Yep, if you can afford to buy full priceD games then just play some of the ton of free stuff (or some of your backlog) for a while and buy a new CPU
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verysoft@kbin.social 7 months agoAlso upgrade that CPU, you have so many good drop in replacement options with AM4 still.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
delitomatoes@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Unfortunately my mobo only supports up to 3000 series, so I’m switching to AM5 next year
azurekevin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Which mobo do you have? Most of them got bios updated to support Ryzen 5000, even old B350s and some A320s.
delitomatoes@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Asrock Fatality B350, not officially listed on the manual and forums say that is technically possible but risky
azurekevin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Weird, the K4’s latest bios supports Vermeer, but perhaps not the X3D CPUs? But if so, even a 5600 would be an acceptable and pretty cheap upgrade over a 2600.
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Yeah I wasn’t ready to swap out my whole motherboard and got a 5800x3d. A little on the pricier side still (~$320), but many games really love that extra large cache. Should hopefully keep me going for quite a while before having to upgrade sockets. There’s cheaper options than that that would still be a good upgrade. A couple games recently like baldurs gate 3 have been very cpu intensive.
verysoft@kbin.social 7 months ago
Yuppp it's a monster gaming CPU still. I recently got a 7800X3D, it should last a long time, but having the piece of mind that in a few years I could just drop another AM5 CPU in if I needed or wanted to is great.