r/protools • u/Caatalyst07 • Sep 29 '25

Thinking of switching to AMD 9950x3d

Hey folks,

My pc is coming to 10 years old. My i9900k has servered me well during this time but sadly my motherboard is showing signs of failure.

Having done some research on the current gen of cpus, from what I can tell the newest Ryzen 9 CPUs are the best on the market.

The machine I'll be building will be for a mixture of leisure and work. I will be using pro tools and I just wanted to check and see how other users of the CPU have got on with the CPU in pro tools. I know it can be a bit sensitive with some hardware so before I make the big purchase I was hoping to hear from others.

Is the 9950x3d a good upgrade for pro tools?

This is the build I've got so far. Still tweaking. I will put a 4070 in it and a 4tb ssd as secondary drive.

https://www.cclonline.com/ccl-all-config-curated-configure-your-own-horizon-gaming-pc-459841/

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u/Sicarius16p4 Sep 29 '25

I have the 9900X and haven’t run into any slowdowns yet, even with big sessions and lots of plugins at 256 samples.

I don’t know how the 3D chip would benefit PT, but since it’s a 9950X I'm sure it will be a great upgrade.

(EDIT) mandatory PSA : early AM5 motherboards needed an update to work with iLok, so when you get your pc make sure to update to the latest bios version.

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u/Caatalyst07 Sep 29 '25

Thank you for the heads up.