3800x to a 3900x waste?

[rchads89]

Currently got a 3800x which i could sell for what I bought it for and I have worked it out I could get a 3900x for £90 is it worth it? I mainly game and stream alittle.

 

[rchads89]

is the 3800x holding you back? if not I wouldn't bother.

Not holding me back no I just thought for £90 those extra cores and clock speeds might come in handy?

 

[rchads89]

Come in handy for looking at in benchmarks?

Something I don’t do to be honest lol

 

[rchads89]

Well I'd agree with the rest, I'd wait in your position. The 3800x is an excellent chip, but I figured buying an 8 core will stop me wanting a 12 core.

We'll see how that pans out

Yeah I am happy with the 3800x got no issues with it I did try streaming on twitch and my frames did drop a little but nothing I would say was major ..

 

[rchads89]

I think its a good switch at that price. 3900X will retain more value long term.
Bet you won't notice any difference tho.

Yeah thats what i thought it might last me longer than say a 3800x due to the head room on the extra cores and threads as well maybe.

I have had alook around the web on these 3900x and people are complaining about 3900x not hitting passed 4.1 ghz on games was this a problem that has now been sorted im guessing?

 

[rchads89]

No worries thought it would have been beneficial that was all as like a future proof purchase for little money

 

[rchads89]

But but but, your signature has now changed?

yep ended up costing me £68 and i get a free game im hoping to sell that game and it had cost me even less!

 

[rchads89]

I'd stick with what you have, if you're keen to jump to 12 cores do it when Ryzen 4000 arrives or after Ryzen 4000 drops in price and get an upgrade that you'll notice. Also 3900X doesn't reliably run at anything like 4.5-4.6ghz in games and anyway the extra clock speed doesn't translate into an equivalent jump in fps, it's held back by latency so a pretty meh 'upgrade'. For streaming while gaming you'd probably notice the change a bit more.

I went with it mate I do stream a little and for what its cost me ive just done it.

I will probably upgrade to ryzen 4000 anyway when they come out and sell the 3900x on.

 

[rchads89]

This

Yep suppose its cost me £68 then i want to try and sell that free game so im hoping its only going to cost me around £30!

 

[rchads89]

3900XT

Nah.

 

[rchads89]

For 68 quid I can understand you going for that.

Well 68quid without selling the game would you like to buy it from me lol

 

[rchads89]

For £68 it really is a no brainer tbh, GJ!

Going to try and sell the game that came with it Assassins creed valhalla looks like thats a £50 game to buy at the moment.

 

[rchads89]

I'd probably have bought it from you if it supported SLI!

1080ti sli niicee

 

[rchads89]

It's often unsupported but extremely good when it is, I'm still pretty much always GPU bound in games on a 5 year old CPU (my PC churns through electricity like we had a free green energy revolution 30 years ago). Here's hoping we get decent affordable next gen GPUs.

haha yeah i bet! erm be interesting on what the price / performance will be on the next GPUs to be honest.

 

[rchads89]

4000 series launching November and will blow the 3900X out the water.

yeah I hope so! Can’t wait to get it...

 

[rchads89]

I would agree also. 3900x definitely better value per core than 3800x. It’s really a matter what you need. If you are looking for 4000 series chips within the next year then don’t bother, hold out till 4000 chip prices drop enough.

but if you going to settle on 3900x for the long term. Then it makes more sense. You won’t notice the gaming performance gain now but who knows what happens after 3yrs or 5yrs.

I bought a new 4c/8t 4770k some 7-8 years ago when 2c/4t or just 4c CPUs were mainstream and now that CPU struggles with things I want to do like video editing. So I have moved on to 6c/12t as a stop gap before I decide whether 3900x or 4700x is for me.

I went with it cost me £68. I do have a game to try and sell so will cost me even less.

 

[rchads89]

I wouldn't upgrade now. That CPU is still great for most things. Personally I'd wait until the 4000 series come out and see how much better they are...

went with 3900x glad i did and tbh when new 4000 series come out i will be getting one to par with the 3080 if i can land on a 3080 this month!

 

[rchads89]

I don't understand all the hype for the 4000 series. It'll be a little better sure, but not hugely. I'm not sure 15% improvement on an already plenty fast enough cpu can be worth the cost and hassle of upgrading.

Ill upgrade to 4000 like im upgrading to 3080 might as well

 

[rchads89]

I'll upgrade from my 1070 to a 3070 this time as its going to be double the performance. Well worth it. Going from a 3900x to a 4900x for an extra 15% just isn't.

Not worth it for you mate probably not.

 

[rchads89]

I'll be keeping this cpu for at least 5 years. Things are going to start using more and more cores from now on, so hopefully won't need to upgrade for a long time.

depends if amd have a 12 core 24 threads over 5.0 ghz yeh i will upgrade