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5800X for £335 or wait for 5900X

philo-sofa said:
5800X would give you a decent amount more of per-core performance, so if you want that go for a 5800X now.

But if you don't really need that, I'd say either:
- Wait for a 5900X, if you're going to keep your current mobo and memory etc for a while
- Wait for Zen 4 and go AM5 at the end of the year
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not planning on overhauling my motherbaord. i got the X570 board for longevity

always planning on getting a Zen 3 in this but just getting itchy fingers seeing 5800x is now quite a good discount. i think i will wait for 5900x availability to become decent and see what is what. not in a massive need for higher CPU power
 
Anyway that chip is sold now. Anyway I saw some 5900x priced at £550 or near enough which looks interesting. But I suspect as time go by it maybe closer to £500 soon.
 
i read somewhere AMD is going to have some real 5900X and 5950X stock issues due to how good the yield is on the 7nm and that they are trying to pump out as much 5600x and 5800x as possible as their margin is better on those apparantly and these chips are being gobbled up as fast as they are churning them out.

so my wait for 5900x might not materialise for some time. so i got the 5800X, ran out of thermal paste so waiting for some thermal grizzly to show up.
 
I dont think i am gonna make any money by shifting the 3900X onwards. but the 3900X i will be keeping for a while till I am happy that i dont have any dreaded WHEA errors etc.

In any event, i do think it is a no brainer in my use case - 80% WFH 15% gaming (1080p 144Hz) 5% photo video and rendering (learning the last one).

I think to loose some MT performance over my hobby is defintiely worth it over the ST perf as well as knowing that for now I have the best in socket CPU so i dont feel the need to scratch that itch anymore. (until 5900x is readily available and CHEAP)

also the potential for more efficiency and lower power consumption is attractive. I know people will say get a laptop for that - well, decent gaming laptop wiht the requipment i want is well over £2500
 
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