I lucked out deciding to get another 16 gigs of ddr4 ram to make it 32 gigs few years ago. And upgraded my am4 board to the x3d chip. AM4 been the best mobo experience I had because of the continued release of CPU generations for it compared to previous mobos.
Almost the same as me at the start of this year, got a 5900XT and went up to 64GB of RAM for 250-300 quid
Funnily enough I did that because I was telling myself the current crop of GPUs are overpriced so I’ll try and hold on to my 3080 for a couple more years, so upgrading other parts would make sense whilst I waited.
I slept on swapping my 5800X to a 5800X3D, now I’m just kinda stuck until prices come down and I can upgrade to whatever socket AMD is on by that time.
I lucked out deciding to get another 16 gigs of ddr4 ram to make it 32 gigs few years ago. And upgraded my am4 board to the x3d chip. AM4 been the best mobo experience I had because of the continued release of CPU generations for it compared to previous mobos.
Almost the same as me at the start of this year, got a 5900XT and went up to 64GB of RAM for 250-300 quid
Funnily enough I did that because I was telling myself the current crop of GPUs are overpriced so I’ll try and hold on to my 3080 for a couple more years, so upgrading other parts would make sense whilst I waited.
Now it’s all overpriced!
I did the same thing.
With how things are going that 5800X3D, a used high end workstation mainboard and some DDR4 RAM are going to carry me for a very long time.
I’m GPU bottlenecked in 99% of cases anyway.
I slept on swapping my 5800X to a 5800X3D, now I’m just kinda stuck until prices come down and I can upgrade to whatever socket AMD is on by that time.
I was on an Intel 7700k. With Windows 10 coming to an end this year my choices were:
A) switch to gaming on Linux B) build a new pc
Given its age I picked b), getting it in January this year. 9800x3d, 32GB ram. It’s been 11 months and no regrets.
(I could have gone c) and built a new computer AND switched to Linux, but I often play non steam games and didn’t want to deal with WINE myself)
Lutris is wonderful, they have many scripts to assist in game installs, for when you decide you are ready to take the plunge