Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Weatherman
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Oct 31 2022 17:40:00

-=> Weatherman wrote to Gamgee <=-

 G> MM> Also is a 1070 Nvidia card still ok for this, or should I go for
 G> MM> the gusto and get a 3060.

 G> Not sure if it's changed, but you can't find/get high end video cards
 G> these days. Also, nobody can actually answer that question because we
 G> don't know what you intend to do with the video card. High end gaming?
 G> Web browsing and reading email? We can't read your mind.

 We> Video card prices have dropped a good bit the past month or so
 We> post etherium merge.  Even though it was difficult to find cards
 We> most of this year, I was able to get several from Microcenter
 We> this past year.

Cool, glad to hear things have improved.

 We> A good card for the price is the 3060ti.  I have (2) of them -
 We> Asus mini versions that I paid $399 each.  My PC has (5) GPUs
 We> since it does mining while I work.

Wow, nice.  Trying to picture how that works... what bus/connector do 
they use?  My outdated knowledge remembers only seeing one or two 
connectors (PCIe?) generally, for video cards.



.... Toto, I don't think we're in DOS any more...
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