AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

[MikeB]

reality is it will cost £400 today new, doesnt matter if inflated, next week might be worth only £200 second hard, impossible to call

 

[Bonse]

Anyone know if OCUK are gonna offer pre-orders?

 

[Mr G]

Placed an order recently for a cooler that is currently out of stock at another retailer and asked if there are plans to reduce the price on the 7800X3D, "yes a lovely deal for Black Friday." Might wait for the drop and pull the trigger on this.

 

[MikeB]

For the remaining stock of 7800x3d to be viable it’s going to have to drop in price significantly

 

[Hostile_18]

Black Friday 7800x3D or 9800x3D.

 

[moppy89]

Around 300 I’d guesstimate

Anyone who bought it at or below £350 made a very good decision back then!

 

[moppy89]

For the remaining stock of 7800x3d to be viable it’s going to have to drop in price significantly

Depends on 9800x3d pricing surely?

If there's a £100 difference between the two, I don't understand why a 4k gamer with an actual budget wouldn't pick the 7800x3d for £400 and pocket the extra 100 when in-game differences are likely minimal (if gaming at 4k or above)

 

[MikeB]

Depends on 9800x3d pricing surely?

If there's a £100 difference between the two, I don't understand why a 4k gamer with an actual budget wouldn't pick the 7800x3d for £400 and pocket the extra 100 when in-game differences are likely minimal (if gaming at 4k or above)

Shiny new syndrome, suspect many of us suffer with it here, also extra 100 now might see you through an extra generation later on and save 100’s then

 

[kidkhaos]

Plan is to wait for the other new x3d processors before making a choice but my willpower sucks. Hoping to pick up a cheap second hand 7600 when the 9800x3d drops or a cheapish new one during black Friday and then waiting until I've decided on which x3d processor to pick up.

 

[adamsleath]

£1500 for a 4090

"Jim Carrey On How Rich People Laugh"

well. that's not gunna happen.

but i did read once that the top 10% of income earners are responsible for 40% of consumer spending in the U.S. lolz

 

[Monkeyboysteve]

I really want to get one on the 7th, but tad worried all the scalpers will get there first...
Don't want to risk buying any other AM5 parts until I get that baby in my mits.
annoyingly several parts I want are already out of stock now, (they were in stock a few days ago) I assume people buying them in preperation.

 

[kidkhaos]

I really want to get one on the 7th, but tad worried all the scalpers will get there first...
Don't want to risk buying any other AM5 parts until I get that baby in my mits.
annoyingly several parts I want are already out of stock now, (they were in stock a few days ago) I assume people buying them in preperation.

I've gotten everything minus CPU and GFX as they aren't out yet. Common sense would suggest getting the parts later as they could be cheaper but as my current PC could die any second so I rather have the parts on hand ready to go. I might even get a 8500G just to make sure everything works and is ready for whichever x3d CPU and nvidia GPU I'm going to get.

 

[Hostile_18]

The 7800x3d didn't sell out in seconds or anything last time. At the very least it was hours, I think.

 

[MikeB]

Got board and ram delivered, have 30 days to return, so should be covered if 9800x3d is unobtanium

 

[Subzero85]

Will hopefully go with this cpui and top end 5000 series gpu in the new year, have an older ryzen 3900x and 2080 super, so will be a neat boost

 

[Vertigo]

Fully unlocked? Tasty!

Just means AMD have already pushed it as far as it'll go so there's no headroom anyway and they may as well unlock it for marketing purposes.

 

[Vertigo]

It says something about the state of the CPU and GPU market that the fastest combo has been unassailed at the top for 18 months now (7800X3D/4090)

 

[Minstadave]

Just means AMD have already pushed it as far as it'll go so there's no headroom anyway and they may as well unlock it for marketing purposes.

It's more than that, they've put the cache tile underneath the compute die meaning there is no longer the thermal limitations or clock speed penalty of the X3D chips vs the non X3D chip which is quite significant.

7800X vs 7800X3D - the X3D variant had a 400mhz boost clock and a 100mhz base clock penalty due to thermal limits with the cache on top. This meant the non X3D variants were ahead of the X3D variants in some productivity scenarios, which shouldn't be the case now with the 9000 series.

Swapping them round will allow higher boost clocks and all core clocks, overclocking may not be that exciting but will be interesting to see how the combination of higher boost clocks and overclocking effect performance over the non 3D cache variants.

The effect of this change should be more marked with the 7950X3D as it is rumoured to have both CCDs with 3D cache and probably won't need its TDP capped back to 120W like the 7950X3D.

 

[Tinek]

Depends on 9800x3d pricing surely?

If there's a £100 difference between the two, I don't understand why a 4k gamer with an actual budget wouldn't pick the 7800x3d for £400 and pocket the extra 100 when in-game differences are likely minimal (if gaming at 4k or above)

I paid less than £100 difference (Vs 7800x3d) for brand new one 7950x3D from the store. 7900x3d at that point was like £50 above 7800x3d. Good "old" times. Sometimes it's good to take a look around to see what is available for else price, even though we didn't plan to get that model. These days I tend to avoid new stuff, it just loses price rapidly (months at most) but gains value.

 

[stooeh]

Paid 448.99 for my 7800X3D back in April last year, probably the worst possible time to have bought it Bought a 2nd hand 7950X3D for 330 much later - hopefully I won't be swayed by these new chips...