[SOLVED] Do I need 3900x for just gaming?

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I am looking at buying 3900x to upgrade my current 2500k from 2011. from sort of a "future proof" point of view i think i should get the 3900x ??

im going to use it for pure gaming and watching movies. would a 3700x be sufficient? would a 3900x be any more "furture proof"?

what do you pros think?

thx !!
 
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Personally speaking i think the ryzen 5 3600 are the best bang for your buck.There's not that much of a difference in gaming between the 2700x and the 3700x.It's not mind blowing.But my ryzen 2600 vs the ryzen 3600 it beats mine quite easy.
If your just gaming Intel 9900k if your going to shell out. If you want AMD 3700k or 3800k for gaming 3900k is for editing streaming and gaming. Not to say that the others wouldn't do great in all those categories but the 3900x is sort of built for the crazy multitasking and less on gaming. You would see the best results in the other CPUs while the 3900x might be ever if any right behind them. There plenty of reviews coming out and many will tell you the same when showing you graphs.
 
If your just gaming Intel 9900k if your going to shell out. If you want AMD 3700k or 3800k for gaming 3900k is for editing streaming and gaming. Not to say that the others wouldn't do great in all those categories but the 3900x is sort of built for the crazy multitasking and less on gaming. You would see the best results in the other CPUs while the 3900x might be ever if any right behind them. There plenty of reviews coming out and many will tell you the same when showing you graphs.


well, perhaps in a loooooooooooooog run 3900x will show advantage over the 9900k? i mean, probably future games will utilize more cores , and perhaps i'll be gaming at one screen and doing other stuffs in another...
 
In short: no, you don't need it.

If you have the money for the Ry3900X, then why not. It's the top dog of the AMD lineup and it should do very well in gaming tasks for the years to come. If you are a bit more budget conscious, then the Ry3700X may be a better option. For the full blown experience, you should try and get a X570 motherboard as well, but you can get away with running the Ry3700X with a B450 even. I'd like to think the Ry3900X as well, but not 100% sure on that and I wouldn't trust the average B450 to handle that CPU to its full capability.

On the Intel front.. They need to adjust the prices to justify themselves, so I am not sure what to even recommend on the Intel front on a price-to-price relation.

Cheers!
 
I suspect that by the time 8 cores/16 threads are not adequate for gaming, odds are you'd be on a PCI-e 6.0 and DDR6 mainboard as well....

If you are a frequent content creator, the 3900X might make more sense...(editing/transcoding/encoding one or two movies a year, who really cares if it takes ~50% longer)

but, for the next few years, the 3700X seems more than enough for any games...(you can always jump to 12 -16 core later if needed)
 
I guess even the R5 3600 and the R7 3700x will be very close in their gaming performance in most titles today.

I am planning a new rig end of this year and at the moment the 3700x would be my cpu of choice because I am neither budget restrained, nor willing to absolutely shell out my dollares.
 
For gaming and general use, I wouldn't go for anything higher than a 3700X unless the rest of the system is already as high end as it gets and you have money to burn. It seems pretty unlikely that games will see any tangible performance benefits from having more than 8 cores with 16 threads any time soon, and the money spent on anything better would probably be better put toward graphics hardware, where it can provide immediate benefit to gaming performance.
 
Personally speaking i think the ryzen 5 3600 are the best bang for your buck.There's not that much of a difference in gaming between the 2700x and the 3700x.It's not mind blowing.But my ryzen 2600 vs the ryzen 3600 it beats mine quite easy.
 
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