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So a while ago I managed to damage one of my GPUs fans (wifi card fell out of the PCI slot and hit the fan). Although still usable (and probably fixable), it struggles with a few of the games I play. I mostly play games like cities skylines and transport fever 2, and from what I can tell, I think I'm being bottlenecked primarily by a lack of 3D performance and dedicated GPU memory (both of those reach 100% in task manager)

I tried to ask the people at centrecom, but they told me I wouldn't notice any performance increases with an upgrade as my CPU and mobo aren't fast enough to notice a difference. But they never actually asked me what CPU or mobo I have, so I can't tell if that's actually the case or if they're just trying to get me to upgrade the rest of my components too. I'm new at all of this and my PC is a pre-built, so I don't entirely know what I'm doing in any case.

I currently have a Zotac GTX 1650 (4GB) but want to upgrade to an MSI RTX 3060 (12GB). I have an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (6 Core) CPU and an MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX motherboard. I checked compatibility with PCPartPicker and it seems everything will be compatible, and I do plan on upgrading CPUs and possibly motherboards eventually anyway, so upgrading GPUs won't necessarily be a waste of money, even if the rest of my PCs components can't make full use of the additional power, right?

Also, how do I go about checking space constraints? Is it just a case of taking a tape measure to the area around my GPU?

As I said I'm completely new at this and am not entirely sure I know what I'm doing... So any help is much appreciated!

If you want a 100% efficient computer like me, all you have to do - and it's very simple!

Count all of the noise and heat as useful work.

The Neology group buy is live. These are OEM drives with the warranty through Neology. Prices are cheaper than what he's got on his site and there are bulk discounts available.

Some decent monitor arms at firesale prices for anyone interested.

Got recommended this store for cheap HDDs recently. They sell enterprise HDDs at near wholesale rates so they're almost half the price per TB. Just picked up a couple of 16TB drives for like $800.

Available here

If anyone is in the market for a new pc, this is decent. A bit short on storage but hey, 3060Ti.

Miscellaneous keycaps and mechanical keyboard spare parts fire sale for anyone interested.

Decent ultrawide 4k monitors for anyone in the market for one.

Surcharges: 1.2% Card & PayPal, 2% AmEx. Free shipping excludes WA, NT & remote areas.

Controller: Realtek RTS5762
Memory: Hynix 128L TLC
DRAM Cache: Nanya 128MB DDR3
Sequential Read: 3500 MB/s
Sequential Write: 2900 MB/s
Random Read: 450,000 IOPS
Random Write: 400,000 IOPS
Endurance (TBW): 2400 TB
Warranty: 5 Years

From https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/785276.

Some cheap portable solid state storage.

Great for anyone who needs something cheap to run a home media server on. You'll need to pony up more for some extra storage though.

Gotten from OzBargain

• Controller: Phison E21T
• Memory: Micron 176L QLC
• DRAM Cache: None
• Sequential Read: 3500 MB/s
• Sequential Write: 3000 MB/s
• Random Read: 650,000 IOPS
• Random Write: 700,000 IOPS
• Endurance (TBW): 800 TB
• Warranty: 5 Years