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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
I am on a similar boat. I upgraded a 7 years old build to AM5 because it felt too dated and slow for two monitors and heavy multitasking.

It feels weird to have a 7700X 32gb ram paired with a a 1050ti but for non gaming or light gaming use is more than enough.

I discovered that somehow league of legends went from like a 100 fps to silly numbers (1200 fps before minions come out and around 400ish average along the game)

Also just finished tomb raider 2013 on max settings. Totally playable.

Knowing that I created on purpose and massive bottleneck hurts a bit but not nearly as much as it would hurt to give in on the actual stupid gpu prices and greediness of big corporations.

Unless a series of multiple triple AAA masterpieces come around or prices go back to reasonable land I can't justify upgrading the gpu.

Also note that unless one has played everything on earth there always indie games or relative old triple AAA that hold up well. The more stupid gpu prices are the more I understand people at the patient gamers subreddit.

My 2cents
gpt
For me, War Thunder saw a noticable frame jump from 90-110 fps to 140-160 fps with no settings change after upgrading the CPU.