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Wait for Zen 3?

Nino
By Nino
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Budget (including currency): $2000

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Honestly nothing that explicitly requires this much horsepower, I just game on a 4k 120hz oled screen and want something to drive that.

Other details: So, like everybody else on planet Earth I'm planning on grabbing a 3080 when they come out, I have several friends who are going to try and camp vendor sites to snag me an FE card on launch day. I've already made up my mind to build a SFF system and grabbed a B550 board and 650w sfx power supply. Being that I'm constrained to a small case and a psu that's 100w less than recommended spec, I want to keep my cpu down to a <100w part so that I have at least a little overclocking headroom, which is why going AMD is a no-brainer. Here's a tentative part list I put together(MB and psu already purchased).

 

Should I wait for Zen 3 given my constraints? Seems like the ipc and clock speed bumps would be felt more on the low end but I'm not sure.

 

Update: Changed my psu order because I found an 800w for sale at a price that wasn't repulsive. Still planning on going AMD so I kept the board, also ordered a different case as the one I chose previously is out of stock worldwide. Any suggestions for the build? Might go with a nicer cpu now..

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ryzen 5 3600 has excellent value rn. wait if you want. you are still a few weeks away from 3080 launch

PC specs:

Ryzen 9 3900X overclocked to 4.3-4.4 GHz

Corsair H100i platinum

32 GB Trident Z RGB 3200 MHz 14-14-14-34

RTX 2060

MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge wifi

NZXT H510

Samsung 860 EVO 500GB

2 TB WD hard drive

Corsair RM 750 Watt

ASUS ROG PG248Q 

Razer Ornata Chroma

Razer Firefly 

Razer Deathadder 2013

Logitech G935 Wireless

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Depends if you need a system right now. If you can wait, ZEN 3 will be a better option. In my case I needed a system in July and could not wait for ZEN 3 so I got the entry level 3100 and will upgrade to ZEN 3 once they become available.

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2 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

Depends if you need a system right now. If you can wait, ZEN 3 will be a better option. In my case I needed a system in July and could not wait for ZEN 3 so I got the entry level 3100 and will upgrade to ZEN 3 once they become available.

I was thinking about doing something similar tbh. I don't necessarily need a system asap but right now my main computer is a mac and only has a rx570 so it would be nice to have something bootable when the 3080 arrives 🤠

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updated op with more relevant info

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