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by ChrisWith wanting a long term upgrade from a 1700X for my gaming PC, this has been excellent so far. The added cache really does benefit a lot of games, including older titles I still have like Fallout 4 and GTA V. Although I can understand AMD not enabling overclocking on this CPU, I really hope that they don't drop support for this with it being a stepping stone for AM5, and revisit stability of the CPU with even a light overclock. As honestly that is the only downside of this right now, where the cache has little to no benefit and the CPU essentially performs like a highly binned 5800X. Which honestly is fine for the price but not having the overclocking seems to make this an odd one out in the range. That being said, I'll take that trade-off for now for the hilariously cool temps and low power draw. Admittedly, I have also splashed out on 2x 2TB PCIe 4th gen NVMe drives as well as a newer X570 motherboard (my older board was compatible) to go along with my already 16GB DDR4 3600MHz RAM, so I'm more or less set. The only thing I'm waiting on now is a new GPU... whenever that'll be available! I'm aiming for this PC to be a long term system for the future now, so after the GPU purchase I fully plan to not touch it again for a solid 5-10 years. Here's hoping!
