My first AMD based system - how's the R7 7800X3D with Trainz?

[Paulsw2]

Ordered my new PC today, my first new one for 8 years! Thanks to Intel's current woes I decided to go with AMD for the first time. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D seems to have a great reputation for gaming though I imagine this won't be quite so important for a GPU-centric game like Trainz. Here's the specs, feedback welcome!

• AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core CPU (4.2GHz-5.0GHz/104MB w/3D V-CACHE/AM5)
• ASUS® ROG STRIX X670E-A GAMING WIFI (AM5, DDR5, PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 6E)
• 64GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz (2 x 32GB)
• 16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER - HDMI, DP, LHR
• 1TB SAMSUNG 990 PRO M.2, PCIe 4.0 NVMe (up to 7450MB/R, 6900MB/W)
• 2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE
• 2TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (up to 560MB/sR 530MB/sW)
• CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
• CORSAIR H100x RGB ELITE HIGH PERFORMANCE CPU COOLER

 

[pdkoester]

Hopefully the 220 MB/s transfer rate of the Seagate drive is good enough. Let us know how it goes when you set it up.

 

[wreeder]

I assume the builder had seagate drives lying around. No worries though the MB has 4 m.2 slots and three are PCIe 5.0 so plenty of expansion. What did you pay for it?

 

[blueodessey]

Ordered my new PC today, my first new one for 8 years! Thanks to Intel's current woes I decided to go with AMD for the first time. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D seems to have a great reputation for gaming though I imagine this won't be quite so important for a GPU-centric game like Trainz. Here's the specs, feedback welcome!

• AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Eight Core CPU (4.2GHz-5.0GHz/104MB w/3D V-CACHE/AM5)
• ASUS® ROG STRIX X670E-A GAMING WIFI (AM5, DDR5, PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 6E)
• 64GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz (2 x 32GB)
• 16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4080 SUPER - HDMI, DP, LHR
• 1TB SAMSUNG 990 PRO M.2, PCIe 4.0 NVMe (up to 7450MB/R, 6900MB/W)
• 2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE
• 2TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (up to 560MB/sR 530MB/sW)
• CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
• CORSAIR H100x RGB ELITE HIGH PERFORMANCE CPU COOLER

Samsung Magician Software | Samsung Semiconductor USA

Samsung Magician software is designed to help you manage your Samsung SSD with a simple, intuitive user interface. Download files & find supported models.

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Not sure if your are aware of SAMSUNG Magician Software dedicated to work with your SSD Drive.

Only works for Samsung, no other SSD Manufactures.


Have used it for probably 6 yrs or so.

2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE

You don't here a lot of talk about Drive Cache much, since SSD came to the big Stage, but I can tell you from over 40 yrs of experience, Cache on anything, b it Printers, CPU Chips, and of course your Platter Drive, can make a huge difference on data flow between your system and the Drive Platter. Manufactures are notorious for not providing enough Cache on items to handle workload, and as well keep up with processor speed.

Here is one for the history books, my 2nd computer after Radio Shack Tandy 1000, was 286SX desktop, with Dot Matrix Printer, 2600$ in 1983, if I recall, HD was 5 Giga byte, size of 1/2 a Shoe Box or Red Brick.

History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A year later I was able to add memory chip 1/4 meg or something, senior memory fade here, onto the Dot Matrix, all I can say, that baby doubled or more in speed for print out, lag time reduced. I only found this out, because I knew an old IT guy from the 70's who was CAD. and whole lot of Linux,,Cobol Etc, he was master tinkerer too. An education I to this day am grateful for.

Way above my pay grade.

old computer progamming languages - Google Suche

 

[Paulsw2]

Hopefully the 220 MB/s transfer rate of the Seagate drive is good enough. Let us know how it goes when you set it up.

Thanks. The Seagate is just the basic storage drive. I'm swapping out my existing Trainz SSD into the new system and I've added a 2TB Samsung SSD to provide future Trainz storage.

