Building A Gaming PC - Parts Advice Needed

It's making a 12700K CPU limited on GN's review; I think at this point you have to ask yourself what games it would push over 60 average on your screen, and what it'd push over 120. Assuming you've got a gsync compatible screen I think they're the big averages you want to hit. For me, I'm limited enough on my 3900X to find it a significant CPU limit on my 3080 at 3440x1440 so even though the numbers are bigger I don't think it would make enough of a difference to enough games right now to justify it. Indeed, if I was to buy anything from this year's stuff it'd be a 5800X3D. I don't think game requirements are going to take much of a jump in the next year or two until UE5 really filters through, by which time you will no doubt have something even better available.

edit: Actually, thinking about it, my last few upgrades were definitely for specific reasons. I went from a 780Ti to 1070 because the 3GB of RAM was absolutely choking on games like Doom 2016, 1070 to 2080 for a combination of VR and getting a nice bonus at work, and I went from 2080 to 3080 because of games like RE8 and wanting HDMI 2.1 to run it through my shiny OLED TV at 120hz. 4000 series doesn't bring anything like that for me.

I've seen arguments that in terms of die usage, the 16gb 4080 is more like the 4070 and the 12gb one is closer to 4060 levels.

If you're not desperate then at the very least waiting to see what appears on 3 November would be a decent idea.

Not got yourself on Discord group? They usually post the direct link from Scan for the FE.

Yeah, you can't search but Discords groups post the direct links so you bypass the Nvidia page.

We'll that went about as expected

You can still get hold of them if you look around a bit but overclockers scalping on those prices again. Guess Gibbo needs a new Ferrari.

I did that thing where you agonise for ages, concoct a fantastic tale about why a £1700 graphics card is a sensible purchase actually, then obviously fail to get one when they sell out within seconds.

Great stuff all round.

They're an absolute joke of a site who have been pulling this kind of shit for aaaaaages. Like you say it's amazing that people still come back, truly the definition of insanity.

Bought mine from them on launch day, it took nine months to arrive. Never got the free copy of Watch Dogs: Legion that was promised with it either, the offer expired during the wait.

Yeah, fuck that noise. I could afford one, but would need get a new case to even fit the bastard, then a new PSU. Hell a 5900x and DDR4 would probably start to feel like a bottleneck, and it'd be wasted on a 1440/144 monitor too.

Depends on what kind of res/framerate you need to drive and on which games.

You're also at the awkward crossover point with DDR5 not quite being in a mature state but not wanting to tie yourself to DDR4.

I'll probably continue to play the waiting game.  I play this game a lot.

Rather than aim for a res/framerate I'd be looking for the current "sweet spot" and adapt my expectations accordingly.

I don't play a whole lot anyway these days... might play more if I had an awesome PC but I'm not 100% sure

I sometimes wish I wasn't against scalping. Could've made a fortune on stuff like this over the years.

Then I remember I'm not a massive cunt.

www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-graphics-cards/5/502575/verified-priority-access-trial-with-geforce-rtx-40/

Seems Nvidia are doing a priority trial, GPUs for gamerz.

I'll just leave GFe running for a few days and seem if I've got 'enuff game'