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https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-announces-midrange-quadro-rtx-4000/ Image Source: Nvidia Here's a quick spec sheet for those interested: What I find interesting is that there is less memory bandwidth on the Quadro RTX 4000 than on the GeForce RTX 2070. TechPowerUp also claims that the Die Size is larger, but I can't find this information elsewhere, so take it with a grain of salt. Official specs information: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/quadro/rtx-4000/#specs https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2070/#specsmodal Unofficial, more detailed specs information: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/quadro-rtx-4000.c3336 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-2070.c3252

US imperial units are defined using metric units and have been for over 100 years. So this affects the US too, technically.

Kinguin can also have cheap prices and good results, but your mileage may vary.

Boot up windows and try Recuva. https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva/download

perfect. Just beware that Microsoft doesn't officially support Ryzen or Kaby Lake on anything earlier than Windows 10, and they like to break windows updates on those platforms occasionally.

You'll need Microsoft's NVMe hotfix. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2990941/update-to-add-native-driver-support-in-nvm-express-in-windows-7-and-wi Either bake it in with software like NTLite, or install Windows on a SATA drive of some sort, install the hotfix, and clone the drive to the SSD

If you drivers are new enough, they'll detect the 1080Ti perfectly fine and you'll be able to use it immediately. If windows falls back to basic display drivers for some reason, it'll still be easy to just install new drivers. The thing about Nvidia drivers is that they're ALL (all supported GPUs) included inside the same driver installation package. You can check this yourself in Device Manager albeit it takes a number of steps.

I'm glad that this thread, unlike ones I've previously not too long ago have been in, is making a reasonable effort to both sides of the story and not just "NVMe IS A WASTE OF MONEY" But yeah, want to spend a little more and get some decently bumped performance, especially reads? NVMe SSDs, especially great bang-for-buck ones like the Intel 600p series SSDs (I use one myself, in fact). NVMe is only slightly more expensive than a general SATA SSD, and depending on what you need it for, it might be worth it. If you don't use your computer heavily, especially with disk-bound activities like video rendering and editing, you would be totally fine with a SATA drive. But if you think the extra performance for just a little bit more might be worth it, NVMe would be better.

If you're not planning on doing heavy writing operations onto it, you might be fine with a used one. However, if you plan to write to it on a regular basis, especially larger files, you might want to go the new route instead.

To be on the safe side, you can run CrystalDiskInfo and check on the health of the drive. If it finds any problems indicating a possible drive failure in the near future, it'll help let you know.

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Same here

We don't know most of those answers yet. I'd imagine normal RAIDs would still be supported, but to take advantage of VROC you would need those NVMe drives, whichever ones are compatible. You can still make a standard RAID0 with any NVMe SSDs but we don't really know yet if VROC can.

That build sounds like the PSU should be enough to handle it. I plopped those into PCPartPicker and it lists an estimation of 367W at stock clocks, but overclocked this might surpass 400W or so, but a 650W power supply should be plenty. Test it with both your 550W and 650W power supplies as they both should be sufficiently powerful enough. If you're still having problems, it's probably the motherboard I'd imagine.

A Core 2 Duo would run Windows 7 or 10, even 64-bit, just fine. And yes, an SSD is a good idea.