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.
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.
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.