I ordered a RTX 5090 FE...what have I done?

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

I buy all components at the local hardware shop (walking distance from where I live), and then build the system myself. They don't care about branding: as long as the item is within legal warranty, you get another one 
But then again we all have our preferred brands, and brands we tend to avoid...

[rapid]

2 hours ago, kksnowbear said:

Hopefully that's just a typo Again, unless you want to drop the GPU slot to 8 lanes, you need to avoid M2_2 and M2_3.

As I described above:

Those two slots use chipset lanes which aren't shared with anything else.

Also, if you want to install an additional M2 drive, you can get a PCIe M2 adapter card (~$15) and install it in the bottom PCIe slot.  This slot uses four chipset lanes at PCIe 4 so you'd get full speed of any PCIe 4 drive.  It requires you to buy the adapter card, but this would bring the total to three PCIe 4 drives (one each at M2_4, M2_5 and one on the adapter card), and one PCIe 5 drive (at M2_1), all running at full rated speed/no sharing.

And you'd still have access to all four SATA ports as well, if you want/need to use those.  Not as fast as M2 drives obviously, but still perfect for older/slower storage like HDDs and SATA SSDs you might want to reuse.

Yes it was a typo on my part M2 _4 & M2_5 Still a bit pissed my Ram won't be here till next Wednesday.

 

2 hours ago, jackd said:

The ever on going quest what's best. 

Had a burnout AMD laptop once within 2 years, no warranties sorry sir said ACER-AMD.

Sticked always with INTEL, MSI, Gigabyte and NVIDIA since. Latter firm gave me quite good after market by refunding a 3 year old 2080 which developed suddenly some color errors.

Still have my 4080s and it works well.

Every Laptop I buy has always been Intel and for PC it's AMD.