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Honestly the 2000 series is probably the waste of money here. A 1080 Ti is still very relevant, and so is my straight 1080, as long as you arent wanting to play in 4k. I run 2k for everything without issue..
3000 series looks like the best bang for buck in a long time..
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My point is, Nvidia's gains and there pricing strategy have made caused their previous generation to go obsolete. Pending on how well the 3060 will be received, second hand sellers will need to lower their expectations.
Yes, the 1080Ti is still very relevant. I game with a Vega64, no regrets at this time. I will upgrade next year to new-gen Nvidia and Ryzen. I think Nvidia held the cards here, and yes, the 2000 series may be perceived as the testbed, but I don't think AMD's 'Big Navi' is going to tick as many boxes as Nvidia.
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My body is ready to go all in on the 3080. Upgrading from a 1060 6GB is gonna be like a dream
Now I just need to decide between AMD or Intel 10th gen. Time to do some research I guess (probably AMD, but been burned by them before).
Zen 3 with pci gen 4 is most likely the smart move at this point. But wait for the reviews and big navi to give context to the Nvida release.
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Lmao. It will be much more expensive here
Yeah I seem to be gathering that - PCI Gen 4 does indeed seem like the smart move for the new cards. The 3900XT seems to be stronger than the 10900K for gaming - not really interested in overclocking or "content creation".
Gonna be interesting to see what Big Navi has to offer. Either way, this upgrade is long overdue
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Yeah I seem to be gathering that - PCI Gen 4 does indeed seem like the smart move for the new cards. The 3900XT seems to be stronger than the 10900K for gaming - not really interested in overclocking or "content creation".
Gonna be interesting to see what Big Navi has to offer. Either way, this upgrade is long overdue
If its just gaming 3600 or 3700 is the sweet spot. Save some cash for a better gpu or something?
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Even though they support pcie 4.0 I don't think these cards will come anywhere near to needing it, even with RTX IO.
I'm sure the reviewers will test it as soon as they have the cards, but I'd be very surprised if pcie 4.0 makes any difference whatsoever to the performance.
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The reason I mentioned PCI 4.0 is the new feature to stream data directly from your SSD to the GPU with this series. Similar to how the PS5 is suggesting. Streaming huge amounts of data via PCIe from an SSD and sharing that with a powerful GPU, good chance you will see a difference between PCIe 3 vs 4.
Even though it's a pipe dream, I prefer to upgrade once if possible
Likewise, would rather not buy old gen if the new stuff is already here (with regards to PCIe 4). That alone may make the decision to go with AMD as it seems more readily available compared to what seems like older tech that Intel currently supports.
The graphics card is the impetus for the whole overhaul, so that's the first of my "budget". In light of this, I would like to get a CPU that can keep pace (and do so for years to come). Rather spend a couple of extra grand now on better components than overhauling the bottleneck at full price (+what I already spent) that would become more apparent as time goes on.
Likewise, would rather not buy old gen if the new stuff is already here (with regards to PCIe 4). That alone may make the decision to go with AMD as it seems more readily available compared to what seems like older tech that Intel currently supports.
The graphics card is the impetus for the whole overhaul, so that's the first of my "budget". In light of this, I would like to get a CPU that can keep pace (and do so for years to come). Rather spend a couple of extra grand now on better components than overhauling the bottleneck at full price (+what I already spent) that would become more apparent as time goes on.
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Oh no for sure, if you're upgrading then definitely get something that supports pcie 4.0, I'm just saying it's not necessary to upgrade everything if you don't have it and just want the card.
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The 5700XT does perform slightly faster with PCIe 4.0 vs 3.0 in some instances:
I'm sure the performance of the intel CPUs and PCIe 3.0 vs AMD and PCIe 4.0 will be one of the first things tested by reviewers.
Wishful thinking, more like
RTX 3070 13k-15k
RTX 3080 17k-20k
RTX 3090 I do not want to know!
2080 supers will be at around 10k I reckon.
It's not. Ordering a 500 dollar GPU on Amazon, the price to bring it to sa is r11000.
So I don't know how you came up with your numbers.
Only an idiot will spend 10k on a 2080.
A decent price for a 2080ti is r10k. Even that might be too much.