PhantomShade Posted July 12, 2020 Report Share Posted July 12, 2020 6 minutes ago, Chirag2001 said: Ok. Was it a good price as per you? Isn't it available for a bit cheaper from other brands like Gigabyte and Zotac now? No my dude. Asus makes the most expensive GPUs out there, then comes MSI, then Gigabyte, who are neck and neck. Then you have Zotac & Sapphire. Then at the cheapest tier you have these Inno3D, Galax, Powercolor type companies. Now all prices have blown up thanks to the Cheeni Virus :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylanjosh Posted July 12, 2020 Report Share Posted July 12, 2020 Asus strix GPU's are so expensive you have to put them in the next tier Like Asus 1060 will be same price as Galax 1070 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Posted July 12, 2020 Report Share Posted July 12, 2020 Yeah I'm quite aware of the pricing tiers.... You pay a premium for Asus, but if you're going all out with all Asus parts, their Strix RGB lighting system is best in the game imo. From the setups I've seen online. Not that I'd do that, I'd rather save money and buy from Gigabyte/MSI, no harm in that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hussain Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 Guys, I have a relatively old desktop that's started to show its age. I want to see how much of this current desktop I can salvage. What are the best and free diagnostic tools? my rig i7-3770 r9-380x 8gb ddr3 ram Intel DB75EN (definitely changing this, it was bought by mistake) Samsung Evo 128Gb ssd 2TB HDD I will definitely get a new Hard drive and a mother board, preferably one with an inbuilt wifi. WIll it be hard to source a motherboard with an 1155A socket? anyone has any suggestions? I want to keep my processor and graphics card, I dont mind running games at medium settings or whatver, I play at 1080p still and wont be upgrading my monitor. So I just want to make sure they are in good condition before I start buying new parts. Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomShade Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 28 minutes ago, hussain said: Guys, I have a relatively old desktop that's started to show its age. I want to see how much of this current desktop I can salvage. What are the best and free diagnostic tools? my rig i7-3770 r9-380x 8gb ddr3 ram Intel DB75EN (definitely changing this, it was bought by mistake) Samsung Evo 128Gb ssd 2TB HDD I will definitely get a new Hard drive and a mother board, preferably one with an inbuilt wifi. WIll it be hard to source a motherboard with an 1155A socket? anyone has any suggestions? I want to keep my processor and graphics card, I dont mind running games at medium settings or whatver, I play at 1080p still and wont be upgrading my monitor. So I just want to make sure they are in good condition before I start buying new parts. Thanks in advance It will be hard to find a motherboard that old, your best bet is your local computer hw shops or shops at Lamington road. I'd suggest you upgrade to a ryzen 3600/16GB DDR4 setup if you have the cash, should cost 35k for CPU + MB + RAM. You should also get a minimum 500GB ssd, but ssd purchase can be deferred since you already have one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hussain Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 I have been out of the loop for a while, what is the AMD processor heirarchy, is a radeon 7 2700 better than a radeon 5 3600? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomShade Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 27 minutes ago, hussain said: I have been out of the loop for a while, what is the AMD processor heirarchy, is a radeon 7 2700 better than a radeon 5 3600? Its Ryzen on the processor side, not radeon Ryzen 2700 is the previous gen processor, it's current successor chip is the Ryzen 3700x, 8 cores, 16 threads, and performance improvements over the 2700 Ryzen 3600 is the current gen 6 core, 12 thread processor, and manages to beat the much more expensive 20k costing i5 processors of today. iirc Ryzen 3700x goes for 27k and ryzen 3600 goes for 15.5-17k, it depends It is said before the current year is out the 4th gen Ryzen CPUs will be out, with 4xxx numbering scheme, instead of the current 3rd gen ryzen's 3xxx scheme, ryzen 4th gen will have the new zen3 architecutre, better speeds and performance exceeding intel i5 10600k it is rumoured Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hussain Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 So, I guess I should just wait for the newer series to come out before I make a purchase then. Stick it out with my old rig till then if it lasts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylanjosh Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 Ryzen 3rd gen is also really strong. If you can wait, sure wait. But going for 3xxx family is great value too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRHeadHunter Posted August 18, 2020 Report Share Posted August 18, 2020 6 hours ago, hussain said: I have been out of the loop for a while, what is the AMD processor heirarchy, is a radeon 7 2700 better than a radeon 5 3600? It depends on you. Get R7 2700 if you are video editing/streaming. Get the R5 3600 if your primary use case is gaming. You can also stream with an 3600. You can wait for 4xxx series if you want or get the 3600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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