The Power PC Thread [f*ck off consoles]

[Maccy]

And if you're serious @Sheilas’ Wheels I could see if I could sort some discount from OcUK for you.

 

[Sheila’s’ Wheels’]

And if you're serious @Sheilas’ Wheels I could see if I could sort some discount from OcUK for you.

Very. But we can’t do anything until we get our planning permission.
These will be used to run Trackman IO so need to be plenty powerful enough.
(I know nothing about computers)

 

[SharkyUK]

Very. But we can’t do anything until we get our planning permission.
These will be used to run Trackman IO so need to be plenty powerful enough.
(I know nothing about computers)

Golf sim?

 

[Maccy]

Very. But we can’t do anything until we get our planning permission.
These will be used to run Trackman IO so need to be plenty powerful enough.
(I know nothing about computers)

I'd up the memory to 64gb if running a full Trackman setup, our local sim place found they had to increase it.

 

[R3k1355]

of all the things you'd expect Mr Potato to be working on, a Golf simulator certainly isn't one of them.

 

[mace¬]

of all the things you'd expect Mr Potato to be working on, a Golf simulator certainly isn't one of them.

He is going to be the caddy.

 

[Sheila’s’ Wheels’]

He is going to be the caddy.

You’ve seen Line of duty too?

Sniff sniff

 

[Geddes]

is the B650 Motherboard still the one of the ones to go for with the latest CPU's, I'll be having the new PC for another 8 or so years, i know the B650 has the update for the new CPU's or should i wait for the latest Motherboards to go down in price like the X870?

 

[SharkyUK]

is the B650 Motherboard still the one of the ones to go for with the latest CPU's, I'll be having the new PC for another 8 or so years, i know the B650 has the update for the new CPU's or should i wait for the latest Motherboards to go down in price like the X870?

The B650 is still a very good purchase (but there are caveats). If you're not planning on buying until towards the end of the year, I'd wait and see what the prices and features are like on the X870/B850 boards. If you're looking at 8 years for your next PC, I'd personally want to lean towards the higher-end stuff to try and "future-proof" as much as possible.

 

[Ray Gin]

The B650 is still a very good purchase (but there are caveats). If you're not planning on buying until towards the end of the year, I'd wait and see what the prices and features are like on the X870/B850 boards. If you're looking at 8 years for your next PC, I'd personally want to lean towards the higher-end stuff to try and "future-proof" as much as possible.

Fitted the 5090 yet?

 

[SharkyUK]

You can stick your K24 swaps where the sun don't shine, GPU swaps FTW. 🤣

I was in a rush so the pics are a bit cr4p. I was in the middle of working so didn't have long! Thankfully, the swap went without issue and I didn't have to reinstall Windows or anything like that. Worked first time, which I think is also a first.

The new nVidia 5090 RTX ROG Astral OC 32GB is on the left, the outgoing 4090 ROG Strix OC 24GB is on the right.

Honestly, the 4090 is such a good looking GPU. And a beast. And probably the best GPU I've ever had. Even today, the performance is blistering. It still has over a year warranty left on it, too. Just sayin'... 🤣 I think the Strix 4090 looks better than the Astral 5090.

The Astral is about a half centimetre shorter than the Strix (due to the Strix having a really nice LED trim on the end) but the Astral is thicker due to the extra cooling and 4-fan design. The Astral also weighs in at just over 3kgs! One of those extendable supports is included to support the weight but, thankfully, I have a better solution as my motherboard was designed for multiple GPUs and includes metal adjustable brackets that hold it solidly in place with zero sag.

Front:
Top - Astral 5090
Bottom - Strix 4090

Back:
Top - Astral 5090
Bottom - Strix 4090

Time to plug and play.

Hopefully, the 1600W PSU I run will be ok for now. Or until the 6090 arrives. 🤣

I've been too busy with work to really try it. I ran a quick "bench" on my path tracing project and found a 38% increase in raw CUDA performance. A couple of games I've tried and the performance is blistering. But so was the 4090 if I'm honest! It runs nice, no coil whine (which is a bonus!), and so far so good. No crashes, no black screens, no issues at all.

 

[Geddes]

The B650 is still a very good purchase (but there are caveats). If you're not planning on buying until towards the end of the year, I'd wait and see what the prices and features are like on the X870/B850 boards. If you're looking at 8 years for your next PC, I'd personally want to lean towards the higher-end stuff to try and "future-proof" as much as possible.

Yeah that’s what I kinda thought but wasn’t sure, yeah I’m planning on when the Windows Update runs out, so the higher end I presume you meant the X870/B850 as you mentioned? Yeah I’m trying to future proof.

As for the CPU I’m more leaning towards the 9700X the 9800X3D is way above my budget I think. See what the prices are down the line as you say

 

[Wilkeh]

@SharkyUK How much you looking at for the 4090?

 

[SharkyUK]

@SharkyUK How much you looking at for the 4090?

I haven't set a figure yet mate, they still command strong money! 💪 However, I have a few people already interested in it and I promised a friend first dibs! 🙂 I'm happy to give you a shout if the others fall through?

 

[charltjr]

Have you seen the water block that der8auer is about to launch for your card @SharkyUK? 2.5kg on it’s own 😂

 

[Wilkeh]

I haven't set a figure yet mate, they still command strong money! 💪 However, I have a few people already interested in it and I promised a friend first dibs! 🙂 I'm happy to give you a shout if the others fall through?

Oh no problem at all mate. It was more of a curiosity thing tbh My EVGA 3080Ti still going strong at 3840x1600 💪💪

 

[SharkyUK]

Have you seen the water block that der8auer is about to launch for your card @SharkyUK? 2.5kg on it’s own 😂

I, er, may have been following this closely... 😂 I need to reinforce the floorboards in my upstairs office first, though...

 

[SharkyUK]

Oh no problem at all mate. It was more of a curiosity thing tbh My EVGA 3080Ti still going strong at 3840x1600 💪💪

Glad you're still happily rocking the 3080Ti, mate - great card. 👌

Realistically, my "old" 4090 (with warranty in place) is still fetching around 1400 quid secondhand. Or thereabouts. They are still 2k+ brand new, although hard to get hold of as they are no longer manufactured.

 

[Adamm.]

Oh no problem at all mate. It was more of a curiosity thing tbh My EVGA 3080Ti still going strong at 3840x1600 💪💪

I still run my 3080ti at 4k still getting anywhere between 100-140 FPS which for proper PC nerds would get laughed at but coming from a console gamer is good enough for me. I was tempted to drop monitor but think I prefer visual quality over extra frames that I probably wouldn't notice.

 

[SharkyUK]

The Astral 5090 is mental. I just fired Forza Motorsport 8 up, whacked on the ray tracing, and had a quick play. The videos below aren't as smooth as the gameplay due to recording on the 5090 as well as running the game with ray tracing... 🤣 The game itself is buttery smooth. The replays up the quality of the rendering but drop to 30fps unfortunately. However, it looks fantastic. Ray tracing FTW.

Please excuse the cr4p driving (using Xbox controller).

 

[ChrisR]

Your old 1080 is still going strong as well