P.S: the table in TFA lists the 7700 as having the same 105W as the 7700X. I think that's a slight mistake and the 7700 is 65W max listed TDP instead. FWIW I'm considering a 7700 for I'm not ultra happy with my 3700X (one of the reason being it has no iGPU and I could find a passive GPU with a NVidia chipset, forcing me to use proprietary drivers in Linux and it's a major PITA for if I hack on ther kernel I then need to apply the NVidia patches every time)
[1]: https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d [2]: https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/01/05/amds-zen-4-part-3-syst...
The 3 die chips like this are probably not the best choice for passive cooling, as they burn a lot of power on interchip communication.
A desktop or IPMI? Sure, it has one.
An actual game? It may as well not. It won't compete with the iGPUs on Intel CPUs or even AMD's APUs.
Assuming your motherboard has video outputs it'll be much cheaper to stay on AM4 and throw in a 5700G
I'll probably build something around an Asus B650-Plus mobo: it's got USB-C stock, 2.5 Gbit/s ethernet, DDR5 (I know it's pricier and boots slower, but it's faster too), etc.
I'll reuse one of the NVMe .2 SSD I've got laying around so the whole build should set me back 1 K EUR (with 32 GB of DDR5), which is quite okay.
Initial linux support is buggy, and you basically have to run a bleeding edge kernel.