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Well AMD officially said 2025+ in their slides so at the very least, I'd expect support until 2025. Raptor Lake could potentially get one more CPU generation in the rumour mill with Raptor Lake refresh but in my point of view, going AMD is the better bet in terms of CPU and platform. X670E is simply a superior platform to Z790 with all of it's PCI-E 5 capabilities and IO and such. But you can always pair raptor lake cheaper Z690 boards so the platform cost could be cheaper overall depending on a few factors but basically little to no upgrade path.

Personally speaking, I am going with 7800X3D + Asus ProArt Creator X670E + 32GB of 6000 Mhz CL30 DDR5. Platform Longevity + PCI-E 5.0 for GPU + Storage + Fast and efficient CPU.

Sounds smart. I'm also entertaining the idea that there will be actually worthwhile m.2 drives on PCIe 5.0 within a few years. For now, the performance increase isn't worth the extra premium, not by by a long shot. I'll be going with a 1TB drive for OS and doodles, something around the 7000/7000 mark in speed. And for gaming/various stuff, I'll be getting either a 2TB or 4TB drive with roughly the same speed. Apparently, the larger the drive, the more/bigger write cycles it can perform before it says goodnight (which is important if I plan on keeping it for many years).

I generally keep my rigs for a long time, as my other electronics, which is why I need something powerful and stable, as well as something that can be improved in increments. I had my last phone for 5 years, and I still have every single console I ever owned. I think my average time between rigs is around 6,5-7 years or so.

Yea I won't be putting any Gen 5 SSDs in my PC, least not for a long time. The Gen 4 SSD deals are insane. I have seen deals for 4TB Gen 3 SSDs for as low as $250 USD or 4TB Gen 4 SSDs for as low as $350-$400 USD when they are on sale which is crazy. They won't be the fastest Gen 4/Gen 3 but they will be more than fast enough for gaming.

And yea, if you want a long term PC, 7800X3D + 4090 is certainly the way to go unless you do CPU heavy production tasks. 4090 has all the vram that you need along with all the premium features and long term drivers that Nvidia is known for. Plus emulators (especially switch emulators) work a lot better with Nvidia than Radeon.

And for me, there's too many scheduling issues with 7900X3D and 7950X3D based on the reviews that I have seen otherwise I may have gone with them so my plan is to get the 7800X3D and then if I want to upgrade to Zen 5X3D or Zen 6X3D with higher core count, then I can do so since by then, they should have either implemented a hardware scheduler like Intel or fixed the bugs.