My 9950X 96GB RAM + 3090TI 24GB VRAM rig is a dream dual booting for steam games and daily driving ARCH linux for workstation / AI experimenting.
I had an Intel i9-14900 before this for about 5 months before it burned itself out and became highly unstable. Luckily I had the Microcenter extended warranty and the did me good allowing me to exchange it full credit which I used to build this new dream rig haha…
The 9950X runs much cooler and quieter. In windows I throttle the GPU to 350 out of 450 max watts (nvidia-smi -pl 350) and still get plenty FPS.
Most of the time the power supply fan is off, but all the fans do start cranking when I run some kinda make -j $(nproc) all core load.
The x670e mobo is plenty fine and definitely make use of the single PCIe 5.0 NVMe slot with a T700, T705, or I think samsung has a new one too. Go at least 2TB for max speed and you won’t regret it.
We have two good threads on tuning RAM for max performance or you can try your luck and roll the dice in the silicon lottery for the verboten 4x48GB DDR5 DIMMs and see if you can hit 6000MHz with 192GB RAM lol…
I got the 3090TI 24GB VRAM used for $600 about a year ago. Wish I had pulled the trigger on the second before prices went nuts.
If you are not doing AI workloads, the new AMD 9070 XT cards might be plenty at a decent price in this insane market.