Justifying a 5800x

[Rainbrew]

Hey everyone, from what I can tell the 5600x is a great CPU for productivity and especially gaming. As I'm not too sure what I'll be doing in the near future in terms of computing demands, and I can very likely justify the upgrade budget-wise, what workloads would benefit from the two extra cores of the 5800x? Additionally, would the significant heat output of the processor cause it to have a shorter lifespan assuming it's properly cooled (like with an nh-d15)?

[svmlegacy]

17 minutes ago, Rainbrew said:

would the significant heat output of the processor cause it to have a shorter lifespan assuming it's properly cooled (like with an nh-d15)?

No. If run in a stock configuration, any AMD CPU (Even a TRPro 3995WX or 5950X) can be expected to last until obsolecense.

[Rainbrew]

33 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

No. If run in a stock configuration, any AMD CPU (Even a TRPro 3995WX or 5950X) can be expected to last until obsolecense. 

Got it, thank you! In that case only the first  question remains but I'll try to look deeper into google for that one.

[jones177]

I bought a 5800x and would be running it now if the motherboard I got with it was not faulty.

 

I was not interested in the 5600x because it has only 6 cores and my 6 core Intel's struggle if they do more than just game. 

 

My main gaming computer has an i9 10900k and in the one game I have that uses more than 6 cores/threads at 1080p it is 15 frames faster stock than the 6 cores with 5ghz overclocks.

I also have an i9 9900k and it does not suffer from the issues the 6 cores have so I am ok with 8 cores.

 

My 5800x will use a 360mm AIO so I expect it to stay cool. My i9 10900k plays games in the low 60s with one so I expect the same with the 5800X.

 

My i7s and i9 9900k use nh-d15s and I would expect the 5800x to do fine with one but the i9 10900k build is so much nicer than the Noctua builds that I went with the 360mm.  

 

[Rainbrew]

4 minutes ago, jones177 said:

I bought a 5800x and would be running it now if the motherboard I got with it was not faulty.

 

I was not interested in the 5600x because it has only 6 cores and my 6 core Intel's struggle if they do more than just game. 

 

My main gaming computer has an i9 10900k and in the one game I have that uses more than 6 cores/threads at 1080p it is 15 frames faster stock than the 6 cores with 5ghz overclocks.

I also have an i9 9900k and it does not suffer from the issues the 6 cores have so I am ok with 8 cores.

 

My 5800x will use a 360mm AIO so I expect it to stay cool. My i9 10900k plays games in the low 60s with one so I expect the same with the 5800X.

 

My i7s and i9 9900k use nh-d15s and I would expect the 5800x to do fine with one but the i9 10900k build is so much nicer than the Noctua builds that I went with the 360mm.  

 

I was also thinking in terms of future-proofing that the 8 cores will probably be better in the long run so I guess 5800x it is!