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frontpage Posted by Eragorn | Staff • Apr 6, 2025
Apr 6, 2025 12:35 AM
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D AM5 4.7GHz 8-Core Desktop Processor
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I personally like MSI and Asus boards lately.
The 9800x3d will work its 98% best every time without any changes to configurations in bios or windows. (The 2% being the extra bios settings).
However the 9950x3d may require custom game configuration changes. And potentially "process lasso" to force it to use only the first 8 cores and no hyperthreading in order to force the cores to go the highest without thermal throttle on ccd0 .
The benefit here is that the extra 8 cores will allow you to do things in the background that are process intensive, for extra streaming add-ons, extra communication apps, or pretty much anything at all. And to top it off.
Having the 8 cores and hyper threads on allows small task background processes to chime in passively without effecting gameplay. But that extra set of steps is the only way to achieve the same game performance while keeping all the cores and threads enabled.
Otherwise you just turn on turbo mode and it disables 8 cores and all hyper threads for you in the bios. But... you might as well get 9800x3d if you're gonna do that
The 9800x3d will work its 98% best every time without any changes to configurations in bios or windows. (The 2% being the extra bios settings).
However the 9950x3d may require custom game configuration changes. And potentially "process lasso" to force it to use only the first 8 cores and no hyperthreading in order to force the cores to go the highest without thermal throttle on ccd0 .
The benefit here is that the extra 8 cores will allow you to do things in the background that are process intensive, for extra streaming add-ons, extra communication apps, or pretty much anything at all. And to top it off.
Having the 8 cores and hyper threads on allows small task background processes to chime in passively without effecting gameplay. But that extra set of steps is the only way to achieve the same game performance while keeping all the cores and threads enabled.
Otherwise you just turn on turbo mode and it disables 8 cores and all hyper threads for you in the bios. But... you might as well get 9800x3d if you're gonna do that
Fortunately this isn't the case. I went from 9950x to x3d version. Redownloaded the chipset drivers…..I could see core parking working immediately
Legit curious.
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Cyberpunk was the only thing that was limited, and that was by the graphics card.
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AMD is claiming these 'dead' CPUs are from memory compatibility issues, but that doesnt explain why a good chunk of failures result in physical burn damage.
Anyways, at this point its hard to recommend these CPUs because AMD clearly isnt taking responsibility and it will be an awful situation trying to replace dead chips under warranty as AMD is pointing the finger at users', telling them to change RAM, motherboard, update BIOS instead of replacing the defective CPUs.
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Had mine since launch October/November and no issues
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