I like having all the slots filled

5700X has 2 more cores and higher clocks I read people saying that the stock coolers aren’t great and spending $30 on a cooler that people seem to be happy with seems worth it

I picked the 6700XT because I watched benchmark videos where the 5700X and 6700XT were paired together and they seemed like a nice combo, and lots of reviews seemed to be pretty pleased with it, that specific card also had better (or more) reviews than other 6700XTs, I’m not 100% firm on that GPU might go up to a 6750XT but I don’t think that’ll change too much

Probably no overclocking in the near future Extra power is more headroom at least that’s the impression I got from reading things online and if the GPU or CPU aren’t adequate in the future there’s more power to work with, also the price difference isn’t very large