New build & first in a long time

It looks good but do not order there as they are all US stores. Unless your in America of course. That RAM while good is pointless as it is high frequency RAM which wouldn't really be put to much use especially if just wanting to set XMP as with that RAM you would have to manually set everything and it's also difficult RAM to get over here.

I ordered a new build around August and got most stuff from caseking in Germany and some from amazon.de

I've recently put together a new gaming rig for about that budget, including a new case, PSU, fans etc.

MSI PRO Z790-P WiFi + i5-13600KF

Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 (4x16GB) it's supposed to go as high as 5.6GHz, but only in dual channel. Quad channel it runs at 4GHz. Still plenty fast though.

Crucial P5 Plus 1TB M.2

MSI RTX 4060 Ventus Black OC 8G

Corsair 3000D case + RM850x PSU

Runs War Thunder, which is both CPU and GPU heavy, in 4K on "movie" settings comfortably at 130fps+.

Got most of the parts on black Friday deals, in some cases with 40%+ discount, so it was worth the wait.

The board can fit max 4 M.2 drives. And the P5 Plus is superb value for money. I wouldn't even consider spinning rust at this point.

My advice would be to steer clear of AMD CPUs. "Overpriced, and underperforming" is their motto since AMD K5 was a thing. But their propaganda machine is red-hot on social media, with every youtuber and their granny pushing AMD.

The significantly cheaper i5-13600KF outperforms it [1][2], and has about the same TDP (125W/181W v 120W/162W).

The equally priced i7-14700KF is way ahead in single/multi-core.

Where the AMDs might get a bit of an edge is lower memory access latency due to larger CPU 7cache, which might give you a few more FPS indeed. Sounds like the OP isn't into competitive gaming though.

In terms of energy cost, you'd have to run the Ryzen at 100% load, 24/7 for about five years before it paid in savings for the higher price compared to the i5. In the reality of mixed daily workloads, that's money you won't ever see back, so I'd rather out it towards more storage or a better GPU.

I've not said AMDs are problematic. Never had a problem with one either. Maybe a better term is that they're "lower value for money".

[1] https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-13600KF-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-7800X3D/m1950757vsm2081998

[2] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5059vs5299/Intel-i5-13600KF-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-7800X3D

Have you?

65% worse performance per dollar compared to the i5-13600K.

14% better 1080p gaming performance, 2.7% better 4K gaming performance, and 6% worse overall performance, all while being over 40% more expensive.

You have basically proven all of my arguments.

I think they've only just lowered the price after Christmas cause they released 14th gen (or 13.1 gen depending on who you ask)

Regardless if you're buying a CPU and holding on to it for a 3 or 4 years that €100 difference in price is basically SFA

You can compare all sorts on the User bench mark but the main reason the 7800X3D is the preferred gaming CPU is not because of the clock its because it has a big L3 cache, this for many games translates to extra FPS and at the end of the day, that's all that matters. (For Gamers)

Like the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X clocks higher than the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D. The latter is geared towards gaming.

Also in industry (Servers etc) there is demand for AMD EPYC processors as they're so incredibly far ahead of Intel and cheaper. It's not just Youtubers.