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Upgrading from Intel 5960X with 4090/RDNA 3 GPU at 4K

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I'm intending to upgrade my sig rig for gaming late 2022/early 2023 and want to do so at minimal cost. I'm going to be at 4K
and the principal use will be gaming with general PC use and no productivity.
I want to re-use as much as I can as in PSU (EVGA G2 1600W), 32GB DDR4, case etc. I don't play CSGO style high fps twitch shooters
and want it all super pretty.
Tempted to cheap out on CPU (as in 5600X) but wondering if I'll ever see a noticeable difference (happy with 60-90 fps) if I go for a better CPU.
I really don't care if the 4090 or RDNA 3 equivalent CPU is held back a bit as long as the eye candy is as good as it gets.
I know there are some games where my current CPU will hold me back but curious what others would recommend as a happy 'good enough'
relatively 'cheap' compromise.
Considering also 5800X3D and also Intel's next offering. Considering B550 MOBO on AM5 as have a cooler and DDR4 which will work on it.
 
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I'm currently running a RTX 3090 with an i5-11400 and yes, I don't get the acme of performance but it's not holding me back at 4k. DDR4 will not work with AM5; you need to look at Intel's 12x00 and 13x00 CPUs.
 
The X3D seems to be competitive with everything (even Zen 4), so if you're only gaming, it's the DDR4 cpu to get, but early 2023 might see more affordable non-X/K CPUs and motherboards and at 4K it's hard to notice the difference between them. I'd be tempted to just stick your new graphics card in the old one and see what happens. By that point, you should have more options.
 
Tetras said:
The X3D seems to be competitive with everything (even Zen 4), so if you're only gaming, it's the DDR4 cpu to get, but early 2023 might see more affordable non-X/K CPUs and motherboards and at 4K it's hard to notice the difference between them. I'd be tempted to just stick your new graphics card in the old one and see what happens. By that point, you should have more options.
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I think the sticking new graphics card in existing machine will have to be first step. It's going to be a huge uplift and not messing about with a whole platform upgrade if I can possibly avoid it is super appealing.
 
Quartz said:
I'm currently running a RTX 3090 with an i5-11400 and yes, I don't get the acme of performance but it's not holding me back at 4k. DDR4 will not work with AM5; you need to look at Intel's 12x00 and 13x00 CPUs.
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Thanks I'm a bit muddled re:AM4/AM5 as been out of the upgrade cycle for a long time.
 
If you are getting, you buy Intel. Period.

If you don't want to go for a super high end CPU, check the upcoming 13600k. It's not el cheapo but it will definitely last you. You can pair it with a 200€ Z690 (MSI PRO A for example) and you are good to go. Especially since you are interested in single player type of games if I got you correctly, those are usually more core heavy, meaning they tend to use more cores than multiplayer games like csgo.
 
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I would also give another shout to the 5800X3D, it's the fastest gaming chip out there and requires no effort to tune to get the best gaming performance from it. Plug and play. Will go great with a 4090 or RDNA3 similar GPU.
 
Bencher said:
If you are getting, you buy Intel. Period.

If you don't want to go for a super high end CPU, check the upcoming 13600k. It's not el cheapo but it will definitely last you. You can pair it with a 200€ Z690 (MSI PRO A for example) and you are good to go. Especially since you are interested in single player type of games if I got you correctly, those are usually more core heavy, meaning they tend to use more cores than multiplayer games like csgo.
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I'll buy based on bang per buck not on the name of the manufacturer but I'll certainly wait until Intel reveal their next offering. I'm agnostic in terms of CPU/GPU vendors and tend towards AMD (all else being broadly equal) rather than Intel/Nvidia solely due to the historic deceits and anti-competitive practices of both Nvidia and Intel. I've been in this game since 1997 so can remember some really annoying things Intel and Nvidia have done although I realise AMD is not my friend.
 
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Somewhere in a parallel universe

RavenXXX2 said:
X3D + B550, sorted. FYI intel's upcoming 13 gen rator lake's fastest cpu is hardly beating out the X3D in their own benchmarks.
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And yet in reality, last year's i5 is beating not only zen 4, but the 3d as well

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It's all in Intel's slides, X3D embarrassing Intel's yet to be released king of gaming lol. OP wants a cheap upgrade, X3D is it. No DDR5 required like with the 12600k in the benchmarks posted.
 
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