Boosts up to 3.8ghz all cores .
Ryzen 2600x+ B450 would roughly set you back the same, tad more for the ram
New expansion is now DX12 and DX9 has been remiss bed with i7 now being recommended .
Not expecting it to be like Lost Planet 2 but should be inprovemeni for multi thread CPUs
I must admit having not looked for that but having checked it does look like it's still sat on one core though not fully utilised, so maybe it is spreading the load a bit more. The graphically performance does seem much better this time round as well.