I think the consensus is the 5900X is by far the better value choice. But the assumption for that is you are doing productivity/creativity tasks that require CPU cores and that's not the case for gaming.I am building a new gaming pc mainly for use on my sim rig. I will be using 32gb ram an amd 6800 graphics card and was thinking of using a ryzen 7 5800x cpu or would I be better getting the ryzen 9 5900x?