On 2017-05-11 Adam Thompson wrote:
Yikes, that's barely readable now... And could have been done as a 1kb text file anyway. But I digress.
Hah. The original looked just as bad (I compared before posting) across 3 pages. It took me waaay less time to unwrap the pdf and pnmcat the images vs the time to transcribe to ASCII. I was tempted but don't have the time tonight.
- deliberately choosing a motherboard and a video card from
direct competitors (suggest getting them from the same mfgr to avoid conflicting "optimizer" utilities)
I 80% disagree... mix & match VC and MB willy nilly, they'll still work. However, your "optimizer" bit might hold true if you're tweaking the heck out of it, and the vendors provide said tools vs just repackaging the stock nvidia ones.
Since I strongly discourage the use of vendor "optimizers" for all but the most advanced users, I would say just plunk in the stock nvidia utilities and don't worry about it.
That said, it isn't terribly hard to match vendors, especially if you use Asus.
Other thoughts:
- the PSU can probably be whatever generic crap NewEgg sells this
week without making much difference
Ha! See my other post. The PS boils down to "I want the gamut between weird hard-to-pin-down problems through to no-POST and actual fires with my system sooner rather than later" vs "I want to never have problems". Been selling hardware / custom systems since 1997 and learned my PS lessons the hard way... YMMV of course. Funny, the #1 hardest thing to research and source are good PS's.
I'll agree with you in one regard, the fancy marketing, high wattage, and high price ones don't mean squat when it comes to being "good". 1200W $200 supplies are usually just as junky as 400W cheapos, just with higher wattage. People are all looking at the wrong specs. A couple of vendors care and "get it", but 99% don't.