CPU and RAM upgrade?

Posted by ryan89678@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 8 comments

Currently I run a Ryzen 7 5800x with 2x16gb RAM and an RTX 3060Ti

Without having to upgrade my whole PC needing a new motherboard then needing DDR5 RAM as that will get very expensive is there a good processor I could get as an upgrade to what I have now or would it be very small changes?

I’m also considering buy another 2x16gb so I will have 4x16gb ram at 3200 speed so a total of 64gb of ram as I do a lot of intensive editing as well as streaming and running multiple stressful softwares at once.

Thoughts?

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tybuzz@reddit

For gaming, you could upgrade to a 5700X3D, but they're getting harder to find and not really worth the cost.

Check if you're currently CPU bottlenecked, if so, upgrading to an X3D could help. If not, you will see little to no improvement in gaming performance. You're more likely GPU limited, though.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/1955495/pc-bottlenecks-cpu-or-cpu-limiting-gaming-performance.html

32 gb of ram is plenty for gaming. A ram upgrade isn't necessary unless you're using all or almost all 32 gb already.

If this is a productivity build, that's a different story.

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ryan89678@reddit (OP)

I forgot to add in the original post. I do gaming on the PC but every single day it is used for video editing which is the main thing I use my PC for currently. Gaming is important to me too. It’s also used for streaming with OBS or SLOBS

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tybuzz@reddit

If video editing is the primary purpose, a 5900X would be a decent upgrade. 64 gb of ram would make more sense, too, as long as your projects will use it. An X3D CPU wouldn't benefit video editing.

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ryan89678@reddit (OP)

Would the jump to a 5900x from 5800x be that dramatic or noticeable?

As far as ram goes is it fine for me to do 4 stick of 16gb ram instead of 2 sticks of 32gb ram? I continuously see people say not to do 4 sticks and to only do 2 sticks but then other say it’s fine

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tybuzz@reddit

See if you can find benchmarks comparing the two CPUs for the editing software you use. Unless you make a living editing video, the difference is probably not worth the cost of a new CPU.

4 sticks of ram is less likely to run stable at it's XMP speed on an AM4 motherboard, but it might work. You can usually manually overclock it if not to get it stable.

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ryan89678@reddit (OP)

I do content creation so I am pretty much editing every day for long periods of time

I don’t typically overclock my RAM I bought 3600 ram before and my pc couldn’t handle it when I changed the speed to 3600 with XMP it just caused games to crash and instability so I sold them and got 3200 which I run at 3200 and it’s fine.

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tybuzz@reddit

Of course, a current generation AM5 build with a 9900X or similar and a more powerful gpu would be significantly faster for rendering video and editing, but if you're on a budget, the 5900X is probably a decent upgrade.

Sorry, I mostly have experience with gaming builds, so I don't have much more advice beyond just trying to find some rendering benchmarks of the 5800X and 5900X to compare.