I gotta disagree here, the 5700X just isn't worth getting at this point. I wouldn't recommend any non-X3D AM4 chip to someone unless they were on an extreme budget because it really is that much worse and can be a noticeable bottleneck when gaming (exactly why I upgraded to a 5700X3D), but more so because prices are pretty bad. The 5700X is almost the same price as the 7600X (~$20 difference,) while performing worse. 9600Xs were on sale recently in Canada for as cheap as the 5700X, but even at their current regular price I'd say it's easily worth moving up to as it will perform similarly to the 5700X3D while being both cheaper and more power efficient. DDR4 prices have also gone up as companies try to cash in on the people staying on AM4. A good 32GB DDR4 kit is barely cheaper than a good DDR5 kit. Just doesn't make sense to spend $800-900 on a new AM4 build and be maxed out on parts when you could spend $900-1000 and have upgrade options later like going with a 9000X3D or getting a PCIE 5 NVME drive or actually having the headroom for a better GPU. Opening up the GPU budget and then holding it back with a 5700X would be silly.