is this a good PC for gaming , no idea when the 30 series will be in stock but this is the list.

[MrWilson]

Hardware Unboxed have recently started a series where they are benchmarking multiple CPUs with various GPUs to see where bottlenecking issues lie. While they didn't go for hugely CPU demanding games such as Total War or MSFS, in the games they did test including Cyberpunk, at 1440p the 5600x was almost never bottlenecking performance, even when paired with the 3090 card.

 

[Resistance100]

had a little look at the 5600x, think i can afford the 5800x is that a better cpu for gaming?

As @jamiephillips909 and @MrWilson have said there’s really no need if it’s just for gaming. The peformance increase you’ll get is just not worth the investment

 

[LukeTST]

For gaming the 5600x is all you will need. Core count is not that important as most games work best with one fast core. The 5800x would come into play if you wanted to be multitasking while gaming, e.g streaming, or when using professional applications that use multiple cores such as Blender.
5600x is cheaper than the 5800x, plus you can stick with the standard cooler as the wraith cooler that comes with the 5600x is very good quality.

thank you very much !!

 

[jamiephillips909]

I think it would depend on the game....The Medium, for example, has a minimum CPU spec of a 3700x for Ray-Tracing...If I was looking to play that or similar games in future and could do it without sacrificng elsewhere, I'd go with the 5800x personally

The PS5 comes with an eight-core CPU rocking last-gen's AMD Zen 2 processor architecture, the same as you'll find in the Ryzen 7 3700X

X box series x =The system's CPU is an eight-core custom Zen 2 processor running at 3.8GHz (3.66GHz with simultaneous multithreading). Its GPU is a custom RDNA 2 processor at 1.825GHz with 52 CUs that will create 12 teraflops

Nursemorph may have a point I mean if the newer console's are running 8 cores it makes sense that gaming will eventually be geared towards these base specs as ive noticed console's seems to set the minimum benchmarks for most developers console's shelf life seems to be 4-5 years so would actually make good sense to go 5800x if budget allowed way to make me do a 360 nursemorph !!!!!!

 

[jamiephillips909]

The PS5 comes with an eight-core CPU rocking last-gen's AMD Zen 2 processor architecture, the same as you'll find in the Ryzen 7 3700X

X box series x =The system's CPU is an eight-core custom Zen 2 processor running at 3.8GHz (3.66GHz with simultaneous multithreading). Its GPU is a custom RDNA 2 processor at 1.825GHz with 52 CUs that will create 12 teraflops

Nursemorph may have a point I mean if the newer console's are running 8 cores it makes sense that gaming will eventually be geared towards these base specs as ive noticed console's seems to set the minimum benchmarks for most developers console's shelf life seems to be 4-5 years so would actually make good sense to go 5800x if budget allowed way to make me do a 360 nursemorph !!!!!!