Upgrade, nearly here 5900x or 5950x.

[bru]

Ok so for the last 10 years I have put up with an aging x58 platform, starting out with an i7 920 @4.0GHz overclocked bundle from OCUK and a Nvidia 470. This CPU was water cooled in a simple 240mm rad custom loop.

This got upgraded to a NV 670 and then a NV 970. The CPU was traded out for a Xenon 5650 which runs lovely at 4.4Ghz. Now GPU wise I eventually went for a NVidia 2070 super, which is doing great.



Now CPU wise I decided to go AMD for more cores, rather than Intel which seem to have lost their way a bit.

Now with the thought of keeping this for another ten years, I'm thinking about either the 5900x or 5950x, now I know that at the moment neither is readily available, but heir scarceness wont last for ever.
12 cores vs 16 for the next ten years that is the question, either will be air cooled with a Noctua D15, so I'm changing out the water cooled loop.

My use case certainly doesn't need 12 or 16 cores, but I don't want to settle for less.

Money isn't an issue.

All comments welcome.

 

[bru]

Well stock has arrived but choke at the price, maybe waiting a few more weeks/months and things will calm down a bit.

 

[bru]

Ok finally pulled the pin on this upgrade.

Its taken me ages to get it all sorted, but I've finally done it.

Gonna be leaving the water cooled xenon 5650 behind, and moving back to air and over to AMD for the first time since back in the Thunderbird days with the cheeky pencil mod. Those were the days.
Leaving out the optical drive as well, seeing as I haven't used it in ages, the missus has one if I need it.

I suppose I could move the Xenon/MB/Memory on the MM, it might even fetch a reasonable price?

Only fair to say that not all parts were purchased from OCUK.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 Chipset ATX Motherboard= £199.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Twelve Core 4.8GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £599.99
• 1 x WD Blue SN550 1TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0C)= £89.99
• 1 x Noctua NH-D15 Chromax Pure Black CPU Cooler with Dual 140m Fans= £99.95
• 1 x Lian-Li Lancool II Mesh performance Midi-Tower Case - Black= £96.95
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C18 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit= £169.99

Total: £1,256.86 (includes shipping: £0.00)​

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[bru]

Nice

Tho i would have, in fact did plumb for the B550 version of that board, it has the same 12+2 Phase VRM, has 2.5Gb LAN to your 1Gb and Intel Wifi 6, the only difference is the Chipset is PCIe 3, so the bottom M.2 and bottom PCIe slot are only PCIe 3 instead of PCIe 4 on yours.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550-AORUS-ELITE-AX-V2-rev-10#kf

Currently £150.

I did spend a good long time trying to decide which board to get and in the end it came down to which one came into stock first this board or the gaming X one, I've had the board for about a month and a half now, just waiting for the CPU's.
As for the Gigabit networking, the hole network is only Gigabit so that wouldn't make any difference.

Looking forward to the build and the upgrade overall.

 

[bru]

Your m.2 is gen 3? What's the point of x570 if you're not using Gen 4?

Assuming that was directed at me.( edit: ah yes i see it was )

I decided to go with a cheap NVME drive for now, as 30% more for one with a write cache, or %90 more for a gen 4 drive isn't worth it at the moment.
Coming from SATA2 speeds it will seem amazing fast anyway and You only get those super fast speeds when you have something to copy from that can also do those fast speeds, which of course x570 can do latter down the line.
I have a feeling that with the new consoles both having ultra fast storage options, high speed drives will become more needed as time goes on.