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Yeah and about a 400% increase in weight loss to my wallet.
I'm good with the 20% reduction, if that's the cost.
We weren't talking about money. You said "I'm not sure why you would ever need more", that's what I was addressing. At the time I built my PC it would have been pennies on the dollar.
Pennies on today's dollar. When I was looking at doing it in 2023, it was still pretty expensive. The ram was about twice the price, plus you'd need a motherboard upgrade. Juice just wasn't worth the squeeze. I get that stuff like this can be 10 or 20% more efficient or whatever, but then you consider on the other hand that quite a lot of games get released in a trash alpha state where it's ~~CPU~~ (edit meant to say GPU) bound, or your NVME hard drive isn't operating at peak state, or something stupid like that. Stuff you never really think about.
If I could rewind, I'd maybe would have done it just to stay ahead of the need to upgrade down the road. I'm hoping to skip the AM5 generation, if I ever build another PC, big if (I'm getting kinda old, don't game as much anymore).
Yes that's what I was saying.