Laurent CimonJun 15

Research has me constantly under pressure. I'm 2 years sober of alcohol, I stopped smoking 1 month and a half ago and I don't even drink coffee anymore, only tea, because I was drinking too much coffee. I needed something to decompress.

So I started playing video games. But this computer, although it has a RTX 5070 GPU, was built for machine learning development, not for gaming.

Yesterday I changed the CPU from a ryzen 5 7600X to a ryzen 7 9800X3D and games run smoothly since then. It cost a lot of money but I saved up by not smoking. It took me about 30 minutes to replace the CPU and it went without a hitch.

So now on evenings I force myself to stop doing research and I immerse myself in the universe of The Witcher 3.

#gaming #pcbuilding

Show threadwoe2youJun 15
@clf I'm assuming your bar for "smoothly" is way north of 60hz if a 7600X wasn't enough.
Show threadLaurent Cimon
@woe2you with a 7600X the witcher 3 had pretty annoying lag spikes. I think Ray tracing might add some load to the CPU and I like my eye candy.
Jun 15 at 12:48pmWeb
Show threadwoe2youJun 15
@clf Ah, that might be it.