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Which AMD Ryzen ?

sargan

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Putting my build list together
Will be based on a ASRock B650E Taichi Lite, with initially 32GB DDR5 RAM
As well as GP office apps, this is being it built for Video editing … DaVinci (No gaming), my current Intel i5 can’t handle it.
Davinici tech notes advise AMD processor performance is more important than a massively powerful & expensive GPU.
So for first time I’m going AMD not Intel.

Some discussions here were advising waiting for AMD Ryzen 9 9900 on Zen 5 platform.
Though this has less cores/threads/cache than the 7950x Zen 4

Is the 7950x a good value for money processor, or should I wait for 9900. The main gain would seem to be 50W less power consumption.

Waiting for the 9900 itself isn’t an issue, I’ll get on with rest of the build.


Processors
 
Honestly difficult to say since we've yet to see the price and performance of the amd 9000 series chips. Rumours suggest that the 9900x will be about £450 and should perform a bit worse than the 7950x in heavily multi threaded tasks due to having 4 fewer cores.
It will likely have a decent advantage in single threaded tasks but I'm not sure if that will have all that much bearing on your use case.

So I guess it depends on if it's worth saving the £50 for you.

Just to throw another wrinkle into the mix week after next when the 9900x releases the 9950x will also release. Which will likely be close to £600 if the price rumours are correct. But would likely out perform the 7950x by a decent amount.

All of this said. I would hold off making a decision until the 15th so you at least know the price and performance of the new chips. Can then decide which would offer the best price and performance for you.
 
Fair comment .... Case decided, Motherboard decided .... if I figure out RAM & PSU today can order them and get on the big items build, while waiting for CPU decision.
Thanks guys
 
sargan said:
Fair comment .... Case decided, Motherboard decided .... if I figure out RAM & PSU today can order them and get on the big items build, while waiting for CPU decision.
Thanks guys
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Since you're ordering your motherboard now it's worth noting that the 9000 series will require the motherboard have an upto date bios. And I'm not sure if yours will ship with one or not. Pretty much all recent amd motherboards do have some variety of bios flashback, so the bios can be updated without a cpu. So shouldn't prove to be an issue. But worth keeping in mind that you may need to do this.
 
I'm thinking of ordering RAM at same time as Motherboard
Seems that Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB 6200 MT/s DDR5 Dual Channel Kit - Black ~£160 comes out top in the reviews, any reason not to go with this ?
My other considerations were Corsair VENGEANCE® 32GB 6400MT/s CL38 Memory Kit — Black ~£124 and G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO 32GB DDR5 6000MT/s ~£130
 
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sargan said:
Putting my build list together
Will be based on a ASRock B650E Taichi Lite, with initially 32GB DDR5 RAM
As well as GP office apps, this is being it built for Video editing … DaVinci (No gaming), my current Intel i5 can’t handle it.
Davinici tech notes advise AMD processor performance is more important than a massively powerful & expensive GPU.
So for first time I’m going AMD not Intel.

Some discussions here were advising waiting for AMD Ryzen 9 9900 on Zen 5 platform.
Though this has less cores/threads/cache than the 7950x Zen 4

Is the 7950x a good value for money processor, or should I wait for 9900. The main gain would seem to be 50W less power consumption.

Waiting for the 9900 itself isn’t an issue, I’ll get on with rest of the build.


Processors
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I have a 7950x and have used DaVinci for some very basic stuff, It worked fine, although it did use the CPU and GPU(6900XT) for rendering. I also run the CPU at ECO 65W so it uses ~90W instead of ~250W. I would wait and get a 9950X or get 7950X now.
 
FredFlint said:
I have a 7950x and have used DaVinci for some very basic stuff, It worked fine, although it did use the CPU and GPU(6900XT) for rendering. I also run the CPU at ECO 65W so it uses ~90W instead of ~250W. I would wait and get a 9950X or get 7950X now.
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Thnx for feedback ... Davinici on 4k 100fps video just kills my PC, so time to build a new one.
 
sargan said:
I'm thinking of ordering RAM at same time as Motherboard
Seems that Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB 6200 MT/s DDR5 Dual Channel Kit - Black ~£160 comes out top in the reviews, any reason not to go with this ?
My other considerations were Corsair VENGEANCE® 32GB 6400MT/s CL38 Memory Kit — Black ~£124 and G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO 32GB DDR5 6000MT/s ~£130
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I would get Corsair Vengeance EXPO 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C36 6000MHz for £90.
For big projects you might be better getting a 64GB(2*32) (5600) kit.
 
Was Going to go to 64GB just thought I'd start with the 32GB and use the 2nd 2 slots later.
Thanks for comment on the Vengeance, by going for that rather than Dominator I could get 64GB now. You listed the latency of CL36, assume going to CL 30 might be worth while


As 2 x 32GB Vengeance 6000mt/s is cheaper than 4 x 16GB is there any reason not to get as 32GB pairs ?
 
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Going to go to 64GB just thought I'd start with the 32GB and use the 2nd 2 slots later.
Thanks for comment on the Vengeance
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I would avoid using 4 RAM slots if possible, its harder on the CPU's memory controller. Also, the RAM gets hotter with 4 sticks packed together.
 
sargan said:
I'm thinking of ordering RAM at same time as Motherboard
Seems that Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB 6200 MT/s DDR5 Dual Channel Kit - Black ~£160 comes out top in the reviews, any reason not to go with this ?
My other considerations were Corsair VENGEANCE® 32GB 6400MT/s CL38 Memory Kit — Black ~£124 and G.Skill Trident Z5 NEO 32GB DDR5 6000MT/s ~£130
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FYI: don't buy RAM before the CPUs are out because we don't know yet what the memory controllers are capable of. Good RAM for Ryzen 7000 might not be good RAM for Ryzen 9000.
 
Don't buy anything right now. Apart from any possible price drops on 7000 series cpu's and boards when the 9000 series drops you will be wasting your warranty. For all you know you may end up with a component that is DOA and as you will most likely be out of the two week automatic returns window you would have to go through the full RMA process which could take up to 4 weeks.
 
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