Same situation. Sat there with a built system and no CPU. It was nice taking the time to build it though.
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I keep going back and forwards. Do I just get a 7600x now and then upgrade later. Or wait. Decisions decisions haha!
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That's what I did
Just went am5
Bought a 7600X for now
It's. Lot faster than my 3600!!
So I'll be keeping that for a few years
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I would hold off if you can. At least when the 3d CPU’s have released you will know 100% if it’s worth going with one over the other and not wish you’d waited.
You’ve held off this long.
That’s what I keep telling myself as well.
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If you weren’t bothered and would be perfectly happy with a CPU that’s available now, you would have already bought one. Not long now.
Aye I think you are right. Let’s hope the 8 core isn’t 500+ haha.
I upgraded from a DDR3 platform to DDR4 back when RAM prices were hyper inflated, i paid more for 16GB of DDR4 RAM than i did for the CPU, that being a Ryzen 1600, that hurt, but i needed the extra CPU grunt, i have no regrets, since then i got a £90 32GB DDR4 Kit and i'm running it at 3800MT/s with a Ryzen 5800X
Sometime you just have to hold your nose and do it, over thinking it you will never get off your old platform.
This was priceless.
i6 4690K
Ryzen 1600.
Sometime you just have to hold your nose and do it, over thinking it you will never get off your old platform.
This was priceless.
i6 4690K
Ryzen 1600.
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That must have been damn near unplayable in certain places especially. What a jump in performance though. I’ve always upgraded far too often to see such things. I wish I was smarter at times, but I can’t resist new and shiny.I upgraded from a DDR3 platform to DDR4 back when RAM prices were hyper inflated, i paid more for 16GB of DDR4 RAM than i did for the CPU, that being a Ryzen 1600, that hurt, but i needed the extra CPU grunt, i have no regrets, since then i got a £90 32GB DDR4 Kit and i'm running it at 3800MT/s with a Ryzen 5800X
Sometime you just have to hold your nose and do it, over thinking it you will never get off your old platform.
This was priceless.
i6 4690K
Ryzen 1600.
Oh it was horrible, the CPU never relented from 100% load, i knew more threads and an IPC boost would help but in fact it turned it from unplayable to smooth as silk.
One of the benefits as I see it to the X3d chips, if you're just gaming, it mitigates some penalty around the more sensibly priced but slower ram early into a new standard. You can jump in without agonising over which pricey ram set to get.
Noticed this on AMD selecting best power efficiency in windows 11 drops idle power and temps but cpu benchmarks remain the same
I get 1k higher than my previous best and much better temps but had a lockup while just browsing in Firefox so went back to balanced. Power saver mode has always been the least reliable.
End of Feb right?
I hope so but they’ve been a bit quiet about it. Initially the valentines date came up and then they took it back saying it was a mistake and would update everyone ‘closer to release’.
Just give us a date AMD pls.
I think it's even less than that. I mean I left mine on default (I got 6000mhz) and I used DOHCII, ran some ingame benches, same fps. There will always be the outlier but RAM is definitely something I would recommend people not to waste too much time on if purely gaming.
Edit: I think in the memory sub 8pack even said just get a decent set of lowest speed, it wont matter.
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Ha! Valentines Day.. say it with Ghz's. <3
I think it's probably a wise choice to wait until the X3D chips are released though.
I've offered to build a gaming rig for my step bro using the 6900XT I bought during Black Friday.
I just don't know if going AM4 with the 5800X3D is a wise move or go AM5 X3D CPU if it's financially worthwhile at this moment in time?