@AC
"Same vintage here. This was my Elite Dangerous machine, probably time to update the innards although I will keep the old case."
Couple of things for a fellow Elite CMDR. The new CPU may have all sorts of teething issues. New gen, new tech with DDR5 and new mobo chipsets to run them. If you don't want to be updating drivers, firmware and BIOS continually, then give this a miss for 6 months at least until the worse bugs are worked out.
Second, the layered Zen X3D processors are probably 6 months away as well and this will give another significant boost to performance.