Final AM4 upgrade
Coming from a Ryzen 7 3700X, the difference isn't monumental, but unless you want to spend 2000 euros to move to AM5/DDR5, it's hard to find a better upgrade. Easy to install (it's a processor; there's a carbide ice pad inside, but I preferred thermal paste).
In a few CPU-intensive games (MSFS 2024 in particular), you can see a 5-10 FPS improvement and better performance on the lowest 1%. On BOINC (MCM project), tasks finish much faster.
Thermal behavior is a little unusual: it quickly reaches 60-65°C, even with light workloads, so you'll probably need to adjust your AiO/CPU cooler curve if you want to avoid the jet-engine effect—very immersive for a flight simulator, but less so when working.
It's still expensive, but given the rest of the component market right now... a good deal! Hey, the RTX5090 is going for 7000 bucks!

































