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***The Official 5900X \5950X owners thread***

Thanks for the info. Well I was planning on passing my CPU onto my daughter and getting her a cheap motherboard and RAM, and using the 5900x to tide me over until the newer generation is here and has settled down a bit. Depends how expensive a complete upgrade for me to the new generation and passing my current CPU MB and RAM on to her is by comparison with upgrading my CPU and getting her a cheap MB and RAM to go with it.
 
Ravenger said:
Thanks for the info. Well I was planning on passing my CPU onto my daughter and getting her a cheap motherboard and RAM, and using the 5900x to tide me over until the newer generation is here and has settled down a bit. Depends how expensive a complete upgrade for me to the new generation and passing my current CPU MB and RAM on to her is by comparison with upgrading my CPU and getting her a cheap MB and RAM to go with it.
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Buying your daughter a cheap motherboard and ram is going to be far more cost effective than buying new gen parts.
 
Minstadave said:
Probably not, you're likely to be mostly GPU bound in games at that res. A 3800X to a 5700X might be a cheap upgrade I'd consider though.
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This. It might only cost you £40 when all said and done and should give a decent uplift in single thread games. If your productivity is light it won't be a down grade. The 3700x I just replaced had no probs multitasking 9-5 with loads of multitasking of DB's, IDE's, and image software like gimp etc. Never once was it an issue.
 
Well I've bought the 5900X to replace my 3900X as it's dropped in price significantly.
Installing CPUs is my least favourite part of building a PC due to all the things that can go wrong, and as I have a huge air-cooler it's going to be fun getting it off the old CPU, cleaning it, then refitting. Going to be ultra careful.

I've been wanting to re-paste my CPU anyway as I found it really hard to spread the Thermal Grizzly compound originally, so I don't think the temps are as good as they could have been. Now I know it's a good idea to warm it up beforehand which makes it easier to spread.
 
Ravenger said:
Well I've bought the 5900X to replace my 3900X as it's dropped in price significantly.
Installing CPUs is my least favourite part of building a PC due to all the things that can go wrong, and as I have a huge air-cooler it's going to be fun getting it off the old CPU, cleaning it, then refitting. Going to be ultra careful.

I've been wanting to re-paste my CPU anyway as I found it really hard to spread the Thermal Grizzly compound originally, so I don't think the temps are as good as they could have been. Now I know it's a good idea to warm it up beforehand which makes it easier to spread.
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Will be interesting to know if you have the new stepping version or if all these good prices are on the older versions.

I had the same experience with grizzly when I bought it a few years ago, even tried warming it up in some hot water. It didn't work and ended up in the bin.
 
Finners said:
Will be interesting to know if you have the new stepping version or if all these good prices are on the older versions.

I had the same experience with grizzly when I bought it a few years ago, even tried warming it up in some hot water. It didn't work and ended up in the bin.
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That's interesting about the stepping. I'll look out for that.

Doesn't look good for the thermal grizzly then. I may have to source a different paste. I'll try a test spread on a piece of plastic or something first before actually using it on a CPU.

I wonder why it gets so many recommendations if it's so hard to apply?
 
Hi there

Also its not a GPU, but the AMD Ryzen 9 processors deserve a mention as AMD are massively rebating us on them to sell way below cost:



AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Sixteen Core 4.9GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail @ £499.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3c9-am.html



100-100000059WOF, 16 Core with 32 Threads, 4.90GHz clock speed, 7nm FinFet Process, 64MB L3 Cache, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 3200-3600MHz RAM Recommended, 3 Year Warranty



Only £499.99 inc VAT.

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Twelve Core 4.8GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail @ £359.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...hz-socket-am4-processor-retail-cp-3ca-am.html




100-100000061WOF, 12 Core with 24 Threads, 4.80GHz clock speed, 7nm FinFet Process, 64MB L3 Cache, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 3200-3600MHz RAM Recommended, 3 Year Warranty



Only £359.99 inc VAT.

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Again I think this is some of the lowest pricing in the UK. :)
 
I'm running a 3900x at the mo.

Super tempted. But 5800x3d is almost out and significant.

Need to know the stepping of the 5900x to help make a decision.

I could keep the 3900x and make a decent gaming pc for the lad next year....
 
lnoton said:
I'm running a 3900x at the mo.

Super tempted. But 5800x3d is almost out and significant.

Need to know the stepping of the 5900x to help make a decision.

I could keep the 3900x and make a decent gaming pc for the lad next year....
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same here, 3900x owner looking at the 5900x or 5950x. Why does the stepping matter than much?
 
B2 stepping supports faster memory, can run cooler, and boost consistently higher apparently.

I'm surprised AMD didn't call it the 5900XL or similar and charge more for it!
 
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