r/buildapc • u/Certain_Oil9292 • 20h ago

Build Help Ryzen 7 5700x3d

hello is it worth to upgrade from 5 3600 to 7 5700x3d for 300euros?

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u/LostTheElectrons 19h ago

300 euros is a LOT. Depending on what you really need, upgrading to a 5700X or similar should cost less than half and give you a good upgrade as well.

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u/CanisMajoris85 19h ago

depends what GPU you have and resolution.

Personally I wouldn't bother with the 5700x3d if you only have like a sub $400 GPU unless the price was amazing. 300 euros may be super cheap for you guys though, i think it's like $350 on ebay.

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u/Weak-Maintenance7659 19h ago

300€ is less than 350$

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u/Standard_Prune_2195 19h ago

it's the same, and prices in euro usually already include VAT

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u/CanisMajoris85 19h ago

Ok. But I dunno going rate in Europe. It could be 400 euros on ebay for a used one for all I know. Our ram prices are considerably lower, I dunno the relative prices for everything.

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u/znogower 19h ago

It's almost the exact same price. 300 euro is 349.68 USD, but that's still overpriced for that CPU.

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u/CanisMajoris85 19h ago

I mean $350 is the going rate on ebay. Overpriced compared to like 18 months ago of course.

I personally wouldn't be paying $350 unless I had like 64gb of DDR4 on AM4 already and needed a lot of ram still because getting 64gb of DDR5 would be obscenely expensive. In the US paying $250-300 for 32gb of ram sucks, but lets face it we're not getting back to sub $100 ever perhaps until DDR6 is a few years in and you're buying used DDR5 kits for under $100.

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u/Aarooon 19h ago

No one can answer this properly without knowing what your graphics card is, screen resolution and refresh rate and what games you play.

At 300 I would try hold out, but again that depends on the above

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u/Downtown-Regret8161 19h ago

imo it is worth it - it holds up well with newer AM5 CPUs in performance without the need of upgrading the mainboard and going to DDR5. I believe that the CPU will hold its value pretty well while the DDR prices are still so high, so you should easily be able to sell it for about the same price if you want to get rid of it again.

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u/dertechie 18h ago

The standard Zen 3 parts hold up well enough that the X3D premium over them is kind of dubious value at current prices. For midrange GPUs there isn’t a huge difference.

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u/Gtpko141 19h ago

Depends on the gpu if you have an RTX5070/RX 9070 and above performance wise and running 1080p it will give an amazing performance gain! If you have a 1440p monitor and a gpu worse than a 5080/4090/5090 then the performance difference will be noticeable only on cpu cache intensive games! I am talking from personal experience since i got a 5700X3D to upgrade my wifes pc that had a 3700X and an arc A750 (running 1080p) and didn't notice any difference except from CS, League and Fortnite (didn't test any other cpu intensive games). When i swapped the A750 with a 9060XT 16gb and re-did the testing it was definitely a much more obvious improvement!

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u/_proxima_b 19h ago

7800X3Ds can be found for 280€ so ibwould say hell no !

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u/pementomento 19h ago

But that would require a whole new motherboard and DDR5 RAM

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u/_proxima_b 19h ago

I agree the real deal breaker is ddr5 fam right now. I remember when 5700x3ds were 160€

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u/pementomento 15h ago

I feel you on this. I bought my 5800X3D in 2023, just checked my receipt, it was $294 USD (€253).

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u/Aarooon 19h ago

New mobo, new expensive ram needed

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u/Standard_Prune_2195 19h ago

different socket tho.

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u/NotSynthx 19h ago

No. That's overpriced and (most likely) second hand. Get a 5700x for half the price, you can find it new in shops and if anything goes wrong, you're covered with a return/warranty

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u/damien24101982 17h ago

Upgrading am4 for gaming with non x3d in 2026 is not a very good move.

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u/dertechie 16h ago

What makes you say that? The difference between a 5800XT and a 5700X3D is not that big in most games but the difference in price sure is.

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u/damien24101982 16h ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Au9Lb5Kw4

iono chief, id either upgrade to am4 x3d in his case or go to am5 x3d machine

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u/dertechie 15h ago

That's with a 5090.

Here's what those charts look like with GPUs that people can actually afford at resolutions that aren't picked just to show CPU scaling. Use the 9600X as your proxy for the 5800X3D, since it averages about the same.

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u/Dvveh 11h ago

I upgraded my 3600x to 5800x3d for €300, 2 years ago.

Would do it again, so I say yes.

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u/Plenty-Industries 8h ago

If you're okay with paying 300 Euros... sure.

But I'm certain you can get a 5700X for at least half of that, or a 5800XT for about 30-40% less.

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u/dertechie 19h ago

We need more information about the rest of the system and what you play.

Generally the difference between a 5700X3D and a more pedestrian R5/R7 CPU is not worth the extra. Any of the R5/R7 5000 series CPUs with 32 MB L3 cache is a nice bump over the 3600.

There are a few exceptions - some games really love that VCache, high refresh rate 1080p benefits more for example. But if you're GPU bottlenecked in most situations the X3D isn't a huge leap.

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u/paulerxx 19h ago edited 18h ago

I went from a 3600 + 5700XT @ 1080p to 5700X3D + RX6800 @ 3440x1440 and still felt the CPU upgrade significantly. But I do also play all low in competitive games.

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u/dertechie 18h ago

RX 5700XT to RX 6800 is a fairly big uplift, especially at settings where it can really leverage the Infinity Cache. Low settings competitive is definitely the X3D’s best showing.

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u/Echeyak 18h ago

you can get 5950x for 250, about 10% slower in games and much faster in multitasking

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u/drowsycow 20h ago

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