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Otto Von Herunterhängen

Otto Von Herunterhängen

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Now there's a title for the General Audience section :ROFLMAO:

But it is. That 5090 card. I finally got around to installing it, and well, I didn't. It's about an inch too high.

Now I did do a dimension check, but I failed to account for how much space Dell used between the mother board and the bottom of the case for cable management.

So it looks like my next project is going to be building a computer the damned thing will fit in.

Note, this post is a lot shorter by the simple fact I'm not doing any cussing in it.
 
On one hand you have my sympathies, sucks when components either don't fit (extra slot for the 2080ti) or don't work. On the other hand, screw you and your 5090, LOL :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
MCDesigns said:
On one hand you have my sympathies, sucks when components either don't fit (extra slot for the 2080ti) or don't work. On the other hand, screw you and your 5090, LOL :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
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Yeah, it's a really expensive paperweight though so I'm going to have to build a machine around it. Memory is the main issue, I've got plenty of server DDR4 I can use if I can find a motherboard that will take it. I sure don't want to have to shell out for 128 GB DDR5 if I can help it.
 
As I think I've mentioned I have 3 workstations that run Windows 11, and 3 older ones that don't have the ability. Basically I replaced the older ones when Windows 10 was timing out, and I replaced them with ones that could run 11. Anyway, in theory there was nothing wrong with the old ones and they would be perfectly capable of running Linux. Except of course there is. I completely forgot one overheats when rendering, it's the second one I replaced (the first one is REALLY old). The third one is a dual processor with 32 GB of RDRAM. I must have gotten a bargain on it because there is no way 32 GB is enough when you consider each processor gets dedicated memory - effectively the machine is 16GB, which will not do for rendering. I'm going to see if I can transfer the memory from the one that overheats, it has 128 GB. Not that I really need four computers running, but I like to tinker.

Since I can't install that 5090 in any of them, the three I'm running have a 3090, a Quadro RTX 5000 (which was a really expensive card in it's day, that day has passed), and a Geoforce 2060 with 12 GB of DIMM. So not being able to crank up that 5090 is more of an annoyance at the moment than anything else.
 
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