Get Ryzen 3700x or 3800X for $15 more?

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I've heard really good things about the 3700x but noticed the price drop on the 3800x. It's $15 more to get the 3800X. Any reason not to get the 3800x?
Thanks for any help
 
sasquatch182 said:
I've heard really good things about the 3700x but noticed the price drop on the 3800x. It's $15 more to get the 3800X. Any reason not to get the 3800x?
Thanks for any help
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The 3800X is rated for 100 mhz higher boost clock, and that rtesults in a 3% performaance bump at-best. It also raises power consumption 15w.

https://www.techspot.com/review/1899-ryzen-3800x-vs-3700x-difference/
I would say nope! This processor was dreamed-up to more decisively match the 9900k, but it's mostly unnecessary (except for people who like to win benchmark by 1%!

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I'd get the 3800x, it's likely binned better for more e-peen.
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from the link posted above, seems like all 3800x are hitting 4.2 all core with most 4.25.
 
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For $15 why is it even a question? If I was buying now I'd get the 3800x too, when I got my 3700x the difference was something like $80.
 
I picked up the 3800X over BF weekend since it was within $20 of the 3700X. Seemed like a no brainer since I'm using my own cooling anyway. The $70-80 difference? I probably would have gotten a 3700X.
 
The 3800x is going to consume more power for a marginal bump in perf. Id almost say spend that 15 on the gas it took you to get to the store or 15 for a nice dinner or 15 dollars to st jude or 15 dollars to more ram?

But I bought a 3960x so hey...get the 3800x. You wont cry thats for damn sure :)
 
for $15 well worth it

depends what your doing it, higher chance of Infinity Fabric doing 1900 on the 3800x so you can run 3800mhz ram speeds

there's me who hides behind a 3800x (paid £30 over a 3700x) a sub optimal platform x370 asus prime pro but managed to get the ram to run at 3533 16-16-16-34-48 (corsair LPX Samsung b-die) tryed to do 3600 but fail safe recovers every time i try no matter the voltage
 
No brainer, if you can afford to get the higher end CPU then you should always go for it unless you are worried about energy consumption.
 
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No brainer, if you can afford to get the higher end CPU then you should always go for it unless you are worried about energy consumption.
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I don't think you'd actually save $15 in electricity between the two CPU's over the useful life of the 3700x unless you ran it 24/7/365 at full load. That's normally not how the average consumer uses their CPUs.
 
I been switching my first gen 3 build (Ryzen 3600) over to the Corsair 220 T RGB case and with more air flow the Gamaxx 300 cooler is allowing me 4.3Ghz using Ryzen Master auto over clocking .. I like it better like this then forcing a hard overclock to 4.3Ghz and I switched off of All Core to pre CCX so it can drop off as needed to keep boost going , also I still want to try my 3600 memory on it yet as that is only 3200Mhz G-Skill memory CL 16 as it's really just some old parts on a Gigabyte AB350DM - DS3H board I been toying with since Aug 2019 .. my 3700x can't deliver that much boost yet under stock cooler .
 
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The only thing i would say would be worth it is if you plan to overclock. They are slightly better bin chiplets. So that would be the only reason to pay for the extra $15
 
My 3800x runs at a nice 4.35Ghz all core at 1.325v under an H100i Platinum RGB . Temps never hit above 62c while gaming. It’s housed inside a Corsair 220t case.

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Hell yeah for $15 more do it baby.
 
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This was an earlier build with a POS ASUS B450 motherboard I replaced with my current Tomahawk. The Rainbow is nice but I’m man I ain’t got no time for Unicorns.
 
Wel I say go for 3800X and set PBO override to max,do a tweak in BIOS,enhanced mode .My 3800X can hit 4650Mhz gaming.Not a chance with 3700X.


For the cinebench20 guys full video run
Single Thread-530 score
Multi Thread -5260 score
Idle temperature CPU-28°C
Max temperature CPU-71°C
Max CPU Core Voltage (SVI2 TFN) reached-1.431v
Settings in BIOS
MCLK/UCLK/FCLK Synced 1:1:1 1933Mhz ,that's DDR4 3866Mhz for those who do not know
PBO Manual
PPT= 0
TDC=0
EDC=1 Scaler 10X
PBO Override 500Mhz

 
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For once, the local MC had both for $279.99, then a few days later, the 3800X went up to $299.99. So now, the difference is $20. Still worth it in my opinion. Otherwise, get the 3900X or better yet, 3950X!
 
The 3950x is a great CPU no doubt. My issue there is, it seems like a total waste of money if your use case is like the vast majority of desktop PC users where the extra 8 cores and 16 threads does practically nothing for you.

At this point 8 cores with as high clock speeds as you can get seems like the best route and will probably remain so easily until the 3950x becomes a bargain bin CPU.
 
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The 3950x is a great CPU no doubt. My issue there is, it seems like a total waste of money if your use case is like the vast majority of desktop PC users where the extra 8 cores and 16 threads does practically nothing for you.

At this point 8 cores with as high clock speeds as you can get seems like the best route and will probably remain so easily until the 3950x becomes a bargain bin CPU.
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Do us a favor, don't assume you know what my use case is. Pick whats right for you, not the rest of us. And 8 high clocking cores... not even gonna touch that.
 
My 3800X all core over clock is 4.6 GHz with ht off @ 1.1 volts loaded 1.5volts core with llc @5 for cpu and 5 cpu nb. Ryzen master reports cpu power consumption@ just over 75 watts which is probably why the stock cooler manages to keep temps below 70 c . This rig is primarily for gaming so lm not interested in abusing it under prime95 for 8hrs or the extra threads.
 
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