12900K right now or wait for AMD new CPUs ?
1 hour ago, biascoblix said:Looking at how much it's gonna cost me. I'm looking at about 1500$ which is quite a lot considering i'm buying a socket that's going obsolete in a few months but at the same time I think it would be at least 2000-2500 to get something similar on AM5 due to being DDR5, right ?
It's quite a hard decision for me. Not sure If I should wait or not.
I mean, you can optimize the cost of this a fair bit. The 5950X doesn't need a $150 liquid cooler, it will do just fine on a $60 air cooler like the Scythe Fuma 2. The motherboard also doesn't make a lot of sense, the ASRock B550 Taichi is currently over $150 cheaper and has the same feature set (minus SLI support, but 3070 Tis don't use SLI so it's fine, it still has x8/x8 support since that's the only part of this you need). Plus you can save a bit on the memory by getting something from Patriot instead.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dXL9C6
Still, Ryzen 7000 will be ~20% faster for roughly the same component prices except for DDR5, but at the same time you might actually be able to benefit from DDR5 instead so it might actually be worth it. DDR5, while still expensive and doesn't make sense to get on Alder Lake for a variety of reasons, is getting a fair bit cheaper and while it will still likely be a price premium over DDR4, it'll likely be priced actually sane by the time AM5 rolls around.
Both ways of waiting or getting new chips now make sense, it basically comes down to the question of "can I live with this for the next 3-4 months?" Plus remember AM4 stuff will likely go on pretty steep discounts once AM5 is released, so you might be able to get that $1400 rig for closer to $700 in a few months if you want to wait and just get last gen.
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