AM4 holdouts, Newegg has the R9 5950x for $315

[Burticus]

https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-9-5950x-ryzen-9-5000-series-vermeer-socket-am4-desktop-processor/p/N82E16819113663

It does say on backorder until 12/9 but that's just next week.

Is this a good deal? I was thinking about upgrading my 5700x to 7800x3d but that's a $600 upgrade... this one I could just drop in, but I don't know that I would necessarily feel the difference in games over my 5700x. I assume this is for mega threaded stuff like video work / blender / etc

Is this a good deal?

 

[Grimlakin]

It's not for me but different cpus as starting points. I'm looking at the 9950x3d. But... your 7800x3d will require new motherboard and ram so don't forget that.

 

[Brian_B]

I am still on AM4 across most of the computers in my household. If you multitask a lot (video rendering, distributed computing, etc), the 5950 is nice for the core count. If it's for gaming, go get an x3d

 

[LazyGamer]

I am still on AM4 across most of the computers in my household. If you multitask a lot (video rendering, distributed computing, etc), the 5950 is nice for the core count. If it's for gaming, go get an x3d

I was seeing M4 Mac Mini's on sale for US$499...

I think I'm pretty much going that way for anything other than gaming. If I actually needed some brute force compute, I'd rack up a TR rig

 

[Grimlakin]

Oh yea I got my wife one of the M processor ipad airs. she's been loving that upgrade from her old one. My son doesn't PC game. and I'm the one big PC user in the home with my personal desktop, laptop, and work laptop.

 

[Brian_B]

I was seeing M4 Mac Mini's on sale for US$499...

I love the mac minis. My only hang up with them right now is I can't do x86 virtualization any longer. But where I don't need that, I love deploying these things, they are beasts that tend to just run forever.

 

[Grimlakin]

If they can play wow well and a few others as well as productivity I'm all for it.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

That is a crazy price and you're kind of in a close to best scenario with the 5700, ideally a 5700X3D or 5800X3D would be the best for AM4 gaming but I doubt even at $200 for the 5700X3D it'd be worth it vs what you already have. The 5950, while at $315 which is a great price, isn't going to make a huge difference and the 5700X3D might be comparable for less when it comes to gaming. If doing video editing and anything else compute intensive, then pull the trigger and enjoy but just for gaming probably not.