to support PCie gen4 on the Chipset, but this was removed in BIOS
 
For a noob, is there a point in upgrading from a 960GTX to anything more substantial if my dual monitors are only 1080p?
 
CT_Biker said:
AFAIK most AMD Zen2 CPUS support PCIe Gen4 natively on the CPU, but you only have 24 PCIe gen 4 lanes - so one GPU(16 lanes) and one NVMe(8 lanes) on a B550.

I think when next gen Zen is released they will patch the B450 boards, some of them are rumored to support PCie gen4 on the Chipset, but this was removed in BIOS
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Specs on my motherboard say:


Integrated in the CPU (PCIEX16):
· 3rd Generation AMD Ryzen™ processors:
  1. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, supporting PCIe 4.0 and running at x16
· 2nd Generation AMD Ryzen™ processors:
  1. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, supporting PCIe 3.0 and running at x16
    * For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.
· 2nd Generation AMD Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics processors/AMD Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics processors:
  1. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, supporting PCIe 3.0 and running at x8 Integrated in the Chipset (PCIEX4/PCIEX1)
  2. 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, supporting PCIe 4.0*/3.0 and running at x4 (PCIEX4)
    * For 3rd Generation AMD Ryzen™ processors only.
  3. 3 x PCI Express x1 slots, supporting PCIe 4.0*/3.0
    * For 3rd Generation AMD Ryzen™ processors only.
 
Note the screenshot attached of the R5 3600. It has PCIe x4 on the CPU.
AFAIK 4 of these lanes will be used for Chipset interconnet(on an x570 board there are more PCIe lanes offered by the chipset)

Long and the short, you need a new board if you are on B350
 

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CT_Biker said:
Note the screenshot attached of the R5 3600. It has PCIe x4 on the CPU.
AFAIK 4 of these lanes will be used for Chipset interconnet(on an x570 board there are more PCIe lanes offered by the chipset)

Long and the short, you need a new board if you are on B350
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R5 3600 is a gen3, isn't it?
 
Sinbad said:
R5 3600 is a gen3, isn't it?
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Yes it is - damn naming conventions are a mess.

I am actually gonna stick to my guns here, 32GB of ram at 3600mhz CL14, tune the infinity fabric to match it(1800mhz) should net you a big performance boost on AMD vs an OC with no memory tuning
 
Voicy said:
For a noob, is there a point in upgrading from a 960GTX to anything more substantial if my dual monitors are only 1080p?
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From a 960, yes, but probably only to a RTX 3060.
With a 960 you probably can't get 60fps at max settings, which a 3060 will give you. It will also give you Ray Tracing.
 
Oooo, I was just about to pull the trigger on a new laptop, guess it's being delayed for a couple of months
 
No MyBroadband article? Its literally good enough to make a console look like last gen hardware?
 
Voicy said:
For a noob, is there a point in upgrading from a 960GTX to anything more substantial if my dual monitors are only 1080p?
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Depends what you are playing on there, but yes of course.

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Here you can see the 960 can barely net 30fps in modern games at 1080p.

However you probably don't need more than a 2060 for 1080 gaming. I'm comfortable at 1440p with a 2060.
 
This is probably the most well-received announcement ever made by Nvidia. I don't see anyone attempting at bursting Nvidia's bubble. All I know is, there is now a lot riding on AMD to surprise.

The only thing people are criticising is Jensen's spatulas in his kitchen :ROFL:

 
I wonder how many people actually still bought their GPUs new during the last generation? The 'home' crypto mining days are over. Hardware dumps have passed. People will now start to buy new again.

Now that the 3000 series are about to launch at the same price as the 2000 series everything prior to that have been immensely devalued. The gains the 3000 series are showing over the 2000 series going by the Digital Foundry video are insane. Nvidia has outdone themselves here.
 
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