[SOLVED] Will a new PCI-e standard need a new LGA socket?

[avg9956]

In the case of anticipating an Intel PCI-e 4.0 motherboard which is slated to come out Q1 of 2021 (this year). Let's say I have a LGA 1200
Does a new PCI-e standard necessarily mean that you would need a new LGA (i.e. LGA 1200 CPUs won't be compatible)?
I haven't quite noticed if this was the case when PCI-e 3.0 came out back then when motherboards where PCI-e 2.0.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Rocket Lake cpus (11th gen supporting PCIE 4.0) will be on LGA1200.
Next will be Alder Lake and Meteor lake on LGA1700.

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[avg9956]

Was planning to get a core i9 10900
From its name its a 10th gen cpu, sadly it cannot support PCIE-4.0
However nice to know, that a new PCI-e standard doesn't necessarily mean your LGA compatibiltiy will change.
Its a per CPU generation basis

Rocket Lake cpus (11th gen supporting PCIE 4.0) will be on LGA1200.

Either way I will suffer a double buy of motherboard and cpu again if I ever decide to spend the cost just to be able to get a PCIE-4.0 motherboard
(Even if you get a CPU that supports PCI-e 4.0, but your motherboard still has that PCI-e 3.0 slot, it will still basically boil down to PCI-e 3.0)

The retailer has listed down 14 Rocket Lake and 5 Comet Lake Refresh Desktop CPUs. All of these are part of the 11th Generation Core lineup that is planned for launch in March 2021. Do note that the prices mentioned here are preliminary and should get lower once we get close to launch. The Intel Rocket Lake CPUs will be featuring the brand new Cypress Cove cores while the Comet Lake Refresh Desktop CPUs will be based on the refined Skylake architecture.

Oh goodness, so I'm pretty much gonna have to wait till March. Probably add 1-2 month because of Covid, so those CPUs might come out available to me by April-May 🙁

 

[SkyNetRising]

Why exactly do you need PCIE 4.0 so bad?

 

[avg9956]

Why exactly do you need PCIE 4.0 so bad?

Idk why I get this question often lol. Its not that I'm desperate, but rather for future proofing (5-10 years).
I don't upgrade my PC often, I only do soeither at the 5 or 10 year mark. I spend less often, get to save more, and use that money to earn more money.

What if there's a chance that any of the big semi conductor giants made a revolutionary invention that would maximize the bandwidth of PCI-e 3.0
With the rise of NVMe M.2 drives, it might become a mainstream thing in the next several years. PCI-e 4.0 would definitely make sense with it. What are the chances of Nvidia making a PCI-e 4.0 GPU within a decade?
SATA might just go out of the box, just as optical drives already did. All of this is speculation of course, but there's nothing equally wrong with future proofing too. The nature of technology is just that it keeps on changing, at a rather steady pace.

 

[SkyNetRising]

What are the chances of Nvidia making a PCI-e 4.0 GPU within a decade?

Chances? It has been done already. Latest Nvidia cards already are PCIE 4.0.
Not that it matters. Close to zero performance difference for current gen cards on PCIE 3.0 vs PCIE 4.0.

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[SamirD]

Does a new PCI-e standard necessarily mean that you would need a new LGA (i.e. LGA 1200 CPUs won't be compatible)?
I haven't quite noticed if this was the case when PCI-e 3.0 came out back then when motherboards where PCI-e 2.0.

That's usually what is required since a lot of the controllers are in the cpu these days as opposed to the motherboard.