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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

You should really see a performance boost with that CPU upgrade.

Since you're also moving on from AM4 to AM5, and because you're not a regular user, how much RAM are you getting? Are you going with 2x64GB or are you trying a non-binary 2x48GB kit? (I'm limiting it to 2 RAM stick kits because AMD still doesn't do too well with 4 sticks, but of course you may go that route for higher capacity over speed).

I am a power user...  Just not gaming these days... Not many people pair up 128GB+ of Ram and a 16 Core CPU and whinge about the price of a Mid-Range GPU. Haha 

But to put into perspective... 192GB of DDR5 Ram is the cost of a Geforce 5070 these days, it's what I will end up going with, currently have 128GB of DDR4 and often hit my capacity limits and need to page to SSD.

Next up will be a monitor, would like a 40", 4k, 120hz, VA. No curve. - It's hard finding a panel that is reasonably priced that fits that bill.

Keen to see the improvements in lightly threaded workloads and whatever can make use out of the huge cache, not sure what kind of impact it will do for my productivity and compute workloads, but the performance in gaming is likely to be much much less as the bottleneck will be the GPU (RX 9060XT 16GB).

192GB of RAM... *head explodes*

You'll have a hard time finding a monitor that fills all those requests, yes. The closer I got from a quick glance was the iiyama G-Master G4380UHSU, but it's 43" and "old" (from 2022, meaning no proper HDR and HDMI 2.0 & DP 1.4). You may have to look into TVs at that size.