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One 48

One 48

One 48

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What is the usage of the pc?

What is your budget?

What graphics card?

Delete the pictures please, makes reading your post hard work.
 
Its for Flight Simulation FS2020 DCS and a few high games, ARMA ETC, could step back to a a 7900X3D, the 16 core thing was more of a want than a need really, but having said that my current CPU is an AMD 5950X 16 core.

Current GPU is an RTX 3090 and I tend to skip a gen for graphic cards so would be waiting for the inevitable RTX 5090 whenever they surface a year or so down the line.
 
One 48 said:
Its for Flight Simulation FS2020 DCS and a few high games, ARMA ETC, could step back to a a 7900X3D, the 16 core thing was more of a want than a need really, but having said that my current CPU is an AMD 5950X 16 core.

Current GPU is an RTX 3090 and I tend to skip a gen for graphic cards so would be waiting for the inevitable RTX 5090 whenever they surface a year or so down the line.
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As far as I'm aware, Flight Sim is one of the games that benefits from an X3D, so if you can confirm that, I'd wait until April and the 7800X3D is released.

Why the Hero, specifically? Does it have anything you want that a board like the TUF X670E-PLUS doesn't have?

One of the benefits of the X3D CPUs (at least, from what I've seen) is that they're relatively easy to cool (and have low power consumption, especially in games) versus the X and Intel K CPUs. With that in mind, I'm reasonably sure the cooler on your 5950X would be sufficient.
 
Tetras said:
As far as I'm aware, Flight Sim is one of the games that benefits from an X3D, so if you can confirm that, I'd wait until April and the 7800X3D is released.

Why the Hero, specifically? Does it have anything you want that a board like the TUF X670E-PLUS doesn't have?

One of the benefits of the X3D CPUs (at least, from what I've seen) is that they're relatively easy to cool (and have low power consumption, especially in games) versus the X and Intel K CPUs. With that in mind, I'm reasonably sure the cooler on your 5950X would be sufficient.
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Thanks, will try with my current cooler and see how I get on with its temps. Just looked at the TUF and it only has 4 SATA ports and I have 6 drives (and an M.2 for OS) could add a SATA PCIE card maybe, will go look at reviews.
 
One 48 said:
Thanks, will try with my current cooler and see how I get on with its temps. Just looked at the TUF and it only has 4 SATA ports and I have 6 drives (and an M.2 for OS) could add a SATA PCIE card maybe, will go look at reviews.
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Oh, it was just an example of a more reasonably priced board, since I wondered if the Hero had any features you needed. MSI X670-P has 6 SATA and is available under £300, but the primary PCI-E is 4.0.
 
One 48 said:
Thanks, will try with my current cooler and see how I get on with its temps. Just looked at the TUF and it only has 4 SATA ports and I have 6 drives (and an M.2 for OS) could add a SATA PCIE card maybe, will go look at reviews.
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Your looking to drop £2000 because your a geek but you still have 6 sata drives…
Just pointing that out

Ever drive im my system is nvme.
 
Wing-Man said:
Your looking to drop £2000 because your a geek but you still have 6 sata drives…
Just pointing that out

Ever drive im my system is nvme.
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Well that makes you more of a geek than me then :)

The SATA drives will get replaced in due course and especially so with the new motherboard as it will have more capacity for NVME drives than my current board.

At the moment the hardware and alternative options that have been mentioned will give me more of a performance boost for what I do than swapping drives, my OS is on an NVME drive and boots up very fast into Win 11 though.
 
Tetras said:
Oh, it was just an example of a more reasonably priced board, since I wondered if the Hero had any features you needed. MSI X670-P has 6 SATA and is available under £300, but the primary PCI-E is 4.0.
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When do PCI-E 5.0 cards become mainstream do you know? is my current RTX 3090 PCI-E 5.0? Is the RTX 4090 PCI-E 5.0 ... I would imagine a future RTX 5090 would be.
 
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