When the new Nvidia cards drop, is it time to upgrade from my old Overclockers prebuilt machine?

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Hi all,

I currently have a Overclockers Radiance Gamer Pro - Asus Aura Sync Gaming PC which has an [email protected], 16gb DDR4 3000mhz RAM, with a Strix 1080ti. I bought this pretty much 3 years ago to the day and it's served me very well. I'm still able to run most games with medium to high settings which is great! However earlier this year I started streaming, for a single machine setup it's pretty awesome, I don't really get any performance issues evening streaming at a relatively high resolution but I feel with games like Cyberpunk coming out this machine may not be able to cut it but we'll have to see.

I know we don't know the benchmarks etc of the new 3000 series cards so it's hard to say for certain if it's worth an upgrade on that front but lets assume it is, my next concern comes down to CPU.

My current CPU is at 4.9, looking at the Overclockers Swarm and Nebula they offer the 10700/10900 intel chips but they are only at 5.0 so while I'm getting the additional cores I'm not actually getting that much of an increase or am I understanding clocks and cores wrong?

The other concern I have is that the current 10th Gen Intel chips only support up to PCIe3 and with a monster of a card (potentially) would I be gimping myself not going down the AMD route and AMD supported motherboards which have PCIe4 support? I know the new Zen 3 chips are coming out towards the end of the year so I'm happy to wait or do do I wait again and see what offerings next year has to offer? The problem is I've done the latter before and you end up waiting forever for the new tech but last time (when I bought this system) literally a few months later the new Intel chips came out which I was gutted I missed out on.

Being realistic I doubt I'm going to build the machine myself so it will be another Overclockers build so I might be limited with my options.

Thanks

 

[Sparx]

Intel are announcing 11th Gen CPUs on 2nd September - which will be PCIe4 compatible.

But yes it's not just about clock speed, the IPCs (instructions per cycle) within the newer CPU architecture is improved. Although a 7700k vs 10700k for example likely only talking 10-15% FPS improvement max. It's still a very capable CPU the 7700k.

I can't see the next-gen GPUs from Nvidia/AMD needing PCIe4 yet though, we aren't even hitting the limits of PCIe3 yet but I may be wrong.

If I was in your position, I would just wait and see reviews/benchmarks on the new Nvidia 3000 series GPUs. See if it's worth an upgrade over a 1080 Ti first, then if it is buy one and drop it in your existing system to start with. If the CPU is gonna bottleneck it, then maybe consider upgrading the rest after.