WTB Ryzen 7 5700X3D

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PsychoSmiley

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#3508887 6-Jul-2026 08:32

mdf:

Thanks team! The teen and I spent most of the day - very carefully - installing the new kit. She is both stoked at the performance and really took an active interest about how all the parts of a PC come together. Which could well turn into an expensive hobby. But at this stage, money very well spent!

I do see what you mean about them running hot though! I ran Cinebench for a bit to soften up the old thermal paste and couldn't get the old chip beyond 60. 5800X3D went pretty much straight to 90 so upgraded cooling could well be the next cab off the rank.

I've rechecked mine and it's similar. Going absolute flat out it throttles at 90, but all other circumstances of daily use it sits happily at around 75 under load.

SpartanVXL

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#3508922 6-Jul-2026 09:55

Yes, the way the package is designed makes it very hard to cool without very good contact, or very cold plate.

There are not many coolers that aren’t expensive, so the easier method is to lower PPT for overall power limit or TDC for when thermally constrained.

For gaming the only concern is shader compile on first launch of a game, or certain games using avx2. For normal gaming it doesn’t get very hot.

giollarnat

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#3521121 18-Aug-2026 11:33

I read the discussion above, any thoughts on the value of this 5800x3d at $689 vs a Ryzen 5 5500x3d at $425 (or even a used 5700x3d on ebay for $540)?

Same end of life upgrade for my AM4 with R5 3600 and 5600xt, want to run an rtx 5070 for 1440p ray trace games (although the price and the whole stratospherically high ray tracing requirements are intensely annoying).

It seems like the cheapest CPU giving access to x3d cache will do the job for now, but I keep seeing mentions of 8-core console optimisation driving game requirements going forward, which suggests a Ryzen 7 for a few more years...?

Huntakillaz

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#3521147 18-Aug-2026 12:57

I'd go 8 core if you're looking to keep the PC around for quite a while (5+yrs), which I'm assuming you do with the current PC parts climate for $250 more you're getting the best of AM4 and don't have to worry if games that use more cores will be an issue.

giollarnat

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#3521149 18-Aug-2026 13:04

Huntakillaz:

I'd go 8 core if you're looking to keep the PC around for quite a while (5+yrs), which I'm assuming you do with the current PC parts climate for $250 more you're getting the best of AM4 and don't have to worry if games that use more cores will be an issue.

Yup I have 48gb of RAM for model processing which i definitely won't be replacing with DDR5 anytime soon!

SpartanVXL

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#3521174 18-Aug-2026 15:06

Yes keep at 8c, if it’s gaming specifically you want to have more available threads especially considering raytracings cpu load.

A 5700x3d is still a step up, I mentioned it before but the only difference between 5700x3d and 5800x3d is the clocks. In actual load you will see 4.05GHz and 4.45GHz respectively, 10% increase.

Theres a case to be made for better binned chips on the 5800x3d but it doesn’t make much of a realistic difference aside from the voltage it takes to run and undervolt capability.

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