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I got a Ryzen 7 2700X, cus it seemed to have good benchmarks for the price.

I have a vague feeling I might have been happier with less cores but faster ones. A lot of games put all, or almost all, their load on one core only, particularly older games. A lot of old games have amazing modpacks for them nowadays and I often run into CPU bound slowdown and lagspikes in stuff like Stalker GAMMA, Rlcraft, Supreme commander forged alliance forever.

Overall I just dont know much about CPUs and just got one that was recommended by people at the time.

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If there's an updated BIOS for your board, going to a 5700X3D or 5800X3D is a drop in replacement (maybe a third party tower cooler if you're running stock.

Would be a noticeable experience difference, especially in games.

I'll add that this will likely only make a significant difference if your GPU is relatively powerful. If you're still rocking an RX 480 or similar, the GPU is going to be your bottleneck in most games and upgrading the CPU won't make as big a difference. I went from a 1700X to a 5900X with an RX 580, and I only noticed a difference in one game until I upgraded the GPU.

5700G might be a great upgrade from a 2700X.

Better performance at lower TDP and the integrated graphics are impressive. Even if you do end up with a discrete GPU, being able to do passthrough with a secondary can be quite useful.

Why would you get a 5700G from a 2700X? When you have a 2700X you already have a dedicated GPU, which is probably a lot better than the integrated Vega 8. Yes, even if it's an older card like an RX 580. I'm pretty sure even something pitiful like an RX 550 will be at least as good.

As such, you're better off getting e.g. a 5700X or even some X3D chip, which are much faster. The 5000G processors are slower than their 5000X or 5000 counterparts, since they have less cache.

Fair enough... I tend to do GPU upgrade mine often than system, wasn't thinking about it. That said. Still a big difference for a lot of use cases.

I also had one, it was a great CPU for those days. But several generations passed, games want more performance from CPU and GPU, I retired that 2700 in a server that sees less utilization.

For the past 30 years the best CPU of a few years ago can have less performance than the low end of today, that is evolution.

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