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Switching from NVIDIA and INTEL to AMD
Considering switching since i want to upgrade anyways to make use of raytracing which really seems to look great.
My current mainboard the Asus ROG Maximus XI Hero uses the 1151 socket and ATX Z390 chipset, none of the recent AMD cpus seem to fit into that, are there semi-recent amd cpus that are compatible? I have zero experience with amd.
My current monitor the Asus PG279Q supports gsync which works fine with my GTX1080Ti.
The 1080Ti is a good card but not capable of raytracing, so i tought about buying and amd gpu.
For example the AMD radeon 7900XT looks interesting and costs a bit more than the 1080Ti back the days.
The 7900XT also has 20GB vram where the nvidia cards really seem outdated right now with the high prices and low vram.
If i buy this card, will i also need to get a new monitor?
The PG279Q doesn't mention freesync anywhere in the technical details page.
If i keep this monitor might there be screentearing? I would probably need to use vsync since the 7900XT doesn't support gsync and the PG279Q doesn't support freesync.
When i sell the monitor which one should i get then? Is it better to wait? I've heared about the quality of oled / qled monitors and that they look much better than IPS / TN / VA panels.
I care more about quality instead of performance but to get good quality you obviously need performance, a monitor with 240hz+ and 2k or 4k resolution would be great.