Guru3D Spring 2020 PC Buyer Guide
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steffi
Typo or wrong tense in text
An Overkill Build
... The amount of horsepower you can get on mainstream systems in 2019 is truly astonishing....
0LBaID
Thanks for your continued great suggestions and testing of hardware. Appreciated 🙂
darkvader75
AMD is mass building RDNA2 chiplets right now for the Xbox and PS5. That massive production scale will help them having a large picking for ultra high end, high end, medium end, lower end. So I surely expect cards based on them to appear soon as production already started.
IchimA
Question for reviewer !
Can increasing RAM from 16 Gb 3600 CL18 to 32 Gb 3600 CL18 increase the FPS even by a little !? Or one should go for lower CL ? I am debating if adding more ram will be beneficial !? ( all this on a medium lvl build like mine )
Kaarme
Lower CL is better. CL is latency.
Abomlol
Excellent guide! I had a Microcenter employee help me optimize a mid-range build. He knew everything and was hunting deals for me. Ended up with an R5 3600, 5600XT, DDR4 3600, 550 Bronze, AsRock B450M Pro. Literally almost the exact same mid-range build you have in this guide.
hijodeosiris
offtopic: Let´s be honest, 2020 is cancelled, it just feels like on of those dreams that you wake up but you are still dreaming!!!.
So to name it as mainstream systems in 2019 feels ok to me; 2020, please just end and hopefully 2021 will be better to relate things to.
on: With the same sort of tone, 2020 will have very little to offer, and people are getting more concerned for surviving than buying stuff, just very few privileged like us can think on such mundane stuff, so I guess is, again, ok to call it mainstream systems in 2019.
Robbo9999
Yeah, PC tech world is a snore at the moment, on hold.
Will be interesting to see if anything really gets released this year, it was supposed to have done.
thesebastian
Very nice article. Good job and thanks!
vbetts
Moderator
Scaling is a whole different issue though. Most games at least even memory intensive ones won't have a huge difference from say cl16 to cl14, maybe 1-2 fps or so.
Also CL16 kits are super cheap, and a dime a dozen right now.
Kool64
Just upgraded my GTX1070 to a 2070S I wavered between the 5700XT and the 2070s but ultimately went with the 2070S because of the novelty of the RTX cores. I know it's kinda silly to buy a current card for either Nvidia or AMD right now but I had to buy something because I could not let 500$ sit in my account untouched by the wife 😀. Stimulus check FTW
HybOj
Thanks for the article, its well though out. Yes this year will be slow I think... I will personally think twice before any purchase. And that gtx970 of mine - believe it or not - still holds pretty nicely for 60fps gaming. With r5 3600 and 16gigs 3333mhz ram I will just wait for a next gen of GFX cards and than most likely buy RX 5700 XT anyway on sale 🙂
Embra
Great read! Thank you team Guru3d!
Mineria
Wasn't it something like 3000Mhz CL14 = 3200Mhz CL15 = 3600Mhz CL16 ?
I found a set of G.Skill 32GB 3600Mhz CL16 pretty cheap, so that is what I'm going to use with my R7 3700X, the 2 sticks are also confirmed to run on the Crosshair VII Hero.
Did go for X470 over X570 cause of that annoying little fan, plus I doubt that there is any benefit having PCI-E Gen.4 for a while, the drives supporting it don't really push the envelop and graphics cards can still push quite some out of gen.3.
HybOj
PCIe 4.0 is intended for the storage mostly...
Mineria
Seen some benchmarks with several PCIe 4.0 M2 drives, for the price of two 2080 Super you can get a disk that speeds up professional productivity in selected applications, but when it comes to mainstream there is marginable little difference, and from there to gaming fast gen 3 drives still do better.
So unless you have some real intensive workloads going on the disks there is no point picking X570 over previous chipsets for the time being.
ruthan
This article needs some summary / overview tables, otherwise its hard to read for me. If could check such table, i can quickly deceide what is interesting for me and what not, without it too much text with unknonw information value..
Goiur
Where is the fun on that?! 😛
If you are looking for some info on a new build you should be intereted in reading the writer's reasons to chose this or that. Going blindly to read a chart and go with whatever it says may not be the best for you.
Celcius
(from page three)
Motherboard - AsRock B450M Pro4
"Picking this motherboard was really simple. It is cheap, provides 4 RAM slots, a single M.2 SSD slot..."
The ASRock B450M Pro 4 actually has two M.2 SSD slots. One is PCIe, the other SATA III. Both can be populated simultaneously, however using the PCIe M.2 will disable the 2nd physical X16 PCIe slot. (X4 in actuality.) Using the SATA M.2 slot will disable one of the conventional SATA connectors. No.3, if I recall correctly.
I have three of the Pro 4 boards; one B450M, one B450 ATX, and a B350 ATX. I've had zero issues with all of them.
