help Help! Upgrade Path Woes...
9 minutes ago, Spainz said:i7-11700k (an upgrade from my i7-10700k)
Quite honestly I wouldn't bother if you're planning to keep your current board. The only true advantage 11th Gen has over 10th is PCIE 4.0. If you're not able to use it then there's no point so stick with what you've go.
11 minutes ago, Spainz said:differences of getting a pcie4 GPU and running it on pcie3 (which I believe is what my board is), and I don't recall him finding any lost performance past perhaps 5% or within margins of error.
Overall the performance penalty is negligible, usually between 3-5% IIRC.
12 minutes ago, Spainz said:Will I be able to buy a 30series GPU and slot it into my current Motherboard.
Absolutely!
16 minutes ago, Spainz said:I currently I have a pretty solid PSU, might I need to upgrade
No, you have an A tier 850W PSU, there are plenty of people out there running 3070/3080's on solid 850w PSU's w/o any issues. I believe there were report of 3080's experiencing sharp power spikes under load causing issues but Nvidia resolved that through driver updates.
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