5800x3d or 7800x3d?

yep, but there is a good 3-400CHF (USD) jump :confused:

Currently planning to go from my 3700X to the 5800X3D to give the AM4 platform a few more years, as I noticed my 3700X is sometimes heavily bottlenecking my 7900XTX (was able to keep my i5 2nd Gen for nearly 7 years before it needed replacement to deal with a 5700XT).
From what I‘ve seen that should be a good upgrade for relatively little money (selling the old CPU).

Sad you hear that you have issues with your 7900XT. Not using Navigraph, but some other Apps always open (LittleNavMap, Discord etc), and switching is stable.

I was concerned about Temps and power but it all seems unwarranted I bought the best thermal paste and took extra care making sure the whole CPU was covered.

The temp increase may be around 8° the load is around 10 watts greater running the Sim.
and don’t forget you will be lucky if it’s workload goes above 25%

Here are a couple of screenshots of temps

3700X

5800X3D

Just moved from my 3700X to the 5800X3D and the smoothness on approach was well worth it, I pushed the PC to the limit beforehand with 5 or 6 ultra settings on a widescreen monitor at 1440p.

Bought secondhand 5800X3D for £265 and might get £100 for 3700X it’s the best improvement you can get for £165 quid.

P.S. forgot to mention, I have a gigabyte MoBo and the very latest Bios has been optimised for this very processor, so it could have improved the temps, and you can always undervolt and lower temps by 10 degrees.

Window 11 pro 64 Microsoft download Premium version
Thrustmaster Airbus SideStick & 2 Lever Quadrant + add-on
Ryzen 5800X3D SCFM 2000 FUMA2 cooler ( Ectotherm compound )
GIGABYTE RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB GAMING OC Pro
Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (DDR4-3200)
Gigabyte 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe
Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE
MSI Optix 3440 x 1440

Some first benchmarks from 7800x3d

There is a thread over here on this subject, if you’re interested:

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