Driven largely by my desire to run a local large language model for image generation, I determined that the cost of a new video card (while extreme) is still significantly less than the subscription cost I was paying for access to image generation software. So, I committed to upgrading my video card.
This alone would have triggered a new iteration, except I am fairly slow to update these things. In the interim, my 1TB Western Digital Blue SSD wore out and started peppering my computing experience with errors and crashes. This could not have come at a worse time, as the proliferation of AI services and data centers across the world has driven an insane price increase in all things memory. The hard drive which would have cost under $100 a year ago is now close to $500. What a gut-punch.
MB: Asus ROG Strix B550-F
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
RAM: G.Skill TridentZ Neo 32GB DDR4 3600
HSU: Corsair Capellix H100i
PSU: Seasonic FOCUS PX-850W
HDD1: Samsung 990PRO 2TB SSD M.2
OS: Windows 11 Professional
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