[Jedd]

Probably true.

But for those of us outside the USA bubble, it's incredibly tring to have to intuit geo information (when geo information would add to the understanding).

As others noted in sibling comments, TFA had in fact mentioned in passing their location (in their quoted prompt to chatgpt, and at the very end of the third supporting point for the decision to go for an Nvidia 4070) 'California, CA'. I confess that I skimmed over both those paragraphs.

Now, sure, CA is a country code, but I stand corrected that the author completely hid their location. Had I spotted those clues I'd not have to have made any assumptions around wall power capabilities & costs, new & second hand market availability / costs, etc.

I think I mostly catered for those considerations in the rest of my original comment though - asserted power sensitivity makes it surprising that a higher-power-requiring, smaller-RAM-capacity, more-expensive-than-a-sibling-generation-16GB card was selected.