Getting Ready for the 3080TI

[TJPC]

Budget (including currency): 2,000

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Battlefield and sightseeing games kinda competitive

 

I think its upgrade time I really want the new 3080TI or 3090 or whatever will be the one step down from the Titan will be  

 

Currently 

CPU: AMD 1800X

GPU: 980TI

Motherboard: ASRock X370

Ram: Gskill DDR4 3200

Storage: 2 Samsung Evo 1TB each and a 12TB HDD

 

I need to upgrade the Motherboard because the X370 only goes up to PCIE 3.0 and a 3080Ti will want 4.0 so here is what I'm thinking of upgrading too 

 

New CPU: Ryzen 3900XT

New motherboard: GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Master

Ram: HyperX 2X16GB DDR4 3200 ( I Might not upgrade the Ram )

Obviously GPU: 3080TI 

Also I'm thinking I should get the New New Samsung G7 I currently have an Asus 4k gaming monitor its alright it looses signal every now and then its annoying..

 

 

Normally I wouldn't even ask for opinions on what to upgrade too but since I have time before the new graphics cards come out I was curious what you guys would do to get ready for the RTX3080TI??

 

 

 

 

 

[Oswin]

i would wait for zen 3

[FavoringWinter]

If you only are using your pc for gaming, the 3900x would be almost useless for the price. If you really want best performance while not thinking about the cost to performance, the i9 10900k would be better for gaming. But if you use your pc for other workloads, wait for zen 3.

 

[Bartholomew]

5 minutes ago, TJPC said:

3900XT

Just wanted to mention: You do realize you pay a fair amount extra ocer 3900x for a basically  a different boost spec printed on the box which doesnt materialize into real world gains much? (Aside from that for games a 3700x will do equal or better as less chance it takes the slower ccx). 3900x(t) is a beast though for anything else

 

 

 

[eeeee1]

few people want to spend the money for a 3080 Ti. if you are gaming focused with a little media creation on the side, go intel.

[TJPC]

4 minutes ago, Sw1ft_25 said:

If you only are using your pc for gaming, the 3900x would be almost useless for the price. If you really want best performance while not thinking about the cost to performance, the i9 10900k would be better for gaming. But if you use your pc for other workloads, wait for zen 3.

 

 

10 minutes ago, Oswin said:

i would wait for zen 3

ahh see this is why I posted this I didn't know Zen 3 was around the corner!! I appreciate this!

 

4 minutes ago, Bartholomew said:

Just wanted to mention: You do realize you pay a fair amount extra ocer 3900x for a basically  a different boost spec printed on the box which doesnt materialize into real world gains much? (Aside from that for games a 3700x will do equal or better as less chance it takes the slower ccx). 3900x(t) is a beast though for anything else

 

 

 

Also I wasn't aware of this I just wanted one badass AMD chip I've been an AMD fanboy since I was a kid making my first PC, this stuff comes out so fast its kinda hard to stay in the loop with these things...

 

I appreciate the Intel suggestions but I'm going to be suborn and stay with AMD

 

I'm ok with spending too much money on my rig I just don't want to spend stupid money if that makes sense?

 

[kewtz]

2 hours ago, BlueScope819 said:

No no no no. In the same way you don't need to run a 5700 XT on a PCIe 4.0 motherboard, there is zero reason to run a 3080 ti on a PCIe 4.0 motherboard. A 2080 ti barely saturates a PCIe 2.0 interface, so there really isn't any valid reason to buy a board with PCIe 4.0 because by the time graphics cards will actually need it, AM4 will be a long dead socket and you will need to buy a new motherboard anyway for AM5 or even AM6 by the time that it actually matters.

Where is the data that supports the 2080ti not fully utilizing PCIe 2.0? 
 

I’m not questioning your statement, just want to learn/read into it a bit more.

[TJPC]

Alright new game plan I'm just updating the graphics card once they drop and waiting for Zen 3 if I think I need/want it 

 

Honestly Thank you for the responses!