You know what, I think I may have found the perfect AMD Ryzen upgrade package for any PC gamer

pcgamer.com:

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | ASRock B650E Riptide WiFi | G.Skill Flare X5 32GB | $613.98 at Newegg
This combo deal from Newegg will save you as much as $61 dollars if you bought all of the parts separately, at their best current prices. This really is the perfect AMD Ryzen upgrade for a gaming PC.

Let's say you've been looking at the current Black Friday gaming PCs deals but you've already got a brilliant graphics card or just can't quite afford a full new system just yet. Well, how about just getting a new CPU, motherboard, and RAM kit to start with?

For outright gaming, there's only one CPU I would choose and that's the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Sure there are better processors for mixed workloads (e.g. gaming and content creation), but almost nothing will touch it for gaming. Certainly not for the amount of power it uses and its price tag.

And no, I don't mean it's brilliant because it's cheap or anything like that. It's simply the best gaming CPU full-stop, in my opinion. The huge amount of L3 cache, 96MB in total, does wonders for the 1% low frame rate in games, especially those that are CPU demanding.

But the best AMD processors need to be paired with a good motherboard and a dual channel RAM kit that has timings tuned for a Team Red platform.

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 8 cores, 16 threads | 5.0GHz | AM5 | $449$399 at Amazon (save $50)
There are better all-rounders if you need extreme multithreaded performance, but in our review we found the 7800X3D to be absolutely brilliant when it comes to raw gaming power. This CPU simply outpaces the competition for gaming, but it's actually pretty good for other tasks, too.

Price check: Best Buy $399 | Newegg $399

ASRock B650E PG Riptide | AMD AM5 Socket | ATX | 4x DDR5 slots | 3x M.2 | 4x SATA |