PC upgrade

[Terminator124]

Hello LTTers! New to the group, but have been in IT for over 29 years now. I used to be a lot into hardware stuff, but not as much in the last 5 years or so. I am currently running the following:

Operating System
            Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
        CPU
            AMD Ryzen 5 3600    46 °C
            Matisse 7nm Technology
        RAM
            64.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown (15-15-15-36)
        Motherboard
            ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) (AM4)    31 °C
        Graphics
         
            8176MB ATI Radeon RX 5500 XT (ASRock)
            8176MB ATI Radeon RX 5500 XT (Gigabyte)
         
        Storage
            953GB ADATA SU800 (SATA (SSD))    33 °C
            931GB Seagate BarraCuda 120 SSD ZA1000CM10003 (SATA (SSD))    21 °C
            931GB Seagate BarraCuda 120 SSD ZA1000CM10003 (SATA (SSD))    21 °C
            931GB Seagate FireCuda 520 SSD ZP1000GM30002 (Unknown (SSD))
            1863GB Sabrent Rocket Q4 (Unknown (SSD))
            931GB Realtek RTL9210B-CG SCSI Disk Device (USB (ATA) (SSD))

 

My question is should I upgrade my CPU to a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core, 24-thread for 799$ Canadian, or a or a AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core, 16-thread for 559.90$ Canadian, or stay with my current configuration? I mostly use my PC for work, starting programming and doing testing on applications on my systems using Hyper-V, running 7 WIn 10 Home English VMs and 3 Windows 10 Home French VMS, about 60 Firefox tabls, an RDS connection, Media player, Visual Studio and a few other apps. I don't play many games, but have the dual GPUs mostly because I use 5 to 8 monitors for work.

 

Any input is greatly appreciated! Love My LTT water bottle and ordered 2 Tshirts.

 

 

[Chris Pratt]

5900X definitely for that workload. 7 VMs alone would tap out the 5800X.

[Terminator124]

1 minute ago, Chris Pratt said:

5900X definitely for that workload. 7 VMs alone would tap out the 5800X.

Thanks Chris, I don't seem to have any issues with my Ryzen 5 3600, but since the new 5000 series is in stock, wanted to get what will work until my next full upgrade, usually every 5 years

[LogicalDrm]

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