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I see, Coolermaster has way too many products that have H500 for the name. This is the exact one I got. https://www.newegg.com/gunmetal-cooler-master-mastercase-h500-atx-mid-tower/p/N82E16811119350#fullInfo
They look pretty much identical. There is no mention of USB-C on either listing (including the H500P. I don't use it so I am not sure if mine has it. If USB-C is the only difference, I'm ok with that for $60. Mine has a mesh front, too, with an optional clear plastic front cover should you enjoy baking your equipment, LOL.
Anyway, Nvidia has something BIG planned for E3. They are teasing something called "Super", which is about a silly name as it can be, but there is something up. With AMD showing off Navi at E3, Nvidia will be responding with this Super thing. Rumors suggest that Nvidia is going to show updated 2070 and 2080's, and there is a very good chance that these cards may see a price drop. I think the 2060 might as well.
So like I said, what AMD does can effect us with Daz. AMD releasing Navi is pushing Nvidia to respond with something. Whatever it is, this is why competition is so important, and why we should root for AMD to do well even if we are using Nvidia for Iray.
E3 is just a week away. So we will find out what's up.
The most plausible theory of what super is, is an RTX refresh adding PCIE 4 support.
I'm not at home but I charge my phone through my computer, I must have the cable plugged in the back.
I think the big difference between the various H500's is the material used in construction and the actual size. NewEgg says the H500P mesh is a little larger in every dimension.
I just ordered a new computer myself, since the one I'm typing on might give up any day now (I'm really hoping it'll hold out 'till I get my new one, but already took precautions in case it doesn't, that's how bad it is.)
Anyway, the key components I picked:
Nvidia RTX 2070 (since 2080 was far out of budget)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600x
MSI B450-A Pro motherboard
Why are these my key components? Well, the Ryzen 5 should suffice for my purposes: amateur rendering and gaming. But, in case I do feel I need more sometime, I can have the motherboard's bios flashed, and replace the Ryzen processor with one from the next generation (all B450 and X470 motherboards from major brands that I checked seem to allow for this). It won't allow for all the new features of the 30xx CPUs, but should still give a more than decent boost in performance. And, it'll buy me a lot of time to save up for such an expense. Though, I'm used to iRay CPU rendering till now, so I suspect I'll find the improvement I got with my purchase to be satisfying enough to not bother with such an upgrade.
its crazy how much churning and swapping needs to be done. Its just like DAZ sales.
Whatever Nvidia is doing, they have done a tremendous job keeping it secret so far. Nobody expected this.
I think a PCIe 4.0 refresh would be quite weak, to be honest. They may indeed be 4.0, it would be logical, but it would not be enough to use the term "Super". I know companies like to hype things and all, but there has to be a little something more to earn that title. Not to mention I am not sure what benefit 4.0 would be for these cards since they were not designed for it. But if they see a boost, that would be a real coup for AMD since they are the only one with CPU that supports 4.0 for now. Keep in mind that Nvidia refreshed several GPUs over the last few years, and did things like using GDDR5X memory in lower tier cards like the 1060. While they refreshed these, they never added silly names like Super to them. So with that in mind I think there is a chance they will do something, like boost clocks more or maybe even add a few CUDA cores for well binned cards.
The biggest thing however is the potential for a price drop for existing RTX cards. This would be great news for a lot of people here. If the 2070 and 2080 drop $100 that would be fantastic. If the 2070 drops a full $100, then I would expect the 2060 to drop some, too, or it would be sitting a bit too close to the 2070 price wise. Some models of the 2060 ARE $400, LOL. So I would expect the 2060 to drop about $40 or $50 *if* the 2070 does indeed drop to $400.
Not to mention, untill the very moment you send your choice to checkout, you just keep looking around for better deals, including pre-built rigs, just because this stuff changes so fast every day, if not every hour.
The big boost would be in just having it as a marketing point. Once there are more devices on the market things could really open up. A GPU only needs a x8 connection on PCIE 4 so that could open up a lot of multi GPU setups for gamers etc.
I think its highly unlikely they'd call price cut cards "super" nor things like low end cards with DDR instead of GDDR. Adding more CUDA isn't really possible. The CUDA count depends on the number of streaming multiprocessors, SM, on the chip and those chips take a long time to design. I strongly doubt Nvidia would be bringing new chips to market with minor changes like another SM or the like.
It's not a big hit on your budget but the 2600 and 2600x are effectively identical. I'd never recommend anyone buy the X variant of any Ryzen chip, this may change with Ryzen 3000 I have to see nechmarks to know.
Because your video card has 8GB of VRAM, you can render way larger scenes. But if you only have 16GB of RAM, your renders could frequently crash or fail. I run a 1080Ti, when I upgraded from 16GB of RAM to 32GB, it was a huge difference. I can load way more objects in the scene, render at much higher resolutions, and no crashes. With 16GB of RAM, stability was completely broken. I think if you use a mid-range card, than 16GB of RAM is enough. Its only when you have a high end GPU with 8GB+ of VRAM where 32GB of RAM is crucial.