Got my hands on a 5900x

So our fellow members here decided they didn’t want to keep the 5900x (Aquorius). But honestly, it made me realize how BAD my 5800x was.

Same thermals, 100MHz faster, 4c8t more (hey I added an I7 to my Ryzen 7 and for a Ryzen 9!)

But damn, this multithreaded performance is amazing! Gained 3000 points in CineBench R20 and a 40-50% time in Blender!

This leads me to this, AMDs pricing SUCKS! It should be

5600x: $250
5800x: $350
5900x: $500-550
5950x: $650-750

It’s not necessarily they are priced too high, but it doesn’t make sense to pay $150 for 2c4t more then only $100 more for 4c8t more…

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The 5900x is the only one that’s MSRP (lol, what is that?) that makes sense to me

The 5600x isn’t too far from a good price, the 5800x SUCKS!

$300 is a bit high for what has now become a mid-range part.

I like the prices you mentioned.

I said too far, $40-50 seems reasonable.

I’m worried about the 5600, because right now the 5600x hits 4.4GHz all core and 4.6-4.7GHz Turbo. The 5600 would basically be a 3600 but faster IPC and.less latency. I think they should just lower the 5600x to $250 then release a 5500x at $150-175 4c/8t. The only reason why a 5600 would make sense is, if it was $200, 6c6t and the 5600x comes down to $250. Here is what I would like to see.

Ryzen 3 5500: 4c/4t: $100 (3.7-4.4)
Ryzen 3 5500x: 4c/8t: $150 (3.8-4.5)
Ryzen 5 5600: 6c/6t: $200 (3.6-4.4)
Ryzen 5 5600x: 6c/12t: $250 (3.7-4.6)
Ryzen 7 5700x: 8c/16t: $300 (3.6-4.4)
Ryzen 7 5800x: 8c/16t: $350 (3.8-4.7)
Ryzen 9 5900x: 12c/24t: $500 (3.7-4.8)
Ryzen 9 5950x: 16c/32t: $700 (3.4-4.9)

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I hope you have more luck with it than I did I was satisfied at first but got quickly annoyed by all these stability issues. Not to mention ram compatibility issues. I sold it and went back to the 10900k. Don’t even get me started on how much I hate dealing with AGESA and it’s issues. not releasing a new chipset for these processors was a severe mistake IMO

I hope they never sell a non-SMT CPU ever again, outside of the cheapest, lowest SKU offering.

Having mid-range chips without SMT is a crime against humanity

HIjacking thread - I ended up getting an i3-10100 ($115) and a cheap-o H410 ($65) to use my extra ULTRA HIGH QUALITY GIGABYTE P750GM power supply and other leftover parts with.

Existing parts:

Gigabyte P750GM PSU
120GB OCZ SATA SSD
2TB Hard Drive (some brand, IDK what)
ASUS RX 570 4GB
USB Wifi AC600
Xbox One Controller
Logitech Wireless Keyboard/Mouse (Basic)
Random assortment of 120mm fans

PURCHASED:
$115 i3-10100
$65 ASRock H410M-ITX/M.2
$30 Rosewill FBM-X2

For around $210, I just got another system set up that should be capable for a TV gaming system.

I thought about waiting until I could get 4th gen Ryzen parts to just upgrade my 8700k and use those parts as extras, but eh…might just listen to Griefs and wait.

I can then just dump the oldest parts to my siblings.

EDIT: ALSO CANCELED MY ASSASSIN COOLER ORDER LOL FML

I am a bit manic. Yeah.

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Is this why my PC with a 3900x keeps resetting for no reason? I stopped using it and stick to my trusty i7-7700k.

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haha

My 1600 FINALLY is 100% stable 80% of the time.

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I’ve not had 1 issue other than Ryzen 1000 launch day stuff. I hit XMP + PBO and boom it works.

Main issue was getting RAM to run at advertised speeds, and some otherwise random behavior and slow posts.

Updated bioses generally fixed these issues, as did increasing DRAM and SoC voltage.

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Same with my x470 asrock taichi and 2700x, I had a x370 gigabyte and a 1800x for my main pc back when it launched and it had issues at the start but eventually resolved with better BIOS updates

It just seems some people don’t really troubleshoot and just put blame on AMD

or, expectation that XMP just works.

it often doesn’t on AMD motherboards.

At present, pretty satisfied with my 1600. I probably spend more time playing on it than any of my other systems because it’s in my upstairs loft. It’s like my dad room.

Because they’re the reason? My issue is pretty widespread when I google the issue. I update the BIOS every time there’s an update and I shut the PC down until the next BIOS update when it restarts out of nowhere. Disabled XMP, tried a new PSU, etc. also. It was great for about a month.

Yes

During launch some builds with rtx 2000 series cards, some motherboards kept defaulting to pcie 4.0, those cards couldn’t run pcie 4.0, which gave multiple problems

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/cf0tqr/psa_some_motherboards_are_automatically/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body

Basically anyone without a rx 5000 series had this issue, this was a motherboard problem

All you had to do is revert it to pcie 3.0 and problems would have been resolved, literally simple troubleshooting

They are almost like covid hoaxers lol

There’s a reason Ryzen DRAM Calculator became so popular and necessary. It’s not for (extreme) overclocking, but just to get things to run correctly as advertised.

yes, I know XMP is technically overclocking.

Dram calculator can push more than what xmp profiles do, that’s another reason why it’s popular

It’s easy to admit that Ryzen, even now, still requires a lot more user tweaking to get RAM to run at appropriate speeds than Intel.

I do it every time, and I own a bunch of AMD stuff.

Heck, even their GPUs need more general tweaking than Nvidia to run properly.

Every single AMD GPU I’ve had was overvolted to the moon, and needed tweaks to not throttle themselves.

Lmfao