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Last rig of RX 580 + ryzen 1600 was showing its age in stutters and slow productivity speeds. And ever since the pandemic, I've been doing more gaming in my spare time, mainly Valorant and Overwatch.I also am starting to do some photo editing, and rendering so the i7 is doing its job here, also the minor bump in cache is beneficial for my 1% lows in high refresh gaming.

This build was initially completed with an RX 6600XT but like a week later, I upgraded my monitor to the ASUS XG279AQM 270hz 1440p and the 6600XT was struggling there. So I upgraded to the Sapphire Nitro 6800XT and all is well now, well I feel like I've now caught the upgrade bug and am closely following AMD/Nvidia news for the next gen parts since my 6800XT doesn't always maintain 270 FPS on 1% lows. But it's not like I'm going to be a professional gamer so the rational part of me is trying to maintain control of the wallet. In the end, I will most likely grab a 7900 XTX which will surely be able to maintain the 270 1% low that I am adamant on trying to reach... right???

Onto the CPU side of things, I have decided to make the trip to Microcenter to pick up a 13700k to upgrade over my 12700k. I know, I know. This is not a rational thing to do, but hear me out, the 12700k will be going to my SO's rig who currently is using a 12100. The original plan was to wait until Meteor Lake to do this but I've read rumors of there being potential delays on Meteor Lake and 2023 mainly going to be Raptor Lake refreshes which will not be worth looking at.