Comment on 4070 or 6800XT? Upgrade CPU or nay?
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Bear in mind that both cards are PCIe4, whereas the 6700/7700 mainboards top out at PCIe3. They’ll work fine and you’ll likely see an improvement, but not as much as with a complete rebuild; if you’re not bottlenecking at the CPU, you’ll be bottlenecking at the bus. Otoh both cards have a good few years left in them so I’d probably go the cheaper option, skip the 7700, and put the extra money into a new mobo/ram/cpu combo.
iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 11 months ago
…right you are. PCIe3 indeed. I missed that. So your advice would be to upgrade the GPU only, then at some other time upgrade all the rest and install the already upgraded GPU, right?
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Yep. I’m in the process of doing similar at the moment; went from an RX580 to an RX6650XT on an i5-9600. I could theoretically grab a secondhand i7 or i9, but I’d still be bottlenecking at the bus, and fixing that would necessitate a complete (expensive) rebuild. So the GPU is kind of a stop-gap while I build out the core components, then the GPU goes in the new rig when its complete. The 9600 is a fair bit newer than yours tho, so maybe the 7700 isn’t that bad an idea in the meantime if the finances work out.
3laws@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not OP but that’s my advice too.