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5800x now vs 5900x pre-order

KungFuSpaghetti said:
Same as others, I was looking at the 5900x since the start, however the 6 good cores and 6 weak cores put me off, but then the 5800x has been priced too high. Well, until now, I just paid £372 for a 5800x which I've no issue with as I've not changed mobo once on AM4 platform :)
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Pm me if you know where to get them at that price
 
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Thanks for the advice chaps. I'm going to stick with the 5800x and stick the difference towards a 3080 to replace my ageing 1080 FE - although it seems like getting one will be a big test of patience :D
 
I actually had a rethink on this and decided for me the 5800x was the better option even though the 5900x is the better chip, in my case:
- I could get it immediately
- I could pay for it via vouchers accrued as gift/reward at a certain retailer
- Can now sell on my old components faster whilst demand is high
- new price drop of the 5800x to £400
- single CCX being good for games
- only 8 cores to cool meaning higher sustained OC settings in theory
- PBO2 and Curve Optimiser negating much of the 5900x advantage in gaming workloads
 
If i could actually get a GPU now, i'd forget waiting for the 5900X to come back into stock and get the 5800X.

I suppose i could build my new system and slap my 980TI in.
 
Typical, I paid £429 :rolleyes:

£379 is a bargain! I wonder if people aren’t buying the 5800x because it’s not a big enough jump over the popular 5600x.

I’d have gone 5900x if I could have found one.
 
I got mine for £350 today. Coming from a 9700k, which I sold for £220, thought the difference was worth it for 3 years warranty and all the new features for the future.
 
I'm upgrading from 3700x and not interested in the overpriced 5900x. I'm not sure if the 5800x is enough of an upgrade. I wouldn't go 5600x as I'd be dropping 2 cores.

So it's 5800x or stick with the 3700x. Decisions decisions..
 
Dirk Diggler said:
I'm upgrading from 3700x and not interested in the overpriced 5900x. I'm not sure if the 5800x is enough of an upgrade. I wouldn't go 5600x as I'd be dropping 2 cores.

So it's 5800x or stick with the 3700x. Decisions decisions..
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I guess it all boils down to whether you want/need that extra single core performance / higher clock speeds.

That single core performance was my main motivation to jump from 3600, as I have titles that were limited by it.
 
£379 for the 5800x was enough for me to cancel my 5900x preorder with another retailer, and order the 5800x from OC. That is a fair price per core imo and I was fed up of the waiting and uncertainty.
 
BigBANGtheory said:
I actually had a rethink on this and decided for me the 5800x was the better option even though the 5900x is the better chip, in my case:
- I could get it immediately
- I could pay for it via vouchers accrued as gift/reward at a certain retailer
- Can now sell on my old components faster whilst demand is high
- new price drop of the 5800x to £400
- single CCX being good for games
- only 8 cores to cool meaning higher sustained OC settings in theory
- PBO2 and Curve Optimiser negating much of the 5900x advantage in gaming workloads
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The Ryzen 9 will be easier to cool die as the heat is distributed over a pair of chiplets.
 
It's certainly tempting to get the 5800x now. Like many others I have parts gathering dust. I want to use my new PC for video editing and streaming so the 5900x is a better proposition. I just don't know how long I can wait...
 
I was hoping for a 5900x - being 12 core it will still have advantage over the new Intel CPUs but there's no sign of stock and when it does come it will likely be priced a fair bit above this 5800x price so I've gone for a 5800x to make use of parts in hand.

For normal PC use and gaming its hard to make a completely wrong CPU choice but prices are bound to drop when the Intel chips fully launch. For now I'd rather get on with a build and getting it working well and then get back to trying to decide on a GPU.
 
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