i have the cryorig H7 so should be all goodwhat cooler do you have at present?
it may be more worthwhile to get a better cooler (which will come with thermal paste)
the £16 thermalright assassin king ak120se springs to mind immediately, and it comes with high quality paste...and rgb if that's your cup of tea too lol
no point getting a beast cpu and hamstringing it with a wraith stealth lol
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Upgrade from R5 1600
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My 5700x3d came on Friday so has been installed.
Haven’t had a chance to test it yet though.
Let me know how you get on with it, as I've been looking at one but the price is just a little too high at the moment
seems really good to be fair, i mean i dont really play anything super intensive that would require such a cpu at the moment but the future proofing is there. i paid around £130 delivered so it was a bargain.
they seem reasonable if you buy them from china...
That’s what I did
Reasonable, but I'd just like them a little less for me to bite, personally
you must be drinking the koolaid lol
they are/were very recently £111 inc tax + shipping
(the 7500f for comparison is/was recently £95 inc tax + shipping)
i doubt the 5700x3d is going to get much cheaper than that during its useful lifetime as a higher-end gaming cpu
don't forget it's the second best gaming cpu (besides the 5800x3d) of a dead platform
(which is incidentally why similar intel chips carry a price premium, despite being essentially obsolete eg the 4790k, 7700k, 9900k etc)
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The problem I have with it being that price is that the 9600x is about £140-150, so it doesn't really make sense to go for the 5700x3d
And what about the total build cost?
you can’t compare the two.
If you’re buying a new system you go am5. If you have an am4 system which you want to extend the life of then you go 5700x3d
£140 + mobo + ram = a lot more than £130
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You can, I did.
The 5800X3D with 3600Mhz DDR4 + a good motherboard was a couple hundred quid cheaper than the 7800X3D + 6000Mhz DDR5 + a good motherboard. Might have been even more than that actually. Not everyone upgrades to the latest and greatest, because money. I went from a Phenom II x4 965 BE to an i7 7700K to a 5800X3D. Each time I was a gen or two behind, because bang for buck. What's holding my system back is this ancient Vega 56 as GPU prices are still absurd.
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Point largely missed though, because you don't need a 7800X3D to compete with a 5800X3D. A cheaper AM5 chip is still competitive and you can drop in a newer chip later.
The total cost of ownership works out cheaper than buying an old dead end platform.
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AM4 3d chips are still a great buy for those already on the AM4 platform, and the AM4 platform was until recently still a great budget platform option, but with cheaper AM5 options it's in most cases not the best option
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if solely for gaming then the ryzen 7600/x trades blows with the 5800x3d (unless for specific use cases where the x3d is clearly superior like msfs or mmogs)
if you're comparing cpus with similar gaming performance, i would hazard a guess that the total build cost would be very similar between a 7600/x and 5800x3d, because you're paying a premium for the best am4 gaming chip (5800x3d)