5950x CPU upgrade questions

[NoxCor]

Budget (including currency):  1000€ (about USD $1200)

Country: France

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Casual gaming, video editing and graphic design (adobe suite).

Other details:

I always build my own pc but it's getting a bit old, i have an i-5 4575k CPU with an B85 Asus motherboard, Nvidia GTX 1660Ti graphics card and 860 512 GB Samsung SSD for system, 1TB 870 Samsung SSD for steam library and 4TB barracuda HDD for video editing.

I'm thinking of keeping the graphics card untill the end of the chip shortage but I see that CPUs are almost at MSRP so I'm thinking about getting the 5950x.

Should I get it or wait for something more future proof? (if AMD gonna introduce a new socket)

What motherboard and rams you guys recommend?

P.S: I don't care about RGB or any fanciness (pc is never visible) and I already have a medium tower case that's good enough.

 

Thanks in advance

 

[jaslion]

Am5 is aimed for somewhere 2022. So up to you if you want to wait.

 

Will you even be able to use the 5950x fully? That is a massive jump in performance and threads (an 8 times higher count).

 

What psu do you have now? What case do you have? Those are important as you are basically just doing a cpu motherboard ram cooler swap here and might be able to reuse most if it is good enough.

[Pinossaur]

Well, yeah, AM5 will be announced, and DDR5 will become a thing, so if you don't urgently need an upgrade, i'd also recommend to wait a bit, or if urgent, do you really think you will need a 5950x for what you're doing, and if so, is your PSU good enough for a 105W CPU and a 120W GPU (assuming you don't want to overclock anything)

[NoxCor]

3 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Am5 is aimed for somewhere 2022. So up to you if you want to wait.

 

Will you even be able to use the 5950x fully? That is a massive jump in performance and threads (an 8 times higher count).

 

What psu do you have now? What case do you have? Those are important as you are basically just doing a cpu motherboard ram cooler swap here and might be able to reuse most if it is good enough.

Thanks for the fast reply I have a generic 750w bronze PSU and the case is Zalman Z9u3.

I would probably need a new cooler.

 

Don't know tbh if I will be able to use 5950x to it's full potential but I work as a video editor and my PC is due for a CPU upgrade so I said why not buy the top of the line.

 

 

[jaslion]

23 minutes ago, NoxCor said:

Thanks for the fast reply I have a generic 750w bronze PSU and the case is Zalman Z9u3.

I would probably need a new cooler.

 

Don't know tbh if I will be able to use 5950x to it's full potential but I work as a video editor and my PC is due for a CPU upgrade so I said why not buy the top of the line.

 

 

What generic 750w psu? I need that in detail. A bad psu means a dead system.

 

Oh hey my old case never thought I'd see that one again.

 

So I can start looking for parts now that will work but I do need to know the exact model of the psu you have before I can recommend you buy the parts or not.

 

 

[NoxCor]

30 minutes ago, jaslion said:

What generic 750w psu? I need that in detail. A bad psu means a dead system.

 

Oh hey my old case never thought I'd see that one again.

 

So I can start looking for parts now that will work but I do need to know the exact model of the psu you have before I can recommend you buy the parts or not.

 

 

It's a really old PSU I bought from a store in France called LDLC it's "made" by them it's really bad a noisy and non modular i bought it in 2014 maybe it's due for an upgrade as well, i can spend an extra 200 USD for a new PSU if you recommend it