After witnessing a disappointing CES 2020 that gave me nothing to look forward to in the next 5 months, I went ahead and sprang for a currently available GPU capable of running 1440 at good settings.
The GTX 970 that I’m running now has begun growing a beard (could also be dust), Cyberpunk 2077 releases in April and all of Nvidia’s and AMD’s new GPUs will only launch beyond that. I need something to run me this game! I’m also not liking the rumours of price hikes and shortages for components possibly making a return later this year, with the new consoles arriving and Samsung power outages and whatnot.
Since I don’t believe the exorbitant premium for capable Ray Tracing is worth it for an equivalent Nvidia card - and I also want to reward innovation and competition - I decided to pair my Ryzen 3700x with a fellow AMD product in the form of a Sapphire Nitro 5700 XT. It’ll be the first time in more than a decade that I haven’t paired my AMD CPU with a Nvidia GPU. Guess I’m vacating the rainbow coloured middle ground and going red!
Cost me a pretty penny, but it came highly recommended by just about every major hardware out there as top of its 5700 XT class, along with the Red Devil version. Since I have a silver tinted motherboard however, I couldn’t resist its looks. No ray tracing, but oh well. I’m not too bothered.
Funny. I bought the ol’ GTX 970 when it came bundled with Witcher 3. Seems like this upgrade coincides with yet another new CDPR title.
As long as this card lasts me another 4 years and helps me live through another console cycle, I’ll be well pleased. The PS5 shouldn’t be able to top the combination of 3700X and 5700XT, and even when it tries to, console games will be optimised for AMD anyways since that’s the hardware consoles will have.
New monster should be arriving during the weekend. Expect me to post pictures.
The GTX 970 that I’m running now has begun growing a beard (could also be dust), Cyberpunk 2077 releases in April and all of Nvidia’s and AMD’s new GPUs will only launch beyond that. I need something to run me this game! I’m also not liking the rumours of price hikes and shortages for components possibly making a return later this year, with the new consoles arriving and Samsung power outages and whatnot.
Since I don’t believe the exorbitant premium for capable Ray Tracing is worth it for an equivalent Nvidia card - and I also want to reward innovation and competition - I decided to pair my Ryzen 3700x with a fellow AMD product in the form of a Sapphire Nitro 5700 XT. It’ll be the first time in more than a decade that I haven’t paired my AMD CPU with a Nvidia GPU. Guess I’m vacating the rainbow coloured middle ground and going red!
Cost me a pretty penny, but it came highly recommended by just about every major hardware out there as top of its 5700 XT class, along with the Red Devil version. Since I have a silver tinted motherboard however, I couldn’t resist its looks. No ray tracing, but oh well. I’m not too bothered.
Funny. I bought the ol’ GTX 970 when it came bundled with Witcher 3. Seems like this upgrade coincides with yet another new CDPR title.
As long as this card lasts me another 4 years and helps me live through another console cycle, I’ll be well pleased. The PS5 shouldn’t be able to top the combination of 3700X and 5700XT, and even when it tries to, console games will be optimised for AMD anyways since that’s the hardware consoles will have.
New monster should be arriving during the weekend. Expect me to post pictures.
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