I am not compromising as much as I am going for a board that suits my requirements. I could get a X570 Extreme4 which also costs the same as a Tomahawk, but I specifically want that aesthetic of the Extreme4, the industrial look which will slot right into my Cyberpunk themed build without much...
Even B550 boards have pcie4 tbh, just that they have it on the primary pcie. And I have seen the benchmarks on YT and also referenced some people offline, the Extreme4 has very good VRMs on a B550, as good as taichi. I wanted to go for Taichi ideally, because it fits my aesthetics far better...
I saw a benchmark comparison between a similarly budgeted NZXT (The NZXT was costlier by a bit), and they both gave the same performance. Cooler in reference : Deepcool Castle 240.
Also, I do feel that PCIE 4 won't be of much use to me since I have ordered a PCiE 3.9 Samsung Evo 970 for the...
So I currently have an i5-6500/GTX 1070/Z-170k (Thought I would upgrade proccy but never came around to it) build along with a 144Hz panel at 1080p.
I am just not sure if I should upgrade the PC or buy a new one. Because I could pair an i7-7700k with the RTX 3080 and get decent performance...