Alright, once again I'm uploading a journal post to talk about my computer. Hopefully for the last time for at least 5 years or so. I recently came into a decent bit of money, juuust enough to finally upgrade my graphics card!

Mind you, the GTX 1660 Ti was pretty damn good for what it was worth to me. But with new games on the horizon that this card falls outside of recommended specs, or even just minimum requirements, looking at the Oblivion remaster... Not to mention ray-tracing now becoming a requirement for a majority of games, it was high time I nabbed a better graphics card.

So I did, in the form of an XFX Radeon RX 7800 XT! Much larger, much faster, has 10GB more video memory than the 1660 Ti, and the clocks are just... wow. XD

It also allowed me to once again break away from using an Nvidia graphics card. What with their scummy actions lately, it wasn't in the cards to get a newer version of their cards.

Being as my new graphics card came to me as refurbished, I'm guessing the shipping company weren't that careful with it. The metal part of the PCI-e bracket where it rests upon the motherboard was bent. So I carefully bent that back into place, and it installed just fine.

I had prepared myself, just in case, if the card didn't work, by preemptively downloading the latest graphics drivers from both Nvidia, and AMD. Fortunately, the card works and I rid of the Nvidia graphics drivers.

So, it's installed, and I couldn't be happier. cx So now, here are my final system specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

GPU: AMD XFX Radeon RX 7800 XT

Memory: 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX (4x8GB)

Motherboard: MSi B550-A Pro

Storage: 1TB PNY CS1030 (OS drive), 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD + 512GB T-Force Vulcan Z (Both storage)

PSU: Cooler Master MWE 650 v2 Full-Modular (Handles the new GPU just fine)

In other news, I had recently upgraded my OS from Windows 10, to Windows 11, given that, at the time of this journal post, Windows 10 loses official support from Microsoft next month on the 14th.

First impressions so far, I love my new graphics card. My old GTX 1660 Ti did the job well, and I'm proud of it. My brother will find a place for it sometime in the near future, its potential won't go to waste, I know that for sure. :)