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My daughter's PC that I'm building her from old parts has a 3900X in it. She will really have no use for any high horsepower CPU. It would be nice to get that upgraded to Zen 3 I guess. I wonder what I could sell the 3900X for...
Around $120 - $160
I’d offer it here for 20-30 bucks less than eBay or so. I enjoy selling and buying from [H], I’ve always had great exchanges over the years. There are plenty of people running older hardware here who may be interested.
Well, The ipc bump will help a bit. But if you're just running that and similar on that machine. I would look to throw a 5800x in there for a higher uplift, Thanks to ipc and higher clocks. Although in your case a 5900x could be a good choice too.
I agree, A 3080 would be a good upgrade for it. Though at 1080p you'll still see a nice jump with just the 5700x3d.
Well I'm not sure he even noticed the upgrade from his 2600 to the 5600X, which is a huge upgrade on paper, so I think this would be lost on him, lol. He mostly plays older games anyways (TF2, Company of Heros, Minecraft, Rainbox Six Siege, etc.), aside from Helldivers 2 recently.
If you are transcoding on the CPU, you should be looking at more cores. And no, the cache doesn't make much a difference for transcoding.
There would be no functional difference in game, between a 5600x and a 5700X3D, with an RTX 2080. 5600x maxes out a 2080 in all scenarios.
This question can't be answered without more information. How many of your clients direct play (which doesn't really tax the CPU) vs transcode? The files that are being transcoded, what resolution and encoding are they? How many simultaneous streams do you encounter? Does the 3700x get pegged near 100% utilization frequently?
I appreciate the advice, I have the CPU but I think I will order the A380. Now what to do with the 1080Ti :|
repurpose or sell. it will fetch a decent amount of money
Nah, just jump on this now IMO. 5800X3D is peak AM4 for gaming, but negligibly so ahead of this being next in line. I say that as a 5800X3D user as well, which also replaced a 2700X about a year ago.
agreed 5700x3d is the perfect upgrade
I bought on Friday and delivery was estimated for Monday the 27th. However, yesterday, the delivery date changed to the 25th.
That's months away. Even if it drops $50, the gaming you could do by then, is worth getting it now, IMO.
I don't completely agree with that. I 'upgraded' from a 5900X to a 5800X3D when I had a 2080Ti and there was a noticeable uplift in more games than you might expect at 3440x1440. Obviously it depends on the game but the X3D improved the minimum framerates for me by quite a large margin in some cases.
2080 ti is quite a bit more powerful than a 2080. Techpowerup has it at 21% faster in relative performance, for 1080p. 23% for 1440p. 30% for 4k.
Now arriving even earlier, tomorrow, the 22nd.
I believe lowering the voltages has helped curb heat and I think you can set it to a lower TDP, the X3D chips do very well even at 65 watt TDP for gaming.
I could probably get away with 5700x3D.. but honestly the 5600x is doing just fine. This current ITX build may be moved to SIM Rig Duty and I will move back to a more normal sized mini-ITX or Micro-ATX case.
I'm showing 304.12 for 5800x3d right now.
The deal is dead, for now. Yesterday it certainly was $238.
As stated, depends on the game. RTS and simulation games tend to be heavily CPU reliant.
You can try price matching on Best Buy chat.
