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Poll: Ryzen 7950X3D, 7900X3D, 7800X3D

Will you be purchasing the 7800X3D on the 6th?

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So all of a sudden I'm tempted to upgrade to a 7800X3D, only because I've seen good deals on on a decent motherboard. But I am also suspicious of the general price drops on this board at the same time:
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Asus ROG Strix B650E-E Gaming WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard

Order Asus ROG Strix B650E-E Gaming WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard now online and benefit from fast delivery.
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Seen this Asus Strix B650E-E go down to below £300 almost everywhere (and many places cheaper than even the above listing). Given how poor motherboards are these days, especially when I compared to my current Z97 board from 8 years ago, only boards like the top-spec B650E are comparable in terms of specs and features (I wouldn't want to downgrade to an inferior motherboard featureset).

Is this motherboard worth it? Particularly for buying a 7800X3D? Or are my suspicions correct and there's a reason why this board is seeing price drops everywhere?

Also I'm not too familiar with the RAM sweet spot for Ryzen 7000. It looks like lower latency ~6000Mhz is the way to go, even with these recent BIOS updates. E.g. 6400CL32 or 6000CL30. And I have heard that SK Hynix A-die is the equivalent of last gens DDR4 B-die, though also heard good things about SK Hynix M-die for Ryzen. I have noticed that my 16GB DDR3 is struggling with even simple things like having tons of browser tabs open (NGL, I'm not kidding when I say I always load up my session with 250 tabs!).

If this Asus motherboard is worth it... I may finally get off my lazy bum and upgrade after 8 years.
 
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mahius said:
So all of a sudden I'm tempted to upgrade to a 7800X3D, only because I've seen good deals on on a decent motherboard. But I am also suspicious of the general price drops on this board at the same time:
www.overclockers.co.uk

Asus ROG Strix B650E-E Gaming WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard

Order Asus ROG Strix B650E-E Gaming WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard now online and benefit from fast delivery.
www.overclockers.co.uk www.overclockers.co.uk

Seen this Asus Strix B650E-E go down to below £300 almost everywhere (and many places cheaper than even the above listing). Given how poor motherboards are these days, especially when I compared to my current Z97 board from 8 years ago, only boards like the top-spec B650E are comparable in terms of specs and features (I wouldn't want to downgrade to an inferior motherboard featureset).

Is this motherboard worth it? Particularly for buying a 7800X3D? Or are my suspicions correct and there's a reason why this board is seeing price drops everywhere?

Also I'm not too familiar with the RAM sweet spot for Ryzen 7000. It looks like lower latency ~6000Mhz is the way to go, even with these recent BIOS updates. E.g. 6400CL32 or 6000CL30. And I have heard that SK Hynix A-die is the equivalent of last gens DDR4 B-die, though also heard good things about SK Hynix M-die for Ryzen. I have noticed that my 16GB DDR3 is struggling with even simple things like having tons of browser tabs open (NGL, I'm not kidding when I say I always load up my session with 250 tabs!).

If this Asus motherboard is worth it... I may finally get off my lazy bum and upgrade after 8 years.
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I'm going to build my son a PC for Christmas and I am looking to use the Asus Strix B650E-F, I have a Strix 670E and have been very happy with it. It was not my first choice 670 board as I went with a gigabyte X670 Aorus Elite AX, but it turned out to be faulty.

I only need the motherboard and CPU and it I will have everything, I'm also going to pair this board with a 7800X3D like you.

You may fine this video useful from Hardware unboxed
 
@LtMatt Ive tried increasing my memory from 6000 to 6200 using the tightened timings I showed. Increasing the voltage hasn’t worked unfortunately. After a few minutes of Karhu it shuts off, no blue screen etc. What’s the safe voltage you would recommend? Could it be timings related that might not work with 6200 that were fine at 6000 maybe?
 
w00dy85 said:
I'm going to build my son a PC for Christmas and I am looking to use the Asus Strix B650E-F, I have a Strix 670E and have been very happy with it. It was not my first choice 670 board as I went with a gigabyte X670 Aorus Elite AX, but it turned out to be faulty.

I only need the motherboard and CPU and it I will have everything, I'm also going to pair this board with a 7800X3D like you.

You may fine this video useful from Hardware unboxed
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Thanks, just so happens that I've recently seen that HWU video, but I've also recently seen this video which also mentions this board.

I'll likely pair it with this set of RAM, an AMD EXPO 6000CL30 kit, which is said to be Micron A die. Hopefully some leeway to overclock it a bit, for faster timings, if not the EXPO setting will do.

I'll probably do a full fresh new build, except the GPU. Might take reinstall the dying 980ti on my current build so I can swap out and use the 970, though 7800X3D does have built in graphics, so I could output to a monitor without a GPU. Gunna wait a bit till payday before I start buying up the parts, bit by bit.

Now my only issue is where to put my current PC, still going strong. Will eventually plan on turning it into a storage NAS or something.
 
mahius said:
Thanks, just so happens that I've recently seen that HWU video, but I've also recently seen this video which also mentions this board.

I'll likely pair it with this set of RAM, an AMD EXPO 6000CL30 kit, which is said to be Micron A die. Hopefully some leeway to overclock it a bit, for faster timings, if not the EXPO setting will do.

I'll probably do a full fresh new build, except the GPU. Might take reinstall the dying 980ti on my current build so I can swap out and use the 970, though 7800X3D does have built in graphics, so I could output to a monitor without a GPU. Gunna wait a bit till payday before I start buying up the parts, bit by bit.

Now my only issue is where to put my current PC, still going strong. Will eventually plan on turning it into a storage NAS or something.
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I will have a look at that video.

As for the ram you have picked, I have the same ram and can highly recommend it. In fact I have also purchased the same ram for my sons build, though when I bought it for him it was £100 cheaper!! :eek:
 
mahius said:
So all of a sudden I'm tempted to upgrade to a 7800X3D, only because I've seen good deals on on a decent motherboard. But I am also suspicious of the general price drops on this board at the same time:
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Probably clearing out stock ready for when the B750 launches in a few months.
 
@rchads89 Have you managed to test CSGO 2 yet? The max fps that I’m reaching with the 7950x3d is 400fps where my friends using 13900k are around double this. Very strange. I have tried selecting unselecting “remember this is a game” with no effect.


EDIT! I find that you have to remove the frame cap LOL. Never mind.
 
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Dg834man said:
Nothing you get dc or pwm mode on their own they aren't linked to anything, there should be a way to link a sensor of your choosing to set a fan curve.
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Fan curve has been done in bios. At idle my fans are super low in rpm, load a game and they do not increase. My problem is that I do not currently have a GPU and cannot test the same with a AAA game.
 
Mine is set to CPU Core in bios which I think correlates to the CPU reading in hwinfo. Fans are set to PWM or DC (some I have are old 3pin) and the default BIOS curve on my MSI B650 board is too aggressive for Zen so would ramp up the fans at anything. I have thus set all fans to 40% in BIOS and then I have FanControl setup manually in windows to control speeds and keep things mostly quiet.

My old AM4 board was a similar affair with fans ramping up down under light loads.
 
some boards bios have delay for fan response in bios so if setting fan curve for cpu in the bios you wont get the ramping up and down

I use fan control myself as I can set the case fans curve according to GPU temps and the program is very light weight
 
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