The Case Of Pairing 3700X and 3080
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. ...