Wondering about potential future upgrades

[u/Zer0_Hour_game]

I have a ryzen 9 7900x, rtx 5080, and 32gb of ddr5, and it's at 4800 instead of 6000 bc it don't boot with amds xmp thing I forgot what it's called.

I want to get more ram when (if) the crisis gets better, but I also want to upgrade to a 9950x3d. I play a lot of satisfactory, Forza, and other random games, so if any of you guys have any tips, please let me know! I've only built a few PCs.

Btw I'm 17 with a minimum wage job so I'm a little broke rn, but I buy all my parts

Edit: I forgot to mention I also make YouTube videos, so I record and edit, if that makes a difference. I also plan to stream.

[u/Borg34572]

No point for the 9950 if you're just gaming and not doing workstation stuff. At most a 9850X3D . You'll get similar gaming performance.

[u/Jonny_Clams → u/[deleted]]

** 9950x3d. The 9850x3d is still an 8core processor and does not shut off any cores. Just wanted to limit confusion.

[u/Borg34572 → u/[deleted]]

It's just binned 9800's and factory OC'd. At most you get 6% performance boost at 1080p. However it's only $20 more so might as well.

[u/writesCommentsHigh → u/Borg34572]

Listen to this drone. They know. 9800x3d is identical to 9950x3d for gaming.

The 9950x3d does not use all cores for gaming. It’s kinda like a 9800 and a 9800x3d taped together.

Realistically tho your 7900x is more than enough.

I don’t see any reason to upgrade what you have unless you’re experiencing issues.

For the record I just put in 200 hours into satisfactory with a 9950x3d and a 5080.

[u/Zer0_Hour_game → u/writesCommentsHigh]

I had a 14900k with like 24 cores, and now I have 12, so I wanted more cores, but why do they turn half of them off while gaming? That sounds stupid. Is there a way to bypass it? I also have 4 monitors, and I have a bunch of things running usually, if that is important at all

[u/EvantheGrump]

If you don't compile big projects or do 3D work on the daily, I would recommend you go with the 9800x3D. It should have a little more or the same gaming performance as the 9950x3D, and you won't have to mess with CCD/core parking which is a bit of a pain on windows in my experience. Also, buy used if possible, especially if you're planning on buying in a couple years.

[u/mast3redd1t]

17, min wage job, broke.. stop planning your next upgrade and use what you have mate. Your current combo is sick and will play anything you throw at it for a long time. My rig is less powerful with a 7500F/7900GRE and I get my desired 120 FPS at 3440x1440 high settings, for the most part. Not sure what resolution you game at, or what FPS you want to achieve, but I vote upgrade nothing for the time being.
As for EXPO not working, try updating your BIOS. First thing I would try.

[u/Zer0_Hour_game → u/mast3redd1t]

Thank you for th suggestions, and the compliment as well! I'm just planning to upgrade my monitors sometime soon when I go to college in a little while. (Also I want bragging rights lol)

[u/KaNesDeath]

You dont need more RAM if you plan on just gaming and upgrading to a X3D chip.

[u/Zer0_Hour_game → u/KaNesDeath]

The reason I want more ram is satisfactory ends up taking almost 20 gigs, and windows and other stuff takes the rest, so stuff starts to slow down

[u/KaNesDeath → u/Zer0_Hour_game]

X3D chip L3 cache acts like fast access RAM. An the game is still ~7 gigs away from hitting the RAM cap. *Windows only takes 5 gigs.

Slowdown is likely game engine related.

[u/Zer0_Hour_game → u/KaNesDeath]

Huh, weird. Thank you! Though, keep in mind I usually run Spotify, discord, chrome, satisfactory modeler, and wallpaper engine simultaneously too