Gigabyte Z490 VISION G Motherboard + Intel i7-10700K 8-Core CPU + Marvel PCDD EXPIRED

Only $50 off and you roll the dice with Newegg's customer service.

Benchmarks already came out for RTX 3080. Less than 1% improvement in gaming with PCI 4. 10700k/10900k still crush the 3900x PCI 3 or 4 except at 4K where it all is the same.

I guess the question is "why?" And that's more a retort meant for the Intel fanboy than your strategy. It's one thing if you wanna lag a generation or two for the cost:performance ratio. Not much to argue against there. But I'm not entirely sure why people are concerned gaming-wise when it comes to obsolescence with the current generation of hardware. Now more than ever, it's going to be about min-maxing efficiency and accessibility over missing out on any sort of meaningful performance.

4K PC gaming, ray-tracing, streaming and all are pretty much here for anyone who cares enough or is able to invest in a medium ranged build. Higher speed NVMe's will render loading times all but obsolete before developers ever decide it's a better idea to increase open world graphical demands to the extent they would needlessly bottleneck the current generation of CPUs and GPUs.

If not already, high-end PCs will pretty much exclusively be a status symbo. I know it's been overhyped year after year, but this really is pretty much it. We're at the pinnacle as far as naked-eye graphical performance goes for a widely accessible price point. Until we get some legit Tron level shit going IRL, I don't think there's much that's gonna happen where if you can comfortably afford it, there's much reason to not just do it.