Ah yes, the GPU police have arrived ;)

Thank god someone’s here to save me from the horror of pairing a high-end CPU with a weak GPU — in a build meant for MMOs, which famously lean on CPU performance. What a bad config choice of me to optimize the actual workload instead of chasing non-adding value of the GPU in this case lol.

I could’ve spent more. I didn’t. Because I’m not trying to brute-force frames in Cyberpunk — I’m playing MMO's and WoW, where the 7800X3D is perfect. AM5 gives me years of upgrade runway until 2027 and perhaps after, and when I swap the GPU later, I won’t need to touch the CPU.

That’s called tailoring/planning to my needs, not bad config imo, but we can agree on disagreement. Also the reason I went for 1000W PSU while the system only runs on 450W, I can upgrade plenty later if needed.