Wow! what a processor at a price

[ppppenguin]

If you're not doing high performance gaming, heavy duty maths or serious video editing even a modest CPU will work just fine on your desktop. My 7 year old main PC uses an Intel i7-4790t which does my everyday tasks just fine. It helps to have plenty of RAM (I have 16GB) and solid state disk for at least the operating system. If you replace "spinning rust" with an SSD you'll see a huge jump in performance.

I've just looked up the CPU benchmark figures for the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (AMD's latest) and it's over 63000. My ancient i7 is about 7000 which was a good price/performance trade-off when I bought the PC.