before I start I did not not willingly upgrade from 2950x -> 5900x.
my Threadripper motherboard died & rather than buying second hand, i decided to upgrade to a 5900x
due to almost no results coming up for 2950x vs 5900x on google (or anything similar) thought i would summarise my experience
Before (2950x) - 3090
my Threadripper motherboard died & rather than buying second hand, i decided to upgrade to a 5900x
due to almost no results coming up for 2950x vs 5900x on google (or anything similar) thought i would summarise my experience
Before (2950x) - 3090
- 2950x failed with anything over 3200 RAM
- RDR2 - 4K Ultra - FPS was stable for most part but sometimes dropped down to 30 fps for spilt second, possibly due to latency
- Odyssey averaged around 77FPS on ultra
- I had 6 NVME drives
- heavy undervolted i saw average temp of 55-60C on 360mm AIO
- Now running 3600MHZ RAM as standard no fuss
- RDR2 now runs soild at 60FPS+ no more drops to 30fps
- odyssey averages at 91-100FPS constant no more 77fps
- had to give up from NVME drives as GPU covered second PCI-E slot that supports PCI-E raid
- at stock gone from 15th on SOTR overclockers.co.uk benchmark thread to 3rd (if people care about that)
- generally all games are smoother averages and mins most games saw a 15-20fps boost
- is it worth £1000 upgrade?, possibly £500 but not £1000
- got re-sizable bar support,
- slightly undervolted seeing 49c-58C on 360mm AIO
- Less noise in general from fans at same speed due to reduced heat