RTX 4070 Ti Super with Ryzen 5 5600X

[Bjørn]

I'm wondering if anyone is using this combo, by any chance?

I'm stuck with this old (2019) PC for probably a few more years, but was thinking of getting the GPU mentioned on sale now.

I know there will be some bottlenecks, and I could theroetically get a slightly faster CPU on my motherboard, but the R5 5600X is still very good for gaming and is / was very popular, so I'm curious if anyone else is using this combo successfully, and can share their experience with it, please? Will it manage Path Tracing successfully at 1440p?

Would be nice with the especially 16 GB VRAM and DLSS 3 and frame gen etc. compared to my current RTX 3070 Ti, with the puny 8 GB VRAM being quickly filled in this game, hurting performance.


My current specs (copied from profile):

Ryzen 5 5600X
RTX 3070 Ti (ASUS TUF OC GAMING)
32GB RAM (2x16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3200MHz)
1TB M.2 PCIe (Samsung PM981) - 2TB HDD (WD)
ASUS ROG Strix B450-F GAMING
750W PSU (Corsair Vengeance 750M)
2560x1440, 144Hz (Odyssey G5 32" G-Sync HDR)
Win 11 Home

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

[Bjørn]

Just wanted to give an update here (and felt like bragging / sharing the news ), in that I decided to dig into my savings and get a spanking, brand new PC instead.

This is the one (copied from order, so some Norwegian words in there):


Cooler Master Masterbox TD500 Mesh V2 Mid Tower (sort)
3x 120mm CF120 ARGB, Mini ITX, Micro ATX, ATX, SSI CEB, E-ATX*

MSI GeForce RTX Ventus 3X 4080 SUPER OC
Skjermkort, PCI Express Gen 4, 16GB GDDR6X

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D CPU
Socket-AM5, 12-Core, 24-Thread, 4.4/5.6GHz, 120W, uten kjøler

Phanteks Glacier One 360D30 DRGB Kjøler (hvit)
360mm, LGA 1700/1200/115x, AM4/AM5, 250-2000 RPM, 30.2 dBA

Kingston FURY Beast RGB DDR5 6000MHz 64GB
2x32GB, AMD EXPO, CL36, Intel XMP

Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD 2TB
PCIe Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 2.0, Up to 7,450 / 6,900 MB/s sequential read/write speed

ASUS ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming WIFI Hovedkort
AM5, ATX, DDR5, 1 x PCIe 5.0 x16, 3 x M.2

ASUS TUF Gaming 850W Gold PSU
ATX12V, 80Plus Gold, Modular

Windows 11 Home
Nordic + English


So an early Christmas for me this year (in 3 to 5 business days)!


Hopefully I'll be able to keep this for a while, and upgrade components when needed. The 4090 is still over twice the price of the 4080s here...

Anyway, watch out Night City!

[catch22atplay]

Plenty would love your old rig. Hope it's found a good home. I like the upgrade. You should be able to use Path tracing+RR now. Game really needs a rtx 4070 ti or better seems like. I upgraded my 13 year old cpu/mobo etc last January and mainly because of this game. Combined with my rtx 4080 that cpu did struggle a bit in my old system. But thanks to framegen it still performed amazingly well for it's age. My 13600kf is great like i'm sure that 7900x3d will be. My only question would be why the 2tb and not 4tb sammy 990pro nvme. I know they can be a bit spendy in some countries. I've yet to install my 4tb 990pro. Just sitting on my desk atm. Dang games take up so much. So still using my older 2tb 980pro and 1tb 970evo.

Now what to get for x mas this year for me. I should finish my water cooling. Just too lazy tbh and my current cooling works great atm. But i have these expensive gpu and cpu water blocks sitting in a drawer. And 2 420mm radiators installed in the case but not connected to anything.

I had a carport built for my truck. Guess that was my early x-mas present. Hate having to wipe off snow or scrape off ice. Being disabled it's very difficult for me. Starting Oct 2nd i'll be building a front porch. May have to buy a smoker after that to go along with my bbq grille. Perhaps a different outdoor propane heater for winter. Perhaps update outdoor furniture.

