Intel sneezes: new socket!
Hopefully Zen 7 will also be on AM5.
I am thinking of building a new desktop on Zen 6; should be a solid upgrade over my aging 5800X, especially if they upgrade the CCDs to 12 cores.
WTF you mean, “aging?” I only upgraded to a 5700x3d less than a year ago!
But I have a regular 5800X, didn’t get a chance to buy the 5800X3D before they stopped making them.
didn’t get a chance to buy the 5800X3D before they stopped making them.
Neither did I, hence the 5700x3d instead.
(Also, one step down from the top is always a much better value anyway, which is why I was upgrading from a 1700x, not an 1800x. It was under $150!)
Still, your chip is faster than mine for everything except gaming, and not that much worse even for it. In your position, I wouldn’t bother upgrading to anything short of a 12- or 16-core chip. And Hell, even then I might’ve gone for a 5950x instead of spending several hundred more dollars on a new motherboard and RAM to jump to AM5.
The 5800X is a really fast processor unless you need more cores. 😁
Don’t get me wrong, even to this day it’s a solid CPU. But for my needs single thread performance could be better (I played a lot economic strategy games) and more cores would be helpful for my x265 encoding.
If it’s any thing like am4, it will.
I’m gonna sit on my 7800x3d through Zen 6, I just moved to it last year and it should last quite a while. For context: I used Bulldozer CPUs the entire time they “sucked”, mostly because of fanboyism. I mostly game, though, so those worked for me.
Now, at least, they don’t suck and I can chill on AM5 for a bit. Zen 7 would be the earliest I start looking again
I have never once in my life upgraded the CPU in a computer. I tend to get 4-5 years of primary “It’s my main computer” use out of one, and then 4-5 years of “It’s my secondary machine I use for some specific thing” with more minor hardware upgrades. My old desktop (a Ryzen 3600 machine) is my HTPC right now.
