Excessive vRam
by Kai T Posted on: 8/25/2023
Build Description
The main reason I built this setup is that I had an opportunity to acquire a formerly very high-end video card from a friend second hand at a reasonable price. He has since moved on to the RTX 4090 (which I think is somewhat silly) but I couldn't pass up a chance to acquire a 3090 ti. The main reason I wanted to do this is that the newest games being made (such as the new game Starfield, releasing in 1 week from this review) are now using a high amount of vram. I'm not sure if the 8gb on my old 3070 card was going to be sustainable going forward. And so now I have a ridiculous, unrealistic, extremely excessive amount of vram (24gb!).
Favorite Feature
I really appreciated an unexpected benefit I got from doing the bulk of these purchases at microcenter. Namely, they have a promotion where if you buy a certain cpu, they will include a kit of ddr5 ram for completely free. This really helped soften the blow that comes with buying a new cpu socket and going from ddr4 to ddr5.
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Raphael AM5 4.5GHz 8-Core Boxed Processor - Heatsink Not Included
Qty: 1
$311.98
Gigabyte B650 AORUS Elite AX AMD AM5 ATX Motherboard
Qty: 1
$219.99
NVIDIA FE RTX 3090 Ti 24gb
Qty: 1
$699.98
G.Skill Flare X5 Series 64GB (2 x 32GB) DDR5-6000 PC5-48000 CL30 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit F5-6000J3040G32GX2-FX5 - Black
Qty: 1
$194.99
Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO Tempered Glass ATX Mid-Tower Computer Case - White
Qty: 1
$169.99
Corsair RMx Series RM1000x 1000 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX Fully Modular Power Supply
Qty: 1
$189.99
Noctua NH-D15 Brown CPU Cooler
Qty: 1
$114.99
WD Black 850x 1tb
Qty: 1
$89.99
Lian Li UNI SL120 Case Fans
Qty: 1
$69.99