anticupidon:

This launch got me thinking. Sell my 3700X and upgrade to 5700X. Does makes sense on a MSI B450 board?

it does with a 5800x3d, 5700 will be great for productivity but no 15% uptick in gaming

oops double post... but to anticupidon - it depends on what your workload is and how much you game. i have a MacBook pro (bought for working on-site with all day battery). it is a brilliant piece of tech and ARM has a lot of merit. but if you have a lot of proprietary software you will have to run it through an emulator if it can be run at all. Alder Lake is splitting the practical difference while being x86, Meteor Lake will be much more powerful. Zen 4 will offer huge increases for productivity (more than is possible with Big/little) while offering stability across future cpu generations like Zen 2 and 3 did in past. unlike Apple and Intel. for Apple, unless you're buying an M1Ultra Studio w/ w6600x combo you can forget about gaming AAA games unless, again, emulator. but more importantly it's a closed ecosystem and you can't change your RAM or CPU. and i'm not certain how easy it will be to even change an M.2

anticupidon:

This launch got me thinking. Sell my 3700X and upgrade to 5700X. Does makes sense on a MSI B450 board?

If you have FAST RAM, like DDR4-3800 CL14, then getting the 5800X3D is going to be WAY more powerful than the 5700X in total speed upgrade, assuming you are going to lock the IF at 1:1 3733 - 3800 MHZ. So long as the rest of your system on the B450 is good, especially the RAM and MB cooling, I would do it. You get better performance earlier instead of waiting till Q4 and whatever you saved from new MB, CPU and DDR5, you can toss the money at a better GPU. The thing is, that 5800X3D is going to be worth more than a 5700X or 5800X when you sell it back out too.

Would be nice to have 5950X3D like the wanted, but i'll wait for Zen 4 or 5, as the 5950X is such an awesome little fellow!

moab600:

Would be nice to have 5950X3D like the wanted, but i'll wait for Zen 4 or 5, as the 5950X is such an awesome little fellow!

that's where i am. also because i'm broke after an unexpected GPU purchase last month. no way am i going to get 15% though:( but happy with new toy

Valken:

The thing is, that 5800X3D is going to be worth more than a 5700X or 5800X when you sell it back out too.

I am not planning to resell even my 1600 will be gifted to family . :P