It can lower temps by about 5c. Is that necessary? If you are overclocking, water cooling or using heavy multi core workloads then sure. A contact frame can be had for $5 these days.

For gaming tho, no. Games don’t run hot enough for 5c to matter much

If you want to undervolt then you need a z790 chipset. It’s the only one that lets you mess around with voltage

That is almost certainly a mounting/cooler issue. The new Intel chips absolutely run way too hot, but not even close to your numbers op.

Mobos are just feature sets and nothing else. Buy the cheapest mobo that has all the features you want and supports the memory speed you want. There is 0 benefit to overspending on a mobo if you don’t need the extra features

Nvidia isn’t competitive at the $400 price point. If you want Nvidia go up to $550 and get a 4070. 4060ti is trash

That’s gonna be a huge jump lol. Enjoy! 😊

The cheapest 4060 right now is $290. For $310 you can get a 6700xt which is not only 20% faster but also has more vram.

Nvidia isn’t competitive in the mid range market at all right now. They are competitive in low end where the 3060 goes head to head with the 6600xt, and then the high end. At the $500 price point the 4070 beats the 7800xt in value, at $700 the 4070ti and the 7900xt being a tie, and at $1000 the 4080 beating the 7900xtx.

Amd is killing it at the $300 price point with the 6700xt crushing the 4060, and at $400 the 6800 crushing the 4060ti

Does the 3060ti not maintain 60fps raster in any game you are playing right now? If it does then keep it. Only upgrade when you can’t do 60fps

When it can no longer maintain over 60 fps in a game I am playing. Usually works out to every 6 years or so

Very cool technology to be sure. Maybe eventually this tech trickles down to mainstream so it’s relevant to most people. Right now even enthusiasts will never even see one of those in person let alone use it, so it isn’t really all that relevant

12600k. For gaming everything higher tier makes a tiny difference relative to the price as 13th and 14th gen are just refreshes

Upgraded my 7700k for a 13700k in January. Wasn’t about to play Phantom Liberty at sub 60fps

No, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

The only reason their gpus are discounted is because people aren’t buying them, and that in turn is because they both underperform and are buggy. If intel had a gpu equivalent to a 4090 in both performance and stability, you can bet anything they’d want $1599 for it

There are 2 possible answers here. 1 apo requires a specific new component on the cpu that older chips don’t have. Or 2, intel is just screwing old gen chips to pressure buyers into buying the 14th gen

Amd drivers are worse though. Both the 7900xtx and 7900xt had massive driver problems for almost 3 months at launch. I’m not saying Nvidia is perfect but they have issues far less often.

Also buying a gpu right now in general is a horrible idea as Nvidia are about to launch the super cards. If amd are smart we should see some huge price drops or else Nvidia will bury them if performance uplift is similar to 20 series super cards

7 is by far the biggest advantage. If a game has no fsr but has dlss, amd is screwed. If a game has no dlss and only has fsr, Nvidia is fine. That versatility alone is huge with how mandatory upscaling is these days.