Hello. I’ll keep it simple

I am planning to do moderate gaming and moderate - heavy productivity workload especially with rendering, simultaneously streaming, and (video) editing. As such, I am eyeing the 7950x3d and have a few questions about it as all this talk about setting it up honestly seems daunting VS the simplicity of (from what I heard and understand) the one-and-done setup with the 7800x3d.
For the 7950x3d

  1. Do I *NEED* process lasso for it?
  2. Would just buying the CPU, installing it, and setting windows to high-performance work?
  3. If I just follow these steps by AMD themselves https://community.amd.com/t5/gaming/how-to-set-up-your-system-with-a-new-amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-or/ba-p/589464, would that suffice?
  4. Just confirming this as I am honestly confused with the amount of information around. So if I game on my first monitor using the 8 cores of the 1st CCD, I can run a productivity process as well with the other cores as needed and it would NOT be parked? This is mostly what I’ll be doing
  5. For setting my expectations as well, for current 7950x3d users, what has been your overall experience with this CPU? Has it been a slog to setup? What issues did you guys face? What should I prepare myself to face if ever?
    For the 7800x3d
  6. Would the 7800x3d be enough for both gaming and productivity? Especially with my question 4 for the 7950x3d

If it helps with answering the questions, I have the 7900XTX with 32gb of 6000mhz cl30 Ram

Thank you!

  • ThisPlaceisHell@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Process Lasso + CPPC Prefer Frequency is the ultimate setup. Yes, it requires manual control of all games, but not all games benefit from the extra cache anyway and you’d be better off running them on the frequency cores to claw back around 7-10% gains from clock speed advantage. Everything defaults to these frequency cores thanks to the BIOS setting, and you just use Process Lasso to corral games onto the extra cache CCD and you get the same or better performance as using the built in automated setup, minus the headache of core parking. I can stream and game at the same time with no performance loss, watch streams in the background, anything I want. And when it’s time for productivity workloads, I have 16 real cores to rely on. It’s a overall incredible chip and once setup with your Process Lasso rules, you’re golden.