Organizing RTX 3080 setup...consider Intel 10700K or hold off on AMD 5800X
Organizing RTX 3080 setup...consider Intel 10700K or hold off on AMD 5800X
You're focusing on gaming performance for your RTX 3080 build. Between the Intel 10700K and AMD 5800X, the 5800X offers only minor gains in 1080p benchmarks, so it may not be worth the wait unless you're targeting higher resolutions. For a gaming setup at 1440p with 144Hz, the 5800X should suffice. Regarding NVIDIA RTX IO, it could help future-proof your system by potentially boosting frame rates and speeding up content loading, though the impact depends on your specific workloads.
PCI Gen 4 will support direct storage, allowing data to move straight from the drive to the GPU without going through the CPU or RAM.
I haven't seen any signs of problems for AMD yet. You're right to be cautious about scaling too aggressively.
Currently I’d hold off unless AMD confirms their claims. Ryzen seems like a safer bet at the moment. Predicting stock movements is tough right now, but I remember getting my 3900X right out of the box last year without any problems. If the 3080 gets caught in the spotlight and competitors follow suit, things could become more complicated. I also hope AMD is paying attention and improving performance after PCIe 3 versus 4. It might really change things if we start seeing games that stream data directly from SSD to GPU during gaming. I wonder if there’s a way to test this—like a big data transfer over PCIe while playing?