[Paul R.]

Well, for me, these days, $100 IS a high risk expenditure, at least if there's a significant chance the $100 item will cause me time and grief because I failed to research it!

From my initial foray this last month into graphics cards, you seem spot on (importance of the host, and definitely of the usage). At it's core in my case, I need ability to put up side by side windows containing clean smallish text on a 4k 43" screen. (My little Dell refurb laptop can (8th gen i7 CPU) as it can crank out 4k video resolution @ IIRC 30 Hz.) But none of my SFF desktops can [older I-series CPU's].)

[Gene Eric]

I hear ya. Love the i7s