Soooo after a month of trying, I have given up trying to get my 7900xtx setup back from my ex.

I have been grinding at work using a ryzen 5500U handheld with a smashed display and a usb-c dock as my stopgap system.

This is what I have settled on as the replacement:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GGrhwY

My primary usecase is g*ming, although my most played titles are HEAVILY cpu bound to the point that an Arc B580 would do in the counterfactual world where Intel did not operate factories on destroyed Palestinian villages.

The 9070xt is a gambit that ML hype keeps prices inflated through the launch of UDNA in 3 years.

    • vanDerVaartBlackenedRanch [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      5·
      23 hours ago

      I did some further research on benchmarks for Dwarf Fortress and Football manager, and the delta was small enough that I decided to go all the way back down to 9600x and wait for the 6 core CCD zen 6.

      Thanks very much, no way I would have noticed that on my own.

      • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        21 hours ago

        Imma be real, if it’s purely for games ram also seems excessive, 64 gigs is doing datasets with 500 chrome tabs territory, 32 gigs seems fine for games (?maybe only microsoft 9/11 simulator approaches those). And maybe air cooler, although yours seems cheap-ish enough. Or is df memory hungry?

        Or I’m doing something wrong, cause only last year i started having slight issues on 16, and that’s from lots of tabs and game opened

        • vanDerVaartBlackenedRanch [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          4·
          20 hours ago

          Zen 6 16c is the goal, and I do not think it is a safe bet that RAM will stay cheap until its release.

          I remember reading a benchmark from a while back that said that for big data processing tasks like my bioinformatics consulting, you want each thread to have at least 3G of RAM available to it.

          I also play EVE-O where I have ten accounts (4 capital pilots, six cyno/scout), and that even on potato mode with resource cache disabled, would fill 32GB on awesomeWM with discord open.

          I am now re-considering if the prospect of being able to take on additional $100 gigs in a pay period is worth the $300 delta from a 9600x to a 9950x.

          e:grammar

          • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            3·
            20 hours ago

            Ah, if you do mpi adjacent stuff, carry on rat-salute some hog shit might want 8-16 gigs per thread even, so you probably wanna be on the knowing more specs side (the shape of our datasets determines the future of our compute and things of that nature pete )

            ( allegedly amd will make 24 core on zen6 praise-it)

            (Also, speeds of 4 sticks ddr5, if you are planning to upgrade to them, are notoriously dogshit, so might be a good idea to hit the search on what speeds are achievable on your motherboard, from the top of my head msi was the best in that area, but ymmv)