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It may seem cute but economies only do this when they are very stressed.
Rocking my 5800x from 2022, 32gb ram.
Based on the benchmarks that I've seen, 5800X3D is still a good CPU for games, when paired with a very expensive GPU, otherwise a 5600X is cheaper and acts less than a heater over the winter. Someone with the money for a nVidia 5800 GPU will pair it with a 9800X3D, for most games even 16 GB of RAM will work and would be cheap enough, while for applications one does not need X3D, so what exactly is the point of 5800X3…
You are simply not making any meaningful amount of heat with a 5800X3D. You're talking about a TDP of 105W and a PPT of 142W.
https://tpucdn.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d/images/power-g...
from https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d/24.ht...
It may seem cute but economies only do this when they are very stressed.
DDR5 has gone up so much it just isn't worth it. 4-5x the price. Is this just "stress"?
Rocking my 5800x from 2022, 32gb ram.
Normally an old, used CPU for a dead 10yo platform will go for a small fraction the MSRP. Not a multiple. Silicon economy seems in a good shape.
It may seem cute but economies only do this when they are very stressed.
It didn't stop people from buying the most expensive cards and CPUs when the world was ending in COVID-19 days. Average Joe doesn't know anything about CPUs. This is a gaming community that squeezes the most out of each buck. I wouldn't use CPU market for economic prediction.
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Doesn't matter for gaming at least.
NVIDIA models 4060/5050/5060 have only 8 PCIe lanes. Combine that with PCIe 3.0 and it becomes a problem.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-t...
I'll let others judge for themselves, personally I'd be tempted to get an x16 GPU since the 5800X3D is actually very near top of the line and the GPU should match the CPU imho but in general even the worst case of x8 GPU on a PCIE 3.0 motherboard doesn't seem to be the end of the world
