Good deal on the Ryzen 5700X for those that missed (or don't use) Afterpay. Price is $325 but using the code AUGG17 it comes down 17% to a better price of $269.75 (for eBay Plus) or $276.25 for non-members.
Other merchants are also participating (Futu and crew) and other CPU types are also part of the deal.
Coupon T&C's https://pages.ebay.com.au/buyer_coupons/2023/augg17/
Same boat here. I am running a 3800x with a 3080 graphic card. Rather than starting over with the new gen chips, more realistically I would like to upgrade the system to 5900 etc.
Depends on your use case, and particular games. Real world not sure you'd see a big difference between 3800x and 5900
First of all, define “big”!
Otherwise, I’m very sure real world I will see a “big” difference.
@aec: Noticeable would be probably a better word. In gaming workloads, except at very high frame rates, I'd be surprised if you saw more than a few percent change in performance . Exception to that might be things like civ 5, hoi4, stuff that's CPU bound.
Obviously for web browsing , office software etc literally no difference. If you're doing CPU intensive productivity stuff it could certainly be worthwhile.
Personally I'd put the $250 into a piggy bank and use it towards either a mid life GPU upgrade or long term your next PC
Im in the same boat, but when I ask myself what I can't run right now with my 3700x I can't justify to upgrade for some performance I probably won't even notice except in benchmarks.
Someone on Reddit did an interesting breakdown of a 5800x3d vs a 3700x (although with a 4080 and some weird resolutions)
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d-rev…
Comes down to what resolution you want though, very minimal gains on a 3080 going from 3700x to something like a 5700x, the X3D chips seem the real way to upgrade. The day they drop under $300 I'm definitely buying one.
Finally grabbed a 13600k using the above code from CA. Cheers
you reckon its a good price for 13k6?
Not completely satisfied but have been waiting for a month watching prices and I don’t think we’ll see the low of ~$430 that popped up back in May.
I’m nearly ready to build so couldn’t wait any longer… I’ll be cranky if it drops in the next couple of weeks!
Same. Been checking since June. I just pulled the trigger too.
Should I upgrade from a 3600X to this? Been using it for 3 years or so now. I kinda f***ed up my upgrade and got a nice AM4 board and rams so I am stuck on AM4 for a while.
Mostly playing world of warcraft haha.
I'm in the same predicament and just looking to extend my AM4 rig a little longer. I'm seriously considering it, but might wait until this processor is sub $250 (fingers crossed). Good thing is that the TDP is 30 watts lower than the 3600X so no need for a cooling upgrade. If the games you play are more reliant on CPU, then this may be a good upgrade. I'm running a 2070 Super, so not sure what kind of FPS I'll gain.
Think I am hanging out for < $250 also. Not sure I'm getting much of a bump gaming wise from 3600 to 5700x so would need it to be cheaper to justify it.
what's your reasoning for choosing the 5700x over 5600x?
I'm in the same boat and not sure which to go, but leaning towards 5600x as it has lower TDP as it is purely for gaming so won't benefit from the 5700x.
I supposed if it's no sale and cmparable to 5600x price it is a no brainer
@WhatWhoWhyUsername: Honestly? Just because it feels a bit beefier with the extra cores and threads and slightly better at single core stuff from what I've seen/heard. Also it makes me feel closer to the 5800X3D even if still very far away :) Realistically don't think it offers me much over the 5600x except perhaps maybe a smidge more future proofness with the extra cores and processing power.
@WhatWhoWhyUsername: 5600X and 5700X both have the exact same 65w TDP, as opposed to the 5800X, 5800X3D, 5900X and 5950X with their 105w TDP and can all run very hot.
When I upgraded to the 5700X a while back, it was largely because of the extra cores (8), threads (16) and computing power of the 5700X compared to the 5600X. There's only a modest price premium, and knowing that it outperforms the 5600X in every metric and how software is increasingly taking advantage of additional cores, thought it may buy me an extra year or two before I need a complete platform change and upgrade.
