3700x / 3060ti - Just upgrade just the GPU

[WARburton]

The 7500F chips are still pretty good value but even those we’re seeing better prices last year when I bought one.

i just missed a 9600x for £140 on (the bay) and grabbed a 7700x for £150. i dont think £93(plus postage) is good at all, also there as been a few reports of dud's been sold...

a 9600x for £47 would beat the 7500f to death in everything, if your budget is that tight you can't add £47 don't upgrade and look at your finances instead.

 

[Joxeon]

i just missed a 9600x for £140 on (the bay) and grabbed a 7700x for £150. i dont think £93(plus postage) is good at all, also there as been a few reports of dud's been sold...

a 9600x for £47 would beat the 7500f to death in everything, if your budget is that tight you can't add £47 don't upgrade and look at your finances instead.

This was £92.23 which included VAT and postage, I bought it last September when chips like the 9600X were new out and going for £300+

 

[WARburton]

This was £92.23 which included VAT and postage, I bought it last September when chips like the 9600X were new out and going for £300+

that's super info but its not last September

and it says add to cart so dont include postage, can we see your invoice.

 

[strocky]

And that's ignoring games which heavily favour the CPU, and there are plenty that do.

Citing "youtube videos" from random people isn't much help, especially when you're not actually providing any sources.

People seem to forget that the 3000 series was actually a good chunk slower in gaming than the Intel 9900K from back in 2018, aka 7 years ago. AM4 as a platform might have advanced way beyond what that CPU was capable of but it absolutely did not magically change the performance of the 3000 or earlier chips.

TBH people can get hung up on the FPS numbers, at the moment there's not a game I play in 4K that has to be dialled back because it's starting to stutter or plays janky

 

[Joxeon]

that's super info but its not last September

and it says add to cart so dont include postage, can we see your invoice.

 

[Gray2233]

TBH people can get hung up on the FPS numbers, at the moment there's not a game I play in 4K that has to be dialled back because it's starting to stutter or plays janky

You're the one that brought up FPS, while citing sources you've still not shown.

Look, if you're happy with your performance that's grand but you're hardly painting an accurate picture that's in any way helpful. For all we know you might not be sensitive to framerate drops or stutter, a lot of people frankly aren't. You might play heavily GPU bound games, or very low resource titles which simply don't require a lot of hardware to run well. We don't even know what settings you're using, for all we know you might be running with a 30fps cap. You've given us nothing other than your opinion, and your reasoning behind said opinion seems to fluctuate a fair bit.

I'm not getting on your back here, but it's poor general advice and others might happen upon this thread and take such opinions as gospel rather than heavily situational.

 

[SheepBeast]

I’m in basically the same boat as OP and I’m planning to go for the 5700x3d (can get it for around £175 new here in Taiwan where I’m staying for a while), and 5070Ti. Should last me another 5 years or so and then I’ll do a full system rebuild.

 

[WARburton]

I’m in basically the same boat as OP and I’m planning to go for the 5700x3d (can get it for around £175 new here in Taiwan where I’m staying for a while), and 5070Ti. Should last me another 5 years or so and then I’ll do a full system rebuild.

That’s a solid upgrade plan

 

[Ilstar57]

I’m in basically the same boat as OP and I’m planning to go for the 5700x3d (can get it for around £175 new here in Taiwan where I’m staying for a while), and 5070Ti. Should last me another 5 years or so and then I’ll do a full system rebuild.

The 5700X3D is more than enough not to bottleneck any modern GPU (perhaps besides the 5090) in 4K. I upgraded from a 3800X and let me tell you, it was a major upgrade going to the 5700X3D. Get them while they're still available, cause I'm seeing prices on those things rise. It is a great plan. Late last year they were available from China for 160 american dollars, with P&P all the way to Europe.

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

Is the 5700X3D still worth it now at current price given the newer gen CPUs available? I'm in a similar position to OP but the 5700X3D for sale new seems quite a lot at £200+ given its age?

 

[Tetras]

Is the 5700X3D still worth it now at current price given the newer gen CPUs available? I'm in a similar position to OP but the 5700X3D for sale new seems quite a lot at £200+ given its age?

Still a great CPU, but you're right, the price increases to DDR4 and the price cuts on lower-end Ryzen 7000/9000 have made the calculation different.

 

[Ilstar57]

Is the 5700X3D still worth it now at current price given the newer gen CPUs available? I'm in a similar position to OP but the 5700X3D for sale new seems quite a lot at £200+ given its age?

It's getting less worth it as the time goes on and prices rise, but it depends on whether you want to go the AM5 route or not. If you already have an AM4 build, it's still worth it IMO, it's still a good deal, just not the amazing deal it was half a year or so ago. I got mine late last year for £120. Right now, I'm finding good deals on the 5700X from time to time, but the X3D seems to have consistently risen in price.

 

[Rob_B]

Tricky, one, £200 for one isn't great as time goes on but a full platform upgrade does cost more.
If you absolutely cannot afford a penny more than £200 then yeah go for it, if you can stretch your budget and are ok selling your old stuff then AM5 is a no brainer, going 2nd hand and also maybe picking up something like a 7500F makes pricing pretty tempting.

 

[Nuclear Fusion]

Yeah, moving to AM5 is the issue really as it does make the incremental cost that bit higher and harder to justify.

 

[ColdAsIce]

3700X is complete trash. I upgraded to a 5800x3d and the difference was huge!

 

[Ilstar57]

3700X is complete trash. I upgraded to a 5800x3d and the difference was huge!

I went from a 3800X to a 5700X3D. Even though the difference between these two CPUs is smaller than the difference between the two you mentioned, I can still confirm - the difference was huge, especially in eliminating stuttering and bringing up the 0.1 and 1% lows. Average FPS also improved by quite a bit.