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Oh god, I worded that badly. I meant a decent option for purchase between the things I was looking at (something in the 3080-4090 range) because I just been finding either things that were way to far away to go look at them and test them before buying (since I was looking at used stuff), not very great brands or stupid prices. I am highly aware it is an absolutely insane GPU, not just "decent".

Each component got its completely different reason:

The CPU is because I wanted to buy something that is going to last me a very very long time before I need to upgrade. We are now 4 years in and unless some miracle technological advancement happens it got at least another 4 years in it easy.

GPU is because of streaming. The 1080ti was/is an absolutely beast of a GPU and its fine for just gaming as it still runs everything I throw at it. However when it comes to gaming + encoding at the same time there are some games nowadays it struggles with so hopefully that gets sorted now.

RAM TL;DR: I had 32GB of RAM. RAM fails mem test. Friend just upgraded PC to DDR5 RAM so friend has 64GB of spare RAM. I have the RAM now. It is a stupid amount that I really don't need.

SSD: I give it 5 minutes before the new SSD is full like the other 2. But also I like to have each OS on its own drive (mainly because I don't trust Windows anywhere near my Linux install).

Funny you mention work, because at work I got the absolute opposite of my home computer - jankey legitimately half broken old little thinkpad lol.