Amd Ryzen 7 5800x3d Sells for More Than 9800x3d, Enthusiasts Flock to Am4 Ddr4

Depending upon your workload and motherboard support of course.

It’s impossible to keep my 5800x below 90C under full load.

in the past, growth in PC gaming came naturally with the growth in the adoption of computers around the world.

at saturation of "new to computers" audiences, growth in PC gaming comes from convincing the core gaming demographic, newly-turned 13 year old boys, to agitate for PCs instead of XYZ.

so a big part of it is the retail-marketing experience - the aesthetics of buying - and scalping / sense of urgency plays extremely well with the buyer who actually chooses PC over a nintendo switch, as opposed to a kid who will never make the more expensive choice ever.

this is really a story about saturation than it is about hardware or shortages for AI usage or whatever.

But seriously, claiming "dog slow" is certainly an overstatement. You lose some of the top performance, not below - and it's still ~4/16GB/s

    $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
    ...
    model name      : AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor

    $ free -m
    ...
                   total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:           32006        6878        1088         363       24856       25127

If your crystal ball was that reliable you could have easily doubled your wealthy by playing the market. In which case you would have been boasting about it. Not just complaining.

DDR5 has gone up so much it just isn't worth it. 4-5x the price. Is this just "stress"?

True in general- used CPUs from discontinued platforms sell for a small fraction of the original MSRP.

Buuuut, the final flagship part on nearly every platform is an exception to this rule. They are generally sought after as the definitive 'End Game Upgrade' because they provide users with the simplest, most cost-effective performance boost—a single component swap—bypassing the need for a costly migration to a successor platform (which requires new RAM and a new motherboard).

It tends to happen every generation swap, 5800X3D is just the latest.

I know it’s a bit naive to extrapolate from that, but something doesn’t smell right, the PC hardware market is clearly going through something, probably caused by the AI boom. I wonder what else that is affecting that isn’t so apparent.