End of Year PC Build

Well, personally....after many reviews (youtube videos such as Gamers' Nexus, BitWit, Hardware Cannucks, Jayz Two Cents etc, artlces from PC Mag, CPUser, Maximum PC and many others) NONE of them actually like the 11 series (especially the 11900), because in many cases the 10900K performs as good or better, is still considered the best by many, has more cores, faster cores, still runs hot yes (or so they have said....I haven't seen Temps go beyond 45 when in Gaming Load Mode) and is less expensive. Plus the 11 series is viewed across the board as a "half-assed stop-gap measure, just waiting for Alder Lake and LGA 1700, DDR5 etc to be released this Fall".....Which I wholeheartedly agree with.

So for what its worth, if you would like my opinion....I would buy a 10-900KF or 10850K to pair with your 2080TI rather than waste money on the 11 series. The ONLY benefit of the 11 series CPUs and 590 series of Motherboard is PCIE 4.0. But you're still running 3.0 with the 2080TI, so 4.0 is no use to you. Unless you spent another 2000 (Canadian) on a 30 series card, which you won't be getting until at least September or October when they are projected to hit Retail shelves.....or maybe beyond that since there will be such a long line of people waiting (and still idiots who mine and scalpers who buy in bulk only to raise prices). And by that time.....Something even newer will be out. I mean, let's face it: The average turn-around for GPU tech in the past 5 to 10 years has been six to eight months of shelf life. And by that time, they're already working on the 'newer thing', so whatever you just bought is already outdated. And you can't tell me that in the last year and some that people have been waiting for their 30 series cards that Manufacturers haven't been behind the curtin furiously working away on building newer, faster, more powerful cards. So even when the 30 series does arrive on shelves it will already be old tech. Not to mention with LGA 1700 arriving this Fall (Oct/November ish) PCIE 5.0 will be onboard, so your 4.0 3090 will be old tech (2500.00 dollar paper weight) and you will want whatever runs on PCIE 5.0 of course.

But if you stick with the 10 series (the 10 850 I think is the best happy medium for cost/performance and longevity) you will still have a top-performing Gaming/ Productivity machine even 7 years from now especially if 4K at a stable 60hz is what you want and you don't care about the newest 360 hz 1 ms IPS monitors like the one I saw from ASUS just the other day (though it is only limited to a pitiful `1080 p at a max size of 24 inches....a size and resolution I would never go back to after seeing 4K/60hz @ 32 inches...And I think you would agree with me on that one). I have never seen a 120, 144, 240 hz monitor even at 1440p, so I can't say anything about what they look and perform like. I have no idea. And honestly, I don't think I would be able to SEE the difference, so to me it would be wasted. That being said, I CAN SEE the difference in FPS drops....like from 60 down to 30, from 30 down to a staggering 20, 25, 10 etc because then I notice huge lag and that awful screen tearing which gives me a migraine.

So again, it's my honest, humnle opinon that if you are using a 2080TI for 4K/60hz....Your best buy would be a 10850 (and a good motherboard such as the Aorus Master or the ASUS Maximus HERO XII or the AsRock equiv..... YES, I am aware that I personally mentioned ASUS as a 'good motherboard' but I am parroting what most people think because it is a well known brand....so please don't come after me for 'you've awlays said you hate ASUS...." Because I do, still.)

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