Is getting long in the tooth, and I’m getting kinda antsy to upgrade. I was trying to talk myself into the 11900k (if it ever comes out, and if its ever in stock) with a pcie 4 mb and a gtx 3090, but now supposedly 12th gen with pcie 5 is supposed to come out later this year… More waiting for potentially more waiting. Despite AMD’s recent gains, id rather stick with intel.
Thoughts on this? My goal is to build a 4k 120fps rig that could potentially last another 10yrs.
Currently 3960x, x79 mb, 32gb, 2 1080’s. It runs shadow of the tomb raider/doom/witcher3/gtav etc @4k 60 fps high settings, but cyberpunk77 is crap. I also think it’d be a waste to plug a 3090 in this system to try and get more out of it.
Up to you - Sandrybridge is pretty old. For games like WoW, you’d notice a very large increase in performance moving to something new that clocks high.
If you want a cheap fix, you COULD grab a 10600k + a cheap Z490 and OC it - it should hit 5ghz pretty easily and would be pretty close to on par with most of the new CPUs if not slightly behind AMD’s best offerings.
You’ll need some RAM too though, which kind of sucks since 12th gen/5th gen will be DDR5 and thus your memory you get now will be not reusable.
Ideally, if your situation could benefit from another additional system (as SLI isn’t always helpful, you may be better off splitting up your 1080’s), you could retire the 3960x, get a 10600k system w/Z490/DDR4 now, and then when the time comes for 12th gen/5th gen, you can still use that other 10600k system for something else and run them at the same time.
That way you won’t feel like it was a waste.
OR you could just jump on the 5900x when you can get one, and be set for quite a while. It will take some time for DDR5 to surpass current DDR4 speeds, but I also believe DDR5 starts at a fairly high level like 4400 or something anyway.
So who is to say? Then there’s early adopter issues, which is never fun, as well.
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That’s not going to happen at full quality, especially in something like Trashran. Plus with leaps in GPU and storage coming up whatever you buy today is probably not going to keep up with next gen plans in 5 years let alone 10.
IMO Sal’s advice is the best. The different between a good rig and best of the best rig is relatively small now for most titles.