Will my 500W PSU be enough for an estimated Wattage of 479W?
How well will this work for gaming with for example Looking Glass?
There is also an ASRock Radeon VII Phantom Gaming X Card available for almost 100€ less.
The only difference i can see is the number of stream processors:
ASRock: 3840
ASUS: 4096
Are those 256 stream processors worth 84€?
The Ryzen 7 2700X doesn’t have integrated graphics so I need a second GPU for the host correct?
Wich GPU should I buy for that?
Does the ASUS Card have any advantages over ASRock?
Looks to me like its just more expensive for no reason.
Games:
The only genres I don’t play are: MMORPGs, MOBAs, racing games and mobile games.
Some examples:
Arma 2, 3 (I prey that one day I may reach >60FPS at 1080 with Antialiasing ON ; ) )
TESV, FO3/4/76, Witcher 3
Overwatch, CS:GO, BFV
Metro, FarCry
Some Paradox Games - I have ran out of 16GB RAM with heavily modded Cities:Skylines
Oh and I hope to give VR a try soon
They are both the same silver triple fan design, right? Then it’s the same card, buy the cheaper one.
Those might give you problems because of anti cheat stuff. Most other games should be running fine, in fact there is quite a few titles in your list with native linux versions available.
One more thing to look into: RAM compatibility! Make sure the kit you wanna buy is supported by the board and listed in it’s memory QVL.
I’ve researched a bit about RAM Speeds and from what I’ve read DDR4 RAM will only run at 2133 regardless of what the RAM is rated for, except you explicitly Overclock it in the BIOS, wich is not guaranteed to work anyway.
So if I don’t plan to overclock then their is no reason to buy RAM with more then 2133, correct?
mhh those 32GB Kits are really expensive though. + I’ve read that using all 4 Slots can be quite tricky to OC especially on Ryzen.
It would really suck to pay 350€ and not get to use the full potential.
I have never overclocked anything before.
This article describes how to calculate the effective RAM Speed (frequency devided by CL).
If I calculate that for the best and worst case it does not look like a great value, or am i missing something?
From what I can tell the TridentZ is roughly 10% faster (only at 3200) at almost double the price?