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Amazon has AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core AM4 Unlocked Desktop Processor (100-100000061WOF) + UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection on sale for $340.86. Shipping is free.

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  • 12 Cores & 24 Threads
  • 3.7 GHz Base Clock
  • 4.8 GHz Max Boost Clock
  • Socket AM4
  • 6MB L2 & 64MB L3 Cache
  • DDR4-3200 Memory
  • Supports PCIe 4.0 x16
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Also 10% back if you use your Amazon prime CC. Still undecided between this or the 5800x 3D myself.
FWIW it really depends on your GPU how much difference the CPU will make..


You're always going to be CPU or GPU bound... at higher resolutions you're more likely to be GPU bound with most GPUs--- so differences between CPUs will appear much smaller.

Here's a story on CPU scaling back then the 3000 series was kind, where if you were running something in 4k max you'd see just a few FPS difference between literally any modern CPU made in the previous 5 or so years.... i3, i5, i7, R5, R9, all meh.

https://www.tomshardware.com/feat...benchmarks

The i9 is barely more than 3% ahead of the i3. The R9 is almost identical to the R5 at 4k.

Hell the nearly decade old now i7-4770k was only a bit over 8% slower than the leader at 4k.

Because the GPU was the bottleneck.


Now drop down to 1440p max and differences get a little bigger... i3 to i9 is now a jump of over 10%... and that poor 4770k is over 25% behind the leader... because some CPU bottleneck is leaking through.

At 1080p the gap is larger still, over 20% between i3 and i9 and almost 50% difference from that 4770k to the leader as your bottleneck is largely in the CPU now not the GPU...




Now, if you're running like a 3060ti or something, you're gonna be GPU bound a lot sooner, meaning the "CPU makes little difference" threshold will drop a fair bit.


In contrast, the 4090 finally gets us to a world where you can be CPU bound even at 4k/Ultra... (which is the only reason I finally moved from my 3600x to a 5800X3D when I upgraded from a 3090 to a 4090, since all my gaming is at 4k)


https://www.techpowerup.com/revie...x3d/2.html

That for example is 53 games benchmarked on a 5800x vs a 5800x3d with a 4090 in both.

Even at 4k you see a near 7% difference on average, and double-digit differences (some in the 20-30% range) in almost a third of the games favoring the 5800x3d... certainly there's many games there still GPU bound, but a shocking # that aren't.


At 1440p with the 4090 the 5800x3d is over 15% ahead of the 5800X on average, and more in the 20-35% range in almost half of em.

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11-28-2022 at 06:49 AM.
11-28-2022 at 06:49 AM.
Quote from av8rts :
I'm looking to upgrade my Ryzen 7 2700x . My primary game is msfs 2020. Would this or the 5800x3d be a better choice?? It's paired with a RTX 2070 Super. Thanks
Yes, the x3d would be a better choice. I am also flying with MSFS and have been looking at a lot of benchmarks between intel and AMD chips and looks like the x3d gives at least 5-10FPS more which is huge especially while trying to land on airports where the FPS drops or VR.
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11-28-2022 at 07:36 AM.
11-28-2022 at 07:36 AM.
Only $5 cheaper than Black Friday, but still a good deal. I picked it up last week, and building out a new rig now
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11-28-2022 at 08:17 AM.
11-28-2022 at 08:17 AM.
Currently running amd 1800x on MSI B450M Gaming Plus motherboard with 32gb ram and a rtx 3060 GPU. Debating if I should go with this 5900x or just go with 5600x. Mainly gaming on COD, Battlefield, LoL, CS:GO and a Destiny. Hopefully to get another 2-3 years used out of the existing hardware. Any thoughts if I am to stick with the same motherboard.
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11-28-2022 at 08:56 AM.
11-28-2022 at 08:56 AM.
Quote from nomoney4deals :
Currently running amd 1800x on MSI B450M Gaming Plus motherboard with 32gb ram and a rtx 3060 GPU. Debating if I should go with this 5900x or just go with 5600x. Mainly gaming on COD, Battlefield, LoL, CS:GO and a Destiny. Hopefully to get another 2-3 years used out of the existing hardware. Any thoughts if I am to stick with the same motherboard.
If you don't do VR and are only planning on getting 2 years out of that MOBO I'd say go with 5600X if the price is right. If you're doing VR and productivity and then the 5900X is better. The B450 does limit performance with lack of Gen 4 PCI-E support so I'd probably just go with 5600X and upgrade in a couple years.