If I were any more than an occasional gamer, I may well have waited for a good price on the 5800X3D, whose bigger cache is well suited for FPS gamers. But as with the 5900X or 5950X, the significantly higher heat, TDP and running costs reinforced that the 5700X was a better match for a serial multi-tasker like me.
Your mileage may vary, but that's the thinking that took it to the top of the tree in my bang for buck equations…
I'm upgrading to this from a 3600 (non-X). A bit of gaming and coding, so expecting a reasonable bump for the price. Hoping that's my last upgrade on AM4!
Not sure how it would impact WoW, but in my experience (browsing two dozen tabs, with half a dozen productivity apps open and playing the occasional game of Football Manager) a similar upgrade from a 3500 to the 5700X delivered immediate and visible improvements, mainly in multi-tasking as well as processing time on the CPU-intensive Football Manager series games. Everything just felt snappier after dropping in a 5000 series Ryzen over the previous generation.
Equally unsure how it would impact framerates of hardcore gaming, but imagine in many desktops with a decent grpahics card and where the CPU was the chokepoint, that you'd see some measureable improvementsand capacity to handle newer games or more demanding settings.
Yeap I went from the 3700X to 5700X and it was a very satisfying decision. Improvements all round with no negatives.
Sold the 3700X for $130 and ended up recovering half of the cost for a great upgrade.
Mostly playing world of warcraft haha.
I think wow is one of the few games that really benefit from cache so maybe look at the 5800X3D? 5700X is a lot faster for multithreaded use but in games it's not nearly as big of an improvement.
If gift cards .com still has the coles prepaid master card special, jump on grab one of those $231.30 for $250, add it to shopback, pickup a $250 swap celebration card for 3% cashback = $7.50 = $243.55 end price, you'll notice a massive boost as WoW is very CPU reliant…
Haha I gave in and bought it, turn out my current CPU is a 3600 not 3600X, more reason to upgrade. Thanks all for the helpful replies!
This or 5800X3D… decisions.
The thing for me is how much hotter the 5800X3D runs. I don't think anyone would PREFER the 5700x over the 5800X3D, especially for gaming, but it is an upgrade you can do without worrying about cooling solutions if you don't have a fancy cooler already. 5800X3D could mean cooler upgrades as well depending on your current kit.
I think that's a big debate on mine also. I'm on the Ryzen 5 3600 which is a cool chip itself, and the 5700x kind of aligns with what I'm used to in terms of TDP.
But the type of games I play would benefit from the 5800x3D's 3D cache, and I want my AM4 purchase to last as long as possible.
I got a Corsair H100i Platinum SE AIO (240mm) and 6 other fans which I assume would do an okay job at cooling the 5800x3D. But still.
I'm on 2600 and don't really play AAA games much so it's been fine but I kinda want to upgrade to 5800x3D because my favorite game Factorio really loves L3 cache which 5800x3D has plenty.
Don't like how I heard it runs pretty hot though :/
@paradoxez: For anyone considering hotter CPUs like the 5800X3D, consider the Phantom Spirit 120 with 7 heatpipes as a bang for buck option.
Close, better relative than the legendary Peerless Assassin with 6 heatpipes, great cooling performance, quiet and only $62 delivered from www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BNVG4ZGS
@UncleRico: I'm running a the stock cooler on my 5600x. Do you know how much louder would a cooler like this be in comparison?
@ShaneLikesABargain: A good 120mm tower cooler should be quieter than stock, especially the AMD stock coolers IME.
They can use a comparatively lower fan speed.
@ShaneLikesABargain: The PS120 would be considerably quieter and have a much more profound impact on cooling.
Biggest advantage would be dependant on how hard you push your 5600x. It’s a great CPU, but with a stock cooler it may be suffering from thermal throttling which the Ryzens do automatically if temps get too hot and cannot be adequately cooled. The stock wraith HSF’s provide bare minimum cooling - and frequently cause the CPU to throttle and operate much slower. That won’t happen with a decent after market cooler like the PS120.
