Bought a 6700XT for 400USD last year.

But the platform update required means that I possibly only do a budget MoBo + CPU for 400

Then PSU, case, ram, cooler are all additional.

My previous CPU lasted 7 years, my Ryzen 2600 is 5 years now. Which means I can’t play Remnant 2, Starfield or Lords of Fallen. Not the best optimised games, but a trend nonetheless.

Would future proof mean getting a top shelf Intel or the 7800x3D to last 7+ years? Or just go budget every 3 years?

Apologies if I don’t make sense the current market is confusing along with inflation and random price increases

  • Telorand
    1·
    10 months ago

    FWIW, I have had zero problems with AM4. Love my 5600G (will upgrade when it’s no longer good enough), and it gave me a great stop-gap gaming rig while GPU prices were fucked up.

    Sorry you got the buggy ones, though.

    • bitwaba@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      How does the 5600G stack up against physically separate GPUs? Somewhere in the neighborhood of the nvidia 1660? Higher? Lower?

      I’ve got an HTPC running 10 year old budget Intel integrated graphics right now that I need to upgrade. I’ve got a spare b450 mobo, spare 2600 and 5600x, and a spare rtx 2070. But the case is low profile so the 2070 won’t fit. Trying to figure out if I should get a low profile GPU or 5600G (but then I’d still have 2 CPUs I need to figure out what to do with.)

      • Telorand
        2·
        10 months ago

        I would get the upgraded 5700G, but it’s probably somewhere between a 1050 and a 1660. I played all of the BioShock series on Max settings, as well as Halo Infinite and Prey on Medium and got 40-60fps with an average above 50. With DDR4 @3600 C16 (or better, if you’re insanely lucky), it’s an impressive little onboard GPU.

        Where it struggles is texture streaming. It just can’t hold that much texture data, even with a generous amount of RAM, so you’ll inevitably sometimes wind up with LOD blurriness. Still, if you temper your expectations, it can be quite capable.

        For the best experience, a dedicated GPU would perform best (mainly because of the aforementioned texture limitations), but if you want a small package that can also do some gaming, it definitely can.

        • bitwaba@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          Thanks!

          I also use my HTPC as my file server, and plex server, but I’ll probably try to use it as my CloneHero machine too. I’m going to have a think about what I really want it to do and what kind of video performance I need.

          As an HTPC it’s connected to a 4k TV, so I’d like to make sure its able to hold 60fps on the desktop when watching movies (which shouldn’t be a problem). However I also want some decent GPU hardware to offload plex transcoding to.

          I don’t really see many good options for low profile video cards at the moment. I think what I’ll end up doing is getting 5700g like you said and using that for now, then when some low profile cards come out (at reasonable prices) that can handle AV1 encode, I’ll throw one of those in the machine.