QOTW: Are you upgrading to AMD Ryzen 5000 Series?

[badass]

Hmmm. Maybe next year. Maybe if a 5600 non X is released at around £200 ish. Or if an 8 core 5000 series dips below £300. Or I'll just keep waiting. My 8 year old CPU is only annoying occasionally right now. Motherboards are poor value, the CPU's are inadequate value and memory isn't great value* and I need 32GB of it.



*Seriously, It's not. Not then 8 Years ago I bought 32GB of "performance" RAM for less than £140. I don't care if it's "good value" compared to 2 years ago.

[anselhelm]

Most definitely, but I'm waiting for a Ryzen 7 5700X and a UEFI update for my B450 motherboard to support it. Currently rocking a Ryzen 7 1700, slightly overclocked to 3.6GHz.

[=assassin=]

I'm surprised at so many 'no' answers considering how good the reviews are, but I guess most of you guys already have recent CPU's anyway.... for me, I've been waiting for this kind of jump in gaming performance, as I don't upgrade very often. So I'm 100% going to go with AMD 5000 series, but I'm just not sure what I'll get yet (I'd prefer at least 8 core for longevity and for non-gaming goodness). The pricing is just not good enough at the moment though, but I'm worried that without a Brexit trade deal, the pound will tank after 31st December..... if there is no deal in place, I'm might just pay the premium, if there is a deal, I'll wait until March for Intel's Rocketlake to hopefully make AMD lower prices a bit. Current CPU is i7 875k btw.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I'm surprised at so many 'no' answers considering how good the reviews are, but I guess most of you guys already have recent CPU's anyway.... for me, I've been waiting for this kind of jump in gaming performance, as I don't upgrade very often. So I'm 100% going to go with AMD 5000 series, but I'm just not sure what I'll get yet (I'd prefer at least 8 core for longevity and for non-gaming goodness). The pricing is just not good enough at the moment though, but I'm worried that without a Brexit trade deal, the pound will tank after 31st December..... if there is no deal in place, I'm might just pay the premium, if there is a deal, I'll wait until March for Intel's Rocketlake to hopefully make AMD lower prices a bit. Current CPU is i7 875k btw.

If you are getting the Ryzen 7 5800X,I would find the extra £100 and get the Ryzen 9 5900X especially since you seem to keep CPUs for quite a while.

[DemonHighwayman]

Hopefully a 5900X if the right motherboard comes along.

[nar53]

Not very likely for me but you never know.

[OOSeven]

I picked up a second hand 3700x to replace my 2700x for the reasonable performance improvements but the considerably better power draw. Based on that I won't be upgrading to 5xxx even though the performance is clearly excellent. Also means my B450 board will do me another year or two (yes I know they run 5xxx with BIOS updates from next year).

[lon3wolf2002]

I'm surprised at so many 'no' answers considering how good the reviews are, but I guess most of you guys already have recent CPU's anyway.... for me, I've been waiting for this kind of jump in gaming performance, as I don't upgrade very often. So I'm 100% going to go with AMD 5000 series, but I'm just not sure what I'll get yet (I'd prefer at least 8 core for longevity and for non-gaming goodness). The pricing is just not good enough at the moment though, but I'm worried that without a Brexit trade deal, the pound will tank after 31st December..... if there is no deal in place, I'm might just pay the premium, if there is a deal, I'll wait until March for Intel's Rocketlake to hopefully make AMD lower prices a bit. Current CPU is i7 875k btw.

I have a 1600x (so not old or particularly new) and game at 1440p so I see no benefit (maybe less power draw and maybe 10 -15 fps increase) going by this:

https://wccftech.com/review/amd-ryze...motherboard/8/

[Fabula]

Maybe.

family computer has recently died, so planning on demoting my current skylake i5 system to that duty, and getting a new system for christmas. x570, and a processor. Don´t know if I will be able to stretch to a 5600, but we will see. Got an original Titan, so would be looking for a GFX upgrade at the same time.

Need to play and win the christmas lottery.

[EasterEEL]

Paper launch, no where to buy. Like the RTX-30xx. Waste of time looking until next year. I don't appreciate the price gouging either.

[Lordhawkwind]

Not untill Asus update my X470 Prime Pro. I have a 2700 so no real rush TBH.

[jimbouk]

Quite possibly, in a couple of years, second hand...

I can't see me 'needing' an upgrade anytime soon on the CPU front, graphics card will be holding me back if I ever stay playing modern games again.

[chj]

Yes, but in a laptop. I desperately need a new laptop and that will tide me over a couple of years until I pull the trigger on a DDR5 desktop hopefully.

[Corky34]

I'll be buying one around the time the 6k series are released, hopefully they'll be priced to clear so i can do a drop in replacement on my x570 board and won't have the expense of a new board + RAM.

[Fatal_Exception]

I'll be building a new rig to replace the daily driver (10 yo Phenom II). When I'll upgrade is more up for debate, but probably early to mid-spring to allow the initial supplies to stabilise as well as prices. It'll be full AMD system barring anything spectacular coming from nVidia and the first 'gaming' rig I've built in over a decade.

I'd love to wait out for Zen 4 and the architectural changes it promises to bring but realistically Zen 3 with an 6000 series GPU more than meets my needs and likely so for the next decade, just just have to decide if the 5900 is worth it over the 5800.

[simonpreston]

Nope. As much as I'd like to I'm pretty happy with the 3800X I bought, a couple of months ago. Should see me good for a few years.