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It depends on the power supply and its connectors and Watts supplied in total as well as how much height and width is available. The RTX 4090 for example takes up 3 PCIe slots on a motherboard and uses the 16-pin connector that has been melting. I bought one and returned it as the adapter cable...

What is ignored completely is the lack of coordination of the motherboard manufacturers and Nvidia with the introduction of power hungry boards like the 4090 ones and the new and untested 16-pin connector. One should not need to buy a new computer to use a new graphics card but that is what is...

Ignored is the support for the drivers for the graphics cards and the support for the computer overall by the manufacturer. One can expect ongoing support only from the computers sold by HP, Lenovo, and Apple in the USA. Easy to check customers' reviews that mention problems with failing or...

Without customer support a computer can become an oversized door stop. Only with Apple, HP, and Lenovo, can I rely on good customer support for the life of the computer. I always check customer reviews to learn in advance of which PC companies are failing their customers.

I am using the WD Red NAS drives and the Seagate Ironwolf NAS drives. The 7200 rpm ones run as much as 20 degrees hotter than the slower drives and with a NAS using a RAID array the data i/o is primarily a function of the NAS CPU and its operating system and the I/O of the drives.

A greater problem is that many computer cases will only accommodate boards that are 4.4 inches in height or shorter. Then the only option is one of the Nvidia A series boards that are 3-4 times the cost of the full height boards in the RTX lineup. The RTX 4090 sells for $2,000 whereas the A6000...

For the computer novice a prebuilt computer is the smarter way to go. The computer will work on day one and if you encounter a problem there is going to be someone to phone for help. Building it yourself will cost you more and this is even if you place no dollar value on the time spent putting...

The AMD graphics chips provide a lot more bang for the buck than the Nvidia chips but the drivers are known to have significant problems. It is for that reason many people choose to spend more for a Nvidia card so they can use the more stable Nvidia drivers.

Assuming you are using a Windows variant in which case use device manager to delete the keyboard and reboot the computer. It will on booting load a new driver for the keyboard that has not been corrupted. Usually this fixes the problem with a keyboard or touchpad.

A failing fan will also result in higher temperatures and so not a good idea to wait for the fan to fail completely with today's CPUs.

It is also the most powerful graphics card that is a dual slot one. All the more powerful graphics card eat up 3 slots with their width. My alternative to the RTX 470 was to buy a new computer that had space for a 2.2 or wider video card. $3,300 for a new computer or $600 for the RTX 4070 was...

I am currently using a 1070 Ti card and want better performance for video editing. I also want 12-16GB instead of the 8GB with the 1070 Ti card. Nearly all the cards with better performance are 2.5 or 2.7 wide cards and cannot be used. I may be able to use the RTX 3080 card with water cooling...

The so called dual slot cards I have found are all 2.5 slot cards and require 3 slots open. None of my workstations provide that amount of real estate. All the best of cards in review are 2.5 or wider and of no use to me. I want 16GB of VRAM but will settle for 12GB if that is all that is...

Be aware that the gtx 1660 takes up two slots on the motherboard. Better than the RTX boards that take up 3 slots with their 2.5 slot width but still something to consider.

I plan to pay the $400 a month for T-1 service to my home office as the only other service from AT&T is POT or dial-up for $55 a month at 49 Kbps speeds. I plan to use the T-1 router as a modem/bridge to feed data to a Cradlepoint 1400 that already provides 1 Gbps Ethernet and 802.11n service...