I ended up going with an 7800X3D for now for that exact reason. If you watch Amazon and other vendors closely, you'll see the 9800X3D come up at MSRP every once in a while, but shipping times are generally weeks away... also be wary of 3rd party sellers on Amazon, I got ripped off by two of them for 9800X3Ds that they listed for a bit more than MSRP ($520 & $500) but never shipped. Got my money back on one, waiting on the other. Also went with an AMD Radeon RX 580 that I picked up for $90 just so I could finish my build and will pick up something better in a month or two when stuff hopefully settles down. I'm thinking of giving the middle finger to nVidia at long last and going with an Intel Arc B580. nVidia is just purely in it for the $$ now, they don't really give a damn about the average gamer anymore when there's sheeple out there that will pay $2000 for an overhyped video card.
AMD's AM4 platform is still going strong after many years, AMD reports a 50/50 sales split with AM5
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Before I built my new AM5 rig, I too was running a 5800X on my Win 10 system. After I do some cleanup on it and transferring data to my new system I'll upgrade it to Windows 11 as well and use it as my backup system. It's only got a GTX 1660 Ti in it, but that card did me well for many years. Even played Cyberpunk 2077 with it sans RT and it did fine, somewhere between Low & High graphics settings IIRC. I bought the 5800X in March '22 as it was on sale and the 5800X3D hadn't launched yet; I didn't miss out on much. The electronics market was pretty volatile at the time, and I figured upgrading would keep my system viable for a few more years and I was correct.
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I'm not in a rush, as my 5800x3D and 3080 aren't that slow. However, some recent complex analyses of giant datasets have me eyeing a faster CPU. Still, March or April is no big deal. My analysis does not scale well across more than 4 cores and is very memory speed-sensitive, so the x3D chips are perfect (max gaming is a nice side bonus). I'm waiting for reviews on the GPU but if I were to guess based on historical data, I'll end up with a 5070 Ti. It's a good enough bump in performance at a somewhat reasonable price with enough VRAM to hold me to the 6000 or 7000 series (or AMD equivalent) depending on when AI calms down.
Unfortunately not all of us are lucky enough to live close to a Microcenter. Closest one to me is a 3.5 hour drive from Tulsa to Overland Park and is a source of great sadness to me. I would literally sacrifice someone to get one within easy driving distance.
Love am4. Got a 5800x3d paired with a 6800xt in my main gaming pc, and a 5600x paired with a 3070ti in my htpc. Still rock solid, but the 3070ti only having 8gb of vram is becoming an issue with some games these days. Hogwarts legacy especially is all but unplayable on my htpc, but runs fine on my main build.
Haha, yeah, it's pretty clever to mess with harvesters like that! And that 5700X3D is still a beast—AM4 definitely holds its ground. It’s awesome that you’ve got all those other systems set up for various uses; sounds like your tech setup is pretty versatile! The 4790 with a 3060 is definitely a solid combo for gaming too.
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I have a spare R5 5600x on stand-by but no motherboard for now. Maybe this spring I will get another AM4 board. That 4790 shows it's age, it still kicks but not so hard.
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