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What's your long term goal with this machine?
Is it just this, and when you want a better machine in the future you're going to build a whole new one? If you're planning on upgrading, which components?
Basically, what I see with what you've got is a $400 worth of CPU and mobo, and not even a $400 graphics card. Your gpu is going to be your bottleneck on this system. Your CPU can handle way more than what that GPU is going to push. If you're planning on upgrading GPUs in a year or so, then this is a good $600 base build to drop a $1000 video card into in a years time. But if you do that you've gotta figure out what you're doing with the old card, and that's a lot of money to drop on a GPU that's from the previous generation while also knowing you're going to replace it.
If you're happy with the GPU and it's going to be your primary card for the next 2-3 years, then you can save some more money by building an AM4 system instead of AM5. A 5600-5800 would pair nicely with the 6800 GPU.
I was hoping to use it for at least 5 years before it needs an upgrade (maybe an additional SSD), I haven't noticed any bottleneck from the GPU so far but I only game at 1440p not 4k. If all goes well I'm hoping this build will work until the end of AM5 and I can upgrade once everything drops in price if I need to. Of course, I'm coming from a gaming laptop with only 8gb of Ram and 2gb in the integrated GPU lol.
Yeah, if you're planning on doing quick swap CPU and GPU upgrades, you'll definitely get 5 years out of it. If that's the plan, AM5 was the right move.
Enjoy the gaming!