[GTALUG] I guess I should buy a new video card

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 11:23:22PM -0400,  wrote:
> Well maybe I will try asking some more of it now that it sits next to
> my desk instead of in the basement.
> 
> Besides I tend to buy midrange and then run it forever. :)
> 
> The rest of the machine is slightly newer, more like 12 years old at
> this point I think.  Motherboard I think is 2012 (Asus Sabertooth X79,
> which was released late 2011), 32GB ram, i7-3960X CPU, 36TB of spinning
> disks (9 x 4TB WD Red Pro in RAID6) and a pair of 500GB Samsung 860 SSDs
> in RAID1.  It was overkill when I built it, and it is still running well
> so at this point the price per year of use is actually quite reasonable.
> I think a midrange modern GPU is OK for it.

The 8600GT predated the machine and was not actually what I intended
to put in it.  I had a 660Ti card for it, except that ended up in my
wife's machine after the 275GTX card decided to insinerate the voltage
regulators.  And then I never got around to getting a newer card put in
the machine, and it ended up mainly doing server duty in the basement,
and recording TV shows.  It no longer does the TV recording since
the rogers HD cable boxes no longer work now that everything has gone
IP based with ignite.

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Len Sornesen