Just looking for opinions here:
Currently running PC (about 2 years old at this point)
Ryzan 5 5600
32 Gb Ram
Asus B550 AM4 MB
AMD Radeon RX 6600 (3 monitors)
After all the hullabalue (DirectX 11) from the latest patch, I started to think about whether it was time to upgrade. I started to do some research and found a bunch of tweaks for my system to ring some more performance from it. I guess I have always been somewhat of a techhead lol. But I build my computers from parts that I consider the "best bang for the buck", in other words I am kind of cheap. Well my research led me to this conundrum and I am looking to you guys to offer up your opinions.
I am looking at buying a AMD Ryzan 7 5800x3D the one with 96mb of Cache on top (psychically built on top of the chip, novell approach). So this is my take on it. I have to consider the AM4 socketed MB that I have so the Ryzan 7 7800x3d is out of consideration (need an AM5 MB for that). From all I have read this CPU is a beast for single thread ops and the cache really speeds things up. So this is right up EQ's alley so to speak. EQ has always been a game the depends more on CPU than GPU. And (this is a big AND for me) it is currently only $307 right now. Judging from the benchmarks I have seen, I would say this is maximum bang for the buck. It is definitely faster than what I have now.
So here is my conundrum, I could wait til later this year and AMD will have AM5 stabilized and I could just upgrade to the new socket (CPU, PSU, RAM, and probably GPU). Yeah it costs more, but I said I was kind of a tech head and the idea of having newer stuff always appeals to me, within reason. And I am sure that this would be a potent system. Mind you I am old and therefore I don't play the newer shoot em up games that require really good systems. I just like to multibox EQ, so optimizing that is what I want from my PC. So this is more of a "want" than a "need".
So? Opinions? I am really leaning towards the Ryzan 7 5800X3D upgrade. I like the idea of making this system have some "longer legs".
Vrak
Edited out the 78% claim as I misquoted it.
Currently running PC (about 2 years old at this point)
Ryzan 5 5600
32 Gb Ram
Asus B550 AM4 MB
AMD Radeon RX 6600 (3 monitors)
After all the hullabalue (DirectX 11) from the latest patch, I started to think about whether it was time to upgrade. I started to do some research and found a bunch of tweaks for my system to ring some more performance from it. I guess I have always been somewhat of a techhead lol. But I build my computers from parts that I consider the "best bang for the buck", in other words I am kind of cheap. Well my research led me to this conundrum and I am looking to you guys to offer up your opinions.
I am looking at buying a AMD Ryzan 7 5800x3D the one with 96mb of Cache on top (psychically built on top of the chip, novell approach). So this is my take on it. I have to consider the AM4 socketed MB that I have so the Ryzan 7 7800x3d is out of consideration (need an AM5 MB for that). From all I have read this CPU is a beast for single thread ops and the cache really speeds things up. So this is right up EQ's alley so to speak. EQ has always been a game the depends more on CPU than GPU. And (this is a big AND for me) it is currently only $307 right now. Judging from the benchmarks I have seen, I would say this is maximum bang for the buck. It is definitely faster than what I have now.
So here is my conundrum, I could wait til later this year and AMD will have AM5 stabilized and I could just upgrade to the new socket (CPU, PSU, RAM, and probably GPU). Yeah it costs more, but I said I was kind of a tech head and the idea of having newer stuff always appeals to me, within reason. And I am sure that this would be a potent system. Mind you I am old and therefore I don't play the newer shoot em up games that require really good systems. I just like to multibox EQ, so optimizing that is what I want from my PC. So this is more of a "want" than a "need".
So? Opinions? I am really leaning towards the Ryzan 7 5800X3D upgrade. I like the idea of making this system have some "longer legs".
Vrak
Edited out the 78% claim as I misquoted it.
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