Time to beef up the CPU, Intel or AMD?

[Randall8686]

Hi all

Not upgraded in ages, on a 3900x cpu and on a 1st gen ryzen mobo so upgrading with AMD on my board is out the question.

My use case is a bit of video editing and some gaming (flight sim, warzone, strategy stuff)

My GPU is 3080 and wont be upgrading that at the moment. Where is the bang for buck with CPU performance (taking into consideration i need mobo and ram)

Ideally around £800 for the upgrade but not fixed so if another 100/200 gets me a worth while boost i would.

Totally out of touch with hardware so welcome any advice.

 

[Randall8686]

Which board? A lot of them (most of them) have Zen 3 support now.



For AMD, if you want some decent CPU power for video stuff, I'd get the 7900, but otherwise the 7800X3D:

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 9 7900 Twelve Core 5.40GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DU-AM) = £399.95
• 1 x AMD - Starfield Ryzen Game Bundle (SKU: DIG-AMD-00523) = £0.00
• 1 x Asus ROG Strix B650E-F Gaming WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6JX-AS) = £255.54
• 1 x TeamGroup Vulcan EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C38 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (FLABD532G6000HC38ADC01) (SKU: MY-0B2-TG) = £119.99

Total: £783.47 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

B650E-F is one of the cheaper boards with PCI-E 5.0 graphics, but I don't know if you want to pay for it.

The old board is ASROCK Fatal1ty X370 GAMING ITX/AC tbh i would prefer a normal size mobo now anyway as it was originally for a micro build thats now in a normal sized case.

Its pretty old was from first gen Ryzen chips tbh.