Just watched Linus's performance results of the 5000 series

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Wow!

5600x better than the 10900k!?

I was going to go for the 5900x but looking at those results I think I will go for the 5800x.

Just need to wait for the 3060ti now!

 

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I'd check out the Gamers Nexus review of the 5800X first - its the runt of the litter from their testing...

I was waiting for some negative reports lol.

 

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I think he is being critical. I dont necessarly disagree with what hes saying. Hes right in that, the 5800x is a lot more money, for a little more performance in gaming. And no where near as good at the 5900x at work applications.

The 5900x is marginally better at gaming then the 5800x, but also only marginally more expensive.

So, what hes saying is for gaming, just get the 5600x as your wasting your money for a margin of perfomance getting a 5800x, but...............

5800x is still the better chip for gaming then the 5600x. So just depends on how you value the performance to the cost.

Thank you, this saves me watching the video. I don't want the worse of the three but I don't want to pay another £140 on top of that again for only a slight increase again.

 

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The 5800x also offers a bit more future proofing and will be better for multi tasking. I'd say get the 5800x if you intend to keep it for a long time and do more then just gaming, but the 5600x if your only using it for gaming and planning on jumping on am5.

Yes definately future proofing. I also noticed that the performance between the 5900x and the 5800x is closer than the 5800x to the 5600x.

 

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Nearly went for the 5600X after I saw the gaming benchmarks, but ultimately still decided to stick with the 5800X in the end.
Not the best value option, but I much prefer 8 cores, 16 threads if I'm to keep this CPU for the next few years.

Upgrading from a six years old I74790. The 5900x isn't worth the extra money for the extra cores/threads for gaming but the 5800x is better for longevity over the 5600x.

 

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There's maybe also a small benefit from having 8 cores on one chiplet so you dont get cross chiplet latency, but bumping up to a dual chiplet also doubles up internal cache so it's probably mostly a wash. You might as well pony up the extra $100 for twice the cache and 50% extra cores from 5800x to 5900x and lose 1-2 fps of gaming performance IMO.

The 3800x needs to be at $350-400 to make any kind of sense and that would mean pushing the 3600x down (I also feel this part is overpriced)

Interesting but there's no point for gaming. I've personally made up my mind now anyway.

 

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I'm glad that I started this thread, it's been very interesting. In the end we will buy what we want to buy, as long as we are all happy with our purchaces!