 

[Paulsw2]

I assume the builder had seagate drives lying around. No worries though the MB has 4 m.2 slots and three are PCIe 5.0 so plenty of expansion. What did you pay for it?

It's about £2,700, though a thousand of that is the GPU. But it is my most expensive ever! However, if the components last (big 'if'!) it'll cost about £337.50 a year, which is pretty good value bearing in mind what it does for me.

 

[Paulsw2]

But I'm still interested in finding out if anyone's using an AMD Ryzen-based system with Trainz and what their experience is like? For me it's a bit of a step into the dark, but we shall see!

 

[big_b]

I switched from Intel to AMD and have so far not found any problems. I mostly play both Trainz and World of Tanks both of which run smoothly and without any problems. I don't think I will ever go back to Intel.
I built this PC about 2yrs ago now and have not had any concerns as yet.
The AMD Adrenalin software keeps Drivers up to date and notifications of updates are emailed to me when available
My Build

Seagate Barracuda 1TB ST1000DM010 3.5in Hard Drive

ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Motherboard

Microsoft Windows 10 Home 32bit/64bit P2 USB Drive

AMD Ryzen 9 6950XT processor

PNY XLR8 Gaming Epic-X RGB 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz CL16 DDR4 White

Samsung 860 EVO M.2 SATA SSD 500GB

Cooler Master SickleFlow 120 ARGB 120mm 3 Fan Kit White

Lian Li Galahad 360mm AIO CPU Cooler Silver

Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic XL 1000W Platinum Builders Bundle White- Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL ROG Certified Case White- Super Flower Leadex Platinum SE 1000W Power Supply

 

[Paulsw2]

Thanks for response. Good to see that the AMD R9 6950XT is working well with Trainz. I see you're running it with the RX 6950 XT. I'll be interested to see how my AMD card runs with an RTX4080S.

 

[autodctr]

Ryzen 9 7900 with an RTX 3080....runs super!

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

Ryzen 9 5950X with an RTX 3090Ti (24 GB) has been working flawlessly since I got it 3 years ago.

 

[Paulsw2]

Well my new rig is up and running and so far so good. Everything very fast. Quite a bit of heat though. I'm not used to my old CPU running 50-85 degrees. Is that normal for a Ryzen? (the cooling is working in that the temperature rises, stabilises then falls very quickly once the stress is reduced.) Max temperature so far with the GPU is about 75 degrees which sounds acceptable.

Paul

 

[ricomon35]

Well my new rig is up and running and so far so good. Everything very fast. Quite a bit of heat though. I'm not used to my old CPU running 50-85 degrees. Is that normal for a Ryzen? (the cooling is working in that the temperature rises, stabilises then falls very quickly once the stress is reduced.) Max temperature so far with the GPU is about 75 degrees which sounds acceptable.

Paul

All AMD product runs hotter than Intel. My Gigabyte board and AMD CPU FX-8320 Black Edition run in the same temp range as your newer.
AMD is the hotrod of setups. Intel the cool and quiet Camry

Rico

 

[ajrf]

All AMD product runs hotter than Intel. My Gigabyte board and AMD CPU FX-8320 Black Edition run in the same temp range as your newer.
AMD is the hotrod of setups. Intel the cool and quiet Camry

Rico

I doubt that the current Intel generations run cooler than AMD. And more with all that happens with 13th and 14th gen Intels with high voltage peaks and abnormally high TDPs.

 

[ricomon35]

I doubt that the current Intel generations run cooler than AMD. And more with all that happens with 13th and 14th gen Intels with high voltage peaks and abnormally high TDPs.

@ajrf - Yeah, you're right. Didn't used to be that way, but these days...

I haven't really paid alot of attention to the current gen product from either MFG, so have been unaware of the new data.

 

[Paulsw2]

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I was alarmed to see my CPU running at 85 degrees! However, my vendor suggests this is normal and I shouldn't worry unless it's consistently over 95 (which it's not). I might try a bit of tweaking with the fans though.