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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

ICDP said:
So if someone who upgrades every 3 or 4 years how will they know if they will see a difference, if all the reviews show is 720p or 1080p settings.
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Rivatuner will tell you GPU utilisation. If it's less that 90 something %, and you want more FPS with your current settings, then a better CPU will help and a better GPU probably won't much.

For my specific case, I know that even in VR (so > 4K) with my 4080 Super, my GPU usage is around 70% with a 5900X. GPU is waiting for CPU. And in that game it even tells you how many milliseconds each frame is taking on the CPU calculations, and it is regularly > 20ms (main thread) while the GPU is spending less time (more like 15ms in render thread). You can probably look at the % improvement for each CPU and figure out which one will be fast enough to have to wait for your GPU.

But my reasoning is: I know the 5900X is not a great CPU for this game; maybe a 7800X3D would be enough for now, but a 9800X3D would be better. And I would likely get even more FPS on a future 50xx upgrade. Plus all this stuff is just fun for me anyway, it's not all about maximising value.

Another way to look at it: they're all testing on a 4090, so those 1080P numbers are what you might get with a 5090 at 1440P ;)
 
chillymarmalade said:
Does anyone know what service the default Royal Mail £3.99 is? It says 5 days but not sure they even offer that? I was a pre-2pm order so wondering if I might be lucky with it arriving this week...

My i5-9600K is clinging on for dear life. All of the other parts are sitting next to my desk, taunting me.
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When I ordered a mobo recently using the Royal Mail £3.99 option it was Royal Mail Tracked 48.
 
Has anyone seen any good benchmarks on ray / path tracing heavy gaming workloads? I like to play things with these dialled all the way up and I know that there's actually a fairly decent burden on the CPU with all the BVH accounting and such (until maybe that gets offloaded onto the GPU in some later generation). Wondering how much of a difference the 9800x3D might make in 0.1% / 1% lows there.
 
pwr22 said:
Has anyone seen any good benchmarks on ray / path tracing heavy gaming workloads? I like to play things with these dialled all the way up and I know that there's actually a fairly decent burden on the CPU with all the BVH accounting and such (until maybe that gets offloaded onto the GPU in some later generation). Wondering how much of a difference the 9800x3D might make in 0.1% / 1% lows there.
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https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-review?page=4
the cyberpunk benchmark digital foundry ran is with full RT, and can check against different cpu's, so a useful start
 
What motherboards has everyone got / went with.

I'm currently eyeing up either
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MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard

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or this as I'm getting a wifi 7 router when I move houses and this seems like a good board with wifi 7

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Gigabyte X870 EAGLE WIFI7 (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard

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Or this one for the same reason but in white.
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Asrock X870 Pro RS WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard

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MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard
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Gigabyte X870 EAGLE WIFI7 (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard
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Asrock X870 Pro RS WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard
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Ah man I was waiting to see what the 50 series holds, but am I going to notice more of a difference upgrading from a 7600 to a 9800X3D with a 4070 Ti Super or stick with the cpu and potentially upgrade the GPU.
 
Cdog said:
I went for an Asus B650E-F. Seems to have everything I need. PCI-E 5 is overkill but has good enough IO and M.2 support for what I want.
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Yeah! PCI-E 5 is overkill for me as well, I'm mainly just looking for one with wifi 7 that doesn't break the bank since an add in card is about £50!
 
I've got the MSI pro x870-p Wifi, a bit of future proofing for the wife when I hand it down to her in about 5 years :cry:

She's currently got a 4770k, so the upgrade to the 5600x i'm replacing is going to be huge for her.
 
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gilljoy said:
Yeah! PCI-E 5 is overkill for me as well, I'm mainly just looking for one with wifi 7 that doesn't break the bank since an add in card is about £50!
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I don't even need the wifi as I run CAT6 to my office during renovation but seems like a given on most decent motherboards these days.
 
Hi all, new to the forum here, but have been building my own PCs since the KIM-1 back in the eighties - yes, I'm that old!

Ordered a 9800x3D at 14:50, so not sure when it'll arrive. I ordered it alongside a Gigabyte B650E AORUS ELITE ICE - which was in stock, but has also now moved to 'Pre-Order'. Anyone know whether that'll further delay the receipt of the 9800x3D, or whether the motherboard will have been reserved for me and waiting for the 9800x3D to become available?

It'd be a bit of a bummer if the 9800x3D became available and then the order gets held up waiting for the M'board!

TIA
 
pwr22 said:
Wow, thanks. That's an awesome UI they have for comparing things. Looks like I'd get a decent bump to the 1% lows and a huge jump on the 0.1% lows relative to my 5800x3D at 4k even!
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Yes and no, that's 4K achieved with DLSS performance aka 1080p upscaled. So if that's what you do that's what you'll get.
 
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