Yva Xorna Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Ok time to upgrade to something more modern and climb my way out of the bug hole I have fallen into. This computer is starting to choke on a lot of games and I think it is not enough cores to do what I want. I've been looking at a lot of different options and I found 2 Alienware that I really like. I thought I read something about AMD having driver issues and bad framerates in SC but I don't know if maybe that got fixed? Should I stick with the i9 platform maybe? OPTION 1: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900 (12-Core, 70MB Total Cache, Max Boost Clock of 4.7GHz) NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 10GB GDDR6X LHR 32GB, 2x16GB, DDR4, 3200MHz, XMP 1TB NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD $3,075.00 OR OPTION2: 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i9 12900KF (16-Core, 30MB Cache, 3.2GHz to 5.2GHz w/Turbo Boost Max 3.0) NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 10GB GDDR6X LHR 64GB Dual Channel DDR5 at 4400MHz 1TB NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD 3,770.00 I'm leaning towards the i9 one with 64 memory even though it is $700 more. Let me know what you think? I will probably put in an order next week. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Shawkorrr Posted January 16, 2022 Executive Share Posted January 16, 2022 I would stick a bunch more RAM in there, but that is just me lol. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yva Xorna Posted January 16, 2022 Author Share Posted January 16, 2022 ok fair point. I currently have 32 RAM . I figured 64 would be double but I will look into it. Thanks. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikoooo Posted January 17, 2022 Share Posted January 17, 2022 Right now Star Citizen eats up to 15-18 GB RAM, NORMALLY and that means no RAM leak. Option 2 is a lot better because of the DDR5 technology on the RAM, you have a higher work frequency on the RAM, MOAR RAM (lol), plus Intel i9 12th technology has some crazy stuff, which is a lot fancier than the Ryzen 9 5900. So my opinion is that with those 700$ you get a lot more and Option 2 is my go-to. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yva Xorna Posted January 17, 2022 Author Share Posted January 17, 2022 5 hours ago, Nikoooo said: Right now Star Citizen eats up to 15-18 GB RAM, NORMALLY and that means no RAM leak. Option 2 is a lot better because of the DDR5 technology on the RAM, you have a higher work frequency on the RAM, MOAR RAM (lol), plus Intel i9 12th technology has some crazy stuff, which is a lot fancier than the Ryzen 9 5900. So my opinion is that with those 700$ you get a lot more and Option 2 is my go-to. Thank you Nikoooo. I believe you are correct about the DDR5. The other thing I like is that the SSD is larger. I was reading that Star Citizen runs better on an SSD drive but I didn't have room so I had to put it on something else. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barazen Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 I agree with Nikoooo, I would go with the 2nd option🙂. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yva Xorna Posted January 18, 2022 Author Share Posted January 18, 2022 Thank you @Barazen That's probably what I will go with. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yva Xorna Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 Thank you all for the input here and in Mumble. I have placed my order. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Shawkorrr Posted January 20, 2022 Executive Share Posted January 20, 2022 3 hours ago, Yva Xorna said: Thank you all for the input here and in Mumble. I have placed my order. Congratulations @Yva Xorna with a new computer! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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