Hello, im new here and ive been looking for a good/above decent cpu that goes well with my radeon 7600 gpu. My current cpu is a ryzen 5 5500. What do you guys recommend?
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What motherboard are you using? That matters a little here because your Ryzen 5 5500 is limited to PCIe 3.0, and the RX 7600 is a PCIe 4.0 x8 card. If you’re on a B550/X570 board, moving to something like a Ryzen 5 5600, 5700X, 5800X, or 5700X3D could give you PCIe 4.0 support along with the CPU upgrade. But if your motherboard is B450 or older, the GPU slot is likely still PCIe 3.0 anyway, so the upgrade would mostly be about CPU performance, not fixing the PCIe limit. What resolution and refresh rate are you playing at too? That’ll help decide whether a bigger CPU upgrade is actually worth it with an RX 7600.
also what’s your budget limit for your upgrades?