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Customer Review
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2024OK, at some point it will become obsolete but it's the longest lived CPU socket of all time. It's from 1996 before even the RYZEN was available, you could install an Athlon.
This is the lower power version on the game changing RYZEN 7 5800X3D.
The X3D technology is astonishing. It adds a huge amount of CPU cache which has a dramatic effect on the rate games update the screen, Frames Per Second or FPS. It also means you don't need super expensive RAM. DDR4 3200 is fine, no need to overclock or tweak fiddly 3600 RAM.
This is weird because 5800X without the cache is a faster CPU as is the 5900X but the X3D version beats them.
There is a premium for the X3D process or but this new 5700X3D which runs slightly slower is quite a bit cheaper. Right now it's cheap enough to make building a brand new AM4 system make sense. It's a no brainer to stick the X3D into an existing AM4 system but it's been a bit of a tossup whether to build a new AM4 or go brand new AM5.
I've been saying AM5 rather than AM4 if you want top performance but it's really not so clear. I've got my hands on a 5700X3D which I will install tomorrow. I'll come back and let you know how it goes.
If you have the money then it's better to go AM5 but if you want very good performance for your money then this 5700X3D is probably it.
