Unscheduled upgrade time! Need new CPU and mobo

[KingUnicorn]

So long story short, I'm in need of a new processor and motherboard. My current pair of a Ryzen 5 3600 and an MSI MPG x570 gaming plus have served me well over the years, but they have both died honorably helping the creation of another machine (rip). So, now that I need a new pair, I'm wanting some help deciding. Every other part of the machine still works great, I just need a new pairing to match.

 

Budget (including currency): 350 USD, 400 max

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Some AAA games and also some very single core games (kerbal space program and ksp2 when it releases, and TF2)

Other details: other parts in the system are

EVGA RTX 3070ti

EVGA 650 G3 PSU (650W)

A mix of 3 drives, one being m.2 (I do plan on adding another)

3 case fans plus an AIO cooler

Case is the fractal design meshify C

A couple small PCIe cards, one being a network card

 

Main preferences are for a full size ATX board to handle all of the fans and the extra PCIe cards I have. Past that I have no preference between AMD or Intel

 

Edited to adjust budget

Edited January 11, 2023 by KingUnicorn

[jaslion]

Random fan splitter +

 

option 1: possibly a 13400 (most likely 12600k best or 12400 worst) + b660 of your liking with bioz flashback for 13th gen

 

Or a 5600 + b550

 

Not really much else available for the budget

[KingUnicorn]

4 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Random fan splitter +

 

option 1: possibly a 13400 (most likely 12600k best or 12400 worst) + b660 of your liking with bioz flashback for 13th gen

 

Or a 5600 + b550

 

Not really much else available for the budget

I can up the budget by a hundred if necessary. Just trying to keep it a bit lower to get it sooner