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AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Processor upgrade

syfer1987

syfer1987

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For gaming go with a 5800X3D or 5700X3D if you want to stay on AM4, 5700X3D tends to be much better value. For non gaming you can get better 5000 series CPUs but it's a balance.

Yes a 5700X3D will bottleneck a 4090 at certain resolutions.

If you don't want to be bottlenecked (or at least have minimal) then you'd need a platform upgrade, so the question is, what is your budget and desire to do a full upgrade?
 
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syfer1987 said:
it keeps telling me it might be a bottle neck. Does any one know if this is true?
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There's always a bottleneck, but as always, it depends on the game, the resolution and the detail used.

Will be there less of a CPU bottleneck than with your 3600? Yes.

syfer1987 said:
Can I ask if I should go with Ryzen 9 or a Ryzen 7 3d?
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Just for gaming, the 5700X3D is better. For productivity, the 5900X/5950X are better.
 
Well its for gaming and light 3d work. What one would you say is best? Would 3d one give me better in all round cpu or should i go for x cpu so hard to pick.
 
syfer1987 said:
What one would you say is best?
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The X3D would give you significantly higher gaming performance and only a small boost to productivity.

The 5900/5950 would give you much higher productivity performance, but only a small boost to gaming performance.

If games is the priority, just get the X3D.

You need to have workloads that you spend minutes/hours waiting around for things to complete, with the CPU stuck at 100%, to really need 12 or 16 cores.
 
Tetras said:
What do you use the PC for?

If games, which games, what is the graphics card and the resolution of the monitor?
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Mix of games really. DCS World, Baldurs Gate 3, ARMA III and Squad. Looking at picking up Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 though.

I do a bit of web dev work as well with Docker, Linux On Windows (WSL2) etc.

Running an EVGA 3080 FTW3 at 1440p 165 Hz.
 
Dunks said:
Mix of games really. DCS World, Baldurs Gate 3, ARMA III and Squad. Looking at picking up Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 though.

I do a bit of web dev work as well with Docker, Linux On Windows (WSL2) etc.

Running an EVGA 3080 FTW3 at 1440p 165 Hz.
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Sounds like the 5700X3D would be the better choice for you, than the 5900/5950.
 
Dunks said:
What’s the differences? Not worth the extra ££ for the difference in performance or?
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The extra cores of the 5900/5950 are much less useful for gaming (at least, in 99% of games) than the bigger cache of the 5700X3D and from what you described, you don't need the extra cores for your work, so the loss of gaming performance from going for the 12/16 core models wouldn't be justified.
 
sorry for the late reply i use my 1080p tv and have a rtx 4090 24gb from Japan which I have ordered online. i don't think its a scam but ill let you know. Games-wise gear of war 5 and the halo and gta 5.
 
syfer1987 said:
sorry for the late reply i use my 1080p tv and have a rtx 4090 24gb from Japan which I have ordered online. i don't think its a scam but ill let you know. Games-wise gear of war 5 and the halo and gta 5.
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You will almost certainly be heavily CPU-bottlenecked at 1080p, so I'd get the 5700X3D, or the 5800X3D if you can get one for a reasonable price.
 
Compared to a 3600 the 5700x3d will give massive boost to productivity and gaming since your gaining 2 extra cores more IPC and the vcache. It won't do well Vs a 5950x in video encoding but since your comparing it to your 3600 the difference will be huge.
 
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I imported a brand new 5700X3D from china for around £115 back last year, runs super cool and sips power, it’s a great cpu for gaming for the price.

I eventually upgraded to a 9800X3D which did provide some gains with my 4090 but then that CPU was nearly 5x the price.
 
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