End of Year PC Build

Needed more space for everything that is going inside... especially the eight hard drives. "

The Coolermaster XB would definitely not fit that many, LOL.

I like Cube cases, but I just wish they were bigger and as versatile as a tower like my H500M.

I'd love the newest HAF 700 becaue of all the cooling potential- especially if I were to upgrade down the line to a 13900K with a 40 series GPU. However, even with my H500M, I did n't use ARGB Controller as I couldn't get it to work and I didn't really want ALL THAT RGB in my case to light up my room. The RAM and the pump head is quite enough for me, thank you CoolerMaster.



But I don't have 1000.00 to throw away on just the case alone

Over the last six months or so I've seriously toyed with the idea of adding more DDR4 to my system and have been watching the price of the RAM that I bought in 2021 when I first built my system. After talking with a friend who said he'd added more and he does a lot of work in Adobe Premiere and also gaming and he noticed a huge difference in especially the loading times of games like Cyberpunk.....I decided to pull the trugger and push the big yellow *BUY NOW* button.

So I ordered the same RAM that is in my system currently, simply by pushing the buy again button and the price was very reasonable I think. Including tax it came to 150.00 which is less than half of what I paid for the first 32 gb in 2021.


30 minutes later, I'd decided to cancel the order because I'm not sure it will make any difference.  I might see marginal difference in the responsiveness of day to day tasks, but I build my PCs for 99.999% 4K/HD Gaming and at that I doubt there will be a difference from 32 GB.

So for now, I've decided to save my money.


7:59 pm:  I just played a few minutes of SoTR to see how much RAM it used. I opened Task Manager and watched the Usage and the Page File....and the most I saw it use was 12GB out of 32, so I think 32gb is more than enough.  Glad I didn't follow through with the order for  32 more.

Good save.
Its more than likely that his system is a work station.
Since using the Adobe suite would require alot of memory -believe me I know how to max memory.
This pathetic system has 24 GIGs and I have maxed at times where the system locks and resets itself -can be spooky if never seen before -I like the alert LOL.

It is more than likely he is using Threadripper level CPU of some kind. 
Thus his system is quicker and faster -especially with more memory. 

HW Debugging...
Isn't it just grand...
Now we're

Same PC that does the Adobe suite?

Sounds odd the performance outweighs your build... something else must be at play.

The thought occurs to me: did up from 32 GB to 64 GB or from 64 GB to 96 or 128 GB? In either case running two monitors I can see why the bump in memory would help him in this case.

3Dfx Voodoo 2 on a Modern PC!

I thought this was pretty cool and hilarious at the same time. Those were the days.

You would like this then:


But be sure you would have to pay an arm and a leg to get it. 

one game I remember I had this futuristic racing game... I don't even remember the title, but it was packaged with the Soundblaster X16.  It was part live video, part neon rotoscoping...But so much fun

I think Energizer Bunny 211 could take it off your hands....