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How often do you upgrade your CPU and Motherboard

i tended to sit on rigs slowly upgradeing for years my longest was about 8 or so years on the phenom II 955 with am3, then went to a 6600k i5 z170 rig then my ryzen 3600 which i upgraded to a 5700x on the same mainboard and my most recent still newish one is the am5 rig with a ryzen 7800x3d which i dont think i will be upgrading for a long long time :)
 
WARburton said:
so whats your current system?
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7950X, 64 GB RAM, RTX 4090. Next time I would love to go for some lower latency & higher frequency RAM kit and deffo more storage. I remember early days of AM5 and my Strix X670E-F board... BIOS revisions up to and including 0805 (November 2022 IIRC) were just garbage. I couldn't run a kit from QVL with XMP enabled without random crashes and frequent memory training even with Memory Context Restore enabled. I started a thread here thinking that I got a dud CPU, mobo or RAM... But since BIOS updates from Spring 2023 onwards boot times became no worse than on AM4. Not a single crash or other weirdness. I'm tempted to stick with this board as it's really capable and can't see any advantages if I went with X870E. Better memory compatibility is the only thing which could persuade me.

cosmogenesis said:
I wonder how many people buy top end regardless of how much it costs? A top end rig must be 5k
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Yup, not a cheap hobby but it's something that gives me a lot of joy. Coming back every day to a rig which ploughs through everything puts a smile on my face.
 
I remember when it'd be more a yearly thing, then getting less and less frequent.

Still on an X370 Taichi although the CPU has changed from a 1700 to 3700x in that time..
 
Recently, I moved from the config of

X570 Tomahawk + 3300X
To
X570 Tomahawk + 5700X
To
B550i Strix + 5700X

I am considering getting the 5700X3D but I think I’m more likely to move to a 7800X3D or 7700X3D since I want to play around with DDR5 and move to mATX from ITX.

Historically, I’ve never upgraded my CPU and just moved to a whole new platform

3770 non-K and Asrock Z77
To
I3-8100 and a Z370 MSI something motherboard.

It makes less sense to upgrade the CPU over the GPU these days so I’ve gone through far more GPU upgrades in that time.
 
typically every 5 years or when i get an upgrade itch.. you don't get to tinker much if you don't plan to upgrade... but with my current setup, i only plan to upgrade the CPU to the 99xx x3d if they are any good and/or the GPU
 
Roughly every 5-8 years depending. Currently running a Ryzen 3700X which was released just over 5 years ago, and I bought it second hand in 2021. I probably won't upgrade until 2027 at the earliest, so at that point I'll have owned it for 6 years. Or looking at it relative to release date, it'd be 8 years.
 
AM4 has been great. I had a 3470 then got a b450 and 1600af when it came out. Just upgraded to a 5700x3d and a 3070. Will maybe upgrade when the 3070 is too slow. I only upgraded because my rx 480 was getting a bit slow.
 
JollyJamma said:
Recently, I moved from the config of

X570 Tomahawk + 3300X
To
X570 Tomahawk + 5700X
To
B550i Strix + 5700X

I am considering getting the 5700X3D but I think I’m more likely to move to a 7800X3D or 7700X3D since I want to play around with DDR5 and move to mATX from ITX.

Historically, I’ve never upgraded my CPU and just moved to a whole new platform

3770 non-K and Asrock Z77
To
I3-8100 and a Z370 MSI something motherboard.

It makes less sense to upgrade the CPU over the GPU these days so I’ve gone through far more GPU upgrades in that time.
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i had a tomahawk max b450 board with the 5700x ryzen, and went from that to the am5 rig with the 7800x3d, brilliant upgrade, i had the same graphics card i bought last christmas as well in both rigs the amd 7800xt and playing games at 1440p, my minimums increased a lot and my fps is a lot more stable across the board do it plus you can just slot in a new cpu when the 7800x3d is supersecded in a few gens :)
 
jms198 said:
AM4 has been great. I had a 3470 then got a b450 and 1600af when it came out. Just upgraded to a 5700x3d and a 3070. Will maybe upgrade when the 3070 is too slow. I only upgraded because my rx 480 was getting a bit slow.
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yeh am4 is a brilliant platform, i would be on it still if my gran never offered to buy me some pc parts, i am noticing a difference on am5 though with the same gpu, both rigs had corsair veangence 32 gig as well and same nvme windows is on :)

the rx 480 was a brill card for the time it demolished the witcher 3 and doom 2016 at 1080p had the 8 gig reference one on launch day, i went from a 270x 2gig to the 8 gig rx480 with a i5 6600k the rx480 was a massive leap at the time lol
:)
 
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There is a bit of buyers remorse on the 5700x3d. I could have just got a cheap 5600 and put the difference towards a new build in the future. The 5600 shouldn't bottleneck a 3070.
 
JollyJamma said:
Recently, I moved from the config of

X570 Tomahawk + 3300X
To
X570 Tomahawk + 5700X
To
B550i Strix + 5700X

I am considering getting the 5700X3D but I think I’m more likely to move to a 7800X3D or 7700X3D since I want to play around with DDR5 and move to mATX from ITX.

Historically, I’ve never upgraded my CPU and just moved to a whole new platform

3770 non-K and Asrock Z77
To
I3-8100 and a Z370 MSI something motherboard.

It makes less sense to upgrade the CPU over the GPU these days so I’ve gone through far more GPU upgrades in that time.
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What's with the motherboard change?
 
I used to upgrade every 2 years or so but then playing games at the max settings wasn't that important for me anymore. I'm currently looking to upgrade and my current system is a very ancient i7-4790K and a 970. I would have probably upgraded earlier but for a long time I kind of stopped playing games minus the odd session of CS, TF2 or civilization and my system was fine playing them at 1080p. Last few years, I got somewhat back into playing games but having a massive 4k TV with both a PS5 and Xbox series X kept me content. Recently, though I had a son and for some reason the TV is now his so its time for a new PC plus a steam deck or rog ally x.
 
jms198 said:
There is a bit of buyers remorse on the 5700x3d. I could have just got a cheap 5600 and put the difference towards a new build in the future. The 5600 shouldn't bottleneck a 3070.
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JediFragger said:
No but think about it another way, the 5700X3D probably wouldn't really bottleneck a 4080S so you'd get more mileage out of the older sys.
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my brother as a 3070 aorus master and noticed a good uplift in average FPS and a big uplift in 1% lows.

he like me upgraded from a 5600 to a 5800x3d (i have the 5700x3d) there is literally 2% differance in the 2 cpu's
 
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