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JEMC said:

While a CPU upgrade to a 5000 series model will, no doubt about it, bring a big improvement in performance to gtotheunit91's PC, it's worth keeping in mind that we don't know how tech savvy he is or how willing he is to update the BIOS of its motherboard. Heck, we don't even know if his motherboard was qualified to get Ryzen 5000 series support!

Getting a new system could be the easiest, but far more expensive, way to get the performance boost he wants.

Well all 300 series motherboards should now be compatible with 5000 series so if he has a 300 series and he is comfortable enough updating the BIOS, it should be compatible. But arguably, even X570 motherboards should get pretty big discounts.

So in theory, lets say he has to upgrade his mobo as well:

$200 5800X3D + $120 for X570 vs $300 for 7700X + $300 for X670 + $200 for DDR5

So the difference will be $320 vs $800. And a lot of the X670 boards that are launching are coming out with Gen 4 PCI-E for GPU and not the Gen 5 because according to AMD, it's optional for X670. So most if not all of the launch motherboard manufacturers are leaving PCI-E Gen 5 for the more expensive X670E platform.

And while AM5 will be supported for longer if you want to upgrade the CPU, the difference in price seems silly if the performance upgrade is as minor as AMD themselves are claiming. Because you can save that and buy a 4080 and see 3-3.5x the performance increase compared to a 2080 vs 2-2.3x if you get a 4070. And of course, if later down the line, he does want to upgrade to AM5 platform, the mobo and ram will be much cheaper.

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 13 August 2022