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!

  • hunter54711@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I really reccomend the Prefer Frequency in BIOS and using process lasso. The game bar works sometimes but it sometimes doesn’t and it’s really easy to set and forget with process lasso. This method basically ensures everything will be put on the frequency die (background, browser, productivity apps, whatever) and you manually put games on the Cache cores which is more intuitive than hoping the game bar works imo.

    There’s only one thing that doesn’t get mentioned often and I think it’s a bug. When you use PBO, CPU affinity seems to stop working correctly kind of annoying but you’re not missing much from PBO on these chips anyways.