Soooo after a month of trying, I have given up trying to get my 7900xtx setup back from my ex.
I have been grinding at work using a ryzen 5500U handheld with a smashed display and a usb-c dock as my stopgap system.
This is what I have settled on as the replacement:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GGrhwY
My primary usecase is g*ming, although my most played titles are HEAVILY cpu bound to the point that an Arc B580 would do in the counterfactual world where Intel did not operate factories on destroyed Palestinian villages.
The 9070xt is a gambit that ML hype keeps prices inflated through the launch of UDNA in 3 years.
cpu bound as in stellaris turn time or as in fps? cause why 9950 instead of x3d
and why not get ultrawide?
I did some further research on benchmarks for Dwarf Fortress and Football manager, and the delta was small enough that I decided to go all the way back down to 9600x and wait for the 6 core CCD zen 6.
Thanks very much, no way I would have noticed that on my own.
Imma be real, if it’s purely for games ram also seems excessive, 64 gigs is doing datasets with 500 chrome tabs territory, 32 gigs seems fine for games (?maybe only microsoft 9/11 simulator approaches those). And maybe air cooler, although yours seems cheap-ish enough. Or is df memory hungry?
Or I’m doing something wrong, cause only last year i started having slight issues on 16, and that’s from lots of tabs and game opened
Zen 6 16c is the goal, and I do not think it is a safe bet that RAM will stay cheap until its release.
I remember reading a benchmark from a while back that said that for big data processing tasks like my bioinformatics consulting, you want each thread to have at least 3G of RAM available to it.
I also play EVE-O where I have ten accounts (4 capital pilots, six cyno/scout), and that even on potato mode with resource cache disabled, would fill 32GB on awesomeWM with discord open.
I am now re-considering if the prospect of being able to take on additional $100 gigs in a pay period is worth the $300 delta from a 9600x to a 9950x.
e:grammar
Ah, if you do mpi adjacent stuff, carry on
some hog shit might want 8-16 gigs per thread even, so you probably wanna be on the knowing more specs side (the shape of our datasets determines the future of our compute and things of that nature 
)( allegedly amd will make 24 core on zen6
)(Also, speeds of 4 sticks ddr5, if you are planning to upgrade to them, are notoriously dogshit, so might be a good idea to hit the search on what speeds are achievable on your motherboard, from the top of my head msi was the best in that area, but ymmv)
I travel for work often enough that the portability of a single 40something ultrawide versus multiple 20something 16:9 is an issue.
Not really a fan of va panels or 1080p but that’s whatever. Clearances look fine, main thing I’d change is I’d get the asus prime oc gpu for 3 displayport instead of 2dp/2hdmi, seeing as you’re going triple monitor. The asus card also boosts a little higher and it’s the same price
Is DP daisy chaining no longer a supported technology? I chose sapphire because I hear they are the least stonewall-y for warranty service.
DisplayPort daisy chaining would require the monitor to support it, which as these only have one DisplayPort I’m pretty sure they do not. There would likely also be bandwidth restrictions. It also looks like they only support 240hz@1080p over HDMI vs the 250hz the DP supports, minor but could be an issue if you’re trying to do 5760x1080. Sapphire does have a good reputation though, I’d definitely use them if they did Nvidia (or AMD decided to make high end GPUs again).
Edit: It looks like you could get a daisychain adapter but that’d be another thing to fail and more money to spend when you could just avoid the issue.
