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I bought a Ryzen 9 5900x a year ago, but my brother couldn't figure out how to get my pc to start with it. Good news is that I know what I likely need to do. Bad news is that It's been a year, so I can't return it.
I'm talking to the partner of a best friend who is helping me upgrade my pc, and they said that it's gonna shorten the lifespan of my motherboards by a few years if I set it up. He has a computer engineering degree so I trust him, but my friends and family are asking to to get a second opinion
Here's my computer details. If you need any more info, please let me know.
Geforce RTX 3070
16 gb ram
Motherboard:
Micro-Star International Co. Ltd.
A520M PRO (MS-7D14)
Basebord Version 1.0
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
This is what they've told me:
the motherboard doesnt matter when it comes to running your GPU (unless we talking very high end systems)but, the motherboard does decide what cpu you can run, which What you currently have is a little slow compared the the gpu.its not bad, just not a great match. I highly recommend getting a 5800x3d, or a 5700x3d as an upgrade cpu instead of a ryzen 9 for a lot of reasons.
your motherboards ability to deliver power isnt a good match for ryzen 9.
Your motherboard is a lower tier board. Its VRMs (power delivery to CPU) are not cooled. And it doesn't have many of them. So the few it does have will strain to power the 5900x and they don't have a heatsink, so even more strained
Now also. 5900x is a dual CCD chip. This means it needs the bios to be configured in a certain way. AND it needs windows also configured in a certain way. If any part of your settings are wrong, it will actually run slower because of the dual CCD it has
5950x is also dual ccd
It is faster but only if setup 100% correctly. And it won't be faster in games even then. 5800x3d is faster in games
X3d means it has extra L3 cache - just means it can run games faster
5700x3d is also a fine upgrade.
Even 5600x3d will be a big uplift from your 3600x
These components around the CPU socket are VRM. Your mother board only has few and they are not cooled
So running higher end CPUs like the 5900 and 5950 will negatively impact the VRMs longevity
I used to have a amd fx9590. That chip was so hot that your motherboards VRMs had to be water cooled or they would shut down the system
To say it's unsupported at all isn't right. You can ask like like - is the 5950 a bad match for my motherboards power delivery
And some people want to always upgrade. But that means a whole new system. You currently run a 3600x, which means you'll get a lot of performance difference by just going to a 5700x3d
I'm talking to the partner of a best friend who is helping me upgrade my pc, and they said that it's gonna shorten the lifespan of my motherboards by a few years if I set it up. He has a computer engineering degree so I trust him, but my friends and family are asking to to get a second opinion
Here's my computer details. If you need any more info, please let me know.
Geforce RTX 3070
16 gb ram
Motherboard:
Micro-Star International Co. Ltd.
A520M PRO (MS-7D14)
Basebord Version 1.0
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
This is what they've told me:
the motherboard doesnt matter when it comes to running your GPU (unless we talking very high end systems)but, the motherboard does decide what cpu you can run, which What you currently have is a little slow compared the the gpu.its not bad, just not a great match. I highly recommend getting a 5800x3d, or a 5700x3d as an upgrade cpu instead of a ryzen 9 for a lot of reasons.
your motherboards ability to deliver power isnt a good match for ryzen 9.
Your motherboard is a lower tier board. Its VRMs (power delivery to CPU) are not cooled. And it doesn't have many of them. So the few it does have will strain to power the 5900x and they don't have a heatsink, so even more strained
Now also. 5900x is a dual CCD chip. This means it needs the bios to be configured in a certain way. AND it needs windows also configured in a certain way. If any part of your settings are wrong, it will actually run slower because of the dual CCD it has
5950x is also dual ccd
It is faster but only if setup 100% correctly. And it won't be faster in games even then. 5800x3d is faster in games
X3d means it has extra L3 cache - just means it can run games faster
5700x3d is also a fine upgrade.
Even 5600x3d will be a big uplift from your 3600x
These components around the CPU socket are VRM. Your mother board only has few and they are not cooled
So running higher end CPUs like the 5900 and 5950 will negatively impact the VRMs longevity
I used to have a amd fx9590. That chip was so hot that your motherboards VRMs had to be water cooled or they would shut down the system
To say it's unsupported at all isn't right. You can ask like like - is the 5950 a bad match for my motherboards power delivery
And some people want to always upgrade. But that means a whole new system. You currently run a 3600x, which means you'll get a lot of performance difference by just going to a 5700x3d
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