I'm not the OP but I like how you are thinking. Might look into this idea myself.

Normally one or the other is enough. Wearing both is 'more than needed" but does work as a safety net. :)

At my age with my eyesight a little up-scaling is fine, especially as I've been having to spend the past few years playing newer games at half resolution sometimes to get decent frame-rates on the 1660 ;) I'll certainly be keeping an eye out for any price drops when the next series of cards come out. Hoping this build will be one I can tinker with better parts as the prices drop in the future.

The 7600 vs 7600X here in Denmark is only a 100 DKK difference, (About $14) so I figured, what the hell :)

Good point, the one i have flagged right now is CL36 so I'll have a look into the options there.

Yeah, I was thinking of going full AMD as I haven't for a long time, and nVidia are a little, shall we say, consumer unfriendly.. but like you say I'm not sure how well that will play with the AI stuff. I actually looked at getting a second hand 3060 just to save money so I could replace it sooner in the future but not a huge number of them out there locally, especially as I'm on a small island which further limits that route.

Just realised I never listed my monitor resolution, but I think either option will be good enough for 1440P?

Love how, in this instance, the extra "toes" to the left of the picture actually add to the atmosphere of the creature.

Thanks, I'm spending a lot of time playing with all the skin 'imperfections' to try and avoid the "airbrushed model" look I seem to get by default. Which makes sense given the vat majority of content the AI has to work with I guess.

Prompt: shield-maiden, forest, dawn, mist detailed skin (wrinkles:1.3), (blemishes, folds, moles, veins, pores, skin imperfection, freckles:1,2), (8k, uhd, full resolution, masterpiece, best quality, full resolution, ultra-detailed, velvia, iso 400, f/1.4, film grain, raw photo), sharp focused, bokeh

Just started a run through of The Isle Tide Hotel on Steam, enjoyed the demo a while back and I'm a sucker for a bit of FMV.

I had the same issue with NVMe, but you can get 4x PCI-E cards to install them on. Wouldn't work as a boot drive but it's great for a games installation space. Just check installing another card doesn't drop your GFX from the 16x. My old ASUS Gene V had two 16x style slots and an extra 4x so I could manage to add one card without dropping the GFX to 8x.

You may feel a little prick.

It can't be that eas.... Well damn!