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Actually even if my PC isn’t compatible with the 3090, world faster RAM benefit me please?
i did the scan on Crucial and they recommended DDR4 4400, would I notice a difference in rendering etc please or not worth it?
 
badmonk said:
Actually even if my PC isn’t compatible with the 3090, world faster RAM benefit me please?
i did the scan on Crucial and they recommended DDR4 4400, would I notice a difference in rendering etc please or not worth it?
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There's only so much that RAM will help with, but it doesn't ever hurt to have it lol.
 
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Well the 3090 is going to be compatible as long as you have enough PSU for it. If you're doing a lot of VFX work and such that can leverage CUDA then the 3090 honestly is a GPU that is targeted for you specifically IMO. Obviously it will game extremely well but you also want to think about the cost versus price to performance. The 3090 is only 10-15% faster than the 3080 on average in games but is over 200% the price. Im not going to talk about the CPU bottlenecking because the guys pretty much covered that. Just something to think about with the price and the current state of your rig.

If I was you I would get the 3080, and take that extra 700-800 dollars you'd save from not buying a 3090 and upgrade the rest of your rig, CPU, mobo, etc. Then you'd have a faster rig all around.
 
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Well the 3090 is going to be compatible as long as you have enough PSU for it. If you're doing a lot of VFX work and such that can leverage CUDA then the 3090 honestly is a GPU that is targeted for you specifically IMO. Obviously it will game extremely well but you also want to think about the cost versus price to performance. The 3090 is only 10-15% faster than the 3080 on average in games but is over 200% the price. Im not going to talk about the CPU bottlenecking because the guys pretty much covered that. Just something to think about with the price and the current state of your rig.

If I was you I would get the 3080, and take that extra 700-800 dollars you'd save from not buying a 3090 and upgrade the rest of your rig, CPU, mobo, etc. Then you'd have a faster rig all around.
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Thanks so much eVo7, yeah my PSU is 1300W so that’s good enough I think.
so even the 3080 will be way faster than my GTX 1080’s right? Might go that route then? Or am I being greedy?
the GTX 1080’s I think are still good enough or are they truly outdated now?

its more for VFX/CG work tbh
 
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Thanks so much eVo7, yeah my PSU is 1300W so that’s good enough I think.
so even the 3080 will be way faster than my GTX 1080’s right? Might go that route then? Or am I being greedy?
the GTX 1080’s I think are still good enough or are they truly outdated now?

its more for VFX/CG work tbh
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Yea that's more than enough PSU. The Ampere architecture is VERY good at CUDA tasks. So I am going to assume that the 3080 is a good bit faster in those tasks than dual 1080's but you might want to look at some workstation related benchmarks to be sure.
 
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eVo7 said:
Well the 3090 is going to be compatible as long as you have enough PSU for it. If you're doing a lot of VFX work and such that can leverage CUDA then the 3090 honestly is a GPU that is targeted for you specifically IMO. Obviously it will game extremely well but you also want to think about the cost versus price to performance. The 3090 is only 10-15% faster than the 3080 on average in games but is over 200% the price. Im not going to talk about the CPU bottlenecking because the guys pretty much covered that. Just something to think about with the price and the current state of your rig.

If I was you I would get the 3080, and take that extra 700-800 dollars you'd save from not buying a 3090 and upgrade the rest of your rig, CPU, mobo, etc. Then you'd have a faster rig all around.
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At this moemnt I cba doing all the upgrades as I am working on a project but may do it after I finish. Thanks for your info and help though 😊
If you don’t mind me asking, do you think my current system could run a RTX 2080 Ti? Sorry like I said, I ain’t super technical re PC hardware.
 
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At this moemnt I cba doing all the upgrades as I am working on a project but may do it after I finish. Thanks for your info and help though 😊
If you don’t mind me asking, do you think my current system could run a RTX 2080 Ti? Sorry like I said, I ain’t super technical re PC hardware.
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Your current system can absolutely run a 2080 Ti, assuming you can find one at a decent price.
Again you would bottle neck a bit at lower resolutions like 1080p but you'd be fine at 1440p or 4k.
But your current system has more than adequate power supply, ram and processor to make the purchase work. That is again assuming you can find one at a good price.
 
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Your current system can absolutely run a 2080 Ti, assuming you can find one at a decent price.
Again you would bottle neck a bit at lower resolutions like 1080p but you'd be fine at 1440p or 4k.
But your current system has more than adequate power supply, ram and processor to make the purchase work. That is again assuming you can find one at a good price.
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Thanks so much. Do you think it would be a lot better than the 2x 1080’s I have now please? Would it be worth it for the upgrade? or not much difference?
 
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Thanks so much. Do you think it would be a lot better than the 2x 1080’s I have now please? Would it be worth it for the upgrade? or not much difference?
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I can't speak to performance outside of gaming but in gaming the 2080 ti is going to be better than two 1080's in SLI. That is mostly because Nvidia killed SLI and they're not even putting out driver for SLI anymore. Meaning that in most games two 1080's is going to perform like one 1080.
 
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I can't speak to performance outside of gaming but in gaming the 2080 ti is going to be better than two 1080's in SLI. That is mostly because Nvidia killed SLI and they're not even putting out driver for SLI anymore. Meaning that in most games two 1080's is going to perform like one 1080.
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Thanks wshowers. Yeah I think SLI is dead in the water now. I will look at some benchmarks etc
thank you so much for taking the time to reply 😊
 
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badmonk - This is a benchmark with the 6700k. The processor can't do a consistent 60fps at Ultra at 1080p.
 
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Ok bit the bullet and got a RTX 2080 Ti, it’ll be great for my work projects so that’s how I can justify the purchase lol (oh and get it on my business tab 😉)

quick question please as I ain’t not tech expert. I have 2 slots and if I fit it on the bottom one, it’s a real tight fit but the top slot would be fine but there is this connector in the way (attached pic) called GFX power one. Now my 2080 has two power connections so is it ok to unplug and not use this gfx power 1 slot does anyone know please?

thanks for any help, ain’t upgraded a pc in years lol
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Got to add I had dual GTX 1080 SLI mode so maybe this connection was for that and not needed now?
sorry for all the questions but I am guessing this is just for dual gfx cards? As my 2080 has 2 power slots that should be fine to unplug the gfx PWR 1 right?
 
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I read on some forums it should be fine so crossed my fingers and booted up and seems to be no problems. Did a blender benchmark yesterday and took 1 min 55 with my GeForce GTX, today 45 secs with my RTX 2080 Ti so happy with that!
also running cyberpunk on ray tracing ultra and looks and plays amazing!
 
so PC was running fine all day yesterday but just wondered if anyone knew what that connection I unplugged was used for please? Just hope it wasn’t important, but I am sure if it was my PC would either tell me or not boot up.
 
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