Supported Graphics card

[markc13]

Hi All

I'm looking to upgrade 50 ProDesk 600 G1 & 100 ProDesk 400 G1 and with the short supply of graphics cards i am looking at 90YV0AL2-M0NA00, where can i see if this card will be supported for the next two years to justify the purchase

[DGroves]

asus product = asus website and ask under support, however a 710 series card is quite old

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards-Components/Graphics-Cards/ASUS/GT710-SL-1GD5-BRK/

[BambiBoomZ]

Markc13,

It's quite safe to say that NVIDIA (ASUS is the partner/maker but it's an NVIDIA card and driver) and AMD also, will continue to provide driver updates for quite some time for all their products. I would expect that if new, the ASUS GT 710 / 90YV0AL2-M0NA00 would include a warranty longer than two years.

NVIDIA and AMD both are terrific in supporting their products over a long period. In this office, there are currently ten systems- a number of which have been prepared to sale, dating back to 1997 (Dell Dimension XPS T700r)(Windows XP 32-bit) and up to 2013.  Seven have been prepared for sale, and a  driver was found in 0.6138 seconds for the oldest GPU the 1999 AGP (<an obsolete graphics slot) ATI Radeon 128MB. The other older GPU's in those systems, GTX 660 Ti, Quadro K2200, and Quadro FX580 (2003) in some cases run a very recent driver.

GPU supply: It's a pity the crypto-miners have made those actually working for a living have to scramble to pay twice or more for capable GPUS.  However, in the last few days, there have been reports that the shortages and high prices are lessening and near-normality may re-occur in about two months.  China has outlawed cryptocurrencies- it's uncontrollable, hugely energy-hungry, and intensely inflationary, plus the profitability has dropped. So, be aware of a potential flood-1000's or 10's thereof- of really high mileage GPU's from China. 

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On a semi-related topic: The very recent forward concern these days is that such a large proportion of systems currently in use will not be capable of using Windows 11, unless Microsoft integrates some remedial TPM (Trusted Platform Module) update workaround. TPM is a type of security subsystem, and some among the techno-conspiracy theorists postulate that the change is to allow certain data retrieval backdoors. There seems to be a bit of a panic on in the techie world over this issue. Currently, without TPM 2.0- which is run off a chipset, W11 can not be loaded.  While organizing the updating of a fairly large number of systems and looking forward, consider looking into the TPM / Windows 11 situation. W10 support ends October 14, 2025.

There is not a single system here that will be able to run W11.  Anyway, only two are W10, out of both terrible benchmark results when tried on these elderly, obsolete, and semi-useless 2015 and 2017 systems, but more so on privacy concerns, specifically the unremovable, never sleeping Edge. W11 promises, besides, resource hungry graphics and odd introduced inefficiencies, e.g. further splitting up of Control Panel functions, a deeper reach.  Purchases will arrive before they were thought to be ordered.  W11 will, later on, be a free upgrade to W10 users and the saying goes, "When something is free you're not the user, you're the product."  I think that's from Ovid, Metamorphoses.

BambiBoomZ

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