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.
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.
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.
