5900x to Ryzen 7 5700G AM4

BuckOff · Friday at 14:55

I have the 5900x with a MSI RTX 3060 VENTUS 3X, basically I don't use it to it's potential, so was looking at maybe, utilising the AM4 motherboard and swapping the CPU for the 5700G, it'll be less power hungry, Is this doable or even recommended. Any help appreciated.

Grimley · Friday at 15:31

Just bear in mind that you would lose 4 cores and 8 threads, plus a drop in default speed by 10GHz. That may effect productivity for things you may want to do in the future. Plus side would be power consumption as you said.

mickyflinn · Friday at 15:47

You will also limited to pcie3 for the GPU and m2 drives using the 5700g, I wouldn't do it.

Tetras · Friday at 16:11

If you're going to make that switch I'd get a 5700X3D (for gaming) or a 5700X. The 5700G has half the cache compared to the 5700X and is limited to PCI-E 3 as stated. The 5700G would only make sense if you want to remove the 3060 from your PC, but I can't imagine that you do.

The 5700G is more efficient than the 5900X when lightly threaded, but the difference isn't huge since the 5900X doesn't unnecessarily run full pelt 24/7.

If you want a simulation of the differences, disable one of the CCDs (giving you 6 cores) and monitor power usage via hwinfo's sensor tab.

BuckOff · Friday at 20:04

mickyflinn said:
You will also limited to pcie3 for the GPU and m2 drives using the 5700g, I wouldn't do it.

I'm wanting to lose the GPU too, to be fair, I don't game or anything really.

Joxeon · Friday at 20:34

What are you using the PC for?

BuckOff · Friday at 20:48

Joxeon said:
What are you using the PC for?

Probably the most tasking thing it will do, is a bit of photo editing.
Maybe it's time to upgrade, something not too power hungry with igpu ‍

mickyflinn · Friday at 21:06

BuckOff said:
I'm wanting to lose the GPU too, to be fair, I don't game or anything really.

Then you don't have a choice.