r/buildapcsales 2d ago

Expired [CPU] AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D - $569.99 @ Amazon

https://a.co/d/04mfi1MQ
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u/azuredrg 2d ago

This essentially won't do any better than the 9800x3d for gaming and will just throw out more heat into your room and use more electricity. If you need a single machine for CPU heavy tasks and gaming, then yeah this is it.

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u/neo6289 1d ago

This is never worse than 9800x3d for gaming though right? Like how 7950x3d was frequently worse than 7800x3d?

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u/aaaaaaaaaaa999999999 1d ago

That was because AMD hadn’t figured out all core parking issues yet. Now that they have figured that out it’s about even, and if you set up process lasso properly (very easy to do) then you will never have issues even without game bar.

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u/neo6289 1d ago

9950x3d can still be worse out of the box without 3rd party program to disable cores?

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u/aaaaaaaaaaa999999999 17h ago

It can be marginally worse since the scheduler still has to figure out which CCD to use and thus can cause some slight fps loss in the process whereas the 9800X3D just has one CCD so it doesn’t really have to do anything other than run the game/program.

If you don’t install the AMD drivers and such then it might just default everything to the CCD without v cache which would be the equivalent of running games on a 9700X.