Asus B450 plus gaming

tmarsh

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I have an Asus B450 plus gaming mobo with a Ryzen 5 3600X CPU. I'm looking at upgrading to a Ryzen 9 5900X. Would there be much difference in performance between the 9 and say, a 7 5800X? The 7 being a good bit cheaper.​

I posted the abovbe at the end of last year, the general consensus, since I'm not a serious gamer, was to go with the 5800X or a 5800X3D. Since then the Ryzen 9 price has dropped considerably so would give me extra oomph for not much more cost than any of the other two. However, would I be better considering another motherboard if I go with the 9? What are you thoughts, particularly as a newer board would possibly use DDR 5 ram. In short I am asking if it's better to upgrade or just go for a new system.
 
Thanks. Not much gaming and moderate rendering so just general PC useage. The i5 is currently fine for me, I suppose i just want bigger and better!
 
Tetras said:
In rendering, if all cores are used (and of course, assuming CPU-oriented rendering, not GPU), then the 5900X is around 30 - 40% faster than the 5800X3D in the benchmarks @ TPU (3600X is included in the charts).

You may be interested in this review:
techgage.com

Cache-Rich: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Workstation Performance Review

First seen in its server-bound Milan-X EPYC, AMD's brought its 3D V-Cache technology to consumers with the new Ryzen 7 5800XD. With triple the L3 cache vs. the original 5800X, the right workloads could exhibit a notable performance-boost. For our first look at the 5800X3D, we're tackling our...
techgage.com techgage.com
Thanks for the article. I may go with the 5900X as price-wise it's similar to the 5800X3d. It will be a cheap upgrade now and I can speculate on a higher than B mobo in the future.
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Another question on the B450 plus gaming mobo, I bought a two-drive nvme adapter card and it works fine with one drive but with two I get a hardware fault (according to the beeps) and PC won't boot. Google says the board must support PCIE bifurcation but I can't find any specs on it.
 
Tetras said:
Are you putting the card in the second full-length pci-e slot? If I look at the specs, this slot has a maximum of 4 lanes and since each M.2 drive likely requires 4 lanes each, I suspect that's the maximum you'll get working (1 drive).

Bifurcation would be helpful if you had 16 or 8 lanes available, since you could divide them to provide lanes for both slots, but when you only have 4 lanes available, I don't think it'll do you any good.
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There are 2 pcie 16 slops and it's in neither of them so I'll do a swap and see what heppens.
 
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