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UserBenchmarks: Game 194%, Desk 113%, Work 198%
CPU: Intel Core i7-11700K - 111.9%
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3070-Ti - 177.2%
SSD: Samsung 980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB - 457.6%
SSD: Samsung 870 EVO 1TB - 133.9%
SSD: Samsung 870 EVO 1TB - 133.2%
RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C15 2x8GB - 84.4%
MBD: Asus PRIME Z590-A
Default settings, not overclocked!
Rob.
Am I missing something? How would you upgrade the current machine to this other than throw everything out and start over? Which benchmarks are you using?
Thanks John
Silly question! Buy some new components, indeed, throw your old gear out and buy new - a vast improvement methinks!
Benchmark: https://www.userbenchmark.com/
Rob.
yes i have two m2 on the asrock board. both are working just fine but i still have 2019 on a i tb ssd and assets on a 2 tb with backups on other ssds. i really would hate to start over with all the assets acquired since the beginning. now to keep hunting a 3060 or 3070 at a reasonable price. $100 is out of the question when best buy was listing them at $400.00. i put myself on a waiting list best buy but i am flexible for another source. strange when you find one for 5oo they are out of stock. on ebay there are plenty of the for $i000 or more. anyway thank you again
ejb
Improving PC performance ..... there are two main strategies:
1) Upgrade components, one by one, as they fail or no longer meet a performance need for their particular function.
2) Run a PC until it has too many failing components to replace economically then replace the whole machine.
You can apply this to many modern consumer not-so-durables, from cars to washing machines.
Which is "the best" strategy? It depends ......
Personally I prefer to use things that are not just reliable but reliable long term. This means that such things tend to be expensive to start with ..... but often have a lower cost-per-year over their lifespan. It helps if these things are also repairable. A lot of the cheaper modern fangles are not. They come as black boxes with no spare parts catalogue. (Even some highly expensive items are like this - consider the black boxes that are Apple computers).
But if one is an olde gimmer likely to pop-orf in the next 3 - 5 years, expensive long-lasting things may not be the best personal choice. On the other hand, if you're going to leave your super computer to an eager grandson ........ Then again, we may all be dead of weather in 5 years time.
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The last computer I had went to my grandson after I used it for 9 years and only ever had to replace the GPU (which early TANE stressed so much it died of heat). It's still going now and is likely to for a few years yet albeit not running TS19 in ultra mode. If I'd bought one at half the price it wouldn't have performed so well even when new; and would likely have cost a sizeable sum to upgrade to the standard of that 9 year-old.
Seeing the supply problems earlier this year and guessing they would only get worse (along with the prices) I spent a silly amount of money on a new computer last April. It's basically the highest spec I could find that was actually available. It goes wizz (but not bang) and I expect it to last at least a decade without upgrade. An alternative would have been to upgrade the old one, part by part. Just getting the GPU I have now to put in the old machine would have cost nearly half the price of the whole new machine! And those prices are worserer now!
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So here's another feature of modern PC buying: buying a whole new computer is often a fraction of the cost of buying the same parts individually - and the nice PC seller puts it all together for you then gives you a good guarantee on a properly set up machine.
Lataxe, not allowed to buy anything else until 2057 now.
If computers were like washing machines (no real change in performance levels, just components wearing out) then PC component replacement would always make much more sense than buying a whole new machine. Unfortunately, PC components become not just "worn out" but also inadequate for the higher demands of the latest software being run on them.
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My last 4 or so system upgrades have been completely new PCs, spaced about 4 years apart. Each upgrade was obviously more expensive than simple component upgrades (snip)
But each to their own.