re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

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Man I feel the exact opposite, so glad I made the jump and got familiar with DDR5 and AM5 across the board. Was so much new shite to learn but damn it was fun. Still the top 7700X/4070 score in the world.

Even more so now with Zen 5 starting to get closer and closer, I'll preorder and plop that 8700X in nice and quick and probably make back most of my money re-selling the 7700X.

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Learning new systems and platforms is always fun, but I think Benny is more talking about time value. I don't know what you were upgrading from, so the 4070 might have been awesome for you. But Benny's 3080 is the near exact equivalent in performance to your 4070, and he got an extra two years or so with his card while you were presumably dealing with lower performance holding out. On the CPU front, your chip is better in productivity tasks and they both trade blows in gaming: yours is better in games that aren't cache sensitive; his is better in games that are. But while less pronounced than the GPU situation, he got to enjoy that level of performance for a year or so before you purchased your CPU, and he wasn't buying into different platform to do it.

No right or wrong. It's just a matter of priorities, timing, and disposable income