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March 2nd, 2020 02:00
AW3420DW, need help to choose GPU, CPU, and RAM
Greetings everyone. I am playing on PS4 with Destiny since May 2015. Meanwhile, I have decided to change platforms and I have activated cross-save. I have bought this Dell AW3420DW and I am wondering what kind of Nvidia graphics card and CPU is needed to get the best out of this monitor. Destiny is an FPS game, at this time this is the only game I play with. I am really not familiar with this topic. Do I need an i9 CPU or is an i7 CPU powerful enough? Or go for AMD Ryzen 7 3700xxx or 3800xxx? Is 16GB of RAM enough for gaming? I appreciate all the help, thank you in advance.
P.S: I want the PC to be powerful enough to be able to play in the future with other newer FPS games.
VasiliyPukin
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March 2nd, 2020 10:00
cpu i9 9900k
ram 16gb is enough 2x8gb
gpu nvidia 2080ti
itchyy
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March 2nd, 2020 22:00
Go with ryzen, I don't know your budget, but the 3700x-3900x are all great cpu's. I have a 3800x because it was on sale for the same price as a 3700x, but they're essentially the same chip, 3800x is just like 2% faster realistically, which isn't much at all. if your budget is tight, 3600 and a used 1080ti will get you there easily in destiny 2 with this monitor. You can find 1080ti's for around $400, this means a 3600 and 1080ti comes out to astonishingly low, of around 600$, this is pretty insane considering the power these 2 components have. The post suggesting 9900k and 2080ti needs to really just not, this is a 2000$ suggestion, for just 2 components. 9900k is only around 10% faster than the ryzen chips, yet significantly more expensive. So toss intel entirely, besides, your upgrade path is going to considering AMD has already passed Intel with the new 3950x and threadripper cpu's, intels extreme 10-series chips fall well short, meaning the 10700k, 10900k, etc. are going to be duds, while AMD performance is growing massively with each update to zen. So have fun on a dead platform in under a year, amd is going to dominate cpu's for the next 5 years at least, and this is from a former intel fanboy.
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April 24th, 2020 04:00
Return the monitor, buy an adaptive sync, VA panel 34" highspeed (1ms, 144hz) with half the price and better contrast 3000:1 and less backlight glow. Then go with an AMD CPU 3700 or above, GPU Nvidia 2080 super or Ti if you have more $, minimum 16GB RAM 3200hz. The high end adaptive sync monitor will give you exact same sync like G-Sync while you can spend more on GPU. Both alienware and Nvidia are charging extra for some features with no added value.