No disagreement with any of that. Esp. the difficulty keeping up with the tech — even old tech if spec sheets are muddled or in some cases incomplete (such as some Nvidia specs that state maximum resolution but not the refresh rate @ that resolution.)
Ah, well, there did turn out to be one bonus: I was assured (not by you!) that upon installation of the NVS 510 card that the motherboard video outputs of my HP6300 would shut down and only the outputs of the graphics card would be available. And that the BIOS might not allow parallel operation. As it turns out, the MB video outputs DO still work without me mucking around in the BIOS. Since 1920 x 1200 from the MB works great on my smaller monitor, and I can’t detect any useful difference in MB processor speed regardless of the smaller monitor’s source, I’ve left said smaller monitor on the MB video (DP) output, which saves me an adapter or an adapter cable, and gives the NVS 510 card it’s full capacity to run the big monitor.
“KISS”, as you said. :-)
Update on that last: My HP6300 with 3 year older BIOS (HP Version K01 v02.05, to be precise) does not allow me to keep running the motherboard graphics alongside the new card. It’s one or the other.