Okay, I'm just gonna say it: Spending over $400 on a CPU in 2024 is absolutely pointless for 90% of gamers and power users. Change my mind. Unless you're doing highly specialized professional rendering or crunching massive datasets, those i9s and Ryzen 9s are pure flex. You're getting maybe a 5-10% performance uplift from a mid-range chip that costs half as much, and your GPU is almost always the bottleneck anyway. People are just getting suckered into buying top-tier components they don't need for bragging rights. Save your money and put it into a better GPU or a sweet monitor. Anyone else think the diminishing returns have gone past absurd?