Upgrading from I7-6900K
So, my current system is:
-I7-6900K
-32GB of DDR4
-RTX 3080
I have had this setup since the 3080 came out. Other system I had a few years before that. But when Windows 10 support ends, I think I will need to upgrade my CPU platform. To be fair, if I wasn't forced to upgrade windows, I would not upgrade. My current setup is great. It has been running the same stable overclock for 4 or 5 years. I have never had problems with it. I haven't had to not play some game because of my setup. Its crazy to me as the cpu is 10 years old!
I haven't been up to date on the latest of tech recently, but I think I should go for 9800X3D and 48-64gb of ram when the time is up. The upgrade most likely will happen during next autumn, if Win10 support ends. Maybe Zen6 will be out? Maybe I could bridge the gap with something else? Would upgrading to a more modern platform even be noticable? I can't go to Linux, as I need to be able to run Solidworks. And running Win11 on unsupported hardware isn't something I want to do on my main system.