AMD's next-gen CPUs, Ryzen 7000, and PCIe 5.0 motherboards

It takes my M.2 NVME Gen3 SSD only ~20 seconds to load a game generally. Of course shorter load times and transfer speeds are always welcome if prices aren't astronomical. It's a little to soon for a swansong on PCIe Gen4 as I didn't encounter a single Gen5 SSD other than enterprise grade.
I'm interested in the concept of GPU directly accessing memory. NVIDIA calls it GPUDirect®.

My gut feeling tells me software development has to catch up to hardware innovations now to utilize our gizmos to their fullest extent.

Biggest load times are the waiting for splash screens on games anyway. When you can't skip those, what's the point in bragging about 1 second game load times?

Building GPU slot into motherboard? Genius! /sarcasm

I can see this being great for people who upgrade bits every year, but for the rest of us (5+ years), the hardware will be incompatible with what we want to upgrade to. I remember this on a number of occasions getting something with "amazing" new features, but nothing being supported 2-3 years down the track.

I bought a 520w PSU back in the day, one of the good reviewed seasonics... I think it was at late 2016. Two years later I got an EVGA deal and got a PSU+GPU combo from their official site, I upgraded (although it wasn't really needed) to a somewhat top 10 650W PSUs back in the day... some people even considered 'overkill' because back in the day 550W was simply enough...

Now they're telling you that with the new GPUs you'll need at least 1000W, prices are always up because of... something, there's always something... and now there are PCIe 5.0 slots that nobody uses but everybody wants...

Upgrading a PC is quite hard nowadays

Stop wasting your money on this stuff...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K007--xD8DU

with older CPUs sure good enough for gaming for quite some time, but pretty much end of the line with PCIe 4.0.

GPU still don't saturate PCIe 3.0. PCIe 4.0 will be all you need for the GPU for a very long time (unless nVidia/AMD start gimping the PCIe interface lowering the number of lanes, like AMD did with the 6500XT).

For SSD's, it's pretty much the same. Unless you're running a database server, or do a lot of big file transfers between drives, NVMe Gen3 is all you need. There's already very minor gains in load times going from SATA to NVMe Gen3. There's virtually zero difference now between Gen3 and Gen4 when it comes to load times (the bottleneck is not the SSD). When games start using Direct Storage, only then Gen4 may see some benefit. But Gen5? Useless.

PCIe 5 is just big companies wanting you throw them your money.

I'm interested in how invasive the new Pluton security built into the CPU will be. Really don't like the idea of Microsoft having their own hardware built directly into the CPU.
AVX512 support will be good for PS3 emulation, but not sure if it'll benefit gamers in any other ways. The extra power draw as a result of including it is also unfortunate (the top CPUs are going from something like 105W to 170W because of this feature), though maybe it can be turned off in bios.

Heh, new gen coming out. Maybe now I'll be able to afford current gen. I hope :D

I waiting for the "brutal" igp version of the new amd processors
it is supposed to be at gtx 1650 level .....