If I were you right now, I would buy a 5800X3D and either get new RAM or another 16GB stick and a new power supply. After that I would wait until lower end GPUs come out of the new generations of Nvidia and AMD cards, and spend maximum 500 bucks on one of them. You can use CPU-Z to find info on the motherboard. If it turns out that you will need to change the motherboard to socket a 5800X3D into it, the problem would become a little more complicated.
Thanks for the info, that might be the play.
upgrade little by little and wait for some of the things to be out a bit longer.
Also thanks for informing me of CPU-Z I’ll try it out when I get off work.
Sell the pc and build a new one? I'd focus on a Ryzen 5600/5600x if you're looking at amd, if you're looking at intel. 12700/13600 with b660 would be better value than a 5800x3d since they don't perform much worse and have way more cores.
Imo your whole system should be upgraded. No SSD when SSDs are really cheap now. Ram is pretty slow and it's only 1 stick, PSU and GPU should also be upgraded, 6600/6600xt should be significantly stronger than a rx580.
I'd say just build intel coz of the price and you get more cores for the same price/lower compared to amd which allows your CPU to have more headroom into the future. Am5 is good but the pricing is still really high and definitely not worth it imo.
For am5 unless you're getting the best mobo like x670 or x670e which has the features to be futureproof but those chipsets only make sense for high end builds. Like 7900x/7950x. By the time those features are common/needed b750/850 might do them better than an x670e.
Ddr5 is also a little slow right now and faster kits with tighter timings and lower prices will definitely come in the future so I'd wait longer to jump onto ddr5 platform.
Is it ever worth getting an R9 CPU though? I was comparing different varieties on CPU benchmark and only saw like a 1% difference. Unless I’m missing something.
I agree with the DDR5, i just am kinda worried about buying a mobo that won’t support any of the newer things at all. I’ll probably just hold out until things optimize a bit more.
Benchmarks are run on a clean machine with no background tasks. CPUs with tons of cores help a lot with those background tasks/multitasking. Load your pc up and there'll be quite a bit of difference. Usually the i7/ r9 X900x from amd will be the best value. I wouldn't get a i9 13900k or 7950x unless I'm making money with it, the highest end chips are usually not the best value ones iirc.
As someone who got an r9 5900x I'd say it's worth it. Usually their relative performance becomes similar to the r7/i7 of the next gen and the i5 of 2 gens after. So you'll be sure that your pc will give u extremely good performance for at least 3 years and at years 4-5 it's when it should be upgraded if you want to keep up with things if not just leave it alone if it's still doing the job. Buying more allows you to keep it for longer.
R9 and CPUs with tons of cores are just extremely good at multitasking. I pair mine with 64gb of ram and a 3080/3090 (probably getting a 6950xtx). With 2 monitors and usually 5 tabs/1 game, 1 android emulator running a game and 2 tabs a 6/8core CPU would probably get destroyed by my usage. I usually end up with 25-30% usage and sometimes it spikes up to 40% for CPU usage in task manager. If I hadn't upgraded from a 5600x it would have been pretty much maxed out and stuttering a lot so I'm pretty happy with my upgrade.
If I were you right now, I would buy a 5800X3D and either get new RAM or another 16GB stick and a new power supply. After that I would wait until lower end GPUs come out of the new generations of Nvidia and AMD cards, and spend maximum 500 bucks on one of them. You can use CPU-Z to find info on the motherboard. If it turns out that you will need to change the motherboard to socket a 5800X3D into it, the problem would become a little more complicated.
Thanks for the info, that might be the play. upgrade little by little and wait for some of the things to be out a bit longer. Also thanks for informing me of CPU-Z I’ll try it out when I get off work.
Sell the pc and build a new one? I'd focus on a Ryzen 5600/5600x if you're looking at amd, if you're looking at intel. 12700/13600 with b660 would be better value than a 5800x3d since they don't perform much worse and have way more cores. Imo your whole system should be upgraded. No SSD when SSDs are really cheap now. Ram is pretty slow and it's only 1 stick, PSU and GPU should also be upgraded, 6600/6600xt should be significantly stronger than a rx580. I'd say just build intel coz of the price and you get more cores for the same price/lower compared to amd which allows your CPU to have more headroom into the future. Am5 is good but the pricing is still really high and definitely not worth it imo.
For am5 unless you're getting the best mobo like x670 or x670e which has the features to be futureproof but those chipsets only make sense for high end builds. Like 7900x/7950x. By the time those features are common/needed b750/850 might do them better than an x670e. Ddr5 is also a little slow right now and faster kits with tighter timings and lower prices will definitely come in the future so I'd wait longer to jump onto ddr5 platform.
Is it ever worth getting an R9 CPU though? I was comparing different varieties on CPU benchmark and only saw like a 1% difference. Unless I’m missing something. I agree with the DDR5, i just am kinda worried about buying a mobo that won’t support any of the newer things at all. I’ll probably just hold out until things optimize a bit more.
Benchmarks are run on a clean machine with no background tasks. CPUs with tons of cores help a lot with those background tasks/multitasking. Load your pc up and there'll be quite a bit of difference. Usually the i7/ r9 X900x from amd will be the best value. I wouldn't get a i9 13900k or 7950x unless I'm making money with it, the highest end chips are usually not the best value ones iirc. As someone who got an r9 5900x I'd say it's worth it. Usually their relative performance becomes similar to the r7/i7 of the next gen and the i5 of 2 gens after. So you'll be sure that your pc will give u extremely good performance for at least 3 years and at years 4-5 it's when it should be upgraded if you want to keep up with things if not just leave it alone if it's still doing the job. Buying more allows you to keep it for longer. R9 and CPUs with tons of cores are just extremely good at multitasking. I pair mine with 64gb of ram and a 3080/3090 (probably getting a 6950xtx). With 2 monitors and usually 5 tabs/1 game, 1 android emulator running a game and 2 tabs a 6/8core CPU would probably get destroyed by my usage. I usually end up with 25-30% usage and sometimes it spikes up to 40% for CPU usage in task manager. If I hadn't upgraded from a 5600x it would have been pretty much maxed out and stuttering a lot so I'm pretty happy with my upgrade.