AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core 3.4 GHz Socket AM4 105W Desktop Processor for $789.00 w/ FS after Code

As far as skipping this for AM5. I kinda feel like the market for people who are buying $800 CPUs is comprised of people with enough disposable income to not care, people who will build a high end rig and keep a long time, or people that actually need it soon. Yes, AM5 will be better and provide an upgrade path. That said, as we saw with AM4, that upgrade path may not be wonderful for the first generation of AM5 boards. Also, DDR5 will be steadily getting better during the AM5 run as well as be expensive on launch. Do you wait for better boards and a more mature DDR5 when AM5 launches? It never ends.

how does this make any sense at all?

if you're gonna spend this kind of money...then just wait? for how long? what are we waiting for? what if you need it now? what if you have the disposable income? what if you've already been waiting since the 3000 series? what if you have all your parts? what if you just want to build now? should we just keep waiting? if am5 is gonna cost this much, should you just wait until the next gen? what if you can't get am5 when it comes out, should i get this then?

please tell me, under WHAT SCENARIO does it make sense in your head to get this chip?

i'm assuming that you are not the target audience for it but you fail to even understand that you aren't the audience because you probably only think about yourself? are you conflating your current disposable income issues with everyone else?

every single time there's a thread about any computer part, there is this one guy that says the same thing. "wait." do these people lack self awareness or what?

As far as skipping this for AM5. I kinda feel like the market for people who are buying $800 CPUs is comprised of people with enough disposable income to not care, people who will build a high end rig and keep a long time, or people that actually need it soon. Yes, AM5 will be better and provide an upgrade path. That said, as we saw with AM4, that upgrade path may not be wonderful for the first generation of AM5 boards. Also, DDR5 will be steadily getting better during the AM5 run as well as be expensive on launch. Do you wait for better boards and a more mature DDR5 when AM5 launches? It never ends.

Contrarian opinion. As the best processor of a socket and RAM generation, this processor is worth buying now. As someone who went from an intel 1150, you only had to see how well the 4790K, as the best processor of that socket, maintained $200 value for over half a decade.
Because upgrading to a better (and often cheaper) processor meant new MB, new RAM, etc. I have a 5600X right now and I'm keen to get one of these once they drop another $50-100.

I am sorry!

Yup. Spoken like someone who has been doing this for a long time.

Buying now means buying a very mature and stable platform that is well optimized. When AM5 first comes out, or when the new intel set first comes out, you're almost certainly going to be paying to be part of the beta testing group - and the performance gains over this last iteration of am4 is not likely going to be overwhelming.

I don't expect that the 5000 am4 line is going to rendered obsolete soon at all. in fact, I expect them to be viable at least five or six years down the line, if not more, much like sandy bridge and ivy bridge - processors which are still quite servicable today, nearly ten years after their introduction.

I'm also not sure about the wisdom of waiting until am5 or intel's next set comes out to buy am4/5000. with the demand out there, there will likely be hardly any supply left at that time. manufacturers gauge their production quite closely and I do not expect that there will be shelves full of motherboards at deep discounts. I'd say 10-15% discount would be about the most one would expect. don't forget that there's plenty of consumers who already have motherboards and are just waiting for the cpu prices to fall.

in any event, if you truly want to save money, "timing" the market is kind of a fool's errand. instead, buy a quality platform, build a quality rig, and use it for ten years, resisting every new technology that brings incremental improvements until there is a clear and irreconcilable reason to upgrade.

btw, if I were seeking most "bang for buck", I'd probably get the following:
- 5600x
- msi tomahawk x570 (save a bit more if you get matx)
- 16gb ddr4 (you really don't need 32)
- eschew pcie4 nvme; samsung 980 is good enough
but get noctua fans! don't subject yourself to miserable acoustics for years on end.

12900k is rumored to be better, cheaper and launches in 2 months. This is the latest of the rumors pointing to that:

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel...h-r20-test

Personally I would wait, you either end up with a better product via Intel 12th gen on a socket that will last 2-3 generations or you buy the 5950x at a discounted price in 2 months because AMD now has competition, but unfortunately AM4 is basically a dead socket at this point, so its a better upgrade than a full build.

Anger issues much?

Hopefully you have learned your lesson. 😉

I wish AMD/Intel would build motherboards with CPU and best compatible RAM and nvme soldered on, all as one package, with cooling in the same box, that has all compatibility issues ironed out and pulls the best speed out of the CPU and has ability for user to add RAM or nvme. No one will upgrade CPUs these days any more.