Will this build have reseasonable FPS with Looking Glass at 4K?

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Hi guys I’m upgrading my pc so I can use looking-glass in 4k at 60fps and also to fix some performance problems. I have been forced to upgrade sooner than expected since one of my ram slots died and I tore out one of my PCI slots because I’m a idiot haha.

I’m right now planning to upgrade the RAM, CPU, and Motherboard.

Right now I’m thinking for the CPU and Motherboard.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Motherboard: ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO

I’m open for suggestions of a different motherboard and CPU combo. I think the motherboard might be a bit overkill for what I need but I’m not sure. It would be good if the motherboard had good sound quality and that it had at least three PCI Express 16x slots.
I need three PCI Express slots because two will be for graphics cards and another will be for when I upgrade to 10gigabit ethernet.
Also great Linux support and IOMMU support is a must.
I don’t really care for RGB, water cooling, or wifi. The PC will be air cooled and I just want it to be as fast as possible.
I also don’t overclock but I expect that I might need to overclock the RAM for looking glass.

I’m thinking of going with ryzen because I heard it can copy memory faster meaning that looking glass will run better. Also I need all those cores to compile QEMU and Linux faster haha.

Upgrading the ram. I have 24GB in my machine it should be 32GB but again one of the ram slots broke and I had to take it out, the ram its self is fine.
As of this now I have a lot of problems with running out of memory.
I have 16GB of the ram going to the Windows VM since a lot of games require more than 8GB of ram to run correctly. So that leaves linux with 8GB of ram not ideal. This used to mean linux would lock up when hitting the limit and require me to wait 10 minutes till it had killed enough things to come back to life or me restarting the computer. Even now that I have added swap files it will sometimes lag out for a minute with everything stuttering or freezing crashing every electron based application on the system.

My ram is clocked at 2133 MT/s its corsair vengeance LPX ram. I take it this will be way too slow for ryzen and I will have to upgrade. What ram do you guys suggest I should get? I need it to be as fast as possible for looking glass. Should I overclock the ram once I get it?
Also do you think I should get more than 32GB of ram?

Might be a stupid question but I right now have an old 1000watt PSU by old I mean between 5-8 years old don’t 100% remember when I got it. Have the motherboard power pins changed at all in this time? Just in case I might need to get a new PSU as well.

In the end I just want this build to be stable hardware wise. So please if suggesting a motherboard only suggest high quality ones, I’m sick of dealing with dodgy motherboards. Last two I have had have been utter gash, one had loads of bios software problems that where never fixed. The one I have this now is ok but been rather brittle. Man I miss my motherboard from my first pc it was indestructible.

Sorry if my grammar has been poor, I’m horribly dyslexic.
If you need any further information just give me a shout.
Thanks!

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That all comes down to your GPU really. Looking glass as far as I know will pass through at native speed pretty much so what ever your current GPU will do at 2160p while gaming in windows is what you should get when you set up the VM.

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Looking Glass Is from what i know bottle necked by ram speed as far as i know since it memcopies to the host gpu. I heard it in one of the level 1 tech videos a while ago cant remember which one. he managed to get really good frames rates at 4k with ryzen and fast memory. I get really good 4k performance this now if i switch monitor inputs but through looking glass its abysmal.

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Currently it’s still bottlenecked by the code, it doesn’t use anywhere near of what DDR4 is capable of currently.

Also if you are having issues with it you should be heading into the support thread.

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I wouldn’t call it issues. I am still planning to upgrade my computer just needed some advice pertaining to looking glass at the same time. Will see if i can find that video i was talking about to give better context. Will have another look through the looking glass thread see if i can find anymore information its massive haha.

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You will want ddr4 3200 kit for best ryzen results. Anything after that is sort of can’t tell the difference except for maybe synthetics.

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I think i will just go with the parts I already picked and sell of my old ram and get 3200 thanks for the help guys.