All these shenanigans just making me want to pull trigger on a 5800X3D. My 6700k bottlenecking hard after I got a 3080, and was hoping to jump on AM5. Was hoping Q4 might have some decent prices for AM5, but looking less likely ugh.

Was thinking of going the 7700 route as well, but waiting for better prices. The mobo prices are still too insane, and not many options yet. Raptorlake is something I would consider if really can't get the 7700 build at a reasonable price. Maybe like around RM2.5k(hoping Q4 or early next year hahahaha) for a 7700 with a B650 board with good VRM design and at least 4 SATA ports as I still use some HDDs for storage.

Especially since I stream a little, I get bottlenecked really hard and can't fully use NVIDIA's broadcast suite. Just picked up HZD up from Steam sale and straight bottlenecked by CPU.