All my parts arrived today for the T3600 GPU upgrade—just in time to prep for a motherboard makeover on Mother’s Day. Sunday is mine, and I’m spending it with thermal paste and VRAM instead of brunch.
I unboxed my Gigabyte Windforce RTX 3060 (12GB VRAM), a 2TB SSD, and a PCIe 6-to-8 pin adapter. This is the setup I’ve been waiting for to finally accelerate my Blender workflow and kick off my self-hosted AI projects. The T3600 might be old, but with the right parts and a clean PSU, it’s about to transcend its limitations.
Sunday’s plan is locked in. I’ll be spending Mother’s Day with my motherboard, cracking open the case like a tech-sorceress mid-ritual. No mimosa brunch, just fresh thermal paste and fan blades to clean. I’ll swap in the new SSD, power up the Windforce beast, and bless this rig for local model use.
GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3060 12GB Windforce
SSD: 2TB SATA
Adapter: PCIe 6-pin to 8-pin
Chassis: Dell Precision T3600
Mission: Blender, Bots, and BeyondI also took a free IBM certification course on prompt engineering—because why not upgrade my brain while I upgrade my machine? It covered techniques like Tree of Thought, Reflexion, and structured prompt chaining.
I now see prompting as a logic circuit:
I plan to keep stacking these free certs in my precious nighttime hours. Every one brings me closer to confidently engineering my own agents—chatbots that live offline and serve real-time tasks.
Once this GPU is humming, the next mission is bot deployment. My plan is to script a modular IRC channel with local LLMs—each one trained for a domain: code, philosophy, news, documentation. They’ll all live on my local box and respond via Python bridges. No cloud dependency. No surveillance.
Motherboard, meet Mother’s Day. This is self-care, Arynwood style.
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