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@ alvar89 - 19.05.22 - 01:25pm
The msi b450 mobos are some of the best on the b450 chipset and can even do a bit of overclocking. They even take a 16 core 5950x but without going high on the clocks. A 5600 is nothing for it to run. I have a 2700x on a msi b450 and its vrm is beefy enough for overclocking even a 8 core. They do suck because they dont support gen 4 nvme drives tho.

I just upgraded from a 8086k to a 12700k with z690 motherboard that has gen 4 pci-e and unless youre moving massive files about between drives you wont notice any difference in real world performance between 3rd and 4th gen nvme drives . I finally ditched mechanical drive and gone full nvme , my motherboard supports 4 drives so went with. 250gb for window and 1 x 2tb and 2 x 1tb nvme drives and wish I had done it sooner * +

alvar89 29.05.22 - 08:50am

@ john_163 - 22.05.22 - 08:24am
i just want for gameing and also heard the 3060ti bottlenecks with 3600 is it true?

Unless you are a e gamer chasing 240fps from a high refresh monitor the cpu bottleneck will never occur. Modern games will be too hard to run anyway to even reach those frames. * +

alvar89 29.05.22 - 08:57am

@ norega - 28.05.22 - 11:10am
I just upgraded from a 8086k to a 12700k with z690 motherboard that has gen 4 pci-e and unless youre moving massive files about between drives you wont notice any difference in real world performance between 3rd and 4th gen nvme drives . I finally ditched mechanical drive and gone full nvme , my motherboard supports 4 drives so went with. 250gb for window and 1 x 2tb and 2 x 1tb nvme drives and wish I had done it sooner

The difference will come with new games later on as does the ps5 show its massive jump in game loading times and other features requiring the speed of a gen 4 drive. That is the reason sony made the nvme expansion slot compatible only with a current high end nvme like the wd 850 or samsung 980 pro. The quick resume features and world loading have already started spoiling me. Even in gt7 it was a massive leap in load times going from a ps4 pro with a sata 3 ssd to a ps5. Actually saved time going to the other version

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alvar89 29.05.22 - 08:59am
I have a 8700k somewhere in the performance class of a 3600 ryzen and paired with a 1080ti equalent to a rtx 3060. I play mostly on 3440 by 1440p and 4k. Never seen any bottlenecking on a 60hz screen. * +

alvar89 29.05.22 - 09:01am

Been thinking about getting a 12700k as a upgrade for a while but the e core thing puts me off. Why does a high end cpu need those weak cores? Anyone getting a cpu of that class will not look on saving a few watts of energy. Hope the next line up will have all full cores again. * +

john_163 29.05.22 - 10:54am

@ 3mel - 23.05.22 - 09:03am
look up Gamers Nexus videos on the 3600

tnx saw it, seems im good with the cpu..the only problem would be if i find new gpus a decent price which might struggle on my current rig

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norega 29.05.22 - 02:45pm

@ alvar89 - 29.05.22 - 08:57am
The difference will come with new games later on as does the ps5 show its massive jump in game loading times and other features requiring the speed of a gen 4 drive. That is the reason sony made the nvme expansion slot compatible only with a current high end nvme like the wd 850 or samsung 980 pro. The quick resume features and world loading have already started spoiling me. Even in gt7 it was a massive leap in load times going from a ps4 pro with a sata 3 ssd to a ps5. Actually saved time going to the other version

Pc works completely different to ps5 when loading from ssd . Pc will drag data from ssd to system memory which is massively faster and has massively lower latency . The base line now for a gaming pc is 32gb ram couple that with say 8gb vram and there is no need to stream direct from ssd like ps5 . The only reason you need gen 4 is for moving huge chunks of data and like I said in real world use there is little to no difference . I have tested my gen 4 ssd v gen 3 ssd and moving Huge video files and thats where I see a difference ,small data segments or running os I see no difference at all * +