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If you are looking to reduce the build’s cost consider a cheaper motherboard or a used GPU. The Asrock B650M-HDV/M.2 is the lowest you should go if it has all the connectors you need. As for buying used video card it’s always a bit of risk, but as the most expensive component you could save the most on that. Since all AM5 CPUs have an integrated GPU you could build without the dedicated GPU first.

Yeah, at that thread count only a few workstation applications (maybe video encoding and code compilation) scale well.

The c in 4c is supposedly referring to cloud where it’s possible to run 128 tiny independent VMs on a chip like that. Being independent means those should scale linearly aside from the shared memory and IO bandwidth.