you dont have all your electronic stuff plugged in through surge protectors?

One thing I learned from a house inspector is that not all outlets are grounded even if there is a grounded plug in slot. The only way to know for sure is if you unscrew the outlet (with the power switched off of course) and check to see if there is a grounding wire attached to the outlet. Usually there is still a grounding wire even if it is not attached and even though it seems scary to play with wires it is actually super easy to attach and get the outlet grounded so you are protected against power surges.

It's Australia.  Everything is active-neutral-earth...hence 3 prong plugs.  Retired Architect...so have wired [and checked] the odd house or 2...

And yes, everything goes through a protected UPS... and this time absolutely everything was 'protected', unlike last year when the sound system wasn't ...and I expect the surge went via that - one channel was fried/dead.

It all 'might' be a bad shutdown situation and the OS got 'upset', as other than convincing it to see the mouse again [Level 10 Thermaltake running wired not wireless] everything fired OK with the other GPU card.  At the time it expired potentially it was running minimized one instance of FSX at 144 hz, tho screen would have been off - switched at monitor for bedtime.

Both desktop and FSX were at 2560 res....tho desktop is 60 hz.

Perhaps [fingers crossed] I cold boot with the 3070 and it'll remember what it was doing...

By all means, give it a whirl.  I'll bend the "definition-of-insanity" rule a few times before forking out $1100.   

As I was putzing around with some plumbing today and thinking about the definition-of-insanity it made me remember this post.  I'm wondering - Did the graphics card straighten out?

Yes...ran el-cheapo for a week or two and just the other day shut down properly...did the swap and rebooted.

Always good to know an RTX3070 hasn't bit the dust....

Excellent.  Always nice when things work out.   

Thank goodness. Of all the parts in a PC, the GPU is the one you don't want to break especially if you have an expensive one. There was already a GPU shortage driving up prices, now you have the holidays, Windows 11 aiming to drive up hardware sales with their strict hardware policy, and the demand for Ray Tracing. There is a chance you may pay even more then the original 1,100 now and that is if you even find the GPU you are looking for. I'd love to take advantage of that new ray tracing tech, but personally I am going to have to hold out for a while before I upgrade as the market is too crazy right now.

I bought an Acer TC-895-UA92 a little while back so that I could run Windows 11, it comes with a 512GB NVME, 12GB of DDR4 RAM , a DVD drive and 1GB of onboard graphics (I will probably upgrade to a good video card later). But as is, it has a WEI score of 8.0 (lowest being the graphics). Boots in 20 seconds! Cost: $500 US (listed as open box). Only drawback is you cannot add many things to it, you can only add a larger NVME or a graphics card. I plan on just adding external storage if needed. Only waiting for Windowblinds11 to come out.

Oh, I forgot, it's a 10th Gen Core I5.

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I bought an Acer TC-895-UA92 a little while back so that I could run Windows 11, it comes with a 512GB NVME, 12GB of DDR4 RAM , a DVD drive and 1GB of onboard graphics (I will probably upgrade to a good video card later). But as is, it has a WEI score of 8.0 (lowest being the graphics). Boots in 20 seconds! Cost: $500 US (listed as open box). Only drawback is you cannot add many things to it, you can only add a larger NVME or a graphics card. I plan on just adding external storage if needed. Only waiting for Windowblinds11 to come out.

It sounds like you have a good plan in place there as I think 500 dollars about the average amount of money people will want to spend on a new pc. I do think focusing on the core pc first and then the off board graphics card at a later date is the best way to get windows 11 supported systems that will also be good in the long term. Off board graphics cards are really what is driving up inflation of pc costs. It also looks like that pc also makes AMD chipsets so people have options there.

Maybe all we have to do is request that start 11 adds a new feature that hooks up to a cloud based graphics option that runs off of Jafo's GPU and we will be all set        (joking on that one of course)

500.....

This thing topped out at $10,000 and that was about 6 years ago.  Win 7 WEI was 7.9.  Doesn't go higher...

At the time it was the top-end [not high end] of available PC componentry.

Must be getting tired....laying on its side.....

I can not even begin to imagine the frustration you must have felt running a 70 dollar GPU in that!! I am not even sure I would have even allowed a 70 dollar gpu in the same room as that pc for fear it would have cramped its style   

Safe to say that is more then I have ever spent on a pc. Were you a software engineer at the time of the purchase? it does looks like a step up from a high end gaming pc. sweet rig!

No, not as such...but I have been known to have 20 or so instances of PSP6 open at once...along with a similar number of DXTBmp [a graphics converter], whilst all the usual stuff is open...and an instance of FSX still loaded minimized....so I can alt-tab into the sim at a 144 refresh rate.  Frame rate is typically over 100 with hz to match at 2560x1440...

The graphics are usually 4096x4096 in PSP format with as many layers as PSP can handle when it's only a 32 bit proggy [even with hi-mem aware set]...

Heck, with a rig like that you could search for ETs in the off hours

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