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Howdy everyone.

I decided to build a new gaming rig after selling my first one about 5 years ago. I'm having a hard time choosing between the Ryzen 7 3700X and the Ryzen 5 3600X. It's seeming like choosing between the two get's harder and harder the more I look into it. Do I want to spend the extra $ for the performance of the 3700X, or will I not notice much of a difference?

I'll be using this computer for a wide variety of things such as:
Gaming (@1440p)
Graphic Design
IT Cert Studies (Including use of VMs and programming/scripting for Security+)
Music Production

The rest of my build:

ASUS Prime X570-P
OLOy WarHawk RGB 16GB DDR4-3200
Samsung 970 Evo 500GB
Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD
Sapphire Radeon RX 5700XT Pulse
NZXT H500
EVGA 750W 80+ Gold


Any help would be seriously appreciated, and if you have any questions that would help you help me, please let me know!
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Considering the multi-tasking nature of what you plan to use your computer for, it makes the most sense to go for the Ryzen 7 3700X compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X.
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Yeah, I'd agree that with your use case, the extra cores+threads would be useful. Don't sleep on Ryzen 2000 though, the 2700 and 2700x have been silly good value since Ryzen 3000 released.

Up to you if you want to spend an extra 33% or so for an R7 3700x over a 2700(x) to get 15-20% more IPC.

If you have a 1440p144Hz monitor, then the extra IPC with Ryzen 3000 over 2000 will be noticeable in some games. If it's a 60Hz monitor though, you're unlikely to notice a difference in games.

Also, do you already have the motherboard? If not, maybe look in to something a little cheaper. A nice B450 motherboard, like the B450 Tomahawk is more than adequate for an 8C/16T CPU and is about half the price of the Asus Prime X570 board. Also has most of the same features tbh, other than PCIe 4.0.

Or, if you're dead set on sticking with X570, I'd get the Asus X570 TUF instead.
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Thanks for the input guys! Below is a list of all of the parts in my final build. I was able to get really good prices on a lot of them for various reasons, so what would have costed me a lot more ended up being the same or less.

CPU: Ryzen 3 3800X
Motherboard: ASUS Prime X570-P ATX AM4
RAM: OLOy Warhawk RGB 16gb(8x2) DDR4 @ 3200mhz
Storage 1: 500gb Samsung EVO M.2 SSD
Storage 2: 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm
GPU: Gigabyte Radeon 5700 XT 8GB Video Card (Reference design sadly)
Case: NZXT H500 ATX Mid Tower
Power Supply: EVGA 750 W 80+ Gold Semi-Modular
Monitor: LG 32GK650F-B 32" 1440p 144hz Monitor
Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB MK2
Mouse: Corsair M65 PRO RGB

What I'm buying next:
Another M.2 SSD, probably a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus. I'm seriously enjoying the speed on mine and I would like another one that's even a little faster for games with longer loading times, because right now my 2tb hdd is more than half full with the games I have right now, and some of them take quite a while to boot up.

1000000% Need to get an AIO or similarly performing CPU cooler... because rn my poor 3800x is suffering with the stock cooler which is doing me huge favors as far as looks go, but none in cooling.

Sleeved Cables, preferably black and white. The RGB "reflecting" off the white strands of the cables looks great in my mind and I wanna see if I'm right. Regardless it would look better than my stock cables.

LASTLY. a non-reference GPU. This can definitely wait, as my 5700 XT more than pulls it's weight in games. I'll probably just get a good upgrade in about a year's time.

Why I chose some parts:
I'm impatient, very very impatient.

I was going to get a 3700X but it wasn't in stock on Amazon. At the time of purchase, I wanted a new credit card anyways to help build credit. I just got the amazon one for the rewards, which then also gave me a $70 amazon gift card. I just used that to knock the price down on my 3800X to the price of a 3700X.

I also went with the reference 5700 XT because I didn't feel like waiting for new cards to restock.

That's pretty much it! Thanks for the pointers everyone. DM me if you wanna play something, and otherwise I'll see you on the battlefield:)
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Of the two choices, you ignored them both and went even higher, I applaud this lol
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M9z wrote Of the two choices, you ignored them both and went even higher, I applaud this lol
With the prices and options I had available to me, I don't think I had much of a choice
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