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5600x vs 5800x

So I planned on building a pc mainly for gaming and streaming. I know 5600x is probably a better choice but I play a lot of arma and it really heavy on the cpu and ram. I'm going also be playing some cod, Breakpoint, and some other games. I was planning using a 3070 and 3600mhz ram.

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Arma is a mess, at least it introduced a lot of other shooters.

5600x should be just fine, extra cores can be nice too with the 5800x.

A few issues to get ryzen to work, or there can be issues. Else it's a nice GPU.

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The 5800 was panned when it came out mostly because of price.  The 5600, 5800,&5900 all have the same type of core, so it was a question on enough to run most things (the 5600) or as many as could be gotten (the 5900) the 5800 was a weird middle ground.  Because it wasn’t popular though there are more of them around than the others. The advantage I see in the 5800 over the 5600 is it’s 8/16 instead of 6/12.  This may at some point matter.  It’s not a very tangible thing though.  The 5600 is as fast as the 3700 which is 8/16

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25 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

The 5600 is as fast as the 3700 which is 8/16

In gaming the 5600x is faster than the 10700k and is on or with the 10900k.

 

CPU heavy (non gaming multi core heavy), I believe the 5600x can trade punches with the 3800x.

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24 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

The 5800 was panned when it came out mostly because of price.  The 5600, 5800,&5900 all have the same type of core, so it was a question on enough to run most things (the 5600) or as many as could be gotten (the 5900) the 5800 was a weird middle ground.  Because it wasn’t popular though there are more of them around than the others. The advantage I see in the 5800 over the 5600 is it’s 8/16 instead of 6/12.  This may at some point matter.  It’s not a very tangible thing though.  The 5600 is as fast as the 3700 which is 8/16

Yeah, the 5800X is in a bad spot price wise.

 

I know that these prices are not accurate because of insane demand for the 5600X and 5900X, but if you look at MSRP it just doesn't make sense.

 

5600X - 6 cores - $299 - Not exactly entry level, but great CPU with strong cores and a good value.

5900X - 12 cores - $549 - Literally double the cores of the 5600X for less than double the price AND the cores have a higher clock. Great deal if you need the cores.

5800X - 8 cores - $449???? - Going by core count (since the cores are literally the same across all 3 CPUs) this CPU is 50 bucks more expensive than it should be when compared to the 5600X and is ~80 bucks too expensive when compared to the 5900X. Overall a poor value. If you are looking for 8 cores specifically for some reason, might as well wait for the Intel 11 series chips.

 

All that being said, I think the 5600X is more than fine for what you are doing.

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I would get the 5800x if you are planning on streaming as well as you will most likely be playing games while running programs in the background and the 2 extra cores is definitely nice to have. Its pretty crap in terms of value though as the 5900x is a much better deal if you can find it in stock. Granted i am assuming you would be streaming with your gpu encoding as cpu encoding is very taxing with little benefits over using nvenc. 

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