AMD Ryzen 9 5950X,16-Core/32 Threads, Max Freq 4.9GHz,72MB Cache Socket Am4 105W, without cooler.
Sold by Amazon AU, ships from Amazon AU.
Cheapest price according to Camelcamelcamel, though it touched this price once before in April/May of this year.
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Somebody downvoted this, so I'll remove the post in a few minutes, apologies for offending everybody.
Got you a upvote. So you dont have to ;)
Conform or Die!
I'm not offended with your honesty!
With Zen4 coming out any day now is it the right time to buy Zen3?
Only problem with Zen 4 would be expensive motherboards at the beginning and DDR5 costs and absolutely no discounts on the CPU itself for a few months for 15% ST Performance uplift. Hoping its more than 15%.
Right time to buy an upgrade from an old 1700x and stretch out to Zen 5 or Zen 6
And they are talking about silly power levels (and thus heat) for Zen 4 as well as new motherboard, new memory.
Depends on what you currently have and whether you're upgrading or building a new system.
I'm contemplating the same thing and feel it's better to go Zen 3. I'd be coming from a laptop so completely be build, but bang for buck zen3 seems to be the go. Paying premium pricing for zen 4, Mobo and DDR5 is a put off. Zen 3 would be good for many years and by then DDR5 will be more affordable
With Zen3 you also have years of real world fixes applied and all the apps working well. This cycle of release and fix starts again with Zen4. So if it launches this year the 'ecosystem' will take till 2024 to get things stable and affordable. They call it 'bleeding edge' for a reason.
If you go back to some raw numbers you get a 16C beast of a processor that is top of range for < $800. It doesn't have ridiculous power demands (105W). I have it's next sibling down (5900X) and to be honest I probably won't need any upgrade till Zen5.
Yeah if you aren't planning on upgrading for years, now is the time. It's going to be expensive, but the amount of supply looks quite large due to nVIDIA also over ordering wafers.
These are stupidly powerful machines, the only reason I want to upgrade is for the PCIE5 nvme speed and DDR5 and the new CPU cache sizes. I do data analysis and software engineering and it's going to be fantastic for that.
There's also those rumours that some of the Zen4 lineup is coming to AM4. If that does actually happen, it means AM4 may still have an upgrade path after Zen3 making it less of a dead end buy.
sure if you are after the bleeding edge and actually use that type of performance
but buying zen3 here is probably the sweet spot, lots of deals on cpus, motherboards and ram and to be fair more than enough power to keep you happy for the next few years
90% of people aren't going to appreciate the benefits of zen4, probably more, hell the zen2 is still far more power than the vast majority of people need
zen3 systems are dirt cheap atm, motherboards for $70, cpus for $200, if you were thinking of an upgrade it's a really affordable one the gives you crazy performance
You got a bargain my friend.
/ cries in April 2021. Don't ask.
Well that's the price you pay now isn't it ;)
I bought in April 2021 for $1500 haha
It's almost 1/2 the price now.
Paid $1300 here
this is good news. now looking at the 3090 to go down down down!
Mate its 1799, whats your target? 1399?
i'm specifically looking at the EVGA ones, so sub 2k would be nice.
$0 ideally!
Try Netguru!
$1000 is the natural level for the 3090 to reach by the time the 4070 is released.
This is faster than a 3090
But can it play Crysis?
Appropriate name!
I think he meant to say the price of this is going down faster than 3090..
It's not worth buying if the rtx 4080 is gonna smash it
depends, because people jumping on the 4080 means they will jack up the 4080 prices for far longer.
and there will always be a 'better' chip round the corner, so i'm sticking to my planned build of 3090(optional TI) with a 5950x build.
No mate, 4080 will be cheaper than 1799. 100%. No need to come from the future to know this.
@John Doh: i'm not sure where you are getting your absolute $ figures. if you look up 3090 today on static ice, it is $1899.
i replied to you in another post that I'm looking for EVGA 3090s. If you can point me to a legit online shop for a EVGA 3090 that is sub $1799 today, that will be great.
@John Doh: I can wait, it's one of the reasons I'm insistent on EVGA, i've got the EVGA 1080 since it launched. so… that's 6+ years ago? i waited that long, I'm can wait a few more months. lol.
the CPU on the other hand, the 5950x is my 'final' spec build on the AM4 platform motherboard I have.
@John Doh: oooh. similiar specs.
i'm on a evga 1080 hybrid and 3700x looking to upgrade both.
next is waiting for the 1x32gb chips to be cheaper so i can max out the board.
