this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2026
92 points (98.9% liked)

PC Gaming

15634 readers
524 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

  1. Be Respectful.
  2. No Spam or Porn.
  3. No Advertising.
  4. No Memes.
  5. No Tech Support.
  6. No questions about buying/building computers.
  7. No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
  8. No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
  9. No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
  10. Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca
EXiLExJD@lemmy.ca
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
92
GIGABYTE confirms Intel will launch DDR4-compatible CPUs next year (videocardz.com)
submitted 3 days ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For gaming this is completely viable. I am running a 5070, an 5950x and 64 Gigs of DDR4 and play on 1440p, and haven't yet had any title which i couldn't run maxed out or close to it in graphics quality. Without Framegen, i am pretty much always at least above 60 FPS in the most demanding titles on the market, which framegen can then push to a comfortable 90+ if wanted. Anything a bit older or simply not so demanding i normally have to limit the frame rate so i do not waste a bunch of power.

[–] deleted@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I think gpu would be the bottleneck for you. I have 3950x and couldn’t find a game that would utilize more than 25% of that beast.

Maybe because I still run 2080 super which is fairly good with 4k gaming (with 125% frame buffer scaling so technically 3072×1728).

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

have 3950x and couldn’t find a game that would utilize more than 25%

Unfortunately most games are largely single threaded - 25% means nothing if single thread bottlenecks. I had 3950x and it was becoming bottleneck above 90-100 fps in cyberpunk 2077. Which is fine in most cases. Just don't bundle it with 5090 because card won't be fully utilized.

I really loved that CPU for ECO mode. 65W, no in game slow down, and ~20% slower in all 16 core workloads. Silent, great for overnight work like mass 4k footage transcoding. IMO best semi professional CPU of its time.

[–] BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Really depends on the game. SupCom, EnNatRev, Anno1800, etc

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, it actually is. It's better performancewise than my old 3070Ti (mainly because 8G VRAM nowadays really tanks performance at higher resolutions) but i do not have the necessary cash to upgrade in the current market.

I do a shitton of heavy compression/decompression, which is why i opted for the 16-core one (because this is a really good use case for it, and it is the maximum my mainboard supports either way - that took me flashing my bios, then replace the cpu, and then flash again immediately after to ensure everything worked fine - can't even place the old CPU back in, and no way to downgrade) - if taking the fact into account that this platform is pretty old, it still is in the upper middle part of the pack in gamersnexus benchmarks regarding these operations, and i haven't had any game yet that really was cpu limited outside of how long turns take in strategy games.