What Should I do?

[AMDUser446]

Hey so i was about to spend some money on upgrading my pc at Micro Center. I recently just bought a 4070 super but I still have a Ryzen 7 5700g along with 16gb of ddr4 3200mhz ram and a b450 aorus movo. I was planning on upgrading to the Ryzen 7 9700x and 32gb 6000mhz ddr5 ram with the aorus elite ax ice mobo since they are bundled together for under $500 at micro center. For just abt everything besides the gpu(Since i already have that) and an SSD/HDD. it would be around $800-900 range (bundle, case, psu, and cpu fan) Should I wait expecting a price to drop for the 9700x or even the 7800x3d maybe with the new 9900x3d and the 9950x3d coming out soon? Or should i just go through with it now and upgrade again in a few years? I game and stream in 1080p right now but plan to move to 1440p soon. Thank you

[Hinjima]

20 minutes ago, AMDUser446 said:

Hey so i was about to spend some money on upgrading my pc at Micro Center. I recently just bought a 4070 super but I still have a Ryzen 7 5700g along with 16gb of ddr4 3200mhz ram and a b450 aorus movo. I was planning on upgrading to the Ryzen 7 9700x and 32gb 6000mhz ddr5 ram with the aorus elite ax ice mobo since they are bundled together for under $500 at micro center. For just abt everything besides the gpu(Since i already have that) and an SSD/HDD. it would be around $800-900 range (bundle, case, psu, and cpu fan) Should I wait expecting a price to drop for the 9700x or even the 7800x3d maybe with the new 9900x3d and the 9950x3d coming out soon? Or should i just go through with it now and upgrade again in a few years? I game and stream in 1080p right now but plan to move to 1440p soon. Thank you

As an owner of a 7700x and someone who uses the computer purely for gaming, a 7700x/9700x is plenty fine for 1440p gaming

Since we already have a 7800X3D and 9800X3D, doubt the normal non X3D CPU's will go down much in price with the release of the higher end X3D's.

 

The microcenter deal for the 9700x + RAM and Motherboard for $429 is absolutely fantastic.

If you want to upgrade, this is the one to get.

 

Since you will already be on the AM5 platform with this upgrade.  We kinda know at this point that the new upcoming CPU's from AMD will be on AM5 too. So in a few years, Upgrade the bios and buy a 10800X3D ( Or whatever they call it )  And off you go for a few more years

Thats my plan at least.

[AMDUser446]

42 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

As an owner of a 7700x and someone who uses the computer purely for gaming, a 7700x/9700x is plenty fine for 1440p gaming

Since we already have a 7800X3D and 9800X3D, doubt the normal non X3D CPU's will go down much in price with the release of the higher end X3D's.

 

The microcenter deal for the 9700x + RAM and Motherboard for $429 is absolutely fantastic.

If you want to upgrade, this is the one to get.

 

Since you will already be on the AM5 platform with this upgrade.  We kinda know at this point that the new upcoming CPU's from AMD will be on AM5 too. So in a few years, Upgrade the bios and buy a 10800X3D ( Or whatever they call it )  And off you go for a few more years

Thats my plan at least.

Thank you for the information. Will an air cooler and a 750 watt power supply be efficient at least for a few weeks/months of not heavy workload. I planned on getting the cooler master hyper 212 halo cooler. It’s just a 1  120mm fan and heatsink. I was also looking at the Arctic Freezer 34 eSports Duo, a 2 120mm fan heat sink design. All of the white liquid coolers are very expensive but i can save up for them i was just wondering if the 750 watt and the air cooler would be okay for a few weeks/months at least 

[Hinjima]

32 minutes ago, AMDUser446 said:

Thank you for the information. Will an air cooler and a 750 watt power supply be efficient at least for a few weeks/months of not heavy workload. I planned on getting the cooler master hyper 212 halo cooler. It’s just a 1  120mm fan and heatsink. All of the white liquid coolers are very expensive but i can save up for them i was just wondering if the 750 watt and the air cooler would be okay for a few weeks/months at least 

No Problem!

 

Absolutely. The 9700x is not that difficult to cool but I would get the Peerless Assassin SE120. Cheaper than the Hyper 212 Halo and much better.

If you have the space for it.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/hYxRsY/thermalright-peerless-assassin-120-se-6617-cfm-cpu-cooler-pa120-se-d3

 

750w is also plenty fine.  I ran my 7700x and overclocked RTX 4080 for 2 years with a 750w.

I saw around 430-470w of full system power during heavy gaming.. I could have gotten away with a solid 550w in theory.

 

I would feel safe using a 9700x + RTX 5080 ( if its 360w is correct, Nvidia said so )  with a solid 750w. Nothing to worry about

Even if the 5080 would be 400w you would be okay with a solid 750w with a Ryzen 9700x.