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Appropriate CPU for RTX 5070 Ti and 1440p gaming?
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Your CPU is fine, there's nothing you can reasonably upgrade to that would be worth the cost and what you have is still a powerful processor for your needs.
It depends on the games you play and what kind of gamer you are, but a 13600K should net you most of the performance from a 5070 Ti.
Not something I'd bother upgrading until the next generation, since the cost of new CPU and platform isn't going to be worth it unless there's some specific scenario that you're trying to improve.
Note that DDR4 is showing some losses versus DDR5 at this point, but it wouldn't change my mind about the above.
If you were buying new, a 7800X3D or 9800X3D, because in games that love the cache you'd get great performance and in games that are more indifferent, they're still good for improving the framerate consistency.
Absolutely.
There are some games which see massive uplift from the X3D but they're the likes of sims/X4/City builder or strategy/MMO's etc usually. It would cost £500-600 + to move onto X3D/AM5 right now and frankly that's silly when sporting a 13600K or similar.
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I'd echo the above, though the key factor is what games you play and whether you're happy with the performance you're getting.
One exception would be if you play multiplayer games at lower resolutions with a high refresh rate monitor, where you could see significant gains with an upgrade, but even then you'd have to weigh up the cost/benefit ratio.
One exception would be if you play multiplayer games at lower resolutions with a high refresh rate monitor, where you could see significant gains with an upgrade, but even then you'd have to weigh up the cost/benefit ratio.
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Typically I only get a new CPU when there's new features on the associated platform (PCI-E revision, DDRx, USB x etc) that I want or when the motherboard breaks.