This is mostly just for discussion, but this is my PC’s current state. I do want to do a full custom watercooled setup sometime but I’m wondering if anything is screaming out “upgrade me, I’m old”. I mostly game and do CAD design/3D printing. Some photoshop and After Effects work every now and then. What would you upgrade?

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    1 year ago

    I’m bump up the RAM to 64GB. It’s somewhat overkill for most cases but you somewhat future-proof your device more. Also, if you have any interest in AI you can easily run some of the open-source large language models pretty comfortably on the CPU with 64GB of RAM (see llama.cpp program).

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        1 year ago

        I mean, if you want to future proof you could go with ddr5 ram but then you would need to change your motherboard and a bunch of other stuff I imagine.

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        1 year ago

        To be clear you can probably already run some medium-sized models on 32GB using llama.cpp, as it’s been optimized a ton in the past few months - but I know that early on some models were eating up 48GB of my RAM.