Might be the cheapest ever for an AMD 5900X?
10% off $589 brings it down to $530. Freight for me to Metro Melboure is $12.50. 1% surcharge applies for select payment methods.
Great CPU for the price, I personally have a 3900X but am tempted by this.
EDIT: Thanks to u/O O for listing the 5600 deal with the coupon code
im so jealous of people buying this for $600< when i got mine for $900 on launch…
Yeah it hurts, I paid $1060 for my 5900X in November or December 2020 because it was out of stock everywhere. I bought my sisters one for $900 like 3 months later after stock was replenished.
Well you had a 1.5 year head start so if 1.5 years is worth $300 to you then maybe it's still not so bad. It's clear that next generation chips are going to make an impact as well as competition with intel has created these massive sales.
You feel bad…. I paid 1k for a 1950x that feels awful when looking at this deal
Yeah, but that’s economics and marketing 101. Early adopters got to pay early adopter tax. Supply issues aside of course..though to get passed that issue simply takes patience
5950 or 5900X hmmm
5900x, cheaper and same (if not better) gaming performance.
5950X is slightly faster for gaming, high boost clock and better binned chips, but only slightly
Do I buy this or wait for 6900x?
I want that meme factor
6900x
Threadripper
nice.
Sorry to burst your bubble but I think they're skipping the 6000 series for desktop
Big sad
Skipped both 4200 and 6900, not nice at all
If you already have AM4, you could pick one up now.
A good price. Hope the next series really is powerful, cause at these discounts, it'll need to be. (It won't be cheap)
This or 12700k? Looking at either or for an upcoming build, this price puts this into good contention.
12700k
(I'm using 5900x now)
Why? I understand it may be slightly faster in single thread but isn't the 12700 more power hungry?
I have a 5900X that I got on launch. I would pick the Intel chips with higher single core performance.
The 12 core 5900X still has good single core performance but you will have limited applications that take advantage or push all 12 cores.
Even when Im playing AAA games, streaming on discord, got browsers open, Linux VM running and a bunch of processes running in background I am only ever at 50~60% utilization on all cores.
Unless you are video editing or doing some crazy big data stuff then 1~4 core performance should take priority.
If it's for gaming the 5800x3d is king
is 6000 series far away? and is it a new socket that will require a new mobo does anyone know?
Zen 4 is about six months, and will require an AM5 socket and DDR5 ram.
later this year and it's the 7000 series I assume you mean, also new socket + DDR5 only allegedly
thanks both… this might be a better option for the next 2-3 years then
Super keen to flip my 5800x and upgrade… but nobody is buying second hand (sigh)
It's all about timing - selling before this recent price drop would have been ideal. I sold my 5800X a few months back for $400.
i just did this very thing, sold my 5800x for $370 and went and bought the 5900x the same day at 545$ main reason was the 5800x was running hot. This was monday this week.
Will 850w (Gigabyte 850W 80 PLUS Gold) be enough for 5900x and rtx 3080 (waiting for sale)?
yes easily.
Thanks, got the psu for $99 plus discount along with the 5900X.
might pay to look up that brand of psu i have herd its had its fair share of issues., i could be wrong.
@fordleg: had exploding issues in the past, but they have claimed to fixed the issue.
Since they have had some bad publicity, I am banking on the fact they will be taking extra precaution in their future psu.
I have an old (4 yrs old) Corsair RM1000i 80+ in my current 3700x build.
Guess I can swap the psu around, but not sure how much longer the Corsair 1000W will last.
@congo: Corsairs last forever. My 2x ax1200 from 2010 are still going strong. The internal fans died somewhere along the way but passive cooling only became an issue when I upgraded the workstation this year. Have rewired replacement fans with no issues. Unfortunately well past the 10yr warranty
is it worth upgrading to this from a 3700x?
3080 TUF @ 1440p.
Only if you value an extra 5fps that you are unlikely to notice at that res
pretty sure there are benchmark review out there for your specific game in this specific configuration
I did (3700x -> 5900x, w/ 2070S), when is was around $590 on AfterPay day - and unless you are doing something in the lines of production, I don't believe you will see all that much in the way of a visceral difference. Your gaming lows will be better, but that can be situational.
I wouldn't say that the current price is completely unjustified, but I say that after selling my old 3700x for about $270 to a mate - again, it depends on what you use for/what you want out of it.
Another thing to keep in mind is that this chip (at least for me) runs a good amount higher than my old one (especially running multi core loads) - make sure your current cooling solution can cope with the new heat.
If you're solely gaming and want the best of the best, consider it. If you do production, consider it. If you're solely gaming and cost-conscious, maybe hang-on a little longer, it may not be 'worth it' as your newest investment.
damn 5900x or 5800x3D from a ryzen 5 3600? i do only game but this price is such good value for 5900x. Im planning to stay on AM4 for a while and upgrade to AM5 when its more mature so whatever i get will last 2-3 years.
I'm also in the same boat. 5800X3D seems a bit more exxy at about $650-700. I've seen 10-15% faster performance, but this obviously wins in productivity scenarios. Unsure what to do.
I'm leaning towards this since it's probably the better all-rounder. From what I've seen, the X3D might get you some nice gains in some games but if you're gaming @ 1440p or higher than those gains become less & less than if you were gaming @ 1080p, at least if it's being paired with a good GPU.
