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Many Z490 boards also have PCI-E 4.0, but it is not supported by the current CPU.
As soon as you hit rocket lake, you have this on some mobos. For example, my Aorus Ultra Z490i says “PCIe 4.0 ready” – AMD has already indicated that they will move away from their current socket on the next CPU release / generation, so anyway you’re at the end of your life with that socket if you get on AMD now.

Although I’m not really concerned about PCi-E Gen 3 performance. As Tortelli pointed out. That will really take a while before that is an issue to make your decision about now. By that time it is really relevant you buy a new CPU / mobo and ws RAM. Even for storage (NVME), gen 4 is not that interesting at the moment. In terms of storage, we will sooner see a huge boost when games start using the direct storage API things that Nvidia is involved with.

I already noticed in December, looking at prices when I put together my first mini ITX.
Now that Intel is the underdog with the release of new Ryzen CPUs, you better and cheaper use Intel for pure gaming than AMD.

I now have an intel 10700K / 32GB / Z490i, thanks to some Black Friday deals, bought together for 680 euros. I wanted an 8-core Ryzen (5800x) to lose 550-580 euros for the CPU alone in December; if I could buy it at all (spoiler alert: no, queues everywhere) – this together with a 3080

Performed in gaming almost identical to a size new system with ditto 32GB / 3080 but then a 5900x, he scores 17885 in time spy, and I 17326, fairly negligible. But then a lot cheaper.

Gaming is the hardest thing I do on my system, because I do that in 4K. For the rest it is working from home. Read: Word, Teams and Outlook, and private Photoshop; which is negligible for this CPU. If I had really heavy CPU workload applications that I used on a daily basis then it only made sense that I should buy a Ryzen. But for pure gaming? I don’t see the point at all, nor do everyone shout that intel is “dead” now. There is a suitable place for everything.

[Reactie gewijzigd door lithiumangel op 11 februari 2021 12:50]

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