[thedaemon]

I just upgraded my CPU and kept my GPU, an older Nvidia 960 GTX. My CPU was a Q6600 and now I have a Ryzen 2700X. CPU matters so much it's amazing. Some games are heavy on the GPU and some are heavy on the CPU. Depends on what kind of things they have going on.

[p1necone]

You'd be hard pressed to find a current cpu that would be the bottleneck in most AAA titles though. The Q6600 was released in 2006.

[thedaemon]

I haven't had any experience with cheap current generation CPUs. Have you any experience with ones such as an Intel Celerons that are about $30 on Amazon?

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/...