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Me last night: I'd like to sleep now.
My brain: Sure, but remember how much it hurt when you had to give up the dogs you were fostering before you moved to Europe? Also, what if the used HEPA filter you just bought has bad wiring and starts a fire while you're asleep? Ok, sleep well now!
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Having determined that the budget to replace my computer just about covers all the parts I've bought and nothing else, I went back to trying to save the old graphics cards. I took one apart, cleaned it, removed and replaced the thermal transfer compound, put it back together, and tried it. It seemed like it mostly worked except that the HDMI port was dead so I could only use the Displayport Port. I need more than one monitor and couldn't get the integrated graphics to work at all with the card in, so that one's out. I tried the second card and that one wasn't even recognized as a video card by the computer.
I've started feeling like it will be good to take those things to an electronics recycler anyway. One more reminder of something awful that will be gone. They smell bad too, despite all my cleaning. The smell of the condo after the fire is seared into my brain. I can't quite recall it from nothing, but when I smell something that the odor lingers on, it's right there in my mind.
So I'm back to the integrated graphics on my Ryzen 5700 for now. They work well enough. I can't play Satisfactory very well, but that's really about the only thing it affects. I would possibly like to try Final Factory, a new factory-building game in early access, but that can wait.