Yes, I know what the X3D chips do. But in some games there's like almost no gain whatsoever, so the actual average never looked impressive. For the 5800X3D vs 5800X we take a trip back to 2022:
The average is pretty impressive these days if only because incredibly bad architecture is so common now. Many games are made with zero programmers its just all unreal engine groids who have no idea how the computer works. Yea you can cherry pick stuff that is not heavily cache/memory bound but its increasingly rare
Its really only impressive in 1080p with shit settings and the best GPU there is. Its really hard to find anything with a gpu that most people may have. Sure 25% margins look good but when its already at over 250 FPS, its kinda moot. I'm in the waffling phase of if the x3d is worth a $200 premium.
What's the reason for not going with the 5700x? I have the 5800x and kind of regret it because of the higher TDP and the fans going harder because of it. It's a 105w CPU vs 65w CPU or whatever it was, with the difference being 200mhz.
Its just upbinned afaik. Its probably possible to configure the power target down in BIOS if you really want
I would undervolt it if you're sick of it trying to catch fire whenever you open a browser tab. I really wish I could've gotten a 5900X or 5950X back in the day but that shit flew off the shelves and the 5800X was all that was left
I've yet to max out my 32 on anything, but I also don't play AAAAslop
it depends on what you're using it for. What games need more then 32gb, and are they ones you would enjoy playing or pure overbloated goyslop?
I caught a 64 GB DDR4 deal for under $100, so I got it. I have at least 20 GB free at all times unless something goes horribly wrong (memory leak). You are fine with 32 GB but if a good enough deal comes, jump on it.
2 sticks does use all the available memory channels (2), but assures peak speeds are easy to reach. Also transferrable to a Mini-ITX system with only 2 slots later.
32 is plenty. Current AAAslop is only now turning the corner on using more than 16GB of RAM for itself so 32 is more than plenty.
my current cpu runs 95w, so I'm not that worried about noise since I doubt 10° more will stress the system that much.
I don't many intensive games, The most intensive one recently would be frostpunk 2. I currently have 32 gigs and it has been fine. My Emby/Torrent/unifi controller has like 16 gigs and a 10400f & 1650 super or some shit (got it for free). Works fine for what I use it for.
You'd have to run slower ram to use all 4 slots. They should sell more 2 slot boards TBH. If the motherboard has a good QVL you can check and see what they got to run at 4x and what speeds.
more or less the same for me; I bought a pretty cheap 'gaming laptop' in 2012 with a 650ti and 16gb of vram. That laptop lived long long past me writing off the videocard as spent goods for anything but indie and retro gaming. Now 32gb of system ram is the happy medium, it's been affordable since 2019, but is now dirt cheap and X86 OS's seem happy as with that amount 5 years later. 32gb is still healthy for 99.8% of us because these days remotely normie prosumer software and videogames ape the videocard's memory harder than system ram.
