The DIY market news these days is really chaotic. Memory manufacturers are losing money, Intel is going to increase in price, NV is going to decrease in price... Recently, many friends are preparing to take vacations during the summer vacation and New Year. Is it a bit confusing to see these news? Don’t worry, let’s take a look at some affordable and powerful platform combinations, so that we can avoid the risk of price increases in the future. We can also wait for the recent price reduction of high-end graphics cards to supplement the shortcomings, and use them more happily.
i7-12700KF Balanced and comprehensive
paired with high-end graphics cards such as RTX 3080 10GB/12GB, the sub-flagship product of the 12th generation Core is enough. The capability of 12 cores and 20 threads exceeds the previous generation Core i9 and The opponent's Ryzen 9. The gaming capabilities of the 12th generation core and the high frequency of 5GHz are even more impressive, only slightly inferior to the i9-12900K and the latest Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The most important thing is that its price is still hovering around the 618 sale price, making it worth buying.
Another option to pay attention to is the memory. If you plan to use it for several years without upgrading, then DDR4 3200 is good. DDR4 3600 is certainly better when the price is close. If you want to be prepared for the future, if you want to buy DDR5 memory, you should at least start with 5200. Yes, the price difference between DDR5 5200 and 4800 from many brands is really small. Of course, choose DDR5 5200 with better performance and more suitable for future platforms. High frequency products.
Waiting for a high-end graphics card, of course you have to find an old graphics card first. GTX 1060 or higher graphics card can experience most of the current 3A games at 1080P. Of course, if you want to use DDR5 memory, the price of the motherboard will be more expensive, so if you have large-capacity DDR4 3200/3600 memory, it is better to choose the DDR4 version Z690. If you don’t want to overclock, you can also choose the B660 motherboard, and the price can be reduced by 500 yuan. left and right and even more.
Ryzen 7 5800X3D Focus on gaming
i9-12900K is too expensive. If you want to be worthy of a sub-flagship graphics card like the RTX 3080 Ti, we have another option, which is the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Its problem is that it is a bit biased. It performs well in games, and its capabilities in many daily applications are worse than those of the same level 12th generation Core and the higher-frequency Ryzen 7 5800X. The troublesome thing is that its current price is relatively strong, and the discount rate for the board U set is not high. Friends who are not in a hurry can wait a moment.
In other aspects, it is better to choose. After all, the current AMD platform can only use DDR4 memory. By the way, if you have old memory, you can also use it directly. If the memory capacity is small, you can also use the dual-channel method of (4+4)+8. By extension, don’t buy too much new DDR4 memory, because it is likely to be eliminated on the next-generation AMD platform, which would be a big loss.
With these two sets of platforms with an affordable total price, we can directly wait for the price reduction of the future graphics card , and the ability to support the new graphics card is absolutely sufficient. It will not hold back, and we can just wait for the graphics card to be in place and enjoy it.
