Oh wow, do you have any components so far or are you building a PC from fresh?
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Oh wow, do you have any components so far or are you building a PC from fresh?
GPUs don’t have any compatibility limitations. They operate via the PCIe slot on your motherboard which is standard across all platforms. Think of it as a separate module that you slot into a universal port.
If you don’t mind me asking, what’s your budget and what region are you purchasing from? US pricing is extremely competitive but other regions tend to have a bias towards certain brands due to supply constraints. PCPartPicker is a great resource for compiling your parts but it’s always good to consider the secondhand market and asking around forums for a second opinion. Make sure to change the location to your own when you use it for accurate price listings.
It’s recommended that your GPU take up 30-40% of your budget but it really depends on how constrained it is. You also have to consider peripherals (monitor, mouse, keyboard, headset/mic). I don’t mind giving you a helping hand if you have any other questions since this is one of my hobbies. Feel free to ask!
Edit: Sales like the one I posted don’t often last long so make sure to keep an eye out. Although… it’s technically possible that the seller wasn’t legit. Second-hand online distributors (drop shippers) will and do scam people — be careful.
850w is the minimum requirement of a 6950xt and it’s recommended you undervolt it anyway. You pulled out one of the hottest CPUs on the market as if it proves me wrong when the majority of people would be running a 12600K or 5800x3D when it came out. Nobody would buy one now unless it’s from the used market and they certainly wouldn’t pair it with a 13900K if they were doing that.
Your point about VRAM is obvious but 12GB > 8GB when the price is the same. Some games deal with a lack of VRAM by crapping out your textures, stuttering, or just straight up crashing — It doesn’t matter until it suddenly does. Games like Hogwarts Legacy already break the 8GB buffer at 1080p. I brought up the 3070 because its baseline performance enables it to be capable of more in such titles but its VRAM literally chokes it.
Edit: I brought up electricity prices because it’s actual point of consideration in countries like Germany during their energy crisis. While the USA averages 12¢ per kWH, Germany hit 40¢ in 2022 and averaged ~25¢ in 2023 — only dropping to 17.6¢ this year. That really adds up if the GPU that’s more expensive upfront is nearly twice as efficient in the long term. Most people building that year in Germany all went Nvidia.
Another comment did pretty well to address your misgivings about AMD offerings but I want to address two major misconceptions you have.
“DLSS,” which I’m assuming you’re referring to the Frame Gen and not upscaling component, is not added performance. It inserts AI generated frames between real ones to increase perceived smoothness but doesn’t give you a more responsive game. There’s a latency increase as well, making it pointless for esports titles. AMD’s FSR 3.1 while inferior is still competitive and is open source. At the same time, you’re suggesting that a software fix for worse performance is better than just getting more upfront performance which is kinda weird since not every game implements it and its uplift can be unreliable depending on the game.
The 4060 falls squarely into budget territory.
You’ve suggested that he jump from a budget value GPU to a High End one. I agree that the 4060 isn’t worth getting but suggesting a card that is probably way outside the guy’s budget instead of an AMD or Intel offering (6700/6750XT or A770) is weird. It breaks the first rule of building PCs which is to stay in the budget.
Granted, an A770 is more prone to driver issues and worse performance on older games and a 6700XT runs a bit hotter. 8/10 informed builders would still recommend the 6700XT in this guy’s case unless it’s clarified that he needs CUDA though. It might run 100W more than a 4060 but you can literally power it with a 600W PSU as long as your CPU isn’t an overclocked 14900K. It’s disingenuous to laud lower power draw and heat at this tier unless you’re building a sffpc or your electricity bill has one of the highest rates in the world.
OP’s flag is Italian and their average electricity prices are 17.5¢ per kWh. If he averages 4 hours gaming every day, that’s only an extra $25 per year with the 100W increased power draw. That’s for a gpu with 15-20% more performance and 4GB more VRAM at the same base price. If OP’s electricity is even cheaper then all the more reason to go AMD.
Nvidia is really only good “value” if you absolutely need CUDA or Tensor cores for productivity. Their market strategy is to upsell you to more premium, poor value products by gimping their lower tier segments. Sure they have the best consumer GPU on the market but it costs nearly double its AMD competitor for 20% more performance ($900 vs $1750). RT is another story with a 60-70% uplift but it’s still rather niche right now — of course this is at the expense of driver overhead with CPU bound games where AMD can pull out more frames in titles like Microsoft Flight Sim or anything esports.
