9800X3D releases Nov 7th, review embargo on Nov 6th

[homerdog]

gigabyte x870 auros elite wifi 7. Computer store here is selling bundles with the cpu, ram and motherboard together. The ram is pretty basic, but essentially worked out to be free based on the bundle discount.

Nice. X870 has pretty much everything I'd want in a platform. That wasn't the case with X670. It lacks the 16xPCIe5 connectivity which is something I would want in a computer that I'll keep for many years. The things that X870 loses vs X670 (less USB, SATA, PCIe lanes) don't really matter to me.

Also there have been rumors of some fairly high performing GPUs coming up that have only 8xPCIe5 connections. So PCIe5 might matter sooner than we think.

 

[Albuquerque]

Yeah, I felt like the X870 made a lot of sense for a new PCIe 5 build. My B550 did everything I wanted back when I bought it, and honestly still continues to deliver even to this day in my Proxmox rig now.

 

[Davros]

Also there have been rumors of some fairly high performing GPUs coming up that have only 8xPCIe5 connections.

They have pci-e 4.0 x16 which is the same bandwidth as pci-e 5.0 x8 there are no pci-e 5.0 graphics cards

 

[homerdog]

They have pci-e 4.0 x16 which is the same bandwidth as pci-e 5.0 x8 there are no pci-e 5.0 graphics cards

I read a while back that the 5070 would be PCIe5.0x8. Latest rumors say it's 5.0x16 but if some cards release in the future with only 8x PCIe I think it'd be best if those were PCIe5 lanes. 4.0x8 might cause some issues on say something like a 6060. This is one of the reasons I got a Z790 even with only a 13600K. I have an irrational fear of bottlenecks.