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I generally buy xx80 series cards, but $1199 for the true RTX 4080 is nuts. 

I generally buy xx80 series cards, but $1199 for the true RTX 4080 is nuts. 

That’s a pity. I bought my current XPS laptop through a Microsoft store. Their return policy was top notch.

That’s a pity. I bought my current XPS laptop through a Microsoft store. Their return policy was top notch.

That’s a pity. I bought my current XPS laptop through a Microsoft store. Their return policy was top notch.

That’s a pity. I bought my current XPS laptop through a Microsoft store. Their return policy was top notch.

That’s a pity. I bought my current XPS laptop through a Microsoft store. Their return policy was top notch.

That’s a pity. I bought my current XPS laptop through a Microsoft store. Their return policy was top notch.

Neither variant of the PS4 has an external power brick though.

Those chips can sometimes (but not guaranteed) reach 5 GHz on normal voltages, but I’d strongly recommend not going with that CPU. It’s only a 6C/6T part and is guaranteed not to age very well for anything that can effectively utilize your CPU, including AAA gaming. 
 
Ryzen 3600 will run games a lot smoother in many cases, and is better at most non-gaming workloads as well. It just falls slightly behind with high refresh rates while gaming. 
 
intel’s own upcoming i5-10600k will also be an option, although it’s going to be significantly more expensive than a R5 3600.

Here’s the real limits on a 7980XE, imo:
 
R9 3950X - $720
X570 motherboard - $250 (can spend less or more depending on desired features)
 
So for a used 7980XE, I’d be expecting a substantial price cut below what a brand new 3950X and motherboard would cost me. 

Those chips can sometimes (but not guaranteed) reach 5 GHz on normal voltages, but I’d strongly recommend not going with that CPU. It’s only a 6C/6T part and is guaranteed not to age very well for anything that can effectively utilize your CPU, including AAA gaming. 
 
Ryzen 3600 will run games a lot smoother in many cases, and is better at most non-gaming workloads as well. It just falls slightly behind with high refresh rates while gaming. 
 
intel’s own upcoming i5-10600k will also be an option, although it’s going to be significantly more expensive than a R5 3600.

CPU cooling for a given CPU has a few very basic things to consider:
 
1. The voltage your CPU is using. Motherboard features from manufacturers like Asus may raise voltage above Intel's spec.More voltage will generate more heat.
2. The CPU cooler itself, obviously.
3. Airflow in your case. How is air circulating through your PC? 
 
(ambient temperature slightly matters, but it's usually not very extreme)
 
I think @-rascal- might be right about your motherboard having some auto overclocking features enabled. That tends to use higher voltage than manual overclocking, so it will naturally lead to higher temps.
 
If you're using a case with especially bad airflow, like one with an all-glass front and virtually no air intake, that will also lead to seeing somewhat higher temps.
 
I believe that a 9700k throttles around 100C, so anything below that technically won't impact your PC's performance.
 
 

What CPU Core Voltage are you seeing?
What does Open Hardware Monitor / CPU-Z say?
 
i7-9700K boosts up to 4.9 GHz.
Seeing 5.0 GHz, it looks like the CPU is (auto) overclocked, or Multi-Core Enhancement is enabled in the BIOS
This can cause the CPU to operate out of spec from factory.

I don’t anticipate PCIe 4.0 being a bottleneck for PC gaming any time soon. There’s probably some usefulness for the extra bandwidth on workstations like deep learning rigs that use the hell out of their PCIe lanes, but regular old RTX 3000 series GPUs won’t show any improvement on PCIe 4.0. It would take a completely unrealistic jump in performance from the GPUs, and it would take games (at a very high frame rate) that can take advantage of all that bandwidth. 

The 5600 XT doesn’t saturate PCIe 3.0, so I am not sure why you thought you needed to upgrade to PCIe 4.0. Currently the only thing that actually benefits from PCIe 4.0 are SSDs. Like the others have said the extra 4 pin is for extreme over clocking, like if you are going to use chilled water or LN2. You also can’t use the vga cables for cpu power, you will fry something. There is a reason they are labeled separately. Just use the 8 pin for cpu power and you will be fine.

RX 580 = GTX 1650 Super > RX 570 > GTX 1650
 
So what you get really depends on local prices and availability, but they're all fairly good except GTX 1650. GTX 1650 is trash.
 
You could also look at used RX 470/570 or RX 480/580.

I think it's a very bad time to buy a gpu. PS5 is rumored to use an RX 5700 XT level gpu with hardware RT and the big XBox Series X is supposed to be more powerful than that. Look at the king of the hill gpu from February 2013, the GTX 680, and how badly it aged into the new console gen that started in November 2013. Here are some games from late 2014 and early to mid 2015 that obliterated the GTX 680, which was the RTX 2080 equivalent of February 2013.
 

 

 

 
And this was going into a new generation of consoles where Microsoft cheaped out on gpu because they were building XBox One as a media center and not a gaming console, and when Sony cheaped out because they nearly went bankrupt with the cost of producing PS3s. Now you're talking new consoles that are rumored to have very serious gpu horsepower. I don't expect that anything currently available is going to age all that greatly tbh. You won't be playing 720p minimum settings with a 2060 or 5600 XT, but you'll possibly be below the console hardware baseline playing lazy PC ports from console. Of course that rumor about the PS5's gpu could be BS (though Digital Foundry seems to find it credible), so no way to really know until official specs are revealed.

First you have to sell off tiny parts of yourself to thousands of strangers.

Nintendo struggling with online services the rest of the industry figured out a decade ago. Who would have thought it?

America, the only place in the world where patents exist.

Luckily, there's an easy solution to defeat facial recognition software, even if someone else happens to photograph you in public.
 
Just become a Juggalo.
 

Luckily, there's an easy solution to defeat facial recognition software, even if someone else happens to photograph you in public.
 
Just become a Juggalo.
 

Luckily, there's an easy solution to defeat facial recognition software, even if someone else happens to photograph you in public.
 
Just become a Juggalo.
 

This is bad, regardless of who’s doing it.