Well, actually my almost 10 years old i7-6700K struggles.
The problem is probably that I keep a lot of programs open:
- Outlook
- about 100 Firefox tabs (with 10+ addons)
- 10+ Chrome tabs
- 5 Edge tabs (with Excel 365)
- 3 or 4 Excel sheets
- MS Teams
- Foxit Reader
- a coupe of VMs
- QCAD/Photoshop/Premiere for basic editing (for these software I may need a discrete GPU)
I've had a look at that motherboards and they seems to only have 2 PCIe slots (I've checked the X670E and B650) About the GPU for the VMs, it can be passed through directly to them. I haven0t tried it yet, but it seems that a lot of people do so.