344°
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Processor £279.99 at Amazon£279.99£284.952% offAmazon Deals
Expect the entire 5000 range to continue dropping even further as we edge closer to the release of the newly-announced 7000 series due for release this autumn. Socket: AM4 Frequency: 3.8 G…
Undervolt your CPU. you'll see big improvements in both thermals and performance. Sounds counterintuitive, but if you reduce the power going to it, you reduce the heat, which in turn reduces clock speeds. Takes about half an hour to tweak properly (use Ryzen Master to dial in and then enter the same settings in your bios), but worth the effort. I haven't seen mine go above 65 degrees, and that's in an extended Cinebench run while on a 280mm NZXT AIO. Nothing uses PCIe 5 yet, and you won't be able to take advantage of the additional bandwidth until well after 13th Gen Intel becomes irrelevant and you need to update the platform anyway. It's purely a marketing ploy at this point in time. Even the majority of PCIe 4 GPUs aren't impacted to a significant degree in PCIe gen 3 slots, they're way off maxing out 4, let alone requiring gen 5 bandwidths to function. Same with NVMe drives. Best advice right now is to hold tight and see what AMD come out with in autumn if you can, as AM5 will be supported for far longer. Current Intel motherboards are only going to support 12th (current) and 13th (next gen) CPUs, then you need to upgrade yet again. There's no long term upgrade path.
If aren't already tied in to the AM4 socket, then Intel 1700 makes more sense at the moment. Costs about the same as Ryzen, but the motherboards are more advanced (e.g. PCIe 5, upto 4 M.2 sockets) and will give you a possible update path when Raptor Lake is released. For example, you can get the 12600K which is the comparable to this for around £260, but you generally pay £30 more for Intel motherboards. A good 'cheap' pairing is the MSI B660M-A with the 12600K.
bought this last time. love it. just buy the best cooler you can. seriously. :)
AMD AM4 has been absolutely amazing. But yes ultimately the GPU is what matters for games by far. Its easy to overspend on a pc. CPU will simply get out of stock and prices wont get much lower as everything moves to AM5. AM5 is here soon and should be good for year though looks overkill right now with the X670 platform. The 5700x is still worth considering if you want a more power efficient CPU.
Hi,I have two of my pc running on this 5800x doesn't even get used at all even with the best AAA games it the GPU that the real important component . One of my pc has 32 GB ddr4 at 4,400 and that more inadequate for any game.