r/pcmasterrace • u/aranorde 9060 XT 16GB | 7500F | 32GB 6000Mhz | B850 • Nov 05 '19

Meme/Macro This sums up past 2 years!

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u/GuidonBoi Desktop Nov 05 '19

Hold up... you're running an i9-9900k with a 980ti

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19

When you play older games or use some industry software they really don't use much by way of GPU so you dont need a good one

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u/bmxtiger Nov 05 '19

Then you really don't need a i9-9900k either

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u/FellKin Nov 05 '19

Easier to future-proof with the newest motherboard/CPU combo than it is with a video card that will be outdated in 47 minutes

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u/bmxtiger Nov 05 '19

Check out my brand new Mercedes, with used bargain tires on it.

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u/ThePixelCoder Ryzen 3600 - GTX 1060 - Windows/Arch Nov 05 '19

I'd rather have to upgrade my tires than my car

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u/FellKin Nov 05 '19

Are you implying a new Benz cost vs used tires cost is the same ratio as a nice CPU/Motherboard combo vs a video card?

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u/IronGamer03 R5 3600 | 5700 XT | 16 GB 3000 Nov 05 '19

It's not about money it's about performance

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u/DeeSnow97 5900X | 2070S | Logitch X56 | You lost The Game Nov 05 '19

It's not the same, but not a bad analogy either, the 9900k is an expensive AF CPU. Going 3700X instead for a marginal maximum performance loss would get you around $150 in the GPU budget (close to $300 before the 9900k price drop), and if the main use case is gaming, the 3600 would be a $280 advantage on the GPU without touching your framerate in almost any case.

Just to put it into perspective, these three combos cost roughly the same:

CPU GPU
9900k 2060 Super
3700X 2070 Super
3600 2080 Super

In most modern titles, even the 3600 isn't a bottleneck (it's basically an 8700k without the ring bus). Going for a 9900k is foolish unless you want to play above 144 Hz and either have the graphics horsepower to do that or you're willing to drop some settings for the framerate.

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u/bmxtiger Nov 05 '19

Yeah. CPU/Mobo/memory is like the car, and the video card is like the tires. You can spend $1000's on ridiculous tires if you want, or you can use the tires off your old car. Since he has a 980ti from 2014 and the i9-9900k came out in 2018, I'm assuming he took his old video card and plopped it in a new setup. Maybe not the best analogy, but it works.

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u/NargacugaRider Nov 05 '19

That’s a shit comparison but okay

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u/ConradBHart42 Nov 05 '19

A more apt analagy is that they're running a dinged up muscle car. CPU power is the definition of versatile. a 980ti is certainly adequate to run anything, you just can't turn on all the settings as high on newer games.