I just built my gaming PC with 5900X and I will plan on using it for 4-5 years or so before switching to AM5 in a new build (if I'm even still into PC gaming at that point). Honestly, consoles are so much easier and cheaper, if I weren't using VR in MSFS I would have pretty much no use for my gaming PC over my Series X
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11-28-2022 at 09:06 AM.
11-28-2022 at 09:06 AM.
I dropped this into my system last night and of course making the same decision between this and the x3d. Something else that I haven't seen mentioned is that the gap for gaming between these two gets smaller the higher res you go. I have an UW at 1440 and capped at 100fps so I went with this as this one and I get the productivity boost.
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11-28-2022 at 11:10 AM.
11-28-2022 at 11:10 AM.
Quote from MrSalty :
If only I could find an ITX motherboard on sale. Haven't found one for a reasonable price Frown
??? newegg normally has one for around 130 on sale i think ?? idk
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11-28-2022 at 12:12 PM.
11-28-2022 at 12:12 PM.
Quote from Vanquished :
If you don't do VR and are only planning on getting 2 years out of that MOBO I'd say go with 5600X if the price is right. If you're doing VR and productivity and then the 5900X is better. The B450 does limit performance with lack of Gen 4 PCI-E support so I'd probably just go with 5600X and upgrade in a couple years.

I just built my gaming PC with 5900X and I will plan on using it for 4-5 years or so before switching to AM5 in a new build (if I'm even still into PC gaming at that point). Honestly, consoles are so much easier and cheaper, if I weren't using VR in MSFS I would have pretty much no use for my gaming PC over my Series X

Thanks. End up getting the 5600 from Amazon. They sold out of 5600x and price went up to $189. For 5600, did some research and it's not too much of a difference compared to 5600x and cost $30 less at ~ $120ish
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Dilbertic
11-28-2022 at 12:17 PM.
11-28-2022 at 12:17 PM.
It seems the AM5 MB mostly have poor reviews, so is it better to go for Intel Gen 13 and a MB instead, just simple gaming, but I am tried of looking at poor reviews for the x670(e) MBs and the 650.. Starting to wondering maybe Intel would be better ????
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It seems the AM5 MB mostly have poor reviews, so is it better to go for Intel Gen 13 and a MB instead, just simple gaming, but I am tried of looking at poor reviews for the x670(e) MBs and the 650.. Starting to wondering maybe Intel would be better ????

Same here. At first, I thought about going with AM5 with 7600x, but read some reviews and will cost $500+ to upgrade (cpu, mobile/ ddr5) plus the used of my old parts (gpu, ssd, case, ps). Not worth the performance increase for the price of the 5600 or 5900.
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11-28-2022 at 05:55 PM.
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If I could get a 5900X for $250 or less, I would be willing to upgrade from my 5800X.
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11-28-2022 at 06:27 PM.
11-28-2022 at 06:27 PM.
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Once I receive my 7900x I'll be selling my 5950x if you can wait a couple weeks

Im interested can you let me know your asking price?
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Im interested can you let me know your asking price?

$380 shipped
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I dropped this into my system last night and of course making the same decision between this and the x3d. Something else that I haven't seen mentioned is that the gap for gaming between these two gets smaller the higher res you go. I have an UW at 1440 and capped at 100fps so I went with this as this one and I get the productivity boost.

FWIW it really depends on your GPU how much difference the CPU will make..


You're always going to be CPU or GPU bound... at higher resolutions you're more likely to be GPU bound with most GPUs--- so differences between CPUs will appear much smaller.

Here's a story on CPU scaling back then the 3000 series was kind, where if you were running something in 4k max you'd see just a few FPS difference between literally any modern CPU made in the previous 5 or so years.... i3, i5, i7, R5, R9, all meh.

https://www.tomshardware.com/feat...benchmarks

The i9 is barely more than 3% ahead of the i3. The R9 is almost identical to the R5 at 4k.

Hell the nearly decade old now i7-4770k was only a bit over 8% slower than the leader at 4k.

Because the GPU was the bottleneck.


Now drop down to 1440p max and differences get a little bigger... i3 to i9 is now a jump of over 10%... and that poor 4770k is over 25% behind the leader... because some CPU bottleneck is leaking through.

At 1080p the gap is larger still, over 20% between i3 and i9 and almost 50% difference from that 4770k to the leader as your bottleneck is largely in the CPU now not the GPU...




Now, if you're running like a 3060ti or something, you're gonna be GPU bound a lot sooner, meaning the "CPU makes little difference" threshold will drop a fair bit.


In contrast, the 4090 finally gets us to a world where you can be CPU bound even at 4k/Ultra... (which is the only reason I finally moved from my 3600x to a 5800X3D when I upgraded from a 3090 to a 4090, since all my gaming is at 4k)


https://www.techpowerup.com/revie...x3d/2.html

That for example is 53 games benchmarked on a 5800x vs a 5800x3d with a 4090 in both.

Even at 4k you see a near 7% difference on average, and double-digit differences (some in the 20-30% range) in almost a third of the games favoring the 5800x3d... certainly there's many games there still GPU bound, but a shocking # that aren't.


At 1440p with the 4090 the 5800x3d is over 15% ahead of the 5800X on average, and more in the 20-35% range in almost half of em.
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11-28-2022 at 07:45 PM.
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Thanks for taking the time for the interesting reply. You are making me feel even better about my choice as I'll be more gpu bottlenecked and take the large productivity boost. After looking through the comments the article that swayed me was this: https://tech4gamers.com/ryzen-580...n-9-5900x/ and that is tested with a better GPU than I'll have so I will probably even see less differences between the two than they did.
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12-02-2022 at 07:32 PM.
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Anyone recommend a good cooler for a 5900x?
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