Well this was clear as mud. Thanks for everyone responding but as far as I can tell there isn’t a definitive answer to my question and I’m still at “worst case scenario it’s a reinstall of the OS.”
Next question: Has anyone made an AMD card that A. fits in the GPU bay of a Fractal Node 202 and has significantly more grunt than a blower-style GTX-1080? I think the 6700 was the most recent viable option I saw? I think? It’s been a hot minute since I went GPU shopping, but since time lost all meaning a few year minutes ago I…
Like the whole thing that made me pick the GTX-1080 I’ve got is…well I got it for free out of a machine a relative of mine was retiring, and also that it ejects all hot air through the IO plate out of the chassis, which I felt was wise given the Node 202’s respiratory limitations. Then they stopped making blower-style cards.