Worth upgrade?

[mayzejack]

I currently have a 5800x and a 7900 gre gpu and I play mostly competitive 1080p games with a very high refresh rate monitor. I also play 1440p single player games where I am trying to get the game as good looking as possible. I am thinking of upgrading my cpu to the microcenter bundle 7600x3d as my first step into am5 and i’m wondering if that’s a worth upgrade? I play a lot of rust as well which i’ve heard massively benefits from X3d cache so that plays a role in my decision. 

[mayzejack]

I could also go 7800x3d but that bundle is $200 more. Not sure if that’s worth it

[MistahHaskins]

The question to ask is; Is it worth it to you? You already have a great CPU and GPU combo. Always upgrading is the better option like that 7800x3d

[Spring1898]

For your use case, if you are not doing productivity tasks that would require more cores than the 7600x3d will be perfectly fine

 

Are you planning on spending more money on your computer or gaming needs in the near future?

 

There is little purpose in upgrading to the newer platform unless you are intending on upgrading the rest of the system, specifically the GPU to a substantially more powerful unit (not that you need it presently), as the 7600x3d or any other chip at this stage is not likely to make a difference in your current gaming set up.

 

A cheaper option would be a 5700x3d which should be able to handle well within your gaming requirements and GPU 'limits'. Though it does lose out on some productivity tasks vs the 5800x due to nature of the 3d v cache

 

If you are not planning on a major jump in performance in the next year, maybe 2, an incremental upgrade as described above, plus or minus a major GPU upgrade would be more cost effective.

[mayzejack]

5 hours ago, Spring1898 said:

For your use case, if you are not doing productivity tasks that would require more cores than the 7600x3d will be perfectly fine

 

Are you planning on spending more money on your computer or gaming needs in the near future?

 

There is little purpose in upgrading to the newer platform unless you are intending on upgrading the rest of the system, specifically the GPU to a substantially more powerful unit (not that you need it presently), as the 7600x3d or any other chip at this stage is not likely to make a difference in your current gaming set up.

 

A cheaper option would be a 5700x3d which should be able to handle well within your gaming requirements and GPU 'limits'. Though it does lose out on some productivity tasks vs the 5800x due to nature of the 3d v cache

 

If you are not planning on a major jump in performance in the next year, maybe 2, an incremental upgrade as described above, plus or minus a major GPU upgrade would be more cost effective.

I just recently upgraded my gpu so this was the second part of my upgrading. I don’t really need much productivity. I think i’m leaning towards the 7800x3d since I believe it’ll pair well with the 7900gre, and will hold for longer than the 7600x3d. 

[Spring1898]

With your current set up, I don't think the 7800x3d (which is currently selling for nearly what the 9800x3d is supposed to retail at) with a full platform update will increase your performance in any meaningful way, especially since you are not planning a GPU upgrade (or rather you just did one to the GRE)

 

The 7900 GRE is an excellent 1080 and 1440p card, but will not generate frames sufficiently high enough to justify an upgrade (unless you just want to)

 

A 7800x3d upgrade from microcenter would be $440 + Mobo and RAM of your choice. There do not appear to be any bundle deals at this time but maybe they will add some.

Regardless I stand by my original statement that the cheaper and equally effective upgrade would be to stay with AM4 (at least until your next GPU upgrade) and upgrade to a 5700x3d.

 

But of course if you just want to upgrade to AM5 you may just consider the extra $40 for the 9800x3d since the value of the 7800x3d is likely to drop once sufficient supply of the 9800x3d has reached the market.