At anything below a 4080 ($900), AMD has better value options if you’re strictly gaming.
Make her dog the signature, buff its health and have it refresh. Gives her a unique spot among the initiators as the only one with a rechargeable drone. She’d have to buy both flashes in return for more hard info and fake potential.
I propose Jawgemo. He’s a star fragger suited to the current meta and is familiar with highly coordinated team structures.
This is a weird take.
Jawgemo has the best Neon and Raze full stop. His Jett is unproven but looked world class. He’s also shown similar proficiency in Iso and Reyna. Yoru is the only Duelist where I’d rank Oxy at the top.
Jawgemo is at minimum comparable to Aspas but never got that recognition because he was overshadowed by Demon1 during EG’s run. Let’s put it this way: if G2 had Jawgemo instead of Icy, they would have won Shanghai.
It honestly comes down to how much electricity costs in your country. AMD isn’t really much hotter than Nvidia at the lower tiers. You can run a 6950xt (Their hottest card even considering current Gen) on an 850w PSU and everything below with a 750w. Overheating comes down to how well your cooling setup — case and fan orientation — is constructed.
A 4070 is at least an extra $200 on top of a 4060. That not just squeezing out a little more when this guy is considering a budget GPU. Also, the 3070 is heavily choked by VRAM and it doesn’t make sense to discount a 6700XT at that price range.
I don’t know whether your recommendations are because the market is skewed in your region but they’re pretty bad value.
XFX has an RX 6800 for $268 USD off Amazon right now. It has 40% more performance and double the VRAM over the 4060 at the same price of a 3060. Price might vary depending on region but you should definitely jump on this. No better option.
I can see them picking up Brawk or Verno since only 1 could ascend. N4rrate would be great too if KC rebuild.
Jawgemo is not just a Raze/Smokes flex.
He’s excels as a hard-entry like Aspas and Zekken and it doesn’t quite make sense to swap him with Demon1 on certain maps since the NRG system isn’t like old EG’s.
I also think swapping roles between 3 players to fill recon on certain maps is way too messy. It’s better for NRG to pick up a dedicated Recon player like Verno/N4rrate and shift s0m into the EG Jawgemo role — shuffling with Demon1 depending on the map.
TH and GenG are comparable in firepower. Maybe TH seems stronger since 4/5 are so consistent (because Boo doesn’t get his) but the overall power level is pretty close. Also, Wo0t’s Shanghai stats aren’t representative of how he’ll look on the Flex role since he won’t be the one getting set up.
I’d argue that the LOUD and Sen rosters are potentially in the same bracket if they can get back into form.
Cauanzin, Less, Pancada, and Saadhak make up an insane core when it comes to consistent firepower and calling. Tuyz on duelist is the only question. I really wanna see them run the FPX triple smokes and absolutely crush everyone at champs.
Sentinels matches 1:1 with GenG in terms of firepower distribution across roles. I’m just praying that Zellsis and Sacy level up their consistency or Verno might just be the future though.
I disagree. PRX’s no recon style is clearly holding them back against more disciplined teams. Not a single players on PRX plays Sova/Fade reliably and you’re better off getting a Stax or Invy.
Klaus is LATAM FNS but without a title or the master class igling. He’s extremely inconsistent but is the face of KRU after Keznit so he’ll never get benched.
EMEA: Full TH roster
Americas: So many options
Pacific: GenG -Lakia +Invy
How do you rank the Americas going into Split 2?
1-9. Everyone Except
Things to note:
Roster Changes:
LOUD - Tuyz | Cauanzin | Saadhak | Less | Pancada
NRG - Victor | Crashies | Ethan | s0m | FNS
Reasons why I struggle to rate any team:
100T | Weak map pool
G2 | Inconsistent firepower
Sen | Choking leads
Lev | Bad form and postplants
C9 | Only mud
EG | Poor midrounding after anti-strat countered
KRU | Klaus
Large Tier Gap
Minor Gap
Minor Gap
Minor Gap
Leo news + KC having time to cook is why KC edges them out. I’m also not sure how getting rid of their coach would help NAVI out.
G2 spank TH on Bind — TH adapt and surpass them.
G2 spank TH on Lotus — TH adapt and surpass them.
G2 expose TH choke on Ascent — TH adapt and stop choking.
Now TH is ready to upset GenG.
You’re welcome TH
G2 switch back to Harbor on Icebox to secure the 2-0 only for TH to pull off the reverse sweep.
