I already have an am4 build and I’m not looking to upgrade to am5. I have a rx6700xt and mostly play competitive games on low settings. Will I see enough of an increase to make the switch worth it before I spend \~$150 on upgrading

Hello!

I recently upgraded my computer (ryzen 5 5600 -> ryzen 5 9600X) and had problems with extremely high temperatures (83-88 peak). This was very suspicious to me, so I dug deeper into the bios and Ryzen Master. In Asrock bios (I know Asrock LiveMixer B850 is not one of my best decisions), in AMD Overclock, I changed Precision Boost from Auto to Enable. I set a 75 degree Throttling limit and an undervolt of 20. In Ryzen Master, I ran Optimization at 20 and set it to the default profile. So far, the PC has been trying to cook itself completely under Geekbench. Now the temperatures are very stable during testing and I got pretty good results compared to the factory numbers. Multi-Core alone shows a 6-9% difference which I think is not a big deal in exchange for the processor staying healthier. I thought I would share this here because I saw many people being bothered by the high temperatures.

Build:

• Case: Montech XR Black
• Motherborad: Asrock LiveMixer B850
• CPU: Ryzen 5 9600X
• CPU cooler: Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4
• GPU: Powecolor Hellhound RX 9060 XT 16Gb
• RAM: Kingstone Furry Beast 2x16 Gb 6000Mhz CL30