Swapping from 5800x to 5700x3d….nuts or not

[MikeB]

Have a 5800x, not a pc power user, game at superwide 1440p.

Would a 5700x3d help in gaming, keep reading about those 1% lows, reckon by time I imported the 5700x3d and sold the 5800x I’d be about 70 quid down, seems a decent way to hold on until A full upgrade to 9800x3d

Running a 3080, plan to buy a 5070/5080.

All advice welcome

 

[MikeB]

Thanks for response all, my onlyo/c is via auto, I tend not to muck about too much.

Advice seems to be, not worth it, will wait for a full upgrade I guess

 

[MikeB]

Right now frostpunk, COD, AoE, BD3 very eclectic mix

 

[MikeB]

Thanks all, done more research and on strategy games etc it appears the x3d does make a difference, think I will go for it, expect to see a well loved non thrashed 5800x for sale soon

 

[MikeB]

£70 upgrade? I wouldn't

£70 ish, £126 for the 5700x3d - whatever a 5800x goes for

 

[MikeB]

Yep, going for it, on hols at mo will order when back.

Ultimately will go for the 9800x3d and 5070/5080 NVIDIA card but bored of waiting

 

[MikeB]

This is a tech site, logic doesn’t always come into it, had the 5800x for years want something new and the tech I want is months out, feel same about my 3800fe

 

[MikeB]

The % increase would paint a clearer picture of the gains you'd expect, 10-20fps doesn't mean anything on it's own. The alternative doesn't have to be spending £600 on AM5, he could just keep the 5800X because the gains would be extremely dependant on the title, and for general usage, productivity it's worse.

All this is assuming the 1% lows are actually causing a problem that the 5700X3D is gong to noticeably fix.

General usage / productivity is surfing, streaming and the odd bit of excel/word, can’t believe I’ll notice anything

 

[MikeB]

Nah you won't notice in those things, sounds like the 5800X was already overkill for your non-gaming usage!

Totally, I tend to buy big and then not bother touching for a few years, hence wanting the 9800x3d and 5080

 

[MikeB]

Made the swap, not noticed much difference, 5800x going on MM soon

 

[MikeB]

told you. For general use there really isn't much in it. Just snappier in applications, an older multi core isn't slow. It's only if you have a single core CPU it's bit of a snore fest.

Scratched an itch and also installed an aio (yes I know I didn’t need that either)

 

[MikeB]

Make sure your CPU does actually boost to 4.05GHz or else you may have an issue where you're motherboard is constricting your CPU performance which can happen when changing from an non-x3d to a x3d depending on what overclock you might have setup before. A factory bios reset is probably the best bet when changing the CPU.

Happened to me, updated bios and reinstalled windows, works fine now