AMD cpu for gaming

[Badger1970]

Hi

building a new pc and was thinking of getting the 5900x. I mainly game and random video editing but not much.

Is this overkill for what I need or maybe good for future proofing?

thanks
S

 

[Joxeon]

The 5800X would work fine but if you plan to keep the CPU for 5 years + then you will definetly benefit from those extra cores of the 5900X going forward.

 

[dave28]

5800x is good price / power for most gamers, spend the change on better other parts i feel

 

[Tetras]

Hi

building a new pc and was thinking of getting the 5900x. I mainly game and random video editing but not much.

Is this overkill for what I need or maybe good for future proofing?

thanks
S

What's your budget? If you can afford it, alongside a decent GPU, then that's a different story.

 

[Badger1970]

Hi,
Basically my MB died so I have the psu and gpu (2070 super). So just need the cpu, mb, ram (although I think my DDR4 2400 will still work).

I can afford the 5900x so maybe should just crack on and get that.

I’ll new post again for complete build ideas.

 

[Joxeon]

Your ram will work but its quite slow for ryzen which benefits from faster ram at 3200+ with 3600 being the optimum speed but it maybe worth trying to manually overclock the current ram you have first before splashing out on new ram.

 

[jigger]

Hi

building a new pc and was thinking of getting the 5900x. I mainly game and random video editing but not much.

Is this overkill for what I need or maybe good for future proofing?

thanks
S

The 5900X is the worlds second or third fastest desktop gaming chip, and second fastest over all. It’s probably the best bang and best all rounder.

 

[OverDrive]

The extra cores on the 5900X will benefit video transcoding. I am delighted with mine.

 

[Tetras]

Hi,
Basically my MB died so I have the psu and gpu (2070 super). So just need the cpu, mb, ram (although I think my DDR4 2400 will still work).

I can afford the 5900x so maybe should just crack on and get that.

I’ll new post again for complete build ideas.

A 5900x with 2400 ram? That's quite sad, poor thing. If you've got 16GB I'd just keep it till you upgrade to 32GB then sell it on. Like Joxeon said though, you can usually overclock 2400 ram. From 2400/2666 to 3000 is not hard, albeit with 1.35v rather than 1.2v.

 

[Badger1970]

I’ll probably get new ram tbh honest and try and flow the old stuff

 

[Orcvader]

If you video edit often then the 5900X will help. If it's occasionally you could drop to the 5800X and use the cash saved for RAM.

I have the older 3900X and for DaVinci Resolve it works great but I feel 16gb RAM is starting to get quite limiting. I would imagine 5800X + 32gb ~3200MHz will be the better balance.

 

[Bug One]

In the same position, I went for the 5800x because of the better single core performance over the 5900x - and spent a bit more on 32gb 3600 ram and a decent 240mm AIO.

 

[StephenJ]

5900x would be the best choice in my mind one of the best gaming cpu`s and the extra cores would help with video editing