It's doable yeah. I'm aiming to build the PC during summer, likely between July-August.
Top fans intake? Wouldn't that also push back the hot air from the CPU back to the CPU again?
I've come across this video from Linus:
Each case is one specific environment, but judging by this it seems a large dual tower cooler is actually better on it's own rather than having top fans, either has intake or exhaust.
For aesthetics I would like my build to have fans at the top though
HSF should be facing towards the back. Stock configuration should be enough. Perhaps add a single 120mm at the back and 3 120mm's front. Adding more at the top will add turbulance and noise without much benefit, if at all. Adding more out-take fans also increases negative pressure, pulling in more dust in the system and dust can get in through the top.
I'd just skip the top fan mounts and go for a front to back flow myself.
Thanks
Hopefully you don’t need to do an RMA with Asus.
Knock on wood I've never had issues with asus where I've had to do that.
Im running a 7600x with a 7900xt and with 3x intake in the front and 1x exhaust my temps have been great. Im running a Deepcool ak620 cooler on the CPU.
A 4060 is one of the worst GPUs to recommend. Far better to get a close out 6800XT or 7700XT.
I have a 7800X3D + MSI X760E gaming paired with a GTX1080 until I upgrade to the RTX4070ti Super at the end of the month. GPUs are very expensive these days, but CPUs are relatively cheap, so I saw no reason to go with a slower (6 core) and less future-proof CPU. The 7800X3D is quite a bit faster than the 7600X (160 fps vs 101fps), and the price difference between these CPUs was not great enough to even consider getting a less powerful CPU.
The difference is quite big though, at least when using a monitor in the 30" size and upwards. Or a TV of course.
You've touched on a few things I was thinking about. The CPU not being overpriced and me lasting 10 years on a 4690k makes me think I should go with the 7800x3D just because it will last that little bit longer. Right now my CPU is the bottleneck, so reducing that future bottleneck for a relatively low cost doesn't seem bad.I have a 7800X3D + MSI X760E gaming paired with a GTX1080 until I upgrade to the RTX4070ti Super at the end of the month. GPUs are very expensive these days, but CPUs are relatively cheap, so I saw no reason to go with a slower (6 core) and less future-proof CPU. The 7800X3D is quite a bit faster than the 7600X (160 fps vs 101fps), and the price difference between these CPUs was not great enough to even consider getting a less powerful CPU.
The 7800X3D is amazing, it only draws 55W on average and even cheap endorfy fortis 5 was enough to cool it. I get 55-72°C during gaming, and up to 82-84°C in cinebench R23, with isnt a bad thing considering this CPU is designed to run at 89°C under full load at all times and pusth cooler to the limits before it starts lowering frequency.
If I had to choose between the RTX3060 12GB and the RTX4060 8GB, I would go for the former. Yes, the 3060 is a little bit slower, but IMO 15% better performance does not make a significant difference, so if the game runs too slow on the 3060, the 4060 will not offer much better experience anyway unless you turn on FG (frame generation) and I'm not even sure if you can enable FG on the 4060 8GB, as games are already VRAM-limited without it on the 8GB cards, and FG drastically increases VRAM requirements. However, the extra 4GB on the 3060 can make a huge difference between a playable game and an unplayable stutter fest experience. Some games, such as Forspoken, fail to load textures even at the lowest settings on 8GB GPUs.
My GTX1080 2GHz is obviously a massive bottleneck for a 7800X3D, but I'm still surprised at how well many modern games run on this 8-year-old GPU. I cannot run UE5 games at 1440p, but thanks to FSR it can run the vast majority of raster games at 1440p with a playable frame rate 45-60fps and that's perfectly fine for me on my VRR monitor and especially on gamepad. Right now I'm playing Hogwarts Legacy (1440p FSR quality and high settings) and I'm getting 65-80fps. If you use reshade sharpening filters, even FSR quality looks sharp (in Hogwarts Legacy FSR looks much sharper than native).
The biggest problem with the GTX1080 is poor driver support, as modern games are much more optimised for the newer architectures. I get low GPU usage and low fps in some games becasue nvidia no longer optimize drivers for my card. Two weeks ago I bought a 2080ti (I was planning to use it till 5000 series will launch) and these problematic games had no such problems. Unfortunately the 2080ti I bought was faulty (it's core was stuck at 1350MHz), so I had to return it. The 3060 12GB should have even better drivers than 2080ti therefore I would be happy with it's performance in modern games. In fact, I even considered getting the 3060 12GB when I realised that the 2080ti I bought was faulty, but I have decided to buy a new GPU at the end of the month. I was planning to get the 5070, but I think the 4070ti Super will still be a pretty attractive card when the 5000 series comes out, because I'm sure Nvidia will only give people 12GB VRAM in the 5070 series GPUs.
The 7800X3D is much faster than the 7600X, but if your budget is so tight you can go with the 7600X as even this CPU will run modern games at 60fps with ease. You can spend the money you have saved on a used 4070 12GB, and in a few years when games will push the 7600X too hard, you can buy a 7800X3D or even a 9800X3D on the cheap. If you go the 2'bd route, however, I'd recommend getting a good motherboard, as cheap B650 boards have trouble running high-end AM5 CPUs.
It seems that even a standard RTX4070 can run quite a few games at 4K, if you are willing to tweak some settings and use DLSS.
It's not budget that holds me back, it's a bit of a mix of principles, price/performance, power consumption, and what I want from visuals. I don't particularly care about RT, it's more a smooth framerate I'm after.
I thought you might be interested in this comparison, which has just been published today. With FG / DLSS3 enabled in Ghost Of Tsushima, the RTX4060 8GB was VRAM limited. As a result, performance not only did not improve, it actually decreased. The RTX3060 12GB was much faster compared to the newer RTX4060 (90fps vs 30fps) simply because it has more VRAM.
www.guru3d.com
Gotcha. Problem is I’m surely bottlenecked by my cpu (4790k) which buying this gpu means new cpu and mobo
Yes. They’re overpriced
That sounds too good to be true. Be careful. If it’s legit it’s a great deal
It was legit, he even recovered the I/O's with the plastic nubs. Felts like a new unboxing hahah. It was a bitch fitting it into my Ncase m1. I might get a little bigger case like the fractal North
Well got myself an NZXT aio, pretty happy with it. Was more for aesthetics but actually running cooler than before which is a bonus.
Can anyone recommend a single cable for GPU so I don't have to use the included one? tried a corsair cable but it was so hard to bend and didn't look good at all.
Nobody can recommend a single cable without knowing the brand of the power supply. That is absolutely critical as you cannot mix cables amongst manufacturers.Well got myself an NZXT aio, pretty happy with it. Was more for aesthetics but actually running cooler than before which is a bonus.
Can anyone recommend a single cable for GPU so I don't have to use the included one? tried a corsair cable but it was so hard to bend and didn't look good at all.
