Honestly if that is the only reason, you are better off spending less money for a lower end card that will use far less power like an RTX 3060 TI or RX 6000 equivalent for half the cost of an RTX 3080 since you are only playing at 1080p. Buy a new mid-high end card with enough GPU performance for what you want to do for the next 3-4 years instead of a single expensive power guzzling card like the RTX 3080 that you can only really use 50% of it's total performance at 1080p. In 3-4 years you can spend about the same amount for another mid-high end card that will be as fast as or faster than the RTX 3080. GPU upgrades are far less disruptive than a full motherboard and CPU swap like you were sugesting with Ryzen 6000.
Understandable. I get some folks 'wanting to have the best', 'owning something top of the line', or 'just wanting to treat themselves'.
A popular want, or belief - depending on POV... on the contrary, it often doesn't work out like that.
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A typo, but I know what you meant.
Erase the futureproofing concept from your memory, because things just don't work out that way.
You don't need PCIE 4.0 for a faster GPU like an RTX 3080. Right now not many product can take advantage of PCIE 4.0 and most end users have no need for PCIE 4.0 except in certain situations, like if you want to use both an M.2 NVMe SSD and add-on PCIE cards like a video capture card. When you install an M.2 NVMe SSD on your B450 motherboard, all of the PCIE x1 and x16 slots, except for the top x16 slot for your GPU, will be disabled and all that bandwidth is used by the NVMe SSD. You would need an X570 or B550 motherboard with PCIE 4.0 to avoid losing PCIE slots when installing an M.2 NVMe SSD and any other add-on cards that are not using top PCIE x16 slot.
That may be for your board, but not all the B350 and 450 boards have that option. I actually had a look at the manual for the OPs B450 Tomahawk, which what I meant when I said "your motherboard", but it looks I had actually been looking at the wrong motherboard manual on my hard drive (was for my MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC) when I said that, because the Tomahawk has only a single M.2 slot that disables two SATA ports. Dual M.2 motherboards actually do disable PCIE slots to use those PCIE lanes for the NVMe drives. The MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC is one of those boards with dual M.2. I'm going to be upgrading to an X570 when I get my Ryzen 7 5800X, because of these issues.
Thx lol I think at the end of the day I’m over thinking all of this stuff
You're chatting(?) it up with a bunch of strangers on the other side of a screen, all with different views and opinions.
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