Americas was never the strongest region
Not a surprising response from number1_ToeMuncher
Both teams are known for heavy anti-stratting so maps could go either way, especially with how inconsistent player form can be. Despite that, I wanted to have a look at their map pools because this will be the last time it’s relevant given GenG will win 3-0 in the GF.
TH perma’d Ascent and Breeze until G2 beat them on Bind and Split. G2 then took Lotus in the rematch and exposed TH’s weak Ascent attack side. Icebox shot up as their top pick after Sunset and they swapped comps on Bind, besting 100T.
TH Map pool ranked by relative confidence
Sunset > Icebox > Bind > Lotus > Split > Breeze > Ascent
G2 has an issue of losing the first map every series until they can start counter-stratting their opponents and relying on their supreme mental to get them back in. Bind is their strongest map and Sunset is their perma. On the bright side, their “middle” maps are proven to be better than TH’s.
G2 Map pool ranked by relative confidence
Bind > Lotus > Split > Ascent > Icebox > Breeze > Sunset
Maps in question for Series 3
This is how I see the Map Veto going: G2 - TH
Sunset | Ascent | Lotus | Icebox | Split | Bind | Breeze
What do you guys think? G2 should be favored but it’s possible TH look much better on Split with the role swap and Bind with the new comp. I’m really hoping this goes to a map 5!
You say that like the record isn’t 2:0 in G2’s favor.
They won in both Swiss and Playoffs.
100T are favored on Bind, Ascent, and Breeze.
TH are favored on Sunset and Lotus.
Icebox and Split are technically toss ups.
I have confidence in both teams using the last few days to fix their Ascent and Lotus given neither will want to play into the others’ best map as it’s a guaranteed loss.
100T vs TH
Sunset | Bind | Ascent | Lotus | Icebox | Breeze | Split
Every elimination match ends on Split.
Breeze and Split. Bringing in Haven and the new map Abyss.
Breeze is cycling out of the map pool, so no.
I’m not going to go into the macro problems they showed at Shanghai, between the poor spacing, trading, overheating, dry swings, and general lack of coordination.
PRX have massive role issues that result in a crippled map pool and individual inconsistency due to constant flexing.
Here are my proposed fixes:
Get D4v4i off Skye and put him on fulltime Sentinel/Viper. PRX lacks a dedicated recon Initiator and use Skye as a crutch, resulting in weaker defaults and a utility deficit. This commitment has the added effect of PRX lacking an anchor player on Breeze, Bind, and Lotus — their weakest maps.
Make Forsaken the Dedicated Recon initiator+Gekko and get him off Harbor because it’s a mediocre pick as a secondary smokes compared to Viper (Bind) and Astra (Breeze).
There are 2 options to address Jingg’s inflexibility.
Make Jingg Flexible and have him learn Kayo/Gekko to pair with Forsaken’s recon on Jett Maps. Something will play Breach/Gekko on Raze/Neon Maps. Works but it’s messy, especially if they want to pair Kayo with a non-Jett duelist. Examples include: Asuna, N4rrate, Wo0t, qRaxs, Zyppan, etc.
Role Swap Something and Jingg becomes the solo-hard entry. The easiest way to do this is to have Something become the full-time Recon Initiator+Gekko so that Forsaken can fill the Flash/Viper flex role. While this is more difficult, it would have a better long term outcome for individual consistency and form, reigning in Something’s overheating tendencies. This also allows Forsaken to flex Yoru and Neon.
You’re welcome for Champ’s Trophy PRX!
TH:
Miniboo Neon Abuser alongside Wo0t Rice Farmer with their reclear-heavy playstyle means that TH is a top 3 favorite for champs.
KC:
N4rrate Neon and Marteen Yoru double duelist instalocks carry Magnum’s flaccid midrounding to Playoffs.
SEN:
XSET Zekken’s Second Coming while Tenz shows Life how to actually play Clove. Masters Reykjavik 2021 undefeated run repeat?
NRG:
Optic 2.0 with Victor actually getting support from his “world class” initiator duo and a classic first match loss in groups before a series of FNS midrounding masterclasses. OPTIC NRG place top 4 at Champs.
PRX:
W Gaming runs Neon, Raze, Gekko, Kayo, and Brimstone every single map and plays 5-strong side and retake weak every round. Forsaken Neon 1-trick > Forsaken Flex. Alecks tells his team to just have fun and stop stressing = no more choking and PRX bring Pacific their first Champ’s trophy?
