Upgraded from a i7 8700k / GTX 1060 to Ryzen 3900x / Radeon 5700XT. I'm a programmer so I could save quite a lot of time during compile with twice the amount of core and threads - that was the reason for the upgrade I told my wife.

Look at all mah cores.


Here is my build:

AMD Ryzen 9 3900x (12c / 24T)
MSI X570 Gaming Edge Wifi
AMD RX 5700 XT
32GB (16GB x 2) 3200MHz Kingston HyperX DDR4
1TB Transcend NVME SSD
Cooler Master 750W Gold PSU
Tecware Nexus Casing

All in all it was around RM 7K, deduct ~2000 for my old rig, I paid ~5000 to myway1985. Awesome seller, recommended.



Hardware installation went without trouble, so was Windows 10. Downloaded the motherboard drivers off of MSI website and claimed a free AIO cooler (still delivering). Went with x570 chipset for PCIe 4.0 so that it could last at least 3 years before upgrade - another thing I told my wife.

Below are the benchmark results. I'm using stock configuration with stock AMD CPU cooler - even so the CPU did not thermal throttle during benchmarking.

Userbenchmark: UFO / UFO / UFO
Total: 84th Percentile
CPU: 63rd Percentile
GFX: 81st Percentile
SSD: 95th Percentile
RAM: 95th Percentile

Cinebench R15: [Multi Core] 3,062  [Single Core] 198  [Open GL] 142.56 FPS

Cinebench R20: [Multi Core] 6,894  [Single Core] 491

Time Spy?: [Score] 21,314  [Graphics Score] 25,857  [Physics Score] 26,356  [Combined] 8,183

Firestrike: [Score] 9,000  [Graphics Score] 8,710  [CPU Score] 11,093

Temperature: [Min] 40c  [Max] 87c

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