The One main thing that has kept me from not upgrading from my 3950x to any of the newer 5950x, or 7950x is that when using a 4090 to 4k game (the main use of this pc), all the benchmarks I read show very little difference between the 3 choices as everything is so gpu bound at 4k. Sure I'd get ddr5 and pcie5 and usb4, but all the benchmarks I've read don't lie........ I'd be spending hundreds on new mb, ram, cpu, and potentially new NVME's to get a marginal upgrade. Maybe the 9950x will give me a big enough boost to pull the trigger. we shall see! If only I used more of the creator side of this cpu's abilities, maybe I could see the reason to justify....... Anyone else out there have a 3950 and 4090 combo, that are also on the fence? (or not even on it, but looking at it going "What for?")