Replacing my 3900XT based PC

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Hi

I am looking at replacing my old 3900xt system with something a bit quicker and that is DDR5. Uses are the odd game now and then [ BF1 , 2042 etc ] as well as ripping Blurays.

Would this work together and would it be better than my current setup ?

 
X3D upgrade would be really good price/performance given that you'd have to do a whole platform upgrade to go AM5.

With the disappointing performance of the 9XXX chips I'd personally do 5700X3D/5800X3D and wait.

Have you got 3600MT+ RAM already?
No not bought anything yet, current rig is
3900XT
MSI MPG X570 GAMING PRO CARBON WIFI
64gb Corsair Ram
Gigabyte 3060ti
 
Yes, but in keep in mind while the 5700X3D/5800X3D are great gaming CPUs, in fully multithreaded work they are slower than your 3900XT.
That was one thing that was making me think twice , I do a lot of decoding and the 3900xt is pretty good for that.
 
Since there's no 5900X3D/5950X3D on AM4, your only option for both gaming and multithreaded is an upgrade to AM5 and a 7900X3D or 7950X3D.

The 5950X IS faster than your 3900XT, both in games and fully multithreaded work, but the gap is much less in games than to the 5700X3D/5800X3D.

By the way, if the encoder/decoder uses AVX512 (I believe AV1 can) then the difference is pretty big between the 7000 and 9000 series CPUs.
OK then so its either go full hog like my original feeling or upgrade CPU/GPU and stick with AM4. If I went for a 4070Ti I assume the 3900xt would become a bottleneck?
 
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