Pros and Cons 5800x to 5950x

[dave6018]

I am looking at upgrading from a 5800x to a 5950x, I know it's probably a stupid idea, but I can get the 5950x for £470.

 

Has anybody gone this route? 

 

Pros 

 

it is a 5950x 

I do get a slight fps increase  

It would stop me upgrading anything for a while 

 

Cons 

 

temps - I have heard they are a nightmare to cool

Don't really gain that much 

Don't really need 

 

System specs 

 

5800x cooled with an Artic 280mm aio  

RTX 3080 suprim x 

X570 Tomahawk 

32gb vengeance 3600mhz 

Odyssey G7 32" 240hz

 

 

[SkilledRebuilds]

You just said you dont really need it.

 

Thats the answer unless you prefer to spend money for the sake of spending it,in which I won't tell you what to do. £470 can be spent so many ways..

 

What can't your 5800X do,.... that you want to do?

IE What is the Goal?

 

I doubt it'll stem off an upgrade at all

The same thread might be created by you on a 5950x when New Ryzen comes..if the New Ryzens are just in fact that much better, that's where you can sell the CPU/Mobo/Ram + £470 to replatform, something you'd still have to do if you wanted the Next set of Ryzen CPUs over a 5950x.

[GuiltySpark_]

For all logical reasons it makes absolutely no sense.

 

However what is often overlooked is the hobby aspect of all this. I enjoy this kind of thing and its part of what I choose to spend my money on. If I wanted a 5950x for absolutely no other reason than to play around with a 16 core CPU, I'd have no qualms with getting one. It doesn't always have to be about "need".

 

Though I have to imagine if you're asking others their opinions then that isn't quite your situation. 

[freeagent]

I would do it. I even considered replacing my 5900x with a 5950 lol.. probably not though..

[Mister Woof]

I take it this is for gaming only since you only mention fps?

 

Get a 5800x3d instead

[dave6018]

18 hours ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

For all logical reasons it makes absolutely no sense.

 

However what is often overlooked is the hobby aspect of all this. I enjoy this kind of thing and its part of what I choose to spend my money on. If I wanted a 5950x for absolutely no other reason than to play around with a 16 core CPU, I'd have no qualms with getting one. It doesn't always have to be about "need".

 

Though I have to imagine if you're asking others their opinions then that isn't quite your situation. 

I think you have hit the nail on the head I just like to tinker with my pc and if I am honest the only thing that is holding me back is Temp concerns,   

[xg32]

5 minutes ago, dave6018 said:

I think you have hit the nail on the head I just like to tinker with my pc and if I am honest the only thing that is holding me back is Temp concerns,   

it might actually be slower unless you have the workload for it, on games that doesn't use more than 8 cores. most of the zen 3 single core benchmarks on geekbench was on a 5800x because it is still single ccx.

[freeagent]

Single ccd only offers better latency, and a better chance of being able to run 2000 fclk.