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logainofhades If they bring back the 5700x3d, at an attractive price, I might just grab one. Reply
Jagar123 I have a sibling who is on a 3700x. They aren't going to be paying ludicrous amounts of money for a current gen CPU due to memory prices. If AMD brought back the5800x3d (or 56/5700x3ds) again I know they'd jump on one. Reply
Shiznizzle Mad. I bought the 5800x 13 months ago in a pre xmas sale on amazon for 130 pounds. At the time every retailer on the planet was dumping AM4 stuff in preparation for AM5's mass uptake by everybody. I could not afford the new platform so dished out for some top notch AM4 gear at greatly reduced prices. I got the 5800x, an MSI MPG B550 Gaming board and a little later that year the AMD 9060XT 16. I was moving to linux so needed and wanted an all AMD system. I tried linux gaming on Nvidia and it left a bad taste in my mouth. Yeah it worked but it was a pita. AM4 was being dumped. Now i see that the chip i bought for 130 pounds is now up to 200 pounds. The 5800x3d, if you can find one, costs more than the flagship 9800x3d. You could almost buy two of the 9000 series chips for the 5800x3d. MAD In hind sight i should have bought into AM5 back then and just used two M2 slots instead of two separate machines for linux and windows. But i wanted to keep them separate and have two distinct machines. Well, i do. Now i have 3 computers sitting on my desk. The back up of the back up. The back up. And an AM5 i scraped together over the last few months. Had i bought into DDR 5 when it was not so much……150 instead of 75. I paid double. That same kit is now 400 AM4 lives on. I am not selling any of my systems and not moving them on either. It looks like computing for the next 5 years is going to be really expensive so need the machines in case one breaks down Reply
Gururu If they really wanted to help why don't they 1) make new CPUs that support DDR4, 2) make DDR5 exclusively to sell to end-user, or 3) bundle a free stick of DDR5 16GB with the new CPUs. Reply
logainofhades Gururu said: If they really wanted to help why don't they 1) make new CPUs that support DDR4, 2) make DDR5 exclusively to sell to end-user, or 3) bundle a free stick of DDR5 16GB with the new CPUs. AMD doesn't make it's own chips now. They are all done by TSMC, who is pretty much at capacity these days. They do not need to make new CPU's either, just bring back the x3d models. A 5700x3d was often on par with a Ryzen 7 7700, in gaming. That is plenty for the budget crowd, that are probably not going to be running super high end GPU's to begin with. Reply
Gururu logainofhades said: AMD doesn't make it's own chips now. They are all done by TSMC, who is pretty much at capacity these days. They do not need to make new CPU's either, just bring back the x3d models. A 5700x3d was often on par with a Ryzen 7 7700, in gaming. That is plenty for the budget crowd, that are probably not going to be running super high end GPU's to begin with. Well, I didn't mean they would be able to do it for free. Not like they had a part in memory being so hard to get. Reply
Notton If AMD goes through with the idea, my money would be on AMD reprinting Barcelo-R/Cezanne, and not Vermeer. I wonder if they can get Samsung to make them? 7nm shouldn't be a challenge at this point. Reply
JaiJai1 im still running the 1700x .. I have used to 5600x, 3900x, 2700, 3400G etc etc and I still dont feel forced to upgrade.. I do want to get the 5950x and pair it with a 9070 xt or 9070 but so far, the 1080 pushes 1440 like nothing and in other games 4k and 60.. Reply
alan.campbell99 Shiznizzle said: Mad. I bought the 5800x 13 months ago in a pre xmas sale on amazon for 130 pounds. At the time every retailer on the planet was dumping AM4 stuff in preparation for AM5's mass uptake by everybody. I could not afford the new platform so dished out for some top notch AM4 gear at greatly reduced prices. I got the 5800x, an MSI MPG B550 Gaming board and a little later that year the AMD 9060XT 16. I was moving to linux so needed and wanted an all AMD system. I tried linux gaming on Nvidia and it left a bad taste in my mouth. Yeah it worked but it was a pita. AM4 was being dumped. Now i see that the chip i bought for 130 pounds is now up to 200 pounds. The 5800x3d, if you can find one, costs more than the flagship 9800x3d. You could almost buy two of the 9000 series chips for the 5800x3d. MAD In hind sight i should have bought into AM5 back then and just used two M2 slots instead of two separate machines for linux and windows. But i wanted to keep them separate and have two distinct machines. Well, i do. Now i have 3 computers sitting on my desk. The back up of the back up. The back up. And an AM5 i scraped together over the last few months. Had i bought into DDR 5 when it was not so much……150 instead of 75. I paid double. That same kit is now 400 AM4 lives on. I am not selling any of my systems and not moving them on either. It looks like computing for the next 5 years is going to be really expensive so need the machines in case one breaks down Interesting. I also switched to linux fairly recently. I'm not looking at needing to do so right now but I had been considering going from my RTX 2080 super to an RX which would also mean an all-AMD situation . Having to use proprietary drivers for the nvidia card, is it a different/better situation driver-wise for AMD cards? Reply
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