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Best answer: No. The Ryzen 7 5800X is complete overkill for gaming and not even the best value among AMD's lineup of modern CPUs.
[h=3]More cores don't equal better gaming[/h]A fairly common misconception among gamers is that more cores means better gaming performance. Unfortunately, that's simply not the case for many, many games. A CPU like the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X with its eight cores is a theoretically fast processor that most games will fail to fully utilize.
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