I'm a senior, my computer is primarily for work, but I play more challenging games in the evenings.
After testing the AM5 platform, I decided to stay with AM4, chipset B550 for now and so I only upgraded the CPU, which I lacked to "perfection", because the graphics are sufficient and the 64GB memory is also sufficient for now (although there is never enough memory, but. ), so it was just a matter of processor performance. I wasn't expecting miracles when I switched from the 5700G, I was just hoping for a performance boost with multi-threaded processing in specific programs, compute, compile, VM, Docker and more.
However, I was very pleasantly surprised how everything runs noticeably faster already in the operating system, and the performance in some places has more than doubled, but even single-threaded tasks have improved noticeably (measurable 10-15%). Processor temperatures are very volatile and it is not a problem to have a temperature of 35°C one second, which the next second jumps to double and the next two seconds drops again to 35°C, so you need to adjust the cooling settings in BIOS accordingly, so that the fan speed does not jump up and down. I believe that the processor can be set to perfection and achieve much better results and better temperatures, however, I leave it in the base + automatic PBO according to the standards specified by the manufacturer of the processor and the board, I do not currently have time for detailed tuning and it seems that so far will not be needed. The only thing that surprised me was the increase in the minimum power consumption, at minimum load of the processor, which rose from some ~6W to ~30W which is due to the chiplet design of the CPU, the newer AM5 platform and the current top processors are also chiplet and are unfortunately even worse in the base. For reference, I will list the performance of my piece, with which I am extremely satisfied.