[eng_monkey]

Thanks for the suggestion. It is something I had considered; to replace the motherboard and the CPU with the new AMD Ryzen. But if I remember correctly, it is difficult to find motherboards that include video output (especially through Display Port). So I would have, as you mention, go with Intel, which seems a missed opportunity given the new AMD processors?

[random28345]

Intel still has a good edge on single-core performance. And productivity software is about pushing lots of instructions through a single core.