But then there's also part of me that just says to wait for next gen. I'm really unsure at this point.
For gaming at 1440p, the advantage of 5800x3D is likely small or none; have seen a significant gain in Far Cry 6 but that's only one game. You can overclock/undervolt the 5900X better plus it clearly exceeds in non-gaming tasks. If 5900x is cheaper, it is a clear decision. Many of the recent reviews for the 5800x3D in gaming are done in 1080p and making the benchmarks CPU-limited when in reality, many of the AAA games are more GPU-limited. For me, I will save money to upgrade my GPU to one with at least 12GB or higher.
The 5900X also runs cooler. It's two chiplets vs the 5800X3D single chiplet. Since the heatspreader is the same size the heat is spread around more on the two 6C/12T chiplets in the 5900X compared to the 8C/16T chiplet on the 5800X3D. Also the fact that the 5900X is overclockable officially and the 5800X3D is NOT overclockable offiically just tells me the 5900X has more capacity to push the performance.
For gaming I just don't think there will be a big difference between the two. Numerically yes but real world performance and noticeable I doubt it.
I game at 1440P or 1080P on a 6600XT so the CPU does matter there. The 5900X is overkill for just gaming but it's my everything else and kitchen sink to throw at system as well. So if I'm in the mood for running GPU sharing or VMs with heavy computational loads I think it's just better for that.
Agree the 5800X3D is pricey for what it is. I think the sweet spot in the 8C/16T area now is the 5700X for value and the 5900X if you can stretch the budget.
Not comparing to Intel but will see in 2024-2025 if I need to or want to go that route with 14th Gen Intel or Mature AM5. By then maybe those clever devs will find a way to make those extra cores get used up properly. Compiler tech being what it is will lag a bit compared to all the chips being released.
Got a few 5800x3d's the other day to upgrade a 3080 10g machine and two 6900xt machines all running on 5600xs overclocked to 4850mhz. Wouldn't go back. 5600x was already more than any normal desktop user needs cpu wise but there's been very noticeable gaming gains for us. My kids both now don't drop under 300fps in fortnite on their machines, they have 360hz screens. I didn't tell them they got new cpu's but they both tell me lately they win more matches. I was originally considering a 12900ks for me because I wanted it but the cost of ddr5 ram, mobo and then added heat into my waterloop was a stupid proposition compared to the amd chip. I figured id get the 3d and then later consider a next gen amd cpu + ram and mobo. Im playing Horizon 5 atm and getting an average thats >30fps higher in 1440p than before. Either way if your already on an amd system you will see gains especially coming from the 3000 series
neeed toooooo ………………….waiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttttttt for AM5, pleeeeeeeeese brain………waiiiiiiiiiiiiit
have strength!
Hold out seriously
I don't really want to be an early adopter with AM5, I'm thinking I could get something like this then wait until the second generation of AM5 to upgrade.
Are these any good for plex media servers?
More than enough
Way overkill
Yes, they're great but consider Intel for that. Unfortunately Plex doesn't support Hardware (GPU) transcoding on AMD only Software transcoding. With Intel (and a GPU) they support hardware and software transcoding.
That said these chips can easily transcode to 4K using software transcoding. For your Plex media server use case however there are other non-PC options like NVidia shield. You could then separate your storage layer and processing/output layer between two devices. Your storage layer shouldn't need to change much as the protocols used and hardware has been around for a long time.
My own example:
1. HP Microserver N40L for my storage layer. TrueNAS on SSD, 5x8 TB NAS HDDs. This uses a very slow (but low power) AMD processor (10 yr old chip). Plex server on TrueNAS. Practical limit: 1 1080p stream to big screen -or- 2 transcoded streams to mobile phones. I mainly keep it this way for low power consumption but if it becomes a hassle will move the Plex Server to a more powerful system and keep the Microserver just as a disk server for the house.
2. Google TV Chromecast for my processing layer. I'll probably upgrade it to NVidia Shield for better Audio codec support (Google and many devices don't do non-Dolby audio codecs support and even then they often default to 7.1 LPCM).
Thank you for that. I was considering this because I heard that intel performs better for transcoding but wasn't exactly sure what it was exactly that made it better.
I wanted to decent core count because my intention is to have proxmox running on it with a few vm's like plex, pfsense, truenas, and some a couple virtual machines to build up/blow away as needed for any dicking around I want to do.
Need some advice, what do you guys think about this combo deal? Is it a good deal?
Is it worth upgrading from a Ryzen 1700?
That's a pretty big generational leap - would say more than worth it, but I don't believe that you will get all that much back for a R7 1700 (if you are concerned about resale value that is)
Especially if you work in production, the extra cores and clock speeds should have a pretty significant difference in both production work loads and and gaming, if either of those are your thing.
As I mentioned to another user above:
Another thing to keep in mind is that this chip (at least for me) runs a good amount higher than my old one (especially running multi core loads) - make sure your current cooling solution can cope with the new heat.
TLDR: I don't know your exact situation, but I'd say yes.
Oh lord this is tempting
Thanks for posting this OP - jumped on this one. Was trying to decide between this and 5800X3D - jumped on this for the lower temps, longer track record and $100 saving… Should be relatively minimal difference in performance for my use…
Damn, I ordered one item, and when I went back to place another order, cannot get the 10% discount now.
It's one order per customer, so if you want a few things, put them all in the one order!
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