My graphics card came for my new PC yesterday. I got an email from the supplier to say it had been despatched. By the time I had read that, looked on the couriers website and texted my wife, it has been there nearly an hour.
The card is enormous. It takes 2 slots in the back of the case which I realise these days is not too unusual. The whole thing looks like a slab of metal about an inch thick with a motherboard stuck to one side. My motherboard comes with an audio daughter board and I was concerned that some of the capacitors on that would press against the graphics card. Fortunately there is a small gap of a few millimetres. My plan was always that I may be able to buy a second graphics card in the future and put them in an SLI configuration. What I have realised though is that this would put the second card very close to the Power Supply fan, with the two fans facing each other. The case is very well ventilated so this may not be an issue but I may never know until I try it.
Having installed the card, I realised there was one thing I hadn't purchased. The Graphics card is DVI and the monitor is VGA. I was appalled to find that these devices are £15 in PC World. Even worse, a cable to replace the monitor one would have cost me £25 even though it would be a better solution
All I needed then was to install the OS. Eventually after hunting high and low (I had put it in a safe place) I found it at a quarter to midnight and so had to leave it for tonight.
Of course I haven't yet switched the computer on yet, hopefully it will work first time.
When it is running I can think about overclocking it. I've seen suggestions that all the dual core processors can be overclocked to at least 3GHz. In my opinion this is not to be sniffed at
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