I think I may need a CPU upgrade in the future

To achieve this ~~feet~~ feat, I am rendering a Project in Davinci Resolve, while compressing two other videos with Handbrake.

I was kind of hoping for 100% GPU Utilization, but my CPU has been at 100% utilization for the last 10 min, so I think she's toasty enough.

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5950?
- I was thinking Ryzen 7 3000 series. The Ryzen 9's are a bit too high of a price point for me, and most of my workloads are single core dependent. The Performance gulf between the 5000 ryzen 7 and 3000 is not too much, so I can cheap out if I wanted to keep this system going.
  
  That said, if I want a proper upgrade for my workload, I need to go Intel with an AMD GPU. But I defiantly don't have the budget for that.
  
  For single threaded workloads, you might find the ryzen 5000 series to be more of a jump than it initially seems since the IPC was improved (20-30% in some cases).
Good thing you've got so many upgrade options on AM4
You were rendering a foot?
- I spel gud.
Might not hurt to overclock a few hundred mghz in the meantime
- I'm on a stock cooler, and she's sadly unstable while gaming as is.
Also have vtt/vt-d disabled.
Ouch! But it is a six year old mid-range processor. 14nm vs 5nm
- Oh I have no complaints about my 1600x. It's fast enough with the right software and it's pared with a RTX 3050 8GB, so it's perfect for 1080p gaming.
In Handbrake, what do you have set for the video encoder? I have an AMD GPU and I've found that setting the encoder to one of the AMD options eased some of the load on the CPU.
- I have an option for nvenc but I had issues with it in the past. Plus the video conversion is so quick I don't notice.

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