Z490 Platform worth the wait?

[Melonmysst]

My Rig currently

i5 6600k 

MSI z170 M7

RTX 2080 Super

RAM 16X2 3200Mhz Corsair Dominators 

Corsair RM850 (Yellow Label)

The plan was to upgrade to a 3900x with x570 Aurous Xtreme, but there since been news on z490 platform and made my heart waiver for a bit.

I mainly only game, but i do run my games in multi clients hence I took 3900x, 3950x is constantly out of stock.

Seeking advise and opinions from the community.

[Tan3l6]

LGA 1200 should be cool

[NelizMastr]

What would your reasons be to wait for Z490 over X570?

 

Gaming performance between 14nm Intel and 7nm AMD is basically the same. IPC slightly in favor of AMD at the moment, SMT scales better than HT as well, which may or may not be a thing you'd want.

[Mister Woof]

I'd personally be waiting for Ryzen 4000.

 

Ryzen 3000 is great, but it still doesn't beat Intel at gaming due to slow inter-ccx latency compared to Ringbus.

 

Ryzen 4000 is reportedly resolving this issue AND increasing IPC significantly.

 

Intel 10th gen is just more affordable and accessible 9th gen. It would have been great if it was available Q1 2019, but it's too little too late.

 

I'd hold out if you can until next year for Ryzen 4000.

[Tan3l6]

2 minutes ago, Mister Woof said:

Ryzen 4000.

Yeh, Ryzen 4k and Intel 10k will be a feast!

[Mister Woof]

Although it would be a shame to let that 2080 go to waste being underutilized during it's prime......I dunno man. This why you don't buy i5s I guess. If you got the i7 to begin with, you'd be fine. But it's not worth it to buy an i7-6700k/7700k now, since they're so comparatively expensive.

[Jrasero]

4 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

What would your reasons be to wait for Z490 over X570?

 

Gaming performance between 14nm Intel and 7nm AMD is basically the same. IPC slightly in favor of AMD at the moment, SMT scales better than HT as well, which may or may not be a thing you'd want.

I am a big supporter of Ryzen 3000 but a 9700K and 9900K are simply better at gaming.  Now there are quite a few caveats like what speed the Intel chip is running at, if the game is at 1080P, what graphics card, and what game but in a vacuum Intel still is the best gaming chip

 

Like another person stated I'd wait for Ryzen 4000, wait for Ryzen 3000 and then get a 3950X on deep sale, or jump in with a Z390 knowing the platform at this point is what it is...

[Melonmysst]

Yeh the main concern for me is my 2080 Super is current heavily bottle-necked by my 6600K. And me being a genius and not doing enough research on OCing, I've been using MSI z170 M7 mobo Game Boost OC, where it feeds a stupid amount of volts to hit 4.5ghz, and my cpu been chowing down on tat much voltage for years. Buying a 6700k/ 7700k is abit mad, prices are quite ridiculous for an old chip =(

Ryzen 4000 series is really tempting but the stipulated date is like Q4 2020, and for z490 news prob next week but by the time its out and rolling prob in April 2020.

Thank you all for the advise. At the end of the day, there is always a next best thing down the road, hard to keep waiting and waiting hahah!