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Wish me luck. I'm a little unsure if it'll work well. I have an ancient GPU (Nvidia GTX 970) and hope it'll be compatable.

Processor		AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core (12 CPUs) Processor 3.20 GHz
Installed RAM		32.0 GB
Graphics Card		NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB) (actually 3.5GB due to hardware defect)
BaseBoard Manufacturer	ASRock
BaseBoard Product	AB350 Pro4

This system is getting old; nearly a decade here. Pretty soon I have to start thinking about upgrading. At a minimum, I should try and upgrade the video card when I can.

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[-] Edie@hexbear.net 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Make sure your power supply can handle the potential increase edit: this one seems to have a TDP lower than your old card, and that you have the correct external power cables (1x8 in this case. Edit: your old seems to use 2x6, so there is a difference here)

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah my cables are 1x6+2 connectors so that should work.

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