With Microsoft and Sony going all in with their consoles and high speed gen4 SSDs, I'm imagining there's going to be a lot of faster drives on the market soon.
Unless it's an upgrade, I feel buying this CPU for a new build is a bad idea.
If I needed Intel I'd wait until their next generation at least.
I'm fine with PCIe 4 not hitting mainstream for a few more years. AMD X570 motherboards all integrate noisy and failure-prone active fans directly on the motherboard because the chips get so hot. The only one I know about that didn't was wildly expensive, basically all heatsink, and apparently no longer in production.
I'd love to see that one.
The new PS5 is going to have SSD speeds of over 5000 mb/s, and is coming out soon.
PC gamers are going to be jealous until they are able to have speeds like that. After all, they are supposed to be the "PC Master Race". But the only SSD devices on the PC that can come close to the PS5's SSD speed are PCI express 4.0 devices.
That's not notably different than 3500 mb/s in any meaningful sense. Loading speed returns diminish very rapidly because you're looking at time, which is the inverse.