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When to upgrade hardware? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have a Gen1 Threadripper system. I have a mixed gaming, but mostly workstation workload. In modern, unoptimised games my GPU (rtx3000 product line) is already being CPU bottlenecked, but only slightly, 5-10%. And it has too little VRAM for properly accelerating my workstation tasks.

I'd like to upgrade my hardware with an AMD 1st gen DDR6 CPU (prob. 2027) and buy an according GPU in the same year. I'm planning a usage duration for at least 10 years and then probably same thing but with DDR8.

My priority is to have an excellent price/performance ratio. I only want to buy something new, if I know it will last me a long time.

How good is my plan at accomplishing my goal? I'd like some feedback please. How would you go about it?

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[–] Sickday@kbin.earth 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As someone with a burned out 9800x3D and an equally useless X870 motherboard, I would personally say to maybe wait for benchmarks, user reviews, and such for whatever CPU AMD puts out in 2027.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Burned out? How did that happen?

[–] nyan@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

The X3D CPUs are very sensitive to overvolting, and some mobo manufacturers had their boards set to overvolt out of the box before this was discovered. Result: fried CPUs.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 2 points 2 weeks ago

Did you never get a replacement by the mainboard manufacturer or AMD?