Thank you @Why_Me - really appreciate the feedback. I'm purely using for personal home pc / gaming. No real productivity requirement.
Build I'm looking at then is:
• ASUS Prime Z790-P WiFi LGA 1700(Intel® 13th &12th Gen) ATX Motherboard
• Intel Core i5-13600K Desktop Processor
• G.Skill...
Do you believe it'll be vast improvement on DDR4 though? Even if the latency gets close to +/-20?
There's so much contradictory info out there as what the benefit of 5 over 4 is.
Personal suggestion is rather apply the budget to a MOBO / CPU / RAM upgrade. There's not going to be major benefit running a new GPU but then getting throttled by everything else.
Just to give you an example - I'm running my RTX 3080 on an i5-9400 and my CPU runs at 100% when playing games...
I'm investigating the options of upgrading my CPU from a 9th gen to a 12th or 13th gen - which means new MOBO and RAM will be required too. I obviously want to future proof as much as possible but have now run into a dilemma and need advice please.
I'm looking at the newer Mobo's like the "MSI...