17/02/2025 - New GPU

Well well well.
Some time ago I got my first pay working freelance video editing, which i decided to reinvest straight into video editing by buying a new GPU. 
Turns out, my old 1060 3gb was violently bottlenecking the shit out of my system, not only when gaming but also when rendering.
I had already been looking at GPUs for a bit, cause i knew mine was clearly the weakest part of my system. I had the 4060Ti in mind, specifically this one. 
But the ~550€ price tag was a bit much, especially since my pay was smaller than that, so it was out of the question.
A regular 4060 with 8GB of vram would have been more affordable, but last time i cheaped out on vram... 3GB is so incredibly low for today, seriously. And i paid 600 for it because of the semiconductor shortage (still hurts).
So, since AMD (and Intel) were out of the question (only nvidia does good rendering tech for work), i figured i'd get an older GPU, and settled on a 3060, the 12GB variant. One manufactured by asus.
It's the second time i plan on buying a GPU and have things get in the way, making me to settle for an asus one. It's also only the second time i buy a gpu, and it also happened with my motherboard when i built this pc (my previous one was an asus prebuilt).
(I'm not complaining tho, nothing asus ever let me down, it's just a funny coincidence that kind of just keeps happening to me)
Anyhow, i received the GPU on the 12th, and immediately got to work placing it in my pc. Skipping the part where i break the latch of the top pcie of my motherboard (iiiiiii didnt want to use it anywayyyyys) the GPU is installed.
This GPU is an incredible improvement over my 1060 (obviously), things render much quicker, games run better (finally, cyberpunk at 60 fps),
and supposedly with all that vram i should be able to run local AI.. (you know, the useless garbage that keeps being pushed onto us even tho it has absolutely no use case... maybe one day)
I didnt actually think to properly gather data to compare so here is what i (loosely) remember:
I went from running Cyberpunk 2077 at 30fps on low to 60-70fps on high and BeamngDrive in 60 on medium to 60 on high (could probably push it some more). (All in 1080p)
More notably, I couldn't run Beamng and other heavier games at playable framerates at all on arch, but now i can run everything aside from 2 games, one of them barely running on windows because its old as shit.
I have yet to install the nvidia-open package on arch, which i imagine would improve performance a bunch. I just works atm, and i don't feel like risking breaking it just yet. Soon tho.
Finally, now my ram seems to be what's bottlenecking my pc during renders. I found out it's only running at 2133Hz instead of 3600. I also found out my cpu can only support 3200.
So i guess that's the next thing i'm going to be looking into. That and getting two 8Tb drives next time i'm paid...
Thank you for reading, and have a great day :)

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