xNikkieloveI'm right there with you. And I've been able to play any of the new games with no issues. The 5800x3d was recommended to me by a friend, and I'm glad I purchased it. ☺️

It really is a great CPU.

And for anyone upgrading their AM4 PC today (Oct 18), the 5700X3D is the CPU to get for the price. I specified the date because 9800X3D will have details announced in the next few days and that may change the price-performance calculations for customers.

This CPU should be considered legendary. Like the i5-2500k was for it's time. RIP 5800X3D! I'll be enjoying mine until it's upgrade time, but I don't think that's any time soon

semidentlessI hope my 5900x lasts me a good long while (which I'm sure it will) because I am not ready to spend $600 on new parts just to get the same performance on a newer gen.

Amen! I'm on a 5950x and just can't see the value in anything AM5 from an upgrade perspective. It's a dead-end platform due to AMD's awful memory controller, which I seriously doubt AMD will update just for the last CPU they are due to put on the platform, they should have done that with Zen5 and x870.

StimpsonJCatAmen! I'm on a 5950x and just can't see the value in anything AM5 from an upgrade perspective. It's a dead-end platform due to AMD's awful memory controller, which I seriously doubt AMD will update just for the last CPU they are due to put on the platform, they should have done that with Zen5 and x870.

The thing is, unless their next generation desktop platform get more than 2(4 sub) channels of DDR5 or go for something else altogether, they would have a good reason to upgrade that to stay competitive, especially given the sudden demand on sequential memory bandwidth out of the left field, courtesy of AI.

Their memory controller is actually fine; It is their current IFoP infrastructure that made it mostly pointless to go above DDR5-6000, 6400 if lucky, and suffer the desync penalty for no bandwidth improvement.

Chrispy_Exactly. the 7800X3D is currently the best gaming CPU but it's not enough of an upgrade for 5800X3D owners to bother with

If "Zen5%" applies to the 9800X3D too, then my 5800X3D will soldier on for another generation because nothing worthy has come along yet to make it look old and slow.


Not quite true, the 5800X3D is matched pretty closely by a Ryzen7 7700, which is a relatively cheap CPU.

There are plenty of affordable B650 motherboards. Over here £110 gets you an mATX board with VRM heatsinks capable of handling the 230W PPT of Ryzen 9 CPUs, and they're hugely overkill for the little "65W" 7700 which is probably best set to about a 115-125W PPT for the best balance of performance and ease of cooling.

DDR5-6000 EXPO kits are much, much cheaper than they used to be. Whilst it's true DDR4 is cheaper still, you do save money on the CPU with a 7700 so that neatly offsets the slightly more expensive RAM. You said "affordable, so we're only talking 16 or 32GB kits which is a $/£/€15-30 difference between DDR4-3600 and DDR5-6000.

I dont disagree. However when doing the build going AM4 saved over $500. Regardless of performance on AM5 that was not in the customer's budget.

EatingDirtAs a 5800X3D user myself, playing on a 49" 1440p Ultrawide(G9)(not quite 4k, but close) I plan on skipping AM5 entirely. From the looks of it, I'll GPU bound the majority of time even if I upgrade to a 5080 in the future.

I agree. The 5800x3d is great. I have no sense of upgrading at all. I had it paired with a blocked 6950xt then to a 4090. 1440p is what I run, and it really doesn't even burp when gaming. I see no reason to upgrade, kwm. People think to much, feel pressured into buying the latest hardware. Even going to a 7800x3d, so new mobo, ram plus the 7800x3d for a 20% increase. Thats not an upgrade to me especially when I get plenty of fps and the 5800x3d handles with no problem. I notice a lot of these vids they show performance "testing" n sh*t, like with the beta of monster hunter wilds saying it ran like crap, but check this out I just plugged in the 4090 2 days ago but I had beta access with the 6950xt ok and it was all set to high, some ultra and 1440 NATIVE, no FSR, no upscaling, I dont believe in it. I never use it. If you need to use it, it is because you dont have a strong enough GPU, plain n simple. But anyway, I never went below 65 fps with an average of 72 over a 2hr period but sometimes reaching 100! Like Idk what these guys are doing in these "testing" videos, but I had a great time with the Beta. I don't listen to a lot of these videos they put out based on the simple fact they are sponsored by companies to recommend new product. These articles, "5800x3d hit end life"! Like how the f**k do they come to this conclusion. Thats the same as saying the 12900k is at its end. Thats impossible because thats Intel's latest CPU cause the 14000s are s**t so it just blows my mind when you see these guys push this agenda, kwm. Anyway, sorry for blabn. The 5800x3d and AM4 is the best and people need to know it most certainly a great platform for CURRENT and AT LEAST a few more years of gaming. Drew from BeanieBro's.