3800x thinking about upgrading to a 5800x

[Larry85]

Hello everyone

I'm hoping for some advice. Given the price of the 5800x is around $330 dollars who thinks this is worth the upgrade?  I use my pc mostly for gaming and some 3d modeling. For anyone who has done this was it worth it?

3800x

msi gaming plus x570

3600 32gb of ram

nvme for boot

280 rad

3070

 

[GuiltySpark_]

Worth will come down to your workload and if it can be improved. I moved from a 2700x to a 5800x and at the resolution I play games at, there wasn't a huge difference. At this point in time, I probably wouldn't make that jump and just save up for Zen4.

[Quickstrike]

11 minutes ago, Larry85 said:

Hello everyone

I'm hoping for some advice. Given the price of the 5800x is around $330 dollars who thinks this is worth the upgrade?  I use my pc mostly for gaming and some 3d modeling. For anyone who has done this was it worth it?

3800x

msi gaming plus x570

3600 32gb of ram

nvme for boot

280 rad

3070

 

It all comes down the whether paying 330$ is worth the 10% to 20% gain in performance.
Personally I upgraded from 3700x to 5900x and I love it but I think I won the silicon lottery as my new CPU boosts at 5.3 easy.

[Mister Woof]

Yes.

 

But then again, this is coming from a guy who went from a 5ghz 8700k to a 10900k.

 

You'll gain a pretty significant uplift even with the 3070 in gaming, especially in the FPS lows and some types of online games.

[freeagent]

Yes, 3rd gen smacks the shit out of second gen in everything. It’s a bump you would feel.

[jones177]

You will need the 5800x if you upgrade your GPU later on. 

The high end 30 series cards like them and I am sure the 40 series will as well.

[Mark Kaine]

9 hours ago, freeagent said:

Yes, 3rd gen smacks the shit out of second gen in everything. It’s a bump you would feel.

Honestly i was musing about the idea of upgrading to a 5600x or something, but it doesnt make too much sense it seems, i mean are there any comparisons out there between a 3600 and 5600x fps wise?

 

And I dont.mean random youtube channels, thats of absolutely no use…

 

what i found out it would  be roughly 20% faster?  Sounds… "ok"… but is it really worth it?

 

Maybe recording/streaming would  be slightly improved? Even then… is it worth it? Hard to say imo, and actual  tangible improvements seem seem all but guaranteed…

 

 

 

What I came up with is 12600k *minimum* thats a "50%" jump, well, hello, i can see *that* being noticable lol…

 

but thats 500+ bucks right there… might as well wait for "next gen" which is around the corner. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[TexasBulldog74]

This week I upgraded from the R7 3700x to the R9 5900x.  The 3700x was fine for me in the games I play but ive gotten more into video rendering since originally building my setup and I feel it was worth it.  The 5900x has cut my renders nearly in half.  

[rikitikitavi]

13 hours ago, Larry85 said:

I use my pc mostly for gaming and some 3d modeling.

Do you feel like your gaming and modeling are held back by the CPU and you feel like you need more? Also Zen4 is on its way.