TEC:
Rb brings his team into Champs as the 1st seed. Eliminates DRX before booming out of groups.
FPX:
As meta pioneers, FPX has Life 1-trick Iso and carry them through groups. They play every map like it’s Icebox but have Lysoar as a full time pocket Sage and BerLIN on Harbor. FPX brings the Great Wall to Seoul, Korea like it’s 1950.
Yes, Sen are good when they’re not burned out.
Give them time to recover and cook since everyone and their grandma watched their Madrid VODs.
That’s a fair point. I think I just rated them highly because I saw them in red hot form in Stage 1 playoffs with their full roster. They are least as good as FNC but I guess that doesn’t mean much right now haha
100T just passes the eye test. They look as coordinated and disciplined as peak EG during their champs run and have the firepower to abuse the advantages they force. Their match against GenG should be a banger but they’re currently the tournament favorites.
FUT got 7 rounds total in that series and G2 just beat PRX. It’s not unreasonable to move 100T from top 2 to tournament favorites after that.
It’s power levels extrapolated from regional and international records. All of the Americas teams from 3rd - 8th were competitive during stage 1 and could easily have placed as well as LEV at Shanghai. By contrast EMEA and Pacific are intra-regionally very top heavy.
Teams to consider in Pacific are T1, DRX, TS and Talon. DRX was the most dominant in stage 1 but lost to PRX and GenG in playoffs (unlucky). The others are too inconsistent for me to accurately rank.
In EMEA, only NAVI and KC have a case from which the former was eliminated by peak TH in playoffs despite looking dominant all of stage 1. KC has a severe adaptability issue that would result in them being slapped around internationally once their non-standard comps have some footage out there.
China only has FPX who nearly beat both GenG and TH in BO3s. I have no faith in EDG.
Sen famously choked their match against EG but I contribute that mostly to burnout. They’re proven to win international LANs and beat both PRX and GenG at Madrid. Give them time to recover and they should be Playoff ready for Champs.
DRX had a great record in Pacific but they just benched their igl and I’m uncertain about how their roster would look internationally despite how consistently they place regionally.
Regions are competitive at the top but everyone except Americas lacks depth.
Don’t have the luxury to follow every game. Help me understand what I’m watching.
Credit to AngryLesbian50 on Reddit for original post.
I’m hoping for an upset. Valyn in Stage 1 form and Trent in Ascension form makes it a genuine possibility. Won’t deny that PRX are heavy favorites though.
Americas: G2
Pacific: PRX
EMEA: TH
China: FPX
I’m hoping for maximum drama and silent crowds
He’s a great fragger but LEV definitely struggles to coordinate as a team and has weaker protocols than the other two Americas teams going to Shanghai. He’s much more like a Bang-like player than a proper smokes igl.
I chose these according to their optimal roles.
Duelist: Scream
Flash Initiator/Flex: Saadhak
Recon Initiator: Ange1
Smokes: Valyn
Sentinel: JohnQT
Coach: Potter
All of them speak English so it should be legitimately possible.
Didn’t FNC loses to Loud twice in a row in Champs? I doubt Sen references those frauds.
The term flex came about as the meta shifted from double initiator to double smokes. Generally the flasher shifted to Viper while recon would play Skye — this resulted in Chronicle becoming the “Flex” icon. From there, a lot people just started calling every Flash initiator who played a second role the flex player because apparently every team has to have a dedicated one. It’s bandwagoning at best
Go back two years and flex just meant the fifth agent in the composition that would change between maps depending on whether teams played double smokes, initiator, or duelist. This usually meant the fifth player would jump between a flash initiator, Viper, or Raze.
Once teams started investing in multi-role players, we got a lot more flexibility like with EG and PRX. Common dual-role archetypes emerged and resulted in two different players swapping roles, resulting in less active True-Flex (3 roles+) players.
Common archetypes:
Raze/Flash Initiator
Recon/Viper
Primary Op/Dome Smoker
Relevant True-Flex:
Forsaken
Zellsis
Historic True-Flex:
Victor
Chronicle
Saadhak
Rb
It’s one thing to say that the tournament might not be truly representative of the best teams in the world and another to insist that its outcome is a “fluke”. You’ve got your head so far up your ass thinking that people are defending single Elim that you don’t realize that you’re implying that the whole tournament is moot because they fumbled the qualifier’s format due to scheduling issues. By your logic, we should scrap the whole tournament results and invalidate the efforts of every team because of the off-chance that they might not be facing the best opposition or even worse — shouldn’t be there because they stole the slot from another team from KickOff.
