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5800X for £335 or wait for 5900X

Joxeon said:
Not sure it's worth spending that much on motherboard for gaming.
Personally I'd go for something like this.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £170.45 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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yeah will have a look at that but think B550 only supports 2 4.0 pci slots where as i will need 3 as 2x 980 pro 4.0 and then the card being 4.0. do like the dark hero mobo and not worried about the price to much
 
MartinPrince said:
If you were doing mainly single/low threaded tasks or even just only gaming then definitely you should go for it as it is quite a good jump in performance and that price makes it very good value.
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Depends how easy it is to offload the 3900x for a good price IMO, i.e. what the cost to change is as to whether it is good value. Personally I think the performance jump is too small to warrant it the spend, I guess its around 25% gain at most? For that sort of money I'd be wanting a 50% boost, or conversely that's the sort of gain I might accept if spending under £150 (e.g. I replaced a 1600 with a 2700x, but only because the price came down on them a lot)
 
I went 3900X to 5800X - significantly better gaming perf in my staple games like ACC, AMS2, MSFS, DCS etc. The only place I lost out for my workloads was rendering in fusion but it's actually not hugely slower than the 3900X was for that and everything else I do has benefitted.
 
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HangTime said:
Depends how easy it is to offload the 3900x for a good price IMO, i.e. what the cost to change is as to whether it is good value. Personally I think the performance jump is too small to warrant it the spend, I guess its around 25% gain at most? For that sort of money I'd be wanting a 50% boost, or conversely that's the sort of gain I might accept if spending under £150 (e.g. I replaced a 1600 with a 2700x, but only because the price came down on them a lot)
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I've had both CPU's and in some of the measured programs I use I saw a 35% improvement. No guessing. ;)

3900X's are still selling for ~£330 so if he can get a 5800X for £335 then unless he's only really doing fully multithreaded workloads then it's a bit of a no-brainer.
 
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.
 
Don't AMD have the option of in the absence of faulty cores to disable them on the package. If not they can always disable in software and then people can download extra cores on the interwebs when they're not looking :).
Hard to think there could be more high end AMD CPU delays. People have waited patiently enough.
 
I still don't think it's a 'no-brainer' though, but maybe I like to think things through more than most. To me a no-brainer is when you get massive increases (>35%) spending very little, but as I said, if he can get a good price for 3900X (or deploy in another machine) then it might work out. Anything where you have a net spend running into 3 figures you have to use your brain IMO.

Sounds like a moot point anyway now the purchase has been made.
 
Well I said ~£330, the last 3900X sold for £355+ p&p (I also sold one recently for £350) so it is quite feasible for him to make money and then on top of that get a 35% increase! Let's not forgot a 35% increase is approximately the difference between waiting 20mins instead of 30 mins - not to be sniffed at.

With the current climate of things incurring Brexit tax, Covid Tax etc, to be able to have money left in your pocket but still get a ~35% uplift seems like the very epitome of a 'no-brainer', something you really don't need to think too long on.

Anyway, it is a moot point as he has a shiny new 5800X. I didn't even mention the feeling of getting new tech and we all know that is priceless!
 
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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