Hey guys I recently decided to say sayonara to Nvidia and their bloated pricing (and stingy amount of vram) and upgrade my 3070 [language redacted] to a 7900xtx hellhound 24gb (because 8gb vram in 2025 just isn't good enough) and am really confusion on what cpu to best pair with this card for a complete system upgrade.
Currently rocking a 5600x am4 setup with 32g 3200mhz ram which is getting a bit long in the tooth, and the prices here in australia really dont make much sense for upgrading to say a 5800 x3d when then 9 series cpu's are just a few hundred bucks more. I am starting to notice stutter in a few games, mostly unreal engine 5 games at 1440p so I suspect the cpu and ram just arent up to snuff anymore.I am aware of having to upgrade my mobo and ram, mainly to take advantage of and future proof the pcie 5.0 which we will all have to upgrade to eventually.
So in terms of pricing, the 5800xt $350 AUD, 5900xt is $600. The 9 series I'm thinking of looking into are the 9700x which is $550, 9800x3d is $879, the 9900x is $700.
The mobo is the MSI 870 gaming plus mob that costs $450. The ram is CL28 32GB ddr5 costing me $220.
So my main questions are. Will the 5600x seriously bottleneck my 7900x at 1440p (I'm, guessing yes here stands to reason it well over 5 years old at this point) and will upgrading to a higher tier am4 cpu be "worth it" or should I just bite the bullet and do a full system upgrade to am5? The pricing for the 7 series chipset is not much cheaper than the 9 series so are they pointless to bother with and just go straight for the 9 series?
How much bang for my buck am I getting for the 9800x3d vs the 9700x for 1440p gaming? I know the 98x3d has its fancy cache that does.....something apparently amazing? Also how is the thermals on the 9 series because australia gets hot as hell where I live, well over 40degrees celsius.
Also, currently have a 4tb Samsung evo running sata2. There is no significant benefit to upgrading to nvme for gaming at this point correct? Its something I can leave to further down the line?
Can I afford to buy a cheaper Motherboard as well? Thanks in advance for any help provided this decision is making my brain hurt haha.
Currently rocking a 5600x am4 setup with 32g 3200mhz ram which is getting a bit long in the tooth, and the prices here in australia really dont make much sense for upgrading to say a 5800 x3d when then 9 series cpu's are just a few hundred bucks more. I am starting to notice stutter in a few games, mostly unreal engine 5 games at 1440p so I suspect the cpu and ram just arent up to snuff anymore.I am aware of having to upgrade my mobo and ram, mainly to take advantage of and future proof the pcie 5.0 which we will all have to upgrade to eventually.
So in terms of pricing, the 5800xt $350 AUD, 5900xt is $600. The 9 series I'm thinking of looking into are the 9700x which is $550, 9800x3d is $879, the 9900x is $700.
The mobo is the MSI 870 gaming plus mob that costs $450. The ram is CL28 32GB ddr5 costing me $220.
So my main questions are. Will the 5600x seriously bottleneck my 7900x at 1440p (I'm, guessing yes here stands to reason it well over 5 years old at this point) and will upgrading to a higher tier am4 cpu be "worth it" or should I just bite the bullet and do a full system upgrade to am5? The pricing for the 7 series chipset is not much cheaper than the 9 series so are they pointless to bother with and just go straight for the 9 series?
How much bang for my buck am I getting for the 9800x3d vs the 9700x for 1440p gaming? I know the 98x3d has its fancy cache that does.....something apparently amazing? Also how is the thermals on the 9 series because australia gets hot as hell where I live, well over 40degrees celsius.
Also, currently have a 4tb Samsung evo running sata2. There is no significant benefit to upgrading to nvme for gaming at this point correct? Its something I can leave to further down the line?
Can I afford to buy a cheaper Motherboard as well? Thanks in advance for any help provided this decision is making my brain hurt haha.
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