@ShaneLikesABargain: No prob - glad to help.
Just be sure to check the dimensions of your case and clearance from RAM sticks to ensure it will fit, since the dual fans and heatsink fins on this thing are huge. Other strong options if you needed to save some space or dollars, include;
Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120SE @ $52.29 www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BPQ7MMV7
DeepCool Gammaxx GT @ $40 https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B088LZ426F
@paradoxez: My 5800X3D doesn't run too hot after I applied a -30 offset to all the cores. Took 2 minutes to do and it's been stable since I've done it. Without the offset is goes to 85C all core, with the offset it drops to 75C all core. Also locks the all-core clock speed giving a nice 5% overall boost. You can throw any cooler at the 5800X3D, even a 360mm AIO, and it's still going to hit 85C at stock.
If you are going to use PBO the 5700x will use more power than a 5600.
Get the 5800X3D and thank me later!
I tried pricing the same items, including a Ryzen 5 7600, that I'd priced a couple of days ago. The best prices on ebay today with 15% off today's prices were almost exactly the same as the best prices a couple of days ago with nothing off. This inflating of prices so they can say they're offering a reduced price is what gets Kogan into trouble with the ACCC.
Yeah not really any discount here
This is a pretty good chip still.
Hmm, 5600X to 5700X?
Get the 5800X3D, its only a little bit more!
0 difference in games, a 5700X is just a 5600X with 2 more cores and games won't use the extra cores. Youll only see a difference in very multithreaded work which i assume if you have a 5600X now, you dont do too much of anyway
Who's still rocking an i7 8700k?
Martha Stewart.
Still rocking a 3770K mate. Before that, I used to spend $2.5k every 3 years on a new PC as a young lad in his 20's. So what happened after 3770k? I got married and got too old to care about overclocking, 3d mark bench tests, millisecond latency and CPU's. Went from nerd in bedroom to dad / husband mode pretty quick (Playing FPS and RPG Games to watching Peppa Pig). It's only recently my inner nerdiness has woken up again and has me looking at a new $4000 full nerd out build in 2024 after more than a decade, probably AMD 8000 series or Intel 15th gen.
Ha! The curse of the middle-aged family man…
Very similar story here - never-ending upgrading and tweaking every last drop from a never-ending series of processors, motherboards and RAM, until family came along and discovered that I'd sat on a 3570K for the better part of a decade. COVID lockdowns finally prompted me to roll into a Ryzen 3500X, which was upgraded a year ago to a 5700X.
Whilst the megahertz arms race has slowed considerably in recent years, I often wonder if I ever even noticed the incremental improvements as I went through CPU's like undies - from the original overclocking champ - the Celeron 300A @ 450 Mhz, Celeron II 566 @ 850Mhz, Athlon 1.4Mhz, i5-2500K and a handful of others in between - all of which eventually got passed down the line to an ever-widening number of friends and relatives.
Cheers for the stroll down memory lane and the reminder that CPU power is no longer doubling every 18 months, and there are indeed some more important things in life…
Ahhh yes, the good ol' day's of worrying about positive and negative air pressure in cases, safe mode driver uninstalls and new driver installs, eeking out every point in 3DMark, Bios tweaking…. good memories. Now all I care about is high blood pressure lol.
Got 5600 in my gaming PC with nice m/b, guess only noticeable upgrade only 5800x3d for 1440p gaming. But i am not playing ~$500 for few % fps as i only have 6800.
Just received my 5700X from the afterpay deal and upgraded my four year old R5 2600 :)
Idling around 35C and max out at 65C during stress test.
How is the nice overall performance bump treating you :)
First-time upgrader, so when the bios didn't come up for a few minutes after powering up, I was fairly nervous that something had gone wrong 😅
Similar to mine under a 120mm AIO in an ITX case. It's a little warmer than my old 2600 but not by much and the performance jump is insane.
I hope some deals on a 5900X or 5950X come through. I'm running a 3700X right now and wouldn't mind maxing out my AM4 platform as I reckon I'll be on it for a while yet.