Hi people,

I am considering upgrading my PC. Like many others I’m on AM4. I just upgraded from an rx580 to rtx 5070 which has been huge and now I’m curious if I can unlock more power since my cpu is kind of a bottleneck.

Specs are:

64gb 2666 DDR4 RAM

RTX 5070

Ryzen 7 3700x

B450M (micro atx motherboard)

I like gaming, video editing and music production. I’ve been trying to find which AM4 CPU would be worth upgrading?

Some options I’ve thought about:

5600x

5700x

5800xt

Or some sort of X3D card if I can find one (or wait to see if AMD re-releases 5800X3D).

Has anyone been in my position and upgraded and found it worthwhile?

My budget is $250. I don’t mind going over a bit but I figure anymore money and I might as well wait to upgrade to AM5.

Thank you!

EDIT: looking for 1440p resolution :-) forgot to mention that.