Captain_Yuri said:
While it is a much better cpu with much better pricing than their last gen... I'd still wait till Zen 3 before pulling the trigger as Intel still doesn't have PCI-E 4.0 which means you won't get the fap worthy speeds of the new SSDs. Whether or not that matters is up for debate but it is kinda annoying that a new cpu still doesn't have this which could be important going forward. Not to mention performance improvements and whatever pricing adjustments AMD might have as a response. |
Zen probably won't hit my time window when I'm gonna buy. Which is probably either around August or November the latest. I don't sweat PCIe 4 too much since I won't upgrade my storage without getting a new CPU and mobo anyway. 4GB/s on an SSD should be plenty enough for the next few years.
I'm actually not sure anymore when I want to do my upgrade. I wanted to do it after the worst of corona is over and maybe when we're getting proper 4k monitors, but it seems like I might not be getting any good monitors at all. And I've been pushing this planned update for quite some time now. My CPU and GPU are 4 years old now and they weren't even the best when they were new. Then again, there aren't many games I would need the GPU for. The most important one probably being AC Valhalla, which would really benefit from 4k and HDR if it has that.
It's just a really weird time right now. If Zen 3 comes out soon and completely fucks up Intel then I'll consider it.
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