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Mummelmann said:

So, I did it. I had to. I ordered the stuff last night, my Windows is nagging, my fans are whining, and my games are stuttering. It has served me for nearly 8 years, but is now headed for retirement. Here's my new best friend;

ASUS PRIME X670E-PRO
7800X3D and its buddy, a Phanteks Glacier One 360MP
ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 4090 OC
Kingston Fury Beast DDR-5 6000MHz 64GB
Corsair RMe 1000e PSU (some margins here, for possible future upgrades)
Kingston FURY Renegade M.2 2TB (7300/7000)
Kingston KC3000 M.2 2TB (7000/7000)
Phanteks Eclipse G500A tower (just rolling with the standard fans, 3x140mm should be plenty along with the Glacier One)

The 7800X3D is the only component not currently in stock, might take 2 weeks or so, so I'll have to wait a bit longer. Got a decent deal on it all as well, about 10% off through an old aquintance of mine.

Now my biggest concern is this; what the hell should I get as a new display?! I want something larger than what I have (been on 32" since 2015), and 4K of course. No Superwide or Ultrawide, I really don't like those. I'm making a shortlist, the display will be 95% for gaming. The market doesn't seem to be swimming with options, to be honest. And I won'd be shelling out 2000$ on the monitor alone, not with what I already spent.

First of all, congratulations for what will be a great gaming PC, and also one that last long with those 64GB of RAM.

And while you've already set your eyes on a monitor, there's a site with a search feature that can ehlp you compare different monitors/TVs, with the option to search for size, resolution, panel type, etc. Here it is if you're interested: https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/display-finder

Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

The x8 PCIe design of this card and others (I'm sure AMD will do the same with either the 7700 or the 7600 ones) is what pushes me towards a X670E motherboard, to have a Gen5 PCIe slot.

Mind you, this is not a problem with the current cards as they are still PCIe 4.0 but, since I plan to keep my 1070 around for a bit more, the next GPUs might jump to Gen5 and use the same o lanes for its midrange cards, and at that point it might cause some bottleneck.

Probably not, as their mobile versions (7600/7700M/S) come with PCiE 4.0 x16. Possibly a reaction to the bad press they got for the 6600 series.

I hope AMD learns the lesson, but it's still smarter if I leave my options open to both AMD and Nvidia, and we don't know if Nvidia will learn that lesson or not.