I upgraded my system memory from 16GB to 32GB. I don't think I needed it, but now I'm able to run Doom Eternal, Assassins' Creed Valhalla, android simulator, and about 50 chrome tabs all at once. I managed to get to 90% utilization.
Finally decided to retire the geforce 1080ti and got a geforce 4070ti. The sizes of these things just keep getting more and more ridiculous Pushes right up to my radiator but whatever.. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3VCFNc
I've noticed the 7900 XTX is actually in stock now and then on newegg, but the Nitro that I would want is always price gouged at ~$1500.
Ryzen 9 9900X, 32GB Corsair DDR5-6000, MSI X870E Tomahawk, Asrock Radeon RX 9070 XT Steel Legend, Antec Performance 1 FT, Corsair 850W Gold shift PSU, Noctua NH-D15 cromax black, 2TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD
Are these upgrades solely gaming related? I've been itching to do a PC refresh for aesthetics alone. But my 1st/2nd Gen Ryzen stuff is still good enough. Gaming wise when I come off hiatus I still only play counterstrike lol. Got you beat on ram though. I was on 64-120GB years ago! Can't standing any sort of application slowness.
It will be used for a mix of things including gaming, work from home, and as a Plex server. That's why I went with the 9900X with its extra cores (better for general purpose use) rather than the 9800X3D with its fewer cores but additional cache (better for gaming). I'm going to order another 32GB Corsair kit and upgrade it to 64GB soon. My 4770K system was from 2013 and can't be officially upgraded to W11. The GTX 1070 I was using struggled with newer AAA games. So I figured it was time to finally upgrade.
I realized I never took a picture. I upgraded the RAM to 64GB. I'm running W10 Pro on it. But I'll upgrade to 11 at some point. I'm using ethernet, but there's a weird issue where the Wifi 7 adapter it uses is so new it doesn't even have a W10 driver and only works in 11.