Yeah, this is my thought process too. Although I managed to snag the 5950x off one of the eBay sales for 745. Would have posted it but its expired :(.
I'm waiting for any 3090 that can work with a corsair block. Sure, the 4080 might be same price or slightly cheaper, but stock levels and when it actually goes on sale is what is making me go towards current gen… Especially for 1.5 mark, give or take haha
@Justcuz: that's okay, i feel that the pricing going to dip a bit now, since consumer spending is going to be feeling the pinch as the rates are rising.
i've factored in and decided to go the hybrid route for the 3090 if there's one, if not 3080 is fine. In both scenarios, the watercooling AIO can be removed and replaced with a custom one iirc. My CPU cooler is already a EKWB 360 AIO that i got on a discount earlier, so it's a somewhat straight forward cpu-only replacement. so I don't need to mess around with custom cutting for the new GPU once it arrives.
They have extra wafers, gonna be interesting
Got this 2 months ago or so for $754. CPU is great, way to overkill for my needs but got it at the time anyway. Sits at 20% load whilst I game and runs around 55 degrees under my Corsair H170i 420mm cooler. Happy days will always recommend it
The joy that comes from complete overkill is what life is about. I know this sounds frivolous, but I mean it so sincerely.
$796.89 after the 1% surcharge at CA.
Great CPU
compare with intel i9 12900kf, which is better?
Intel likely needs DDR5 so an extra cost
This runs cooler,and is better for productivty
If you playing at anything past 1440p either one will last you for years
If you are just gaming though,get a 5700x and save 300 bucks
12900kf is faster at gaming but it uses almost 2 times the power at the wall.. 241 watts vs 142 watts on the 5950x
The Ryzen 5800X3D is faster then a 12900kf at gaming and uses only around 100 watts .. Thats 2.5x less power and heat for more FPS :)
I went for a 5700x :).. all the above CPU's cost way too much and i would rather spend the money on a new RX7700XT GPU
This is faster in single core and technically 'faster' in multicore but this has more cores and threads so some workloads this is useful.
is the 5950x cooler than the intel i9 12900？
yes and no, ryzen runs at higher temps due to it's design, but it does draw less than half of the power compare to a 12900ks, so it's easy to cool noctua d15 can do the job just fine even under prime 95 testing, 12900 on the other hand needs a good 360mm aio
Oh man I am so so so tempted now!
Do I wait for Ryzen 7000 cards? Hoping to upgrade 3700x to 7600 or 7700x.
But now this is so cheap I feel like pulling the plug.
One Q though. I have a RTX 3070. Will there be any sort of bottleneck ?
It won't bottleneck a 3070. Zen 3 had the gaming crown until Intel 12th Gen and 5800X3D released. But you will only notice a difference at resolutions like 720p or 1080p or if you need 500+ fps in games like CSGO or Siege.
I only play cs go and aoe2. Lol thanks mate. Oh yeah the 5800x3d is another on the wishlist.
12900K looks better for the same price and is upgradable to the 13900K which should be coming out November. They both support DDR4 also.
My NAS would like this but I have a problem buying tech when the next gen release is imminent.
A NAS running a 5950X???
Unraid NAS. Has a lot of docker containers and VMs.
my unraid runs an epyc 32core with 128gb ecc ram. super cool biz set up.
Did you get the cpu+motherboard+RAM on ebay from China? I'm tempted to get the same setup the only thing holding me back is the high power consumption at idle.
@TightLikeThisx: Yes, otherwise the cost is prohibitively high. There are low power versions like the EPYC 7D12 which has a 85w TDP.
It's a good CPU, but keep in mind that 5950X-level performance can be likely had with a mid-tier model from AMDs upcoming Ryzen 7000 CPUs. Since these are build using a 5nm process, they may clock higher if single-core performance matters to you.
cost of changing motherboard etc. 7000 is AM5.
Gaming most likely yes, but rendering not always if prior history proves with Ryzen and core count.
Can this cpu be air cooled or am I better off with a 5800x or 5900x?
Air cooling is enough for 5950x
I hit 80 on my 5900x with a custom loop (playing FarCry5), so yeah get a nice air cooler.
Better cooling/fast ram = more infinity fabric boost.
Ooof I thought it expired! Post this up! I'm going through ozbargain regret knowing I could have saved an extra $20 FUUUUUUUU
cheers mate, ordered
But will it run minecraft?
I bought one for $1,164 in May of 2021. Down 32% since then.