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Cromulent said:
Programming and running virtual machines for work stuff. Playing the odd game for leisure times. I simulate networks using virtual machines so having 10 or more running at the same time isn't unheard of. The 5950 does look good but it is on dual channel RAM and has fewer PCIe lanes so I wouldn't be able to use as many NVMEe drives plus a GPU in 16x mode.
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I'm doing... pretty much this and not seeing much issue to be honest. The last drive might well run in 2x nvme but it's a low tier one anyway. (500GB 970 evo plus, 2TB sabrent rocket, 1tb addlink).

Get a stooooopid fast boot drive, a decent main and a big 660p/some other QLC nvme drive for mass storage and you're golden.

I moved to a G6 external soundcard so I'm using no other lanes anywhere (only a single bulk 2TB "innovision" sata ssd on the ports that don't eat extra lanes) it's tight but it fits.
 
Mercutio said:
I'm doing... pretty much this and not seeing much issue to be honest. The last drive might well run in 2x nvme but it's a low tier one anyway. (500GB 970 evo plus, 2TB sabrent rocket, 1tb addlink).

Get a stooooopid fast boot drive, a decent main and a big 660p/some other QLC nvme drive for mass storage and you're golden.

I moved to a G6 external soundcard so I'm using no other lanes anywhere (only a single bulk 2TB "innovision" sata ssd on the ports that don't eat extra lanes) it's tight but it fits.
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That is good to know. Thanks for the feedback.
 
Cromulent said:
Programming and running virtual machines for work stuff. Playing the odd game for leisure times. I simulate networks using virtual machines so having 10 or more running at the same time isn't unheard of. The 5950 does look good but it is on dual channel RAM and has fewer PCIe lanes so I wouldn't be able to use as many NVMEe drives plus a GPU in 16x mode.
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Cool, thanks for explaining. The intensive thing I do is gaming so it's interesting to find out the limits of a (to me) massive chip.
 
Mercutio said:
I'm doing... pretty much this and not seeing much issue to be honest. The last drive might well run in 2x nvme but it's a low tier one anyway. (500GB 970 evo plus, 2TB sabrent rocket, 1tb addlink).

Get a stooooopid fast boot drive, a decent main and a big 660p/some other QLC nvme drive for mass storage and you're golden.

I moved to a G6 external soundcard so I'm using no other lanes anywhere (only a single bulk 2TB "innovision" sata ssd on the ports that don't eat extra lanes) it's tight but it fits.
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That's interesting (for the same reasons Cromulent's post was). These big Ryzen chips are making a real middle ground below Thread ripper.
 
Mr Oblong said:
At 4K ultra? Not many extra FPS. Maybe a few in Flight Sim, or anything else very CPU heavy, but not loads by itself.
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Bout 20% extra in FS and 10-20% in Far Cry games. There will be other games, anything that is heavy CPU limited, maybe World of Warcrft too
 
Looking for some advice from those wiser than I. I am finally upgrading from my old 3750k system and going Ryzen 5 and 3080 (eventually) as I promised myself a no compromises build.

I was considering the 5900X because you know, “no compromises”, but I am now thinking that the 5800X is more than adequate and because of the 8 cores per controller thing folk like Brian from TYC talk about might even be better. Especially as I’ll be shoving all this in an NZXT H1.

Anyone have any strong or otherwise opinions? Thanks in advance.
 
Wangle said:
Looking for some advice from those wiser than I. I am finally upgrading from my old 3750k system and going Ryzen 5 and 3080 (eventually) as I promised myself a no compromises build.

I was considering the 5900X because you know, “no compromises”, but I am now thinking that the 5800X is more than adequate and because of the 8 cores per controller thing folk like Brian from TYC talk about might even be better. Especially as I’ll be shoving all this in an NZXT H1.

Anyone have any strong or otherwise opinions? Thanks in advance.
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What do you do on your PC? The prevailing wisdom is if you just game, get the 5800X, if you do any kind of workload tasks that uses extra cores, then get the 5900X. However, you need to wait on reviews to get a definitive answer to this.
 
benjii said:
What do you do on your PC? If you just game, get the 5800X, if you do any kind of workload tasks that used extra cores, then get the 5900X.
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Yeah sorry should have said. Only gaming. The occasional time I need to do large data work I make the cloud do it. :D
 
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