If you were going to stick with Intel, buy the best items for what you are doing, now, along with savings from recycling parts from your old build:
i9 10850K*
a good Z590
A good quality and new PSU
Good cooling option
To explain. Bring everything over from the old build and retire it for resale. The RAM you have will work with the Intel and won't hit performance hard. Use the current SSD and other storage option.
The reason I say Z590 is that even though the 11th gen CPU aren't super attractive right now, later down the road if you choose to go with Gen 4 PCI drive or GPU the option would be available. If you are for sure going to do so I would probably budget it in place of the 10850K.
You can get a faster RAM kit later, and obviously would be looking out to the GPU as you stated.
Don't forget to budget OS.
And, of course there is Ryzen.....
Don't have to sell me on the z590, there's already one in my cart haha. Maybe I'm neglecting my older dated psu... but why wouldn't I be able to use that? I'll admit I haven't done the calculations like I would before actually checking anything out, but I wouldn't be really changing anything from my current build as far as quantity, just newer gen.
Not planning on overclocking so not sure I need anything other than some decent fans...
As far as OS, I believe my windows 10 pro transfers over? I know it did last time, unless something changed.
also as far as ryzen... I've always built intel/nvidia. I'm not saying that is good or bad, but it might be hard to break that habbit after 15+ years of builds.
If you need to transcode for work you aren’t doing it on your own hardware. My friend works in TV and does a lot of transcoding for streaming and they give them dedicated encoding boxes to do the work on. Nobody transcodes video freelance on their own hardware, this is just nonsense.
The PC will be used for what every self build PC is used for, games. The existing CPU is fine for some light YouTube video editing or whatever and an i5 7500 should rip through any transcoding task on Plex, even 4K video. If streaming on Plex is not working right, it’s not because the i5 7500 is not up for the task, it definitely is.
you absolutely do not need pci4.0 for any graphics card or NVMe drive available today. Maybe one day, but not now. Even a 3090 performs at 100% on pci3.0 and will not benefit from faster pci-e lanes. This is just an empty feature for Intel to use as a benefit for the new gen, because there’s no compelling need to update CPU these days, they have to keep inventing them.
I don't transcode for work. My PC is my plex server and occasionally I have issues when sending a remux UHD rip to my shield pro. While I'm not positive it's cpu related, my current system is below the plex requirements and all of my lan network testing shows I shouldn't have any issue at all with network.
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I do zero editing, but might someday as my 8 year old says he wants to be a movie maker lol.
I do light PC gaming, but like to be able to play at the better settings.
My "should I upgrade" test is simple: "if you have to ask, you don't need to yet."
Conversely: "If you actually need an upgrade, you won't let anyone convince you otherwise."
Me, I might be upgrading my i5-3470 to an i5-11400 this summer. Currently waiting for motherboard prices and availability to settle down since there are no models in stock with the minimum IOs I want under $200.
As for how long the current GPU situation might drag on, there are no guarantees things will get any better until at least 2023 - that's when many of Intel, TSMC, Samsung and others' new fabs are coming online. Intel joining the 5-7nm club should help things quite a bit.
This post is spot on for me. I don't really need an upgrade no. If I did, like I did in 2017 because my 2009 build was crashing and really struggling then I wouldn't have even asked. But, I am a bit of a tech nerd. I don't always need the latest greatest, but I don't like to be left behind either. I am in a good financial position, but also don't want to just piss away money.
I appreciate all the responses here and will keep reading some more before I make any big purchases.