Video card question

Video card questions…

Currently : NVIDA GFORCE 1660 GTX 1660 TI 6 GB


Cards I am looking at:
ASUS Dual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 V2 OC Edition 12GB GDDR6


GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7600 XT Gaming OC 16G Graphics Card, 3X WINDFORCE Fans 16GB 128-bit GDDR6, GV-R76XTGAMING OC-16GD

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming OC 12G (REV2.0) Graphics Card, 3X WINDFORCE Fans, 12GB 192-bit GDDR6, GV-N3060GAMING OC-12GD

All these cards are in the 300 dollar area… That is my budget…

Thoughts?

I’m no expert, but what’s the rest of your system specs? New GPU, with a older CPU might just bottleneck it.

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Processor Intel(R) Core™ i7-9700F CPU @ 3.00GHz, 3001 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
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BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
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32GB of RAM

9th gen i7 is good enough in my opinion. If you want you can upgrade to a 12th gen i5

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honestly if this is just for war thunder it’s not too intensive that you need a newer card unless you plan on the minimal quality increase that rtx gives, honestly a used 2070 or hell even a 1080 ti if you can pick it up for under 140 or so bucks would run the game fantastically assuming you don’t care too much about visual fidelity and are playing 1080p but i’d reckon the 7600xt would be better and more future proof, you’ll have slightly worse driver performance and less of a productivity gpu though

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u need the 5090

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War Thunder is CPU heavy, so if you mostly play War Thunder on your computer, i would not invest in an expensive GPU.
I mean… I play on a Macbook pro with 16 GB memory, and i still get consistent 50 Fps on ‘Very high’ graphics with all the RTX turned to max.
So as long as you don’t have an Intel CPU, you should be fine.

you are taling bullshit, is not cpu heavy I have the 9800x3d and is always at 20% at most while playing this game while the gpu is +80%. CPU heavy maybe in 1080p but we are in 2025 and PPL play in 4k now

Have a look at intel arc b 580
I am in the same situation as you… and i am seriously thinking in buying the arc b580

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War thunder is singel core optimized, so u need a CPU with good singel core performance like AMD x3d cpus.

Im playing with 7800x3d on WQHD 1444p with a old midclass gpu RX 6600 xt with all settings max out with 100+ fps
Ingame benchmark avg. fps 120 min. fps 100 Score 6900
Cpu was at 12%, one core at 50% GPU 99%

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I have an EVGA 3070 in my older/back up rig, AMD 8-core cpu, it is a very good. Runs everything my other 2 rigs w/3080Ti’s and 16-core cpu’s just as good and runs cooler in a less well ventilated case. EVGA ahs stopped making gpus(because Nvidia) but they still are great products. You can pick up used ones on eBay with warranty for close to the price range you have mentioned. Worth a look anyway . . . I always check pricing for stuff I may be in the market for, and try to keep a good idea of “market value” and current trends in prices . . . worth your time to look at around. Many options available these days

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Most of my issue is in processing videos in Adobe Premier Pro and 2nd is War Thunder… But when I am working on videos from my gopros, the stutter and stop and stutter during video transitions…
-In war thunder, it will just benefit from what I am doing to fix the issue in Adobe Premier Pro…

Somebody doesn’t understand PCs? OR their own PC? You bought an extremely high end CPU that was essentially MADE to play video games with the increased L3 cache. Of course that CPU is not pinned at 100% usage… it has more cores than this game can utilize 4 times over minimum. Your GPU will always be running near max usage if FPS is unlocked…

With this motherboard your socket is LGA 1151,
So you can’t put a recent processor

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i9-9900k is probably the best processor he can use.

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I was in the same situation and I took this motherboard which can support more recent processors

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yeah buying a new motherboard is a much better idea

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So… is this a good combo… Again, I have Adobe Premier Pro for Video editing AND WT… I would like something that would help both…
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X CPU Processor Bundle with MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk WiFi Gaming Motherboard …
that combo is right at 500 bucks…

I am not a big fan of intel, and if I am going to upgrade the MB, I wold rather go AMD

Sounds like a good deal. You can buy a Intel B580 gpu alongside that combo.

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Nice deal, Just the CPU is sold for 650 euros in my country

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