card upgrade
by George Posted on: 10/20/2023
Build Description
the reason i did this build (or in my case this "rebuild") is that a friend of mine upgraded to a new (but expensive) rtx 4080 graphics card. but this means i was given his 1-year old rx 6750xt card for free! i was previously using an rx 6600 graphics card, so this was a pretty big improvement. i also increased the amount of vram i have from 8gb to 12gb. this is important because a lot of new games i want to play such as starfield use a lot of vram and i dont expect that trend to stop anytime soon. in addition to the new card, i installed a new case with better airflow, a better cpu cooler, and i changed from sata based ssd storage to pci-e based m.2 pci-e ssd storage
Favorite Feature
so far the biggest difference i notice is the cpu cooler. before i installed this larger coolers master air cooler, i was using the stock intel air cooler that comes free in the retail box with the i3 12400 processor. the fan on that thing isn't always quiet, especially when an application is running something intensive. so far i'm happy to report that a larger air cooler = much quieter.
Intel Core i5-12400 Alder Lake 2.5GHz Six-Core LGA 1700 Boxed Processor - Intel Stock Cooler Included
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$159.99
asrock b660 pro rs
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$120.00
sapphire rx 6750 xt 12gb
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$0.00
received as gift, not purchased
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 C16 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit CMK16GX4M2E3200 - Black
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$44.99
Corsair 4000D Airflow Tempered Glass ATX Mid-Tower Computer Case - Black
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$94.99
Corsair RMx Series RM750x 750 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX Fully Modular Power Supply
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$119.99
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition CPU Air Cooler
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$44.99
solodigm 1tb qlc pci-e 4.0 ssd
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$35.00