Arrow Lake vs 5800X3D

[Nirad9er]

Right now my spare rig has a 5800X3D and a 7900XT that I use for emulation and Warzone etc

I have a 5090 (for my main rig) & Gigabyte Z890 board combo on the way from Newegg. I was planning to sell the motherboard but I'm curious if a Z890 + 265k, for example, would be an upgrade for emulation and gaming. Wound it be worth swapping out to the Z890 to future proof?

Should I sell the board or "upgrade" the 5800X3D?

Thanks

 

[jfreund]

Sell the board. Put it toward a 9800X3D system if you want to upgrade CPU. Arrow Lake is a bust for gaming.

They're bundling Z890 boards because the Arrow Lake platform isn't selling.

 

[D-EJ915]

Right now my spare rig has a 5800X3D and a 7900XT that I use for emulation and Warzone etc

I have a 5090 (for my main rig) & Gigabyte Z890 board combo on the way from Newegg. I was planning to sell the motherboard but I'm curious if a Z890 + 265k, for example, would be an upgrade for emulation and gaming. Wound it be worth swapping out to the Z890 to future proof?

Should I sell the board or "upgrade" the 5800X3D?

Thanks

Arrow Lake is looking like a 1 generation socket so I would wait until the end of the year when the next generation comes out if you want to go Intel.

 

[kirbyrj]

I gave Arrow Lake a good look, especially with people dumping their bundled motherboards for absurd prices. I just didn't find it compelling enough to move off of a Raptor Lake setup.

In your case, OP, the bundle motherboards aren't going to net a lot since it's kind of a dud of a socket and everyone is dumping them due to bundles like yours. Realistically, the 265K isn't terrible for productivity, but for gaming, the 5800X3D is better.

https://www.techspot.com/review/2912-intel-core-ultra-7-265k/

 

[Dan_D]

Right now my spare rig has a 5800X3D and a 7900XT that I use for emulation and Warzone etc

I have a 5090 (for my main rig) & Gigabyte Z890 board combo on the way from Newegg. I was planning to sell the motherboard but I'm curious if a Z890 + 265k, for example, would be an upgrade for emulation and gaming. Wound it be worth swapping out to the Z890 to future proof?

Should I sell the board or "upgrade" the 5800X3D?

Thanks

I was in a similar situation. I got my 5090 and a motherboard bundle from Newegg as well. I already had a 9800X3D sitting in a box and decided to sell the Z890 board and buy an X870E motherboard instead. After getting the Z890 board I considered just getting a 285K or something but the more I looked into it the more I realized that it wasn't the best solution.

It would have been easier to sell the 9800X3D than the Z890 motherboard, but I'd rather have the 9800X3D than an Intel Core <Insert Retarded Name Here> 285K.

 

[LigTasm]

I was in a similar situation. I got my 5090 and a motherboard bundle from Newegg as well. I already had a 9800X3D sitting in a box and decided to sell the Z890 board and buy an X870E motherboard instead. After getting the Z890 board I considered just getting a 285K or something but the more I looked into it the more I realized that it wasn't the best solution.

It would have been easier to sell the 9800X3D than the Z890 motherboard, but I'd rather have the 9800X3D than an Intel Core <Insert Retarded Name Here> 285K.

I thought so too, until I used both side by side. With my 4090 at 1440p ultra settings there are virtually no differences, and the Z890 chipset is vastly superior to AMD's prom21. I prefer the snappiness of the 265K for every day tasks, especially combined with a gen 5 drive.

Interestingly, Intel has allowed default settings in the latest BIOS from board partners to bump up the memory/NGU/D2D settings with warranty intact as they seem to have underestimated how much headroom they actually had. This is the big key to getting performance out of these things, some 7600mt/s memory as a baseline and nudging the ratios to 32-34x adds something like 20% to your fps.

Of course, in games like BG3 the 9800X3D annihilates everything by 50% or more, but I don't play that. I don't feel the product is terrible considering I got the whole package for $40 more than a 9800X3D by itself. If it was launched with all of these updates, fixes, and performance bumps it would have been a lot better for Intel, not sure what they were thinking.

 

[Dan_D]

My system is built pretty much for gaming. Though I game at 4K and probably could get away with running Intel without much of an issue. I did notice some difference in The First Descendant and Cyberpunk 2077 going from my 12900K to the 9800X3D at 4K though.

 

[xDiVolatilX]

Arrow Lake is looking like a 1 generation socket so I would wait until the end of the year when the next generation comes out if you want to go Intel.

I've been reading rumors about a refresh coming to the same socket to try and salvage the platform. I hope it's true.

 

[Nirad9er]

Your 5800X3D and 7900XT are plenty for emulation and Warzone. A Z890 + 265K isn’t a big enough jump to justify swapping unless you want PCIe 5.0 or DDR5 for future gear. I’d sell the board and keep rocking your setup. What res you gaming at?

My 5800X3D / 7900XT spare rig games at 4k. I have a 27" monitor but I also have it hooked up to my 77" OLED for emulation.

 

[pillagenburn]

Right now my spare rig has a 5800X3D and a 7900XT that I use for emulation and Warzone etc

I have a 5090 (for my main rig) & Gigabyte Z890 board combo on the way from Newegg. I was planning to sell the motherboard but I'm curious if a Z890 + 265k, for example, would be an upgrade for emulation and gaming. Wound it be worth swapping out to the Z890 to future proof?

Should I sell the board or "upgrade" the 5800X3D?

Thanks

I'm in a very similar situation. I've got a 3900x on an Asrock x570 PG Riptide motherboard and I think the board is flaking out. I also have a 5060ti on it and everything is quirky and performance sucks under Linux for some reason.

I really kinda wanted to try Intel this time because the pricing seems to be better and I tend to favor having more cores over raw gaming performance for the kinds of things I do..... Or maybe I try to get this AM4 system to run until the end of the year and see what Intel is coming out with by that time.