Abaddon879

I got bored so I knocked together some bar charts to show the CPU benchmarks. Note: Where multiple tests were run using the same CPU, I used the average.

Honestly, you should be looking to upgrade your motherboard. If you compare your score with others running a 7950X you are still 15 - 60 secs slower than others with the same CPU. The A620 chipset does not allow for PBO, which is hurting your very expensive CPU. It seems a weird choice to go for the top spec CPU and match it with the lowest spec motherboard, slow RAM, and a budget GPU. Is this primarily for FM judging by those specs?

The RAM capacity doesn't make any difference above about 16GB I believe, unless you are running a lot of other applications in the background while playing FM. There have been good gains when increasing speed however, so I would focus more on the speed of the RAM than capacity if you were looking to upgrade. As stated here, it is CPU intensive so the best gains would be by a CPU upgrade. The next gen of Ryzen are due to drop in July, so maybe keep an eye out for those if you are considering an upgrade.

This is a fantastic tool - great work! I've always had to ignore the coaches suggestions as they seemed rubbish, so I will definitely be using this and adding it to my variety of squad building spreadsheets (I have ones for squad planning, position/role suitability, wage structure, and now one for training suggestions!) As a suggestion, it could be useful to also consider a club DNA, rather than solely relying on the in-game attributes for the default roles. Maybe allowing for 4-5 attributes to be given added weighting to suit your play style. These DNA attributes could be given a 0.5 boost or something to make them higher on the priority list and address any weaknesses in regards to the team style of play. For example if you play a high energy Gegenpressing style you might want to prioritise a weakness in Endurance if their Stamina and Workrate were comparatively low.

A couple of posts above yours.

I'm loving some of those ideas! I heard Dave Kitson was involved with a failed consortium takeover before the Thai's came in I believe, so it's not that far-fetched and idea. And Nigel Howe is back involved with the club once again to try and push through this current takeover and stabilise the club. I was hopeful we there would be progress with the takeover to allow me to manage the club after the Winter Update, but it is seeming unlikely any takeover will happen in time. For now I am doing a glory hunter save (I'm currently enjoying Scalvini at Atalanta) and thoroughly enjoying myself. I played as Reading FC last season and had success, but couldn't bring myself to touch them this year while the current owner stays in place.

Interesting to see such a difference in your results using the same CPU. That would suggest that faster RAM improves performance by quite a margin.

It would be great if you could run all benchmarks 1-4. That would give a complete picture of how these processors perform. The biggest gains from FM23 -> FM24 seem to have been in benchmark 3 from other data.

That looks incredible! Didn't realise it would do that on an ultra-wide. What do the normal panels look like, for example the player or squad screens - I imagine they are very stretched?

Type: Desktop Model: Custom CPU Model: Intel 9700K CPU Base Frequency: 3.60 GHz CPU Turbo Frequency: 4.90 GHz RAM: 64GB RAM Clockspeed: 3000Mhz GPU: Nvidia 4090 Graphics Level in 3D: Very High Benchmark 1 FM23: 01 min 03 Sec Benchmark 1 FM24: 00 min 54 Sec Benchmark 2 FM23: 02 min 44 Sec Benchmark 2 FM24: 02 min 35 Sec Benchmark 3 FM23: 08 min 04 Sec Benchmark 3 FM24: 04 min 28 Sec Benchmark 4 FM23: 27 min 54 Sec Benchmark 4 FM24: 22 min 25 Sec

I'm not the creator, but it looks like their website domain has expired. Here is a copy of the spreadsheet that I downloaded previously. Hope it helps. I still used it for FM23 so it's still useful. FM21 Player Roles Spreadsheet v1.52.xlsx

This is the exact same approach I've been using and nearly always get a positive reaction from players. The only additional instruction I would use is Demand More when 1-0 down to try and get a reaction from the players. I was not aware of the ability to cancel shouts. That will help in those annoying situations where you have applied a shout and then another goal is scored and the players react badly, so thank you for that bit of advice.

I'm looking to change up my current 4231 tactic a bit and try to adopt an inverted wingback to create a 3241 in attack (a bit like a Pep tactic) and was hoping you might be able to give me some advice on a good combination of midfield roles. Last season I was playing this: The plan was to shift play to the left to create space for Endrick as the IFa to run into. This was very successful and resulted in us being top scorers in the league. As a result, I am tempted not to mess too much with the attacking trio, but want to try and change up the build-up. I came up with something like this and would like your feedback on any obvious weaknesses or improvements?

It sounds like you have been heavily tweaking to improve your performance to get to those levels. The 7900 should not beat a 7900X or 7950X, certainly not at stock settings - there is a 200-300MHz boost clock difference. You must have got very lucky with your silicon. What kind of cooling do you have on the CPU?

The 3d v-cache can still help at 4k, although the improvements are limited as it tends to be more GPU limited at those resolutions. Take a look at some example benchmarks between the 7950X3D and the normal 7950X - For example: https://www.anandtech.com/show/18747/the-amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-review-amd-s-fastest-gaming-processor/10 If the CPU is mainly for FM purposes, how about going for the standard 7950X, 7900X (non-3D v-cache), or even a cheaper, more efficient 7900 (non-X)? From the benchmarks so far you wouldn't be giving up much performance in FM, you would save money, and still have a nice upgrade path in the future. Obviously this would depend on what CPUs Cyberpower offer (I always build my own so don't look at pre-build options). If FM is your main use of CPU, the ability to upgrade in 2-3 years would be nice from a FM perspective and is something that you won't be able to do with Intel. Any upgrade you make now will be a massive improvement over what you have already. I'm not an AMD fan-boy or anything. I just think that with FM being CPU intensive, having a cheaper upgrade path in a few years would be a good option when newer/faster CPUs are released, compared to Intel where you would need a completely new motherboard and CPU.