After soooo many years I'm getting my 5800x3D

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After playing Skyrim for so long and building my gaming PC, tight on budget, I had to upgrade slowly. I am on an AM4 system and the best gaming CPU I can possibly have is the AMD Ryzen 7 5800x3D. Today I fanally was able to get my hands on one of these hard to find CPU for 300$ CAD, very cheap compared to 480$ on eBay from China.

I still have a Ryzen 5 3600, games well and nothing to complain about but I want a bit more juice so I am planning to upgrade the memory and GPU after the CPU. I have already upgraded my CPU fan for the excellent Noctua which I posted a video on Youtube about the unboxing and the installation in my current PC.

My next move is to get 32 Gigs of RAM on a 3600 speed, right now I have 16. and I want, if possible to get my hands on an RTX 4080 Super IF possible to replace my very aged and well used GTX 980 AMP! Extreme which serves me well and did all the work it could give me. I can still play at 1440 for SOME games but even at 1080p, it's starting to show it's old technology and today, Raytracing is becomming more popular so I plan to upgrade this PC to it's maximum to have, what I consider, the best AM4 system you can possible have.

I'm excited to get this new CPU. Just felt like sharing in a comunity that will understand me.

So, from 3600 (not even X) to 5800x3d

[DancerBV]

Congrats! That's really exciting. Nothing beats the feeling of a good PC upgrade.

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It is NOW in my hands and I got a super special price for even better. For 350$ CAD in total, I now have 32 Gigs of CL14 Ripjaws memory and the 5800x3D. I have a date with my computer tonight to upgrade it to its new self!

Thanks @DancerBV

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Link to my upgrade video on my Youtube channel.

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i can just recomend you to get 64gb Ram the Ryzen 5000 series can handle easy 4x ram sticks on a 450/550 motherboard.

my old Ryzen 5800x ran fine and stable with 4x8gb Ram  3600 M/t and now i am on 4x16gb Ram on AM5 but can run the Ram just at 3600 M/t because everything above that lead to very unstable system but it is okey for gaming it is more then enough.

I will Recomend you the Rx9070xt over the 4080/super because you safe alot of money and the performance is really equal but the future Proof is better on the AMD card.

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15 hours ago, alexanderBB said:

i can just recomend you to get 64gb Ram the Ryzen 5000 series can handle easy 4x ram sticks on a 450/550 motherboard.

my old Ryzen 5800x ran fine and stable with 4x8gb Ram  3600 M/t and now i am on 4x16gb Ram on AM5 but can run the Ram just at 3600 M/t because everything above that lead to very unstable system but it is okey for gaming it is more then enough.

I will Recomend you the Rx9070xt over the 4080/super because you safe alot of money and the performance is really equal but the future Proof is better on the AMD card.

I'm looking to get good Ray Tracing support which is why I have a tendency to lean towards nVidia. I know the AMD cards have made a lot of progress to support Ray Tracing but they have a lot of trouble keeping up with nVidia on that. BUT, out of all doubts, the AMD card you propose will completely crush my current 980 TI for sure. It took me 2 years to shop for my CPU and it's under the 500$ price tag, so a GPU will take time and most probably drop in prices once the 60 series hop in. As for 64 Gb, it's hard to get a good price, most definately for the sticks I got which are models F4-3600C14D-32GVKA. They have XMP clocks at 14-14-14. I also may not be using all that much RAM but more is never a problem. I have the Gigabye x570 Elite Wifi motherboard, I've read some articles and saw some videos that 4 sticks is not the best for AMD platforms, but again, if you stick to the supported speeds and don't overclock, then I guess stability should not be an issue as well as maintaining the 3600 speeds. I was happy with 16 Gb RAM, now I doubled to 32 Gb and I do not use my RAM so much. I barely scrape 10 Gb most of the times and with games like Skyrim and Minecraft mainly, it's not eating up all of it. But if I find identical RAM sticks at affordable proces, then yeah, I will not complain :).

Thanks for your comment and thoughts, very appreciated, it's always good to have other people's suggestions and open up other possibilities I may have not thaught of.