I was going to get the 7900x3d for benching and gaming, and bought a Crosshair X670E Hero and G.skill Flare X DDR5 6000 cas 36. Found out the Hero board had like over one inch tall heatsinks on the top VRMs that would not fit in my case (midtower with a thick AIO) returned the Hero board, will be waiting a month to get nearly $700 back from Amazon
Now that reviews are out, and it's only 6% faster than Intel, but from what I understand the review guidelines from AMD told them to sandbag the Intel and only run 6000MHz memory on it (correct me if I'm wrong), yet users on this site like Bastiaan_NL are running Intel with memory speeds approaching 8000MHz, it means Intel is still faster with more highly clocked memory.
I won't be upgrading. I was hoping for a 10% IPC improvement clock for clock, possibly more over my 5900x because it boosts higher, and an additional 25% performance improvement in games and benches. Making it at minimum 35% faster than what I have. But since that is not the case, and you also can't manually or per-CCX overclock it for benching, I'll continue to wait.
How much improvement would I get going to a 7900x factoring in it can boost to 5.6GHz vs 5.15GHz on my 5900x?
Pics of the beautiful board I had to return. I have also looked at Asus other X670 boards and seen a few B650 boards and they all look like they have too tall VRM heatsinks on the top to be able to clear my rad fans.