9800x3d upgrade advice

deadly raccoon · 25 Mar 2025 at 13:03

Hello

Looking to upgrade to an 9800xr3d and would like some advice on best mobo and ram to pair. Looking to spend between £800- £900..

Will only be used for gaming already have a 9070 xt to go with it.

Tetras · 25 Mar 2025 at 13:07

usb4 and pcie5 wanted?

rgb?

deadly raccoon · 25 Mar 2025 at 13:09

Hi
Usb 4 and pcie 5 would be nice not looking to upgrade for awhile after this. Not to worried about RGB but do seem to like the aorus boards but not essential.

mickyflinn · 25 Mar 2025 at 13:13

Hi.

Lots of options depending price.

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £479.99
1 x Kingston FURY Beast EXPO 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit (SKU: MEM-KNG-03705) = £99.95
1 x Gigabyte X870 GAMING X WIFI7 (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03321) = £249.98

Total: £837.91 (includes delivery: £7.99)

deadly raccoon · 25 Mar 2025 at 13:28

Thank you Micky for the advise should have mentioned looking to go white on this upgrade as the only 9070xt I could get was the sapphire pure also already picked up the artic liquid freezer 3 360 in white.

Tetras · 25 Mar 2025 at 13:58

deadly raccoon said:
Hi
Usb 4 and pcie 5 would be nice not looking to upgrade for awhile after this. Not to worried about RGB but do seem to like the aorus boards but not essential.

deadly raccoon said:
looking to go white on this upgrade

This is a combination with PCI-E 5.0 and the Aorus Elite, but USB4 is missing.

It may require a BIOS update for 9800X3D, but it does support USB flashback.

The RAM sockets are black, so I figured black RAM doesn't matter.

My basket at OcUK:

1 x AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Eight Core 5.20GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: PRO-AMD-03517) = £479.99
1 x Gigabyte B650E AORUS ELITE X AX ICE (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-GIG-03568) = £209.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance EXPO 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-4800040 6000MHz Dual Channel (SKU: MEM-CRS-02842) = £179.98

Total: £877.96 (includes delivery: £7.99)

Subzero85 · 26 Mar 2025 at 19:19

would the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D be the go to gaming cpu right now ? im looking at upgrading from a ryzen 9 3900x ? and 2080 super gpu

Rob_B · 26 Mar 2025 at 19:33

It's the best gaming CPU out at the moment, so in that sense yes. But if you pair it with anything short of a mid-high end GPU it's probably wasted potential.
Depends on your use case and the rest of your parts.

Subzero85 · 26 Mar 2025 at 19:43

Rob_B said:
It's the best gaming CPU out at the moment, so in that sense yes. But if you pair it with anything short of a mid-high end GPU it's probably wasted potential.
Depends on your use case and the rest of your parts.

Yea i would be wanting a high end gaming machine, so i would be looking at near a whole new set up, im thinking 9800x3d and a 5080 maybe be a good choice ?

Gray2233 · 26 Mar 2025 at 19:51

Subzero85 said:
Yea i would be wanting a high end gaming machine, so i would be looking at near a whole new set up, im thinking 9800x3d and a 5080 maybe be a good choice ?

They're a good match, big jump in performance over your current setup too.

Tetras · 26 Mar 2025 at 20:06

Subzero85 said:
a 5080

9070 XT is better value than the 5080 for most use cases, though depends what you're paying for each card. E.g. £600 versus £1300 would be a no brainer.

Gershy13 · 28 Mar 2025 at 15:12

£800-900 for just motherboard and ram? Or including the 9800x3d?
I'd go with something like the
Corsair 64gb (2x32gb) 6000MHZ CL30 Kit (£179.99)
and
ASRock Phantom Gaming X870E Nova WiFi (£345)

High end board with mid range price. IMO is the best value offering out of the higher end chipsets.

deadly raccoon · 1 Apr 2025 at 18:03

thank you all for the advise new rig is now built and up and running.