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>That's a very specific date / timeline. It's aimed at roughly hitting Zen 6 and switching to high refresh rate 4K gaming. Was really hoping I could hop to dd
by Havoc 7mo ago
>That's a very specific date / timeline.
It's aimed at roughly hitting Zen 6 and switching to high refresh rate 4K gaming.
Was really hoping I could hop to ddr6 and pcie 6 too, but that seems less plausible
>How do you decide to do a full new buy?
Gut feel, it's a 2019 build that had a mid life refresh so 2028 is near a decade, which for a gaming rig is good going. Gaming also means a big VRAM GPU makes sense for toying with LLMs because I get dual use out of it. Plus I don't think the 3090 much as I like it will drive 4K high refresh.
...If it wasn't for gaming I could definite keep this rig till 2030+. It's comically overspec'd for browsing and casual dev stuff. Hell it's even got an optane boot drive so that'll last till the end of time
- vegadw 7mo agoI suspect there's a lot of people on the 2028 refresh train. If you bought a 1700 in 2017/2018 - which a lot of people did, because it was so good $/perf, you could ride the AM4 platform to a 5900(x/xt) now and be still pretty happy, but AM4 is a dead end now and the X570 motherboards are hard to find. So, if you want more PCIe, DDR5, etc. it'll be time to jump once it starts to feel sluggish for high end tasks (gaming, etc.) around that time.
- Havoc 7mo ago> X570 motherboards are hard to find They're alive and well in ebay land. The SSD NAS I mentioned was a x570 ebay build because they can do full ECC and ebay was full of old AM4 gaming builds aging out. >more PCIe, Yeah that's the sticking point, though a good x570 can do 7x nvme and 8x sata...so plenty for a NAS if you're up for colouring outside the lines a bit.