Stay at AM4 and upgrade CPU or upgrade to AM5?
Hey everyone, I’m in a pretty lucky situation! A family friend gave me their 9070XT because they moved to Nvidia, and now I’m unsure what my upgrade path should be. Budget for everything is around $500-600
I built my PC late 2021, and it’s a Ryzen 7 3700x, 16GB DDR4-3600 ram and a 2060 (now replaced). With such a crazy GPU, I’m not sure whether to upgrade my CPU to a 5800XT or bite the bullet and go to AM5. I’m not a big fan of the latter option, especially with everything being so inflated but at the same time I want to make it last for at least the next 4 years.
I’d say it’d be a 60/40 split between work and gaming. Work wise it’s mostly running VSCode and then photo and video editing in Lightroom and DaVinci, gaming wise I’ve been playing LoL, Val, Apex, and Sim racing toobut haven’t been able to play Ghost of Tsushima and Expedition 33 yet! Workload while gaming will just have the game and discord open, with probably a few other tabs. All this is on 1440p 165Hz as the main monitor and a 1080p 240Hz as my second one.
Any advice/feedback would be helpful, hope the post isn’t too long and thanks for reading!