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What are you thinking GPU wise? Two mid priced GPUs in Crossfire/SLI? Maybe two RX 5700x or RTX 2060?

You can certainly play older and less demanding games. But you would struggle with most modern games on anything other than Low settings. It may be time for a moderate upgrade. (coming from someone with only slightly higher specs.)

A great site to use is https://pcpartpicker.com/ it will help you organize your list into something you can just link to while alerting you to most comparability issues.

This might help, https://youtu.be/DKwA7ygTJn0

I hope the higher ends up with RDNA1 graphics, looking to upgrade from an old A8 in a small form factor build.

Does Google Podcasts work the same way (I Use Spotify so I don't know)?

The Bards Tale, Rome: Total War, Company of Heroes, Tropico, ATOM RPG, and This War of Mine/Stories.

750W would be fine 650W would be really pushing it.

A picture would help.

That seems like a good pairing but, don't expect to reach 144 fps in Cyberpunk2077 otherwise, you should be fine.

https://wccftech.com/intel-rocket-lake-s-11th-gen-core-cpu-lineup-specs-leak-out-flagship-core-i9-11900k/

This gen I9 was 10 cores next gen is back to 8 cores (a dumb decision but, true)

I think Computers will forever be in a kind of Cold War Arms (or Space) Race kind of position where people will always want better graphics, more complex AI, Etc. And if No Mans Sky proved anything is that Procedural development can be pushed even further. Not to mention the possibility of different interfaces such as VR and eventually something like NeuraLink will likely take a crazy amount of computing power.

Definitely go AMD their Linux drivers are usually better because of their open-source nature.

That's what I thought the artifacting was caused by. Clearly that's not the issue though. Any ideas?