Except for water cooling not being finished i don't really need anything computer wise. Kinda set atm. I mean i wish i had an rtx 4090 but as you said price is just to high to justify buying one. I'm sure a game will come out soon where my rtx 4080 just won't be strong enough. Sadly it's part of pc gaming. But hope i get a couple more years out of it.

Enjoy the new puter. I'll reply to your future posts of "HELP" my pc runs the game like garbage. lol jk

[Bjørn]

Many thanks!

The 'new home' for my old one will be replacing an old laptop I use in another room for now

Thanks for the tip about the 4TB. I checked, and it was actually over twice the price of the 2GB here, about 500 US dollars, if I read it right...

And it was originally a PC with reduced price (500 dollars actually, or 5000 NOK), but you could upgrade the components, so I actually upgraded everything except the cabinet / tower, and still got the 5000 discount, which was nice. So I was focusing on the other components, mainly. I'll get more disks later. I actually prefer several disks instead of one large one, so...

This was the one I bought, but upgraded, for about 10 000,- NOK / 1000 US dollars increase in price to about 37 000,-, so I had top stop there Not sure if you can open the link outside Norway, but...

https://www.komplett.no/product/1303088/gaming/gaming-pc/gaming-pc-stasjonaer/komplett-pc-epic-gaming-a275#

One thing I noticed is that about an hour after I bought it, they launched another huge campaign sale on gaming PCs, but I don't want to look now Still a good price with the 5000,- off.

Buying new PC components is always a 'should I wait or buy now'-issue indeed, so just have to jump in and buy at some time and swallow any regrets, and enjoy it instead.

Good luck with your porch! I live in a rented apartment currently, so I'm not faced with many other 'expensive decisions'.

I saw your Starfield screenshot on your profile, so now I'm also looking forward to playing that with the new rig! I like that game very much, as opposed to many others on the forum
there...

All the best!

[catch22atplay]

Starfield forum and actually quite a few others are just so toxic. I don't understand the hate. Starfield is a decent game. Expansion is out in what 7 days. Starfield they say needs upgraded puter. My 13yo cpu ran that game better then cp2077. Obviously when they added framegen for both games. Both playable without it. but i do prefer 60fps+. But upgrading was such a big improvement. And i'm sure you saw my system in my profile. Ran out of room to list everything though.

I tend to wait a little bit for parts and try to get them on sale. I may hold off installing stuff for over a year. It's been almost 2 years for my water cooling parts. Took me over a year to install my 13600kf system. I got the sammy 4tb 990pro on an Amazon sale 2 months ago for $350 and right now they're on sale for $290. You just can't win. lol

Oh black friday is around the corner er late Nov i guess. Wanted something but already forgot what. I really need to write stuff down. Like your puter sale we like to be frugal when we can.

[Bjørn]

Originally posted by catch22atplay:

Starfield forum and actually quite a few others are just so toxic. I don't understand the hate. Starfield is a decent game. Expansion is out in what 7 days. Starfield they say needs upgraded puter. My 13yo cpu ran that game better then cp2077. Obviously when they added framegen for both games. Both playable without it. but i do prefer 60fps+. But upgrading was such a big improvement. And i'm sure you saw my system in my profile. Ran out of room to list everything though.

I tend to wait a little bit for parts and try to get them on sale. I may hold off installing stuff for over a year. It's been almost 2 years for my water cooling parts. Took me over a year to install my 13600kf system. I got the sammy 4tb 990pro on an Amazon sale 2 months ago for $350 and right now they're on sale for $290. You just can't win. lol

Oh black friday is around the corner er late Nov i guess. Wanted something but already forgot what. I really need to write stuff down. Like your puter sale we like to be frugal when we can.

One way to list all the specs (and how I've done it), is to just enter some empty lines and write Specs: on top, so the 'View more info' arrow shows, then you can write all you need below

Black Friday has (sadly) become a big thing in Norway as well. Many stores and chains have been 'caught' in that they gradually raise the prices in the weeks and months before, then during Black Friday / Black Week they set the prices back down to normal and call it sales...

[Bjørn]

Just wanted to update a bit. I've canceled the above order after I've read up a bit on the components, so I'm still in shopping mode (waiting for the money to be refunded to my account)