Really? Gaming benchmarks for Ryzen 7000 seem to be pretty much flat across the board, with minimal gains upwards from the 6-core 7600. Which games are you thinking of?

Thanks for the reply and the link. I have a backup with Backblaze going, so I can afford to take a bit of a risk, I think I’m gonna go with that unless I can find a good RAID card within my budget. You got any experience with bitrot prevention on windows?

What’s the problem with RSTe though? I mainly just see people giving a hard no with no real reason?

Asus has become fucking awful these past few years, they’re turning into the Alienware of the DIY world. All marketing, no substance.

Do you have the boards as well? I recently tried to pick up a Xeon for my homelab and finding the boards was a way bigger problem than the CPU.