Back in the day, I had an i5 8600k/ROG STRX Z-370 E-Gaming and 8GB of ram (10 years ago, when DDR4 was still back then money $10 per GB). Upgraded a bit over time, but it just stopped powering on one day and I wound up giving all but the barebones components away.

Fastforward a few years, and here we are. I figured out that the power supply was the most likely culprit (Mobo lights getting the 5v idle light on, but no activation/POST attempt when i tried to power via the button, also used screwdriver tek between the activation pins) and still nothing. I noticed there was no power cycling anywhere, and the PSU's fans aren't even acting like they're trying to start putting in legwork. So, I reckon the issue is probably with the PSU, right?

Anyway, I've got a 2060 12gb card on the way. with a new PSU and case. I went with that card over other higher speed-lower vram cards that would be available at the price point because I'm mostly interested in using some smaller Local LLMs, for funsies.

I was able to score a 1TB SSD+2x8GB sticks of DDR4-3600 for $100 total from a local on facebook, as well.

Obviously, I wanna stay with the motherboard as long as possible, but I think I may upgrade the CPU first - but that's a long way aways :) Money is very tight these days

Y'all think I made the best choices I reasonably could have when i was cooking on parts?