About 4 months ago I picked up a 2060 Super for my ancient gaming desktop while I am waiting for the 3080 or 3090 to finally build a new gaming PC. Ideally I'd

About 4 months ago I picked up a 2060 Super for my ancient gaming desktop while I am waiting for the 3080 or 3090 to finally build a new gaming PC. Ideally I'd have a 4th gen Ryzen equivalent of the 3900X. The main reason my 2012 build of a PC is holding up ok was PCIE 3.0 support, so for me PCIE 4.0 is a must. The only thing I ever upgraded was the GPU and HDD. Went from 670 -> 980 -> 2060 Super. The i7-3370k (OC to about 4.3Ghz) has held up ok. The 16GB DD3-1866Mhz is slow however. Switching from a 2TB 5200 RPM drive to a 2TB NVMe SSD (Samsung EVO 860) for which I had to get a riser card since the ASROCK z77 Extreme 4 doesn't have m.2 made a huge difference also. When I upgraded to the RTX 2060 Super I ran out of PCI 3.0 lanes, and as a result my SSD is running slower, but that's ok. Suprisingly, I can play the new Microsoft Flight simulator just fine in 3440x1440 resolution on High Settings. Assassin's Creed Odyssey runs well in 1440p Ultra at ~60 FPS.