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CPU choice for productivity AND gaming

Jimshoe

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Hi

Currently planning a SFF PC for prductivity (Photoshop, Handbrake transcoding) and 4K gaming.

Current build plan

NCASE T1
ASUS ROG Strix B650E-I
Phanteks Glacier 1 240mm
Corsair 32Gb 6000MHz CL30
Samsung 990 EVO 1TB NVMe
GeoForce 4080 Super or 4090
PSU - undecided, something with 12vHPWR 12+4 connectivity

I'm struggling with CPU choice. It's going to be AMD but everything I read talks about 'Best CPU for Gaming' or 'Best CPU for Productivity' but never much discussion/comparison of both.

I'm into visually immersive high quality 4k games.

I can see that an Ryzen 7 9800X3D is currently king of the hill for gaming but can I get a CPU that offers this level of gaming performance AND speed for productivity? Cost is secondary to performance.

Would a AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D give me what I'm lookiing for i.e more cores and some X3D cache benefits?

Any advice is really appreciated.
 
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