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frontpage Posted by msmith777 • Apr 29, 2024

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Zen 3 12-Core 24-Thread 3.7 GHz AM4 105W Desktop Processor

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Newegg has for Newegg+ Members (free to join): AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Zen 3 12-Core 24-Thread 3.7 GHz AM4 105W Desktop Processor (100-100000061WOF) on sale for $259 when you apply promo code NP27 at checkout. Shipping is free.

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Specs:
  • 12 Cores / 24 Threads
  • 3.7GHz Base / 4.8GHz Boost
  • Socket AM4
  • 6MB L2 & 64MB L3 Cache
  • DDR4-3200 Memory
  • Supports PCIe 4.0 x16

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    • This is $5.99 less than the previous Frontpage Deal from April.
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Newegg has for Newegg+ Members (free to join): AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Zen 3 12-Core 24-Thread 3.7 GHz AM4 105W Desktop Processor (100-100000061WOF) on sale for $259 when you apply promo code NP27 at checkout. Shipping is free.

Newegg via Walmart also has AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Zen 3 12-Core 24-Thread 3.7 GHz AM4 105W Desktop Processor (100-100000061WOF) on sale for $259 when you check the $20 savings on the product page.. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member msmith777 for finding this deal.

Specs:
  • 12 Cores / 24 Threads
  • 3.7GHz Base / 4.8GHz Boost
  • Socket AM4
  • 6MB L2 & 64MB L3 Cache
  • DDR4-3200 Memory
  • Supports PCIe 4.0 x16

Editor's Notes

Written by Corwin | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • This is $5.99 less than the previous Frontpage Deal from April.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and give the WIKI and forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • About this Product:
    • 3-year limited warranty
  • About this Store:

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Seems like a great deal.

Check the performance for your intended use case. For example, gaming, almost no difference from 5600X to 5900X.
But for workstation work it can be 2x as fast.
https://www.techpowerup.com/revie...0x/22.html
Man so tempting. I still have to wait….. this is almost 250…. If this ever drops to about 200 I will be forced to get it lol

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Seems like a great deal.

Check the performance for your intended use case. For example, gaming, almost no difference from 5600X to 5900X.
But for workstation work it can be 2x as fast.
https://www.techpowerup.com/revie...0x/22.html
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Man so tempting. I still have to wait….. this is almost 250…. If this ever drops to about 200 I will be forced to get it lol
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This is if you're only doing gaming and nothing else on the 5600x.If you're gaming and running other apps in the background you might want some extra cores to do so right?



Quote from Wubbalubbadubdub :
Seems like a great deal.

Check the performance for your intended use case. For example, gaming, almost no difference from 5600X to 5900X.
But for workstation work it can be 2x as fast.
https://www.techpowerup.com/revie...0x/22.html
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Quote from MuchHonest :
This is if you're only doing gaming and nothing else on the 5600x.If you're gaming and running other apps in the background you might want some extra cores to do so right?
Responsiveness, which I see as the true barometer of a fast computer, is greatly improved on an 12-16 core system. At very high refresh rates you can feel a slower or bogged down CPU.

I can't tell the difference between a 5900x and a 7950x as long as both have NVMe storage.
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So I'll give an example why someone would upgrade from like a 3600. If you do any video editing using davinci resolve free version, video renders use your cpu to render. So this cpu would cut your renders in half or even less.

Also if you play any games like beamNG drive, and do any multi player or many cars, every car on the screen uses a thread. I've heard of guys with rtx 4090 get close to the same frame rate that my puny ryzen 5 3600 was doing because they were also running a similar level cpu and could only handle so many cars on the screen.

So just depends on the tasks your doing. Double cores and threads will make a substantial upgrade.
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For building a new PC I would rather take advantage of Amazon's i7 12700k for $215. About 7-15% faster in gaming and multithreading and gives access to ddr5 and pcie 5.0
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This is a great processor tho I can't believe it's 260 still. I paid $332 for it on prime day in July 2022. I use mine to game all the time with 6900xt at 1440 ultrawide and VR (meta quest 3/hp reverb 2) and it does a great job.

42500 passmark with mild undervolt. 41000 passmark stock. I also use it for video editing, that's where the 24 threads really pay the bills.

If you have a microcenter they have a 7800x3d, mobo and 32gb ddr deal for 470(?) Right now though, it might be worth looking into that. This still has better passmark due to more cores but the 7800x3d would obviously do better in games

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Quote from Luigis3rdcousin :
So I'll give an example why someone would upgrade from like a 3600. If you do any video editing using davinci resolve free version, video renders use your cpu to render. So this cpu would cut your renders in half or even less.

Also if you play any games like beamNG drive, and do any multi player or many cars, every car on the screen uses a thread. I've heard of guys with rtx 4090 get close to the same frame rate that my puny ryzen 5 3600 was doing because they were also running a similar level cpu and could only handle so many cars on the screen.

So just depends on the tasks your doing. Double cores and threads will make a substantial upgrade.
And even if someone has the paid version of Davinci Resolve, CPU encoding is still superior to GPU encoding in quality to file size ratio. Only downside is that it's slower, but that's all the more reason to get a faster CPU.

And of course there's plenty more applications and use cases where having more cores is a must.
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Quote from Junk_Drawer :
For building a new PC I would rather take advantage of Amazon's i7 12700k for $215. About 7-15% faster in gaming and multithreading and gives access to ddr5 and pcie 5.0
Isn't that a dead platform though? Isn't intel coming with new motherboard type soon for 15 gen
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Quote from AmusedStove7007 :
Isn't that a dead platform though? Isn't intel coming with new motherboard type soon for 15 gen
Am4 is dead already and can't take advantage of DDR5, etc.
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Quote from TenseRose4201 :
Am4 is dead already and can't take advantage of DDR5, etc.
True, I said in the post this is for someone that has DDR4 memory they like, a motherboard that can just do a BIOS upgrade and run this. And they don't want to upgrade CPU,MB and Mem for around $600. For less than half that they can have 12 cores and 24 threads which should keep them happy for several years. The 5800X is on sale as well and they may like that more.
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Quote from msmith777 :
True, I said in the post this is for someone that has DDR4 memory they like, a motherboard that can just do a BIOS upgrade and run this. And they don't want to upgrade CPU,MB and Mem for around $600. For less than half that they can have 12 cores and 24 threads which should keep them happy for several years. The 5800X is on sale as well and they may like that more.
Gotcha, I didn't see your original post. You're right, this is definitely an upgrade within am4 type of deal.
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Noob question: is it easy to OC this? Do people use AMD software, or adjust mobo settings like an Intel processor?
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200$ here we come 🙏

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Quote from kingchicken :
Noob question: is it easy to OC this? Do people use AMD software, or adjust mobo settings like an Intel processor?
AMD basically comes out of the box overclocked. Its kind of pointless overclocking them. You may end up hurting performance. Or only gaining a very small percentage point that's not worth it. The same is true for Intel in recent years

Having said that. You can look up PBO on YouTube. There's some tutorials on undervolting where you get similar or better performance with less heat.

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