Ryzen

As I said here and here, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is beautiful. Been flying non-stop the past few months, to this day I’ve logged 229 hours of game time. Flying virtually made me remember moments and also an opportunity to learn something new. This blog post is about what you get in the game with combinations of CPU’s I’ve tested it on and RTX cards namely 2070 Super and 3080. The combinations are all feeding a 4K60 monitor with HDR turned on. ...

It has been known that the 3080 is a power hungry GPU while 3700X is supposedly a power efficient CPU with a TDP of 65W. Pairing the two should not be a problem powered by a Corsair RM 750W PSU, or is it? Here’s what happened to my rig. Hardware Spec Before anything else, here is the spec I built: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Corsair H115i Pro AIO Watercooler AsRock X570 Taichi Motherboard 32GB HyperX Fury 3200MHz Palit Geforce RTX 3080 GamingPro OC Corsair RM750 80+ Gold The Problem The same 3080 was paired before with an Intel i7 8700K rig. I had no problem whatsoever from the hardware. Ran everything just as it should. But there were the occasional stutter when playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, my theory was that there wasn’t enough bandwidth somewhere to do something. So I tried to pair the 3080 with my AMD rig. ...

I have never in my life built an AMD CPU based box, never. BUT, AMD’s rise is well on its way to dethrone Intel off of the performance perch. Over the years, I usually upgrade my machine every 3 years whether it’s a laptop or a desktop. I’ve had my Intel i7 8700K for 2 years now, I’ve made a lot of work with it, it’s great. The blow for me with an Intel box was that Intel decided to abandon the LGA1151 socket for its newest CPU’s. Not to mention Intel’s BIOS limit preventing 6th-7th gen CPU’s not being able to run on 8th-9th gen chipsets vice versa. While AMD was improving and iterating at a phenomenal pace. Other than its impressive 7nm process which is a leap ahead of Intel, Ryzen have more cores/threads than Intel, period. ...