Upgrading a Ryzen 3700x to a 5950x?

[davidrf]

Hi there, leaving everything elese unchanged in my system, I wonder if switching from the Ryzen 3700X to the Ryzen 5950X (the most powerful CPU I can get for my motherboard, as far as I know) would be worth the money. I use the PC for a bit of gaming, video editing, photo editing, etc. 

Thanks!

[Ripred]

6 minutes ago, davidrf said:

Hi there, leaving everything elese unchanged in my system, I wonder if switching from the Ryzen 3700X to the Ryzen 5950X (the most powerful CPU I can get for my motherboard, as far as I know) would be worth the money. I use the PC for a bit of gaming, video editing, photo editing, etc. 

Thanks!

The cores will help with your editing and render times but its clocked a little slow, so its most powerful for your motherboard in terms of editing, the balance of solid editing power and gaming will be the 5900x and the other side of the coin as in most powerful for gaming 5800X3D so it depends on where your computing priority's lay, 5950x is a solid good chip but not the most power across the board

[Dedayog]

11 minutes ago, davidrf said:

Hi there, leaving everything elese unchanged in my system, I wonder if switching from the Ryzen 3700X to the Ryzen 5950X (the most powerful CPU I can get for my motherboard, as far as I know) would be worth the money. I use the PC for a bit of gaming, video editing, photo editing, etc. 

Thanks!

Have you looked at the increases in time for productivity, or fps in games?

 

Only you can tell if it' worth it.  Fps/time divided by price variance.  Decision.

[Ripred]

Just to clarify a little, all three of these are the most powerful options for your motherboard and will give you a noticeable uplift across the board coming from a 3700x but each option can handle certain category's better than the other one

[PDifolco]

7 minutes ago, davidrf said:

Hi there, leaving everything elese unchanged in my system, I wonder if switching from the Ryzen 3700X to the Ryzen 5950X (the most powerful CPU I can get for my motherboard, as far as I know) would be worth the money. I use the PC for a bit of gaming, video editing, photo editing, etc. 

Thanks!

Sure it will be a huge upgrade, double the cores and cores are faster and more efficient

In gaming you won't gain that much usually, single core perf is maybe +15% and your 3700x already had enough cores for gaming, even if streaming, discording and browsing simultaneously

But for any all cores loads it'll be like 2.5x faster (16 *1.15 to 8)

 

However a 5950X needs better VRM and cooling than 3700X, it's 105W TDP vs 65W but PPT can go to 250W+ if OCed ...

[191x7]

10 minutes ago, davidrf said:

Hi there, leaving everything elese unchanged in my system, I wonder if switching from the Ryzen 3700X to the Ryzen 5950X (the most powerful CPU I can get for my motherboard, as far as I know) would be worth the money. I use the PC for a bit of gaming, video editing, photo editing, etc. 

Thanks!

I have that motherboard and the 5900X which heats and draws more than a 5950X. Trust me, it's fine, the boards VRM is decent.

But if you mainly do gaming and the other stuff is just occasional (not something that brings you significant income), get a Ryzen 5800X3D.

The 5800X3D is a gaming beast comparable to some modern CPU-s like the Intel i7 12700K or the Ryzen 7700 when using 1440P or 4K.

The 5600/5600X/5700X/5800X/5900X/5950X are way weaker in games and there's no significant difference between a 5700X, 5800X, 5900X and 5950X in games.

If the other stuff is more important than gaming, get the 5900X, still a huge upgrade over the 3700X for those tasks and not as pricey as the 5950X.

Btw, that Cryorig H5 is a bit on the weaker side for a 5900X or 5950X, would do good on a 5700X, 5800X or 5800X3D.

[johnno23]

5900x drop it in a go wild and will run pretty much anything you throw at it with ease..the rest of the buget savings from the 5950x go have a few beers or treat the partner to something, 

[davidrf]

35 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Btw, that Cryorig H5 is a bit on the weaker side for a 5900X or 5950X, would do good on a 5700X, 5800X or 5800X3D.

I actually always hated that huge Cryorig H5 thing, I'm open to any advice for a replacement!

23 minutes ago, johnno23 said:

5900x drop it in a go wild and will run pretty much anything you throw at it with ease..the rest of the buget savings from the 5950x go have a few beers or treat the partner to something, 

I think I will do that.

47 minutes ago, Ripred said:

The cores will help with your editing and render times but its clocked a little slow, so its most powerful for your motherboard in terms of editing, the balance of solid editing power and gaming will be the 5900x and the other side of the coin as in most powerful for gaming 5800X3D so it depends on where your computing priority's lay, 5950x is a solid good chip but not the most power across the board

Thanks, I didn't even consider the 5900X but it sounds like the best choice!

[191x7]

2 minutes ago, davidrf said:

I actually always hated that huge Cryorig H5 thing, I'm open to any advice for a replacement!

Arctic 280mm AIO, any 360mm AIO, any 420mm AIO. Eventually a dual tower cooler like the Thermalright Peerless Assassin.

[davidrf]

12 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Arctic 280mm AIO, any 360mm AIO, any 420mm AIO. Eventually a dual tower cooler like the Thermalright Peerless Assassin.

Damn, the Peerless Assassin is pretty inexpensive! I think I'll go with the watercooling options though.