New system has been purchased. Details are here, but basically, it’s a
Ryzen 7 7800X3
Gigagbyte RTX4070TI Windforce OC
Samsung E 2TB 990PRO NVME GEN4 SSD
Gigabyte B650 Gaming X AX D5 ATX
and it’s fast as all hell. It’s got the biggest CPU cooler I have ever seen in my life:
I mean, seriously. I tend to keep old computer parts just to document for posterity. This is an advanced CPU:
(well, an 80286). And this is a big fan:
But that thing? That is a
I’m afraid to get too close to it.
Oh. And rather than going to all the places that Parts Picker suggested, I just went up to Micro Center. And it was $150 cheaper. Support your local computer geeks!
That cooler is something else! They’re building a MC about 2 hours away in Charlotte. Finally.