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Budget (including currency): $~500 AUD

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Games: Overwatch 2, The Finals, Dead Drop, BattleBit. Others: VMWare Workstation, Visual Studio/Code

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 
Resolution/Refresh rate: 1920x1080 - 144hz
Current build:
CPU: Intel i5 9400f

GPU: XFX RX 6750 XT
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 UD
RAM: 4x8GB (32GB total) 3200MHz DDR4
PSU: 750w Bronze
Storage: 1x 1TB NVME, 1x 500GB SSD

Just upgraded GPU but when playing games, all cores on the CPU are pretty much at 100% ultilisation. Tempted to go for a AMD CPU build just so I can ultilise the features directly for my AMD GPU.

 

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PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *Intel Core i5-12400F 2.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($205.00 @ Centre Com) 
Motherboard: *Gigabyte B760M GAMING X DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($217.40 @ Amazon Australia) 
Memory: *TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($94.00 @ Scorptec) 
Total: $516.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-01-17 17:50 AEDT+1100

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5 hours ago, Smux said:

Tempted to go for a AMD CPU build just so I can ultilise the features directly for my AMD GPU

SAM is CPU platform agnostic, the CPU just needs to support Resizable BAR instructions. Go with @Why_Me's plan, although id cut the RAM stick first and try to run the 4 stick. If its stable with XMP on thats a pretty massive savings.

 

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