9950X3D vs 9800X3D…DF clips

Makoto-Yuki

Banned
Can't watch a video right now. Should I get a 9800x3d or 9950x3d. I'm just playing games.
9800x3d just for games. this time the 9950X3D is much improved compared to 7950X3D. scheduling issues are sorted (never had any problems on my 7950X3D). so if you do anything other than gaming then consider the 9950X3D. i use my PC for more than gaming so went with the 9950X3D.
 

StereoVsn

Gold Member
Multi tasking I have Spotify Discord etc running on the second screen and got better performance with the 9950X3D
Yeah, I have been eying 9950x3D for some non gaming workloads and even when gaming I often have other things running on 2nd or 3rd monitor.
 

DenchDeckard

Moderated wildly
My only concern is the fact I'm slapping it in a corsair 2000D with a 360mm rad. I think the 9950x3d will get very hot. But I wouldn't mind it
 

Makoto-Yuki

Banned
My only concern is the fact I'm slapping it in a corsair 2000D with a 360mm rad. I think the 9950x3d will get very hot. But I wouldn't mind it
i have a 360mm AIO on mine. that case is compact as fuck though. should be OK.

this CPU will hit 95C even on a 360mm if under enough of a heavy load. it's designed that way. i guess what you're worrying about is the heat coming from your GPU. what GPU do you have? i have a 5090 FE and that thing shits out a fuck load of heat but i have a fractal meshify 2 rgb with 5x140mm case fans (not including the aio)
 

DenchDeckard

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i have a 360mm AIO on mine. that case is compact as fuck though. should be OK.

this CPU will hit 95C even on a 360mm if under enough of a heavy load. it's designed that way. i guess what you're worrying about is the heat coming from your GPU. what GPU do you have? i have a 5090 FE and that thing shits out a fuck load of heat but i have a fractal meshify 2 rgb with 5x140mm case fans (not including the aio)

Probably a 5090 fe or maybe a 5080. That's my concern.

It will always be out in the open but I'm a little concerned about the heat.
 

welshrat

Member
Hmmm. really think you would have to be doing something much more significant than listening to Spotify or watching a video on a second screen to have issues with performance.

I have just come from a 12 core 5900X to an 8 core 9800X3D and can tell you that my new chip is far faster even when I do these things in parallel. Sure if I was streaming as well it might be an issue but low cpu task stuff no chance. I can even run a 2 core vm with linux as as server in the background with little to no performance hit whilst gaming. modern cores can run many many processes on them and they all get allocated cpu time, its only when these cores are all being maxed that issues occur.
 

Fess

Member
My only concern is the fact I'm slapping it in a corsair 2000D with a 360mm rad. I think the 9950x3d will get very hot. But I wouldn't mind it
Bigger case but it doesn’t seem to go all that hot from what I’ve seen. I have mine with an Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 and I run the fans super slow, far below bios silent preset, to not have a loud box.
I’ve seen temps reach 70C in Diablo. 74C at the highest in Cinebench multi core 10 min bench. And sits at about 40 in desktop idle.
But I guess it depends on if you plan to do overclocking. I don’t do any of that, just standard clocking plug and play with no changes at all except lower fan curves.
I read that they can theoretically handle like 95C.
 

DenchDeckard

Moderated wildly
Bigger case but it doesn’t seem to go all that hot from what I’ve seen. I have mine with an Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 and I run the fans super slow, far below bios silent preset, to not have a loud box.
I’ve seen temps reach 70C in Diablo. 74C at the highest in Cinebench multi core 10 min bench. And sits at about 40 in desktop idle.
But I guess it depends on if you plan to do overclocking. I don’t do any of that, just standard clocking plug and play with no changes at all except lower fan curves.
I read that they can theoretically handle like 95C.

I'm the same, I am passed overclocking. I went through all that in my late 20s to 30s. Now its just plug and play and let the stuff do what it does. of course I switch on XMP but thats about it.
 

Fess

Member
I'm the same, I am passed overclocking. I went through all that in my late 20s to 30s. Now its just plug and play and let the stuff do what it does. of course I switch on XMP but thats about it.
Yeah, I fiddle with fans and things that can remove noise. That’s worth a couple minutes to improve I think. And I run on the factory silent bios on the graphics card, MSI have that on a switch, convenient 👍
 

DenchDeckard

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Yeah, I fiddle with fans and things that can remove noise. That’s worth a couple minutes to improve I think. And I run on the factory silent bios on the graphics card, MSI have that on a switch, convenient 👍

Oh yeah, Ill deffo work on a fan curve to get the system sounding how I want but I can't be bothered with voltages and all that jazz anymore. Feels like the chips are almost working to their full power anyway. Long gone are the days ove me pushing a 3.5GHZ chip to 5GHZ all core.
 

Makoto-Yuki

Banned
went to -20.

i should've measured power/voltages to see what the difference is. 5.9 on the non 3d core is easy. It's bugging me that it's not going to 6.0 lol. why can't we set a +300 boost? :( i don't wanna fuck about with manual overclocking.
 

Hohenheim

Member
I'm very happy with temps after building in the Antec Flux Pro.
Both the 9800X3D and the 5090 is around 55-60C during gaming, often way below too.
Only time i've seen 9800x3D temps get to around 80C is when there's a shader compilation.
This is with a 360 AIO, and no undervolting.
 
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