PC for the next 10 years build

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Hello,

I'm considering to build a PC valid for the next 8-10 years, do you think this could be a solid future-proof build considering a mid-life GPU upgrade?

This would cost me semi-custom built (from a competitor) around £2400 (which is already above budget but RX6800 series are sold out).
Is it a good deal?

  • Intel Core i9-10850K
  • be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4
  • Arctic MX-5
  • 64 GB DDR4-3200 MHz (4x16GB)
  • PowerColor Radeon RX 6900 XT Red Devil Ultimate 16GB
  • MSI Z590-A PRO
  • 1000 GB M.2 SSD (NVMe)
  • 2000 GB SATA 3 HDD
  • ATX-Midi Corsair 4000D Airflow
  • Corsair TX-M850, 850W, 80+ Gold, Modular
  • Windows 10 Home
 
I'm just worried about the 10850 being good enough for the long term but then AMD builds are more expensive and the 11 series is exceedingly poor bang for the buck...
 
Z590 should have it by default I hope... My current PC saw Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 so hopefully next one will handle at the very least 11 and 12...
 
The only blip in the horizon it's that Is DDR5 memory is likely to become the standard next year meaning if you do need a mobo/cpu upgrade you'll need to change your ram as well. Personally I'd suggest just buying 32gb unless you really need 64gb for a specific purpose.

I feel RAM is less of a bottleneck than it's made to be, my aim is to keep 1080/60 for the foreseeable future and even my current build (i7-3770k 16GB RAM with RX 590) still more or less manages to keep that despite being nearly 10 years old aside from the GPU.
As for the 64GB, I plan to use the PC for machine learning as well and 64GB are pretty much the bare minimum for that.
 
For this reason I am not planning to upgrade until end of next year. Do you need the pc now?

Parts of my current pc are 10yrs old, but I don't think 10yrs is a very realistic goal. That is a long time in tech.

I will likely wait as well but this is a "just in case" option if my PC decides to fail on me.
As for 10 years being unrealistic: I thought I would have replaced my pc by 2018 or 2019 (5-6 years) yet after 8 years I'm still pondering if an SSD wouldn't allow me to keep going for another couple years...
 
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