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I was back and forth with them both and decided on the 5700x. Its 65w vs 105w, I dont have to worry about trying to undervolt it or getting an expensive cooler. I tried looking up if my motherboard has an "external clock generator" to better undervolt it then I caught myself realizing who am I kidding I am not even going to use the performance difference and I dont even have the newest Flight Simulator game so why am I going into that time sink, I rather get something that just works that is 98% the same most of the time.
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I was back and forth with them both and decided on the 5700x. Its 65w vs 105w, I dont have to worry about trying to undervolt it or getting an expensive cooler. I tried looking up if my motherboard has an "external clock generator" to better undervolt it then I caught myself realizing who am I kidding I am not even going to use the performance difference and I dont even have the newest Flight Simulator game so why am I going into that time sink, I rather get something that just works that is 98% the same most of the time.
Honestly saving $100 is a slickdeal. If you're going value and you aren't putting at least a 6700xt in there, this obviously makes more sense than putting $300 into a CPU, put savings into a GPU
unless you are REALLY playing the cream of the crop CPU bound games but even then, the bookmarks might show that your gpu is more bottlenecked (do your own research and find your use case rather than use a redditor level of "headline x says A > B! EVERYONE buy A!!! B is OBVIOUSLY worse!!!!)
Usually situation/context matters. Budget is one of those.
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Honestly saving $100 is a slickdeal. If you're going value and you aren't putting at least a 6700xt in there, this obviously makes more sense than putting $300 into a CPU, put savings into a GPU
unless you are REALLY playing the cream of the crop CPU bound games but even then, the bookmarks might show that your gpu is more bottlenecked (do your own research and find your use case rather than use a redditor level of "headline x says A > B! EVERYONE buy A!!! B is OBVIOUSLY worse!!!!)
Usually situation/context matters. Budget is one of those.
I built my rig with the Ryzen initial launch. Started with a 1600, Rx470 and X370 mobo, then had 2600/580. Just recently did my 'final' upgrade with a 5700x, 6700xt and 32gb of RAM. What a jump. 1440p I'm pushing my monitors 165 refresh rate constantly with maxed out settings. I was going to go 5600x but for like $20 more at the time I figured it was dumb not to get the extra cores. I do occasionally do multi thread-heavy work so seeing the reduction in time for those to render was awesome too.
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This seems to be a better value proposition unless you already know you need the benefits afforded by the 5800X3D.
https://cpu.userbenchma
https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-com...en-7-5700x
Edit: Link to the other SD thread.
https://slickdeals.net/share/android_app/t/16333081
For multi core workloads? probably
This seems to be a better value proposition unless you already know you need the benefits afforded by the 5800X3D.
https://cpu.userbenchma
https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-com...en-7-5700x
Edit: Link to the other SD thread.
https://slickdeals.net/share/android_app/t/16333081
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This seems to be a better value proposition unless you already know you need the benefits afforded by the 5800X3D.
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Com...vsm1823386 [userbenchmark.com]
https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-com...en-7-5700x [nanoreview.net]
Edit: Link to the other SD thread.
https://slickdeals.net/share/android_app/t/16333081
Honestly saving $100 is a slickdeal. If you're going value and you aren't putting at least a 6700xt in there, this obviously makes more sense than putting $300 into a CPU, put savings into a GPU
unless you are REALLY playing the cream of the crop CPU bound games but even then, the bookmarks might show that your gpu is more bottlenecked (do your own research and find your use case rather than use a redditor level of "headline x says A > B! EVERYONE buy A!!! B is OBVIOUSLY worse!!!!)
Usually situation/context matters. Budget is one of those.
Honestly saving $100 is a slickdeal. If you're going value and you aren't putting at least a 6700xt in there, this obviously makes more sense than putting $300 into a CPU, put savings into a GPU
unless you are REALLY playing the cream of the crop CPU bound games but even then, the bookmarks might show that your gpu is more bottlenecked (do your own research and find your use case rather than use a redditor level of "headline x says A > B! EVERYONE buy A!!! B is OBVIOUSLY worse!!!!)
Usually situation/context matters. Budget is one of those.
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