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Well, it looks like it's upgrade season for some of us here, because I've also (finally!) upgraded my PC!

I've upgraded everything but the GPU. I'm not too demanding and my GTX 1070 will still do the job for me for a while. Also, the only option available right now in my price range is the 6700XT, because an 8GB card to play at 1440p is not a good idea. So, this is what I've got:

• Case: Lian Li Lancool 216
• PSU: Seasonic Vertex GX-850
• CPU cooler: Deepcool AK-620 (very easy to install)
• Motherboard (the most expensive part of this build): Asus ROG Strix B650E-E (Murphy's Law. I paid more to get a card with a seven segment display because I got some troubles as of late, only to have none during this build)
• RAM: G.Skill Flare X5 DDR5 6000 32GB 2x16 CL30 AMD EXPO (worked without a single problem)
• Storage. I went with two drives:
  • OS drive: WD Black SN850X 1TB
  • Games drive: WD Black SN770 2TB
• CPU: R5 7600

I know, I know. I can almost imagine some of you writing something along the line of "I would never anyhting less than an 8 core CPU in 2024, and that would be the very minimum". And the truth is that I agree, an 8 core CPU is the way to go if you can afford it.

The thing is that this whole build has always been the foundation for the definitive build, not the final one. You see, I've taken the gamble that AMD will launch another gen of CPUs after the launch of the zen5 based 9000 ones that we'll get this year and before moving to a new socket. And the plan is to wait for that and then get the equivalent of the 5800X3D/7800X3D of the time.

Because of that, it doesn't make sense to overspend on a CPU that will get replaced in maybe three or four years, hence the 7600.

Also, since I'm coming from an i5-4670K with 4 cores/4 threads, the jump is already big:

(I used the CPU-Z bench to not stress to much my old CPU)

A 70% increase in single core and more than 200% in multicore is great.