AMD Ryzen 9 5950X is now at its lowest price ever - just over 600 bucks

The Goose

2022-03-03 10:07

Im quite tempted by the 5900x for £400 but im going to hold off and see what the price 5800x 3d comes in at, given that im already running a 5800x with my rtx3070 and that already gives me solid vsync of 60fps... an extra 5-10 fps seems a bit of a pointless.

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DarkQuark

2022-03-03 10:21

The Goose:

Im quite tempted by the 5900x for £400 but im going to hold off and see what the price 5800x 3d comes in at, given that im already running a 5800x with my rtx3070 and that already gives me solid vsync of 60fps... an extra 5-10 fps seems a bit of a pointless.

Doing the same thing here. I too have a 5800x that serves me well and I could snag a 5950x. But I am thinking the 58003dx will do me more good than the extra cores at this point.

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D1D01

2022-03-03 10:34

Same, however I have a 2700x. I say wait, it still has a way to go before it competes with Intel. Australian $:

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Andy Watson

2022-03-03 10:49

This is a perfect example of competition and where both camps have pros and cons, and prices are coming down. I hope AMD and Intel are closely matched into the future. I've never understood why fanboys want "their" team to be dominant....

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DarkQuark

2022-03-03 10:58

Andy Watson:

This is a perfect example of competition and where both camps have pros and cons, and prices are coming down. I hope AMD and Intel are closely matched into the future. I've never understood why fanboys want "their" team to be dominant....

Well said.

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insp1re2600

2022-03-03 11:44

The Goose:

Im quite tempted by the 5900x for £400 but im going to hold off and see what the price 5800x 3d comes in at, given that im already running a 5800x with my rtx3070 and that already gives me solid vsync of 60fps... an extra 5-10 fps seems a bit of a pointless.

DarkQuark:

Doing the same thing here. I too have a 5800x that serves me well and I could snag a 5950x. But I am thinking the 58003dx will do me more good than the extra cores at this point.

be a waste really going to a 5900 from a 5800 in gaming, id hold off next gen now.

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Kaleid

2022-03-03 14:25

insp1re2600:

be a waste really going to a 5900 from a 5800 in gaming, id hold off next gen now.

Exactly, it's just more idle cores. Better off with a better IPC

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H83

2022-03-03 14:55

Great CPU but it´s still a good chunk of money. But i´ve the 5900x on sale many times below the 500€ mark, seems a better buy.

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FearFactory

2022-03-03 15:12

I'm watching the prices, waiting for an 5800x under 300€ to finally upgrade from my old FX8320 😀

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geogan

2022-03-03 16:16

I paid £829.94 (€1,001) for mine 😱

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Agonist

2022-03-03 16:22

Damn that's a good price. 5950x 32gb would last years.

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tunejunky

2022-03-03 17:43

D1D01:

Same, however I have a 2700x. I say wait, it still has a way to go before it competes with Intel. Australian $:

aaagh! 😱

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tunejunky

2022-03-03 17:47

H83:

Great CPU but it´s still a good chunk of money. But i´ve the 5900x on sale many times below the 500€ mark, seems a better buy.

slightly easier to cool but if you're doing any editing, compilation, or transcoding the 5950x is worth it. but not if you're not doing it which helps the 5800x as a monster gaming/multitasking cpu/ the odd duck is the 5900x, but if you see it cheap by all means buy it and temps are in the middle of 5800x and 5950x

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Gomez Addams

2022-03-03 18:53

Andy Watson:

This is a perfect example of competition and where both camps have pros and cons, and prices are coming down. I hope AMD and Intel are closely matched into the future. I've never understood why fanboys want "their" team to be dominant....

I have never wanted either company to be dominate because that results in higher prices. I prefer a close competition to keep prices lower. I certainly have my preferences but market domination is rarely a good thing.

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kakiharaFRS

2022-03-04 02:06

with a 5950x and an nvidia gpu you can : - play your game - stream on twitch using nvenc or h264 - record a high quality local movie for youtube or floatplane using h264 or nvenc all that at the same time..I tried..I have zero viewers but I did it "for fun" and you can absolutely do it...expect a good 800watts at the psu tough with an rtx 3080+ also X570 is way better than Z690 way more useable lanes without "fake" asmedia SATA ports and pcie slots you can't use like Intel still does crazy that they didn't get the hint when everyone left them for amd

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Kool64

2022-03-04 17:31

the 5800X at $350 is almost low enough to make me get one instead of waiting for X3D pricing to upgrade my 3700X. though if I needed that many cores $600 for the 5950 is still great.

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JamesSneed

2022-03-04 21:31

Kool64:

the 5800X at $350 is almost low enough to make me get one instead of waiting for X3D pricing to upgrade my 3700X. though if I needed that many cores $600 for the 5950 is still great.

Well don't go look at micro center.

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Kool64

2022-03-05 02:30

Wow that’s almost a steal!

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nizzen

2022-03-05 12:31

kakiharaFRS:

with a 5950x and an nvidia gpu you can : - play your game - stream on twitch using nvenc or h264 - record a high quality local movie for youtube or floatplane using h264 or nvenc all that at the same time..I tried..I have zero viewers but I did it "for fun" and you can absolutely do it...expect a good 800watts at the psu tough with an rtx 3080+ also X570 is way better than Z690 way more useable lanes without "fake" asmedia SATA ports and pcie slots you can't use like Intel still does crazy that they didn't get the hint when everyone left them for amd

I have both 5950x and 12900k. I find no reason to use my 5950x over 12900k when the gamingperformance is way better on 12900k. Maybe because I'm running 7000c30 ddr5 on 12900k 😛 I have Optane 905p in the last pci-e x16 slot on the Apex z690. Tell mye why x570 is way better 🙂 It's like saying x299 is way better than x570, because of the quad channel memory and more pci-e lanes LOL

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nizzen

2022-03-05 12:33

Kool64:

Wow that’s almost a steal!

If it was 1 year ago.... 5950x isn't worth more today, when there is faster cpu's for the same price or less. I don't talk about cinebench score... 12900KF is even cheaper than 5950x. That's actually a steal here in Norway 😀