Great price delivered, seems like they are price matching from last weeks deals.
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Below $500 and I buy
HODL…my bet is that this CPU will be the star of black Friday sales.
I've had similar thoughts but I do wonder how long stock levels will hold up, it seems pretty popular even at $550ish.
Yeah, Scorptec had some stock for an hour or two this morning. So some suggestion it's moving well at this price. Unless they only had one unit from a return or something as opposed to a reasonable sized batch arrive…
I just moved interstate and sold my old CPU/motherboard. I still have a set of Dual Rank Samsung B-Die kits which Overclock quite okay, now I am thinking should I go:
I'd love to hear your opinion, thanks.
It depends on
IMHO
- (Intel Kit) If it is built once and wants longer life on a budget (irony) - 1 is your best bet. But if you want future-proofing 5 is your best bet.
- (AMD Kit) If it is built once and wants longer life on a budget (irony) - 4 is your best bet. But if you want future-proofing 7 is your best bet, you can upgrade to 8 if you want to.
If it's my money - I would go 7 as AMD tend to provide a longer upgrade path and DDR5 with AM5 future proofs me for about 5 years. Intel is notorious for changing the sockets every couple of years. Assumed here is you upgrade graphics card as required.
Thanks for your input, I don't go against either brand, I have played with 2600/2700x/3700x/3300x/3500x/3600/5600x/6600k/6700k/10700k/10850k/qtj1 with DDR3, DDR4 CJR/RevE/B-Die. Some are Mine and my wife's, some was bought and sold after, some are friend's PC I built and played before giving to them.
I do have an impression that Intel do get slightly better tuning capability since you can fine tune territory timing on Memories (like all those SG/DG/DR timings) which does make the game run quite a bit smoother, but with x3D AMD might able to negate that? I am not sure on that, have not been able to play with x3D ever with relocation/new job/price increase all going on.
I would go 7 as AMD tend to provide a longer upgrade path and DDR5 with AM5 future proofs me for about 5 years.
I don't know if (or which) b650/x670 mobo have a good enough memory topology to allow me upgrade the CPU without touching RAM/Mobo. Looking back at x370/b350, there are only few MSI/AsRock boards able to live up with DDR4 3600+, almost none in ASUS/Gigabyte.
Honestly I would go with 1
Future proofing is not worth it at this stage for Intel because you would need a new motherboard for future generations and the ram price for ddr5 is not worth it if you go for higher frequencies
7600x is just simply not worth it, you might be reuse the motherboard in the future but at the moment the price is way too high
I was really going to go with 1 or 3 just before the Intel launch, though the price seems a bit iffy after release and reviews does show that DDR5 have a performance advantage on quite a bit of scenarios… so I am now a bit lost on what do go with.
Back up to $669, deal finished.
Just FYI to the 4080/4090 brothers and sisters out there, this will CPU bottleneck you and be similar if not lower performance vs a 5950x.
For all the other plebs myself included this is still a decentish upgrade.
This is not entirely correct. The 5800X3D will bottleneck a 4090 at 1080p and most games at 1440p. At 4K (which is really what a 4090 should be used for) most games are still GPU limited. Check the Techspot/HUB RTX4090 review where they were using a 5800X3D.
new amazon seller @ Amazon AU from lckfoshankaicheng store for $499
Hmmmm. Brand new seller with 1 month delivery timeframe.
yeah does amazon have protection?
New seller. Don’t trust.
Tempting but HODL