Question A little torn

With the new socket coming up, I recently updated the bios on my b350 board and updated to ryzen 5 5600x which is pretty good. Considering the idea of running this system a few more years. Would selling the 5600x while it’s still got value left and picking up a 5800x or 5900x be worthwhile? Wondering if I can get through until am6.
 
Specifically it’s the AsRock ab350 pro 4.

This should be the one. It appears they supported up to the 3950x. They don’t show the 5000 series as officially supported, but the latest beta bios added support for them. If you go to the page for bios it’s towards the bottom. The bios is now version 7.20.

It works pretty well, with the 5600x and that bios I was even able to enable smart access memory for my 6700xt.

https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/AB350 Pro4/#Overview

Specs

5600x-using a wraith prism cooler
AsRock ab350 pro 4
16gb ddr4 3000, though I’ll probably pull that and pick up 32gb ddr4 3200
240gb Samsung 960 evo
2 1tb sata ssd drives
MSI mech 2x 6700xt
Corsair rmx 850 watt
Cooler master case, I think it’s the mb511
 
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With the new socket coming up, I recently updated the bios on my b350 board and updated to ryzen 5 5600x which is pretty good. Considering the idea of running this system a few more years. Would selling the 5600x while it’s still got value left and picking up a 5800x or 5900x be worthwhile? Wondering if I can get through until am6.
300 and 400 chipset MBs don't have some options to use and set 5000 series Ryzen but that doesn't impact overall performance much. 300 series also don't have good support for higher RAM speed, typically 2933/3000MHz tops.
If you want to stay with Ryzen 5000 series and specially if you plan om higher Ryzen upgrades for next few years you'd be much happier with B550 MB.
 
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300 and 400 chipset MBs don't have some options to use and set 5000 series Ryzen but that doesn't impact overall performance much. 300 series also don't have good support for higher RAM speed, typically 2933/3000MHz tops.
If you want to stay with Ryzen 5000 series and specially if you plan om higher Ryzen upgrades for next few years you'd be much happier with B550 MB.

Something to consider. It actually did let me use smart access memory after the updates. I’m running my ram at ddr4 3000 at the moment. I think the only other major feature is I’m limited to pcie 3.0, so if I upgrade graphics I’ll need to make sure I’m not limiting it.

I guess my overarching question is, would selling the 5600x in favor of a 5800x 3d or a 5900x be worthwhile? From what I’ve seen, it looks like going to a 5800x would not get much extra performance but the 3d model seems pretty interesting.
 
Something to consider. It actually did let me use smart access memory after the updates. I’m running my ram at ddr4 3000 at the moment. I think the only other major feature is I’m limited to pcie 3.0, so if I upgrade graphics I’ll need to make sure I’m not limiting it.

I guess my overarching question is, would selling the 5600x in favor of a 5800x 3d or a 5900x be worthwhile? From what I’ve seen, it looks like going to a 5800x would not get much extra performance but the 3d model seems pretty interesting.
Can only go by past experience, relative price (new or used) difference between CPUs stays about same as when new with only lowest ones loosing much value.