I got into this with the new xpac had to create a second service account as they wanted my 1st active 1st to put add the expats on it, I had a lv10 I looked and went meh and did a second one for me + wife with ps5 starters and pc endwalker
For the people filled with hate towards me, it's been decades, let it go. Ah, the good old days from the members I was fond of most of [__] and Grendel who is a member of PCPER's staff for a while now, my former hA clansmen and Bulletstorm for his skill was second too few on the server. Most are...
Global shortage and then we have miners back at with scalpers they all combined are giving us all a triple screw job w/o lube it will, we never get to buy a gpu and computer parts at msrp again
also the OP "The 6700k does most everything well, but does struggle here and there"
a cpu upgrade will serve his needs more than gpu upgrade at this time.
note the key to a good upgrade is determine the users issue and listen then determine their use case.
<3 have a good one everyone here
The thing i dont get is the intel people in this thread. his current cpu is 3 generations old and amd has something that wipes the floor with it and will unlock more performance out of his current gpu and people are saying stay with it and upgrade the gpu this is madness... pure madness...
it will work remember on ryzen the pcie controller and mem controller are on the cpu this is why you are seeing 1st gen and 2nd gen boards with pcie 4.0 showing active you just needed a board that didn't skimp on the bios memory looking directly at you msi
socket 1151 is a dead stick it is being replaced by socket 1200 for the 14nm comet lake series.
1st gen am4 boards support r3k am4 support will go till am5 is released.
the answer to your question is yes r3k its very competitive with current intel offerings hell even beats them in some places considering you are on a dead socket you may like the upgrade
RF warning sings do exist if RF was harmless their would not be warning you of exposure at one of my former places of work they had them around many of the RF labs