So my uncle works in cybersecurity contracting for the NSA and makes a ton of money. One day, while moving his PC downstairs to a new office, he accidentally dropped it down the stairs and it wouldn’t turn on afterward. Instead of trying to fix it, he just bought a brand-new system with a 5090 and told me I could keep whatever I could salvage.
Turns out the 4090 was perfectly fine, along with the RAM, CPU, and a few other components. My current setup has an 850W PSU and was already pretty new before the upgrade—I was running a 7900 XT with a Ryzen 7700X. I’m not sure if there’s going to be a major bottleneck with the 4090, but so far everything seems to run just fine.