[Argonaut998]

Mine is still going strong, it can run Gemma 4 26b. It can still play all the games I care about at near max settings at 1440p at 60 FPS (like Elden Ring).#

My PC did coincidentally die today (not GPU related) so I think it's time for an upgrade, what do you recommend?

[nbf_1995]

Ryzen 5000 cpus are extremely cheap right now. I bought a 5900xt (16 cores) to upgrade a server a few weeks ago for ~$250. If you already have DDR4 you could put together a system for pretty cheap if you need it soon.

The downside is that AM4 is basically EOL, so no upgrade path.

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> so I think it's time for an upgrade, what do you recommend?

Without knowing what you'll use it for, probably a 9970x + RTX Pro 6000 would do the trick, YMMV.

[HenryMulligan]

I don't know about you, but most of us don't want to drop $10k+ on a GPU!

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Well, no one knows about anyone because no one is sharing what they want to use the hardware for! Kind of hard to give recommendations then :)