What kind of date do you think they'll be buyable and regularly available?
Is there likely to be a shortage at launch?
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Which AMD Cpu - 7950x vs 9900x vs 9950x vs ???
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What kind of date do you think they'll be buyable and regularly available?
Is there likely to be a shortage at launch?
No clue, you'd have to ask Gibbo that sort of question. Would suspect they'll launch from top to bottom and the Nvidia cards; *especially* the 90 will be in high demand and expensive. For AMD it's more of a question of how much RDNA3 is left in the channel and how much they want to discount it to sell. I heard the retailers are being briefed that the 80 and 90 cards are for "professionals"
Maybe I just go the impatient route and just get a 4080.
7950 and 4080 is a huge upgrade on what I have anyway.
depends on the Gamer if you are playing something like Stelarris or Civ
going up from 7950 is a pretty much sideways move to anything
was looking at them myself they dipping towards £400 now wonder if they will go lower when the 8950 turns up
I’m going up from a R9 3900x
7950 is one of the options, or wait for 9950 and 5070 / 5080
mmmm for me its wait for the 5070 /5080 had a 7950/4070 super in my basket but changed my mind at the last minute
if you can currently do everything you want with no issues it will not hurt other than the thought of new and shiny
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At current pricing if you're in any way price sensitive (and assuming you're not dependant on export speed for revenue), then I'd probably go for the 7950 at £450 rather than the 9950 at £650
I am somewhat dependant on export speed, the quicker the better to be honest! It's not a huge issue every day, but there are some times (like today) where faster would be nice.
I feel like I should just get the better CPU.
I appreciate that I could say this about every part in the PC, like why stop at 4080 when I can get 4090 etc, but the extra for the 9950 probably worth it for me I think.
I know it's not a huge % increase in performance, think Gamer Nexus said about 12% but might as well just get it for the sake of £200 I think.
Just need to decide whether to wait for new GPUs or just pick up a 4080 super which would be a massive upgrade on my 5700xt anyway.
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Yeah sounds like for your use it'd be worth the extra... plus you don't have to worry about tihnking "I should have spent the extra" a few months down the line!
Btw, reading the rest of your thread, I'd be more concerned about shipping internationally with an air cooler attached. If you absolutely have to then I'd advise to make sure you can get some of those expanding/setting packing bag things (not sure if ocuk use them as I've never bought a full system!)
Btw, reading the rest of your thread, I'd be more concerned about shipping internationally with an air cooler attached. If you absolutely have to then I'd advise to make sure you can get some of those expanding/setting packing bag things (not sure if ocuk use them as I've never bought a full system!)
I got one from them before and it's been going for 5 years so hopefully it would be okay.
I'm just a little worried about water cooling if it goes wrong - wouldn't know where to start with fixing it, and because it's international it's not so easy to send it back to OCUK.
Modern AIOs don't get fixed as such, 'cos they're a self contained unit.
So if they break you just order another and is it a simple enough fix to replace?
To be honest, if my air cooler broke I wouldn't want to mess with it..
Yup!
No more difficult than an air cooler, except for the radiator assembly being screwed into the fan mounts.
I had forgot about the shipping thing, I wonder if some retailers won't even ship air cooled systems with large tower coolers anymore.
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I wouldn't overspend on a CPU, get a more affordable one use that for 3 years then get a newer gen model that'll fit into your motherboard. So rather than spend £300 x once go £150 x twice
You'll be paying a lot more higher tier CPU's.
You'll be paying a lot more higher tier CPU's.
I want to limit the number of upgrades I need to make later to be honest, I'm rubbish with computers and it's stressful when you change something and it doesn't work!
I was in contact with OCUK today about the build I want to go with - using the 9950x
Again, I will probably play some games on the machine but it's mostly for streaming/editing - not all that intensive either.
They recommended waiting for the 9950X3D which would be best of both worlds in terms of work/gaming.
Do we think that's likely to be the case? And if so, will it not be quite a bit more expensive? or should I just push on with the 9950x.
Again, I will probably play some games on the machine but it's mostly for streaming/editing - not all that intensive either.
They recommended waiting for the 9950X3D which would be best of both worlds in terms of work/gaming.
Do we think that's likely to be the case? And if so, will it not be quite a bit more expensive? or should I just push on with the 9950x.
just look at any x3d vs its base cpu. its markedly better in certain games, its markedly more expensive.
its only better in games in the sense of 200 vs 150 fps, since the base 9950x is already going to be pushing some very high frames out, and unless at 1080p you're likely to be gpu limited on anything modern/RT.
what are you streaming normally, an intensive workload, something that benefits from 3d vcache or not?
its only better in games in the sense of 200 vs 150 fps, since the base 9950x is already going to be pushing some very high frames out, and unless at 1080p you're likely to be gpu limited on anything modern/RT.
what are you streaming normally, an intensive workload, something that benefits from 3d vcache or not?
Had a 7950X for ~2 years and its been great. I run it using ECO 65W as I don't need maximum full load speed most of the time, just use lots of threads. If I was buying now, it would depend on price between the 9950X and 7950X. Just had a look and it seems to be ~£100 price difference, If you use AVX512 it could be worth the extra £100.