We all agree that Double Elim should be standard for qualifiers. What you seem to be missing is that every team during qualifiers had the exact same stakes and were on even ground. Hell, the 1st seeds at Madrid from all regions but China had to go through Play-ins and reveal all of their compositions and, putting them at a disadvantage.
It’s clear you don’t care to give good criticism on the format but instead want to write off Madrid as a whole; which is why everyone is giving you downvotes because it’s straight up disrespectful to the teams, staff, and audiences that produced this event for your viewing pleasure.
You’re incredibly disingenuous.
If you were just upset with the format you would have framed it as “Every International Qualification should be Double Elimination to Guarantee that only the Top Seeds from their Region Qualify”. What you’re doing is casting doubt on the legitimacy of the winners of Madrid (who happen to be Sentinels) AFTER they’ve won. You’re either tone deaf or a bad actor and I can’t decide which it is.
You’re misrepresenting me.
I never once advocated for single Elim. I’ve been literally doing the opposite, which is why you claiming that against anyone who responds to you is ridiculous.
Wrap your head around the fact that Kickoff and Madrid are two different events.
The only reason you take issue with Kickoff is because you think there are teams from playoffs that would have changed the outcome of Madrid.
There are 8 Options:
Americas: NRG and EG
EMEA: FNC and NAVI
Pacific: T1 and DRX
China: DRG and Trace
Now which of these teams have a realistic chance of changing the outcome of Madrid, thus making it a “fluke”? In my opinion, only NRG and FNC have a non-zero chance to compete for top 4 and even then they wouldn’t have survived the gauntlet that SEN did given their current form. Stop being so pathetic by strawmanning and take the L with class.
Both Kickoff groups and playoffs should have been double Elim. Double Elim is better for competitive integrity than single.
Madrid itself doesn’t have any issues with format.
Again. There’s nothing fraudulent about Madrid’s format. Double Elimination is standard in all major international tournaments to get more accurate placements of the top teams — it’d suck to be the second best team and get eliminated early because you matched against the best team first. This allows for rematches for the GF (BO5 instead of BO3) that’s balanced by giving the upper seed double map veto. That means you eliminate your competitor’s two best maps and/or force them onto their worst maps.
You’re mixing up the Kick Off Playoff with Master’s Madrid itself in terms of format. They’re two different events buddy. Even then, Kick off is less egregious than regions automatically getting an extra qualification slot for Champs simply because their best team won the last Masters — I.e. NAVI riding on the coattails of FNC. Nobody here is fooled by the undertone of post. FNC wouldn’t have won with their current form and Sentinels earned this trophy.
So Madrid’s format itself is completely fine.
You’re upset about Kickoff regional qualification. I agree it should have been double Elim.
I still think if you eye test though, the only other teams that could have upset the ones that qualified would have been NRG over LOUD and possibly FNC over TH (unlikely given form at the time). GenG and PRX are definite top favorites from APAC and China isn’t even competitive.
I think your attempt to diminish Sen’s win is pretty sad. They undoubtably took the hardest route through both Kickoff and Madrid with the most rounds played and most competitive matchups. They ran an absolute gauntlet of teams and it’s disingenuous to consider it a fluke.
Kickoff: LOUD, 100T, LEV, MIBR, G2, NRG, LOUD
Madrid: KC, TH, LOUD, GENG, PRX, and finally GENG grand final.
The only reason why you’d call it a fluke is if you think there are teams that didn’t qualify but would have won instead. I think that’s bollocks. Only FNC would have a chance and I don’t see how they’d survive running that gauntlet given how terrible their form has been since they last placed 4th at Champs.
Your take is weird.
Madrid had an objectively more competitive format than Lock/in. You can be upset with how KickOff qualification wasn’t double elim but that doesn’t take away from Madrid as a tournament format itself. I’ll take Swiss Groups and Double Elim over Single Elim without Seeding every day of the week.
Future tournament performances also don’t reinforce past success/failures because teams can both improve or fall apart over time. It’s like saying Tokyo FNC win was a “fluke” because they didn’t win Champs. “Proving whether fluke or not” narrative is garbage. The only way to make sure something is competitively sound is through format, not by reinforcing your bias.
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