AMD is reportedly achieving great yields on their Zen 2 CPU dies

[NeverBackDown]

You'll buy a new board. So will I. There will be some improvement or feature on the new boards that we will want. Bring on the Crosshair 8! I already have 6 and 7, so what the heck, LOL!

Most notably PCIe 4.0.

 

[Dawelio]

Most notably PCIe 4.0.

Which, as far as I’ve read online, won’t have that much impact today. Due to being such a new tech, that isn’t really supported yet. So it’s basically like Ray Tracing when it came out. Could be wrong here though.

 

[grec]

PCIe4 will likely see fairly quick widespread adoption with M.2 SSDs thanks to the benefits in mobile platforms, where halving the number of lanes required for a given speed would significantly reduce the links power consumption(While moving past the limit of PCIe3x4 for high performance options), so there should be plenty of options available in that aspect. Obviously with GPUs Navi is likely to be the only consumer cards to use it this year and probably won't realistically benefit from it unless you're running them off x4 slots or something, but it'll be there none the less.

However it's been looking like only X570(The only AMD manufactured chipset) will support PCIe4 while ASmedia(Who has made every Ryzen chipset so far and will make the "mainstream" 500 chips) has stated their first PCIe4 chips won't arrive until next year.

Possible ThunderBolt3(AIB or built in) support could be a biggy, but that's one that could literally be patched into current Ryzen boards for AIB support if it weren't for Intel's proprietary shenanigans, and there's reports that the large changes in that scene over the last couple of months that finally allows third party vendors to implement support is what has supposedly delayed the new chipsets & CPUs.

 

[Dicehunter]

You'll buy a new board. So will I. There will be some improvement or feature on the new boards that we will want. Bring on the Crosshair 8! I already have 6 and 7, so what the heck, LOL!

Depends, At first I'm just getting the CPU, If the board makes the chip perform better than in the 7 then I'll eventually get it.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Which, as far as I’ve read online, won’t have that much impact today. Due to being such a new tech, that isn’t really supported yet. So it’s basically like Ray Tracing when it came out. Could be wrong here though.

Zen 2 supports it. It will be supported by the industry as PCI is the industry standard. No reason to not adopt it. Intel will have stuff for it soon enough and then it's just up to new GPU launches and M.2 SSDs to come out which shouldn't be long. It's also backwards compatible so even if they release it before AMD or Intel boards supported it consumers can still use it

 

[meuvoy]

Zen 2 supports it. It will be supported by the industry as PCI is the industry standard. No reason to not adopt it. Intel will have stuff for it soon enough and then it's just up to new GPU launches and M.2 SSDs to come out which shouldn't be long. It's also backwards compatible so even if they release it before AMD or Intel boards supported it consumers can still use it

I think he was trying to say that most devices won't be able to take advantage of PCIE4, in the same manner that uou can still use even a modern high-end GPU in a PCIE2.0 slot with not much of a performance impact or none at all.SSDs will probably be the first devices to actually make use of it, yet, they shouldn't just automatically use 100% of the spec just after its released because the controllers also need to be capable of driving those speeds, and, of course, they would be beneficial only in specific workloads. Also heat might really become a problem in such high speeds. So yeah, basiically things will support PCI-E4 very soon but if you're not actually making use of any new higher speed then you're not really using it are you? If The previous spec could just as easily achieve those performance metrics.