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Old 03-16-2023, 4:48pm   #1
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Default Finally had to upgrade the computer

My monster tower, with the 18 monitors has some newer components in it, like the OS drive and some of the storage drives, but the physical guts of it are now 7 years old, and failing fast. My machine has physically shut off twice today alone, and it's happening more frequently as of late. As such, it's getting a complete overhaul on the inside. I'm keeping the CoolerMaster tower case, as you simply cannot purchase one as big as it is in today's market. It holds 8 internal hard drives currently.

New products purchased:

3 - AMD Radeon Pro W6800 Workstation-class video cards (18 ports total)
1 - Intel Core i9-13900KS - Core i9 13th Gen Raptor Lake 24-Core processor
1 - ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Hero (WiFi 6E) LGA 1700 motherboard
4 - 32 GB DDR5 6000 memory chips (128 GB total) (sad MB didn't have 8 slots like the current one, otherwise I would have done 256 GB)
1 - Fresh copy of Windows 10 64-bit Pro
1 - Fresh copy of Windows 11 64-bit Pro (only to be installed on a VM. I'm not ready to upgrade to 11 yet without evaluation)
1 - ASUS ROG Strix LC II 360 ARGB Liquid CPU Cooler with 360mm radiator
1 - WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe M.2 2280 4TB SSD


Hopefully this investment will carry me another 7 years, which is an eternity in computer years. Ironically, the entire price of the order ($8,300) is what I would have paid JUST for the 3 video cards 1 year ago when they first came out. And I planned on buying them way back then, so to get all of the go fast parts for just the cost of the 3 cards was an added bonus.

These video cards are world-class workstation cards. Look 'em up. Also, that M.2 SSD drive is insanely fast, with insane speeds up to 7,300 MB/s throughput. My current SSD is more to the tune of 550 MB/s, which "was" insanely fast.
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