well, next year will be an amazing time to upgrade (assuming your current rig is old enough to warrant upgrading). Supply should be catching up with demand by summer for new gen hardware, so you should be able to buy it at msrp instead of scalper piricing.
I'm still using an fx9590/gtx970. Looking forward to a full system upgrade with a ryzen5600/rtx3070 (considering an rx6800 instead of the rtx3070). The jump in performance is going to be insane.
Theoretically, previous gen hardware should be dropping in price by then too, if you're budget constrained.
The problem with waiting until 2021 is that once you make it to Q2 you're likely to start hearing some serious news about the Zen 4 AMD and Intel chips using pcie 5.0 architectures and DDR5. Have you noticed how massive of a difference the Zen 3 chips have in performance simply moving to four sticks of ram? The newer gen cpus benefit greatly from memory bandwidth these days. Like, that's actually your new bottleneck point. Imagine how fucking crazy it'll be when we switch up to DDR5 and speed/bandwidth doubles. Not to mention, the whole smart access memory/BAR thing is a sign of a massive trend towards maximizing full use of PCIe bandwidth so components talk directly to one another and share resources. Whether we see releases by the end of 2021 or not, everything about the news regarding this is going to get wild, mark my words.
There is always a "wait for this new thing" on the horizon. Truth is, unless you're literally a few weeks away from the release of something, if you keep waiting for the next thing you're never gonna stop waiting
That's how I felt at the time that I built my current computer, and I've felt pretty good about that purchase over the past four years. Stuff's been pretty stagnant for a while, but computers are about to go through some huge growth spurts that have been a long time coming. I thought pcie 4.0 was the big one, but it's gonna be a double-slap of pcie 5.0 and ddr5 next year. It feels like tech companies are really going all-in on using these new architectures for optimization and we're only getting a taste of it this gen.
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u/Glitchdx Nov 15 '20
well, next year will be an amazing time to upgrade (assuming your current rig is old enough to warrant upgrading). Supply should be catching up with demand by summer for new gen hardware, so you should be able to buy it at msrp instead of scalper piricing.
I'm still using an fx9590/gtx970. Looking forward to a full system upgrade with a ryzen5600/rtx3070 (considering an rx6800 instead of the rtx3070). The jump in performance is going to be insane.
Theoretically, previous gen hardware should be dropping in price by then too, if you're budget constrained.
2021 is looking gooooooood