Upgrade itch after a few years, advice on cpu please

hyperst

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Got an itch to upgrade but been busy last few years and pc hasn't really had much love, but my god prices of gpus is out of reach to even think of upgrading, but am looking at cpu motherboard and ram to swap out.
I have 6700xt 12gb that wont be changing anytime soon, but will i notice a decent swap of mb, ram, cpu?
I have ryzen 5800x, msi tomahawk b550 and 32gb hyper x ddr4.
Thinking of going, msi tomahawk b650, 32gb ddr5 and maybe a decent cpu but really don't know which cpu to even consider at this point as ill be working with my 6700xt, what would you suggest?
 
hyperst said:
Got an itch to upgrade but been busy last few years and pc hasn't really had much love, but my god prices of gpus is out of reach to even think of upgrading, but am looking at cpu motherboard and ram to swap out.
I have 6700xt 12gb that wont be changing anytime soon, but will i notice a decent swap of mb, ram, cpu?
I have ryzen 5800x, msi tomahawk b550 and 32gb hyper x ddr4.
Thinking of going, msi tomahawk b650, 32gb ddr5 and maybe a decent cpu but really don't know which cpu to even consider at this point as ill be working with my 6700xt, what would you suggest?
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there is no point to be honest, you would not see much uplift. What I would suggest if you must upgrade and are primarily gaming is to upgrade to 5700x3D as they can be had for quite cheap now if you are willing to import one. I would actually say upgrading to AMD new 9070 or 9070XT would give you more uplift in games than upgrading your CPU right now, but they are not released yet.
 
Agree with the above, I don't think that would be worthwhile. IF you play games that particularly love the X3D then the 5700X3D might be worth it, but I don't think you will see a big uplift from going AM5 for the cost.

A 7800X3D or 9800X3D would be worthwhile and set you up for the next GPU upgrade, but they cost £450+ and you won't see that kind of benefit from the 6700 XT unless you're playing low resolution games.
 
Thanks people, i was wondering if it was worth it, as i don't game a lot but primarily use is gaming, i did get myself a bigger nvme drive for now with 2tb instead of the 500gb i have so i can install some of my main games to it, as there on ssd at moment but take a little long to load up, that was at least worth it i hope, not installed it yet
 
Thanks tamzzy, that does look the right way to go and skip AM5 as it looks like it would save considerable money for what could be a decent increase
 
hyperst said:
Thanks tamzzy, that does look the right way to go and skip AM5 as it looks like it would save considerable money for what could be a decent increase
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Absolutely. And can put that sort of upgrade money to the GPU where it'll yield the most benefit.
I'd be happy to run a 4070 super/5070/7900GRE/9070 alongside the 5700x3d
These cards are approximately 6900xt/6950xt levels of performance, so easily a 50-60% increase from your 6700xt.

(My secondary rig has a 5800x3d and 4070 super, so speaking from experience)
 
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So no need to import these (5700x3d) now as there available in the uk, just wondering why import was mentioned, was they not available in the uk recently?
 
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