So last week my beloved Threadripper workstation died suddenly, after 5 years in service. No idea what happened to cause this, but it's not coming back and it's too hard to get a replacement TR4 board. So, it's time to upgrade.

I've decided due to budget limits to build a relatively average AMD AM5 system, which should have a good upgrade path and enough performance for now. The Ryzen 7600 should be less powerful than the outgoing Threadripper, but at much higher per-core performance, which isn't particularly helpful for rendering but is good for a lot of other day to day computing activities.

Thank you to all who donated to the cause on Ko-Fi, hopefully you can see that I've already put your donation to good use. I'll keep the Ko-Fi open going forward, and update the goals as I have new projects come up. https://ko-fi.com/apalrd

As always, feel free to chat with me on Discord and in the comments below to let me know what you think!   / discord