I’m thinking of building a pc to play a few demanding games (e.g. PEAK, Satisfactory, Stellaris) at 1080p@60. It’d be under Proton/DXVK on Linux.
GPU prices in Australia are kinda fucked atm so that would probably have to be a used card, but would anyone have any advice on what I have so far?
What’s your budget?
Personally I would rather go for AM5/DDR5 instead of AM4/DDR4.
I’m running what OP is suggesting.
It’s fine, but yes a bit out of date. I’m considering upgrading soon, since it was already previous Gen when I built it a couple years ago
where are you having performance issues?
Honestly, nowhere. I just bought and installed a 9060 and it is fantastic. I was mired in an older kernel with Linux Mint, but Fedora is pretty nice.
My only complaint might be the singular NVME, but adding SATA SSD as a second drive won’t be at bad.
Increase your memory if you can. 16 will probably be fine for some time, but who knows what sudden innovation may result in a memory-dwelling behemoth.
I can get the other stuff sorted but cpu+gpu+mb should be < $500.
I’ve had a look at am5 but it seems pretty expensive?
Your combination of cpu and mb both only support pcie 3.0, so it’s not one but two generations behind there.
pcie 4.0 is twice the speed and what all benchmarks has used when testing the 6600 XT, so don’t expect full oomph from the gpu.
Same thing for the chosen m.2 disk, it also expect pcie 4.0.
AM5 cost more, but will also last you longer then buying a dead platform.
Build using 7600 with B650 and 5200MHz DDR5:
https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/Lyt3BL
Build using 9600 with B850 and 6000MHz DDR5:
https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/QKzhQd
oh yeah pcie3 is pretty old by now I guess, and I just realised that the 6600xt is one of the cards that have pcie4x8, I wonder if that’ll have an effect.
EDIT: Thanks, it does look like using pcie3 has a measurable impact on the 6600xt, so I’ll probably be shilling out for a b550 board. it’s not that much more expensive anyway
Anyway those AM5 builds are more than 2x the price of the AM4 builds, so I’ll probably settle on AM4 for now
Remember to update to at least 5600 to get PCIe 4.0 on the CPU too.
oh does 5500 not have pcie4? that’s crazy wtf
Nope, it doesn’t - they built it with 24 lanes of pcie 3.0.
5600 comes with 20 lanes of pcie 4.0
I can get the other stuff sorted but cpu+gpu+mb should be < $500.
I’ve had a look at am5 but it seems pretty expensive?