What's the newest CPU you'd run on a x370 board?

Shadowless

Shadowless

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Have my old system just sitting around, and I'd like to make it useful but the 1700x is a bit long in the tooth. I've been contemplating picking up a used 2700x, but was curious if you'd consider going to a 3000-series chip on a x370 board.

The board in question is an ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero.
 
5800X3D would be the newest gaming focused CPU.
5900X or 5950X would be the newest productivity focused CPUs.
 
All the latest 5k gen work fine on x370. And there has been word of X3D versions of the 5900 and 5950 in the works if productivity is more your boat...

I find theres little price diff between the 3k and 5k gen cpus.
 
If money is a concern I would go with 5800x vanilla.
If money is no concern and gaming is in focus I would go 5800X3D.
If you want to save some money compared to 5800X3D but also want a longer lasting productivity CPU, I would get the 5900X.
 
Seconded. Prices up here are still bit high but they have come down a bit but if the 3000 gen is that cheap down there Id still go for a 5600 over a 3k gen. Its not even close.
 
The Crosshair VI Hero was a pretty well built board. I wouldn't have a problem running any Ryzen 5000 CPU on it.

Frankly Ryzen power consumption isn't that high, so you can run them even on a low end board. I wouldn't recommend it per se, but also wouldn't expect it to be a disaster.

Shadowless said:
Fair enough. If the 5600x is still $170 by labor day then I'll snag one of those.
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It's kind of vague what you're going for, but for productivity I'd definitely go for an eight core over a six. Maybe a Ryzen 5700X?
 
Nagorak said:
It's kind of vague what you're going for, but for productivity I'd definitely go for an eight core over a six. Maybe a Ryzen 5700X?
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5700x is $250; too expensive. This is going to be a secondary machine, so I'm trying to spend as little as possible especially since I'm going to be spending a good chunk of change on a new desk, monitor mounts, and a new monitor in the next couple weeks.

Also, if I'm just doing productivity stuff, why would I need 8-cores? Productivity use caters to the Ryzen 5.

It will get used for video capture (1080p60 from something like an Elgato HD60), possible streaming via Streamlabs, and maybe some light video editing in something like Power Director.
 
Productivity typically favors multi-core, so you'd want more cores/threads, I'd imagine.
 
That's fine. You said productivity caters to Ryzen 5 which isn't really true - that's what the high core count 5900/5950X are aimed at. There is definitely something to gain from the two additional cores, so whether you want to put the extra $100 in for that is up to you. I think there is something to gain in terms of longevity, especially if you're upgrading your 11700K system as mentioned earlier. You can put the 2x16GB sticks in your Intel rig into the Ryzen setup once you upgrade, because Raptor Lake is going to push DDR5 as the de-facto standard for high-end performance.
 
Nunz said:
That's fine. You said productivity caters to Ryzen 5 which isn't really true - that's what the high core count 5900/5950X are aimed at. There is definitely something to gain from the two additional cores, so whether you want to put the extra $100 in for that is up to you. I think there is something to gain in terms of longevity, especially if you're upgrading your 11700K system as mentioned earlier. You can put the 2x16GB sticks in your Intel rig into the Ryzen setup once you upgrade, because Raptor Lake is going to push DDR5 as the de-facto standard for high-end performance.
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When I'm talking about productivity I'm talking like MS Office, Quickbooks, Chrome type stuff. I think we're talking about 2 different things :lol:

Also if I upgrade, I'm moving the 11700K system to Second PC status and the Ryzen system will be given away to someone with a GTX970 in place of the 1080 I'm keeping :lol:
 
Ah. I'm lumping productivity with the other apps you mentioned ex video capture and photo editing.

If that's the case, why not just leave the system alone and give it away as is? Let that person buy a 5700X for the rig
 
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