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What CPU would be the best value for money with the RTX 3080

Budget (including currency): Total = ~£1500

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Most AAA Games 

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Phanteks P500A

RTX 3080

A Ryzen CPU - Reason for this post

Asus rog strix b550-f (Unless there is another one that you recommend)

 

Also would love any other recommendations for this build.

 

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22 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Probably the new 5600x but wait for reviews.

What about the 5800x? And when do you think reviews will come out?

 

Thanks for the reply 

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Just now, Knight07 said:

What about the 5800x? And when do you think reviews will come out?

 

Thanks for the reply 

Again, we don't really know a lot about performance yet, at least formally. I'd hold off until you can see official reviews

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1 hour ago, Knight07 said:

What about the 5800x? And when do you think reviews will come out?

 

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Wait for reviews. I don't know there are like 3 benchmarks out there of 3 different tasks/software suites and it's all for different 5000 series cpus.

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