A few questions before I pull the trigger on an HL15

[DigitalGarden]

@jamie

What’s the current lead time for the fully burned-in base config?

I think it’s typically been 1-2 weeks after they got through all the preorders. Can’t say officially, though.

@jamie

Am I correct in thinking that I can fit a 9.5" RTX A4000 video card in there? (I’ve seen conflicting dimensions)

The card itself is the same depth as an ATX motherboard, the only potential issue would be with the power connector being on the end, not the top. There is only about an extra inch between the end of the card and the fans, You might need a right-angle power cable/adapter. Or, the GPU PCIe slot lines up with the space between two of the fans, so some people have been able to get an end power connector cable nestled in between the two fans.

@jamie

With the way the PCIe card slots and corresponding lanes are, can I use that A4000 video card (which I already have it) along with two of the Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2M2 PCIe Add-On Cards? I think that, in this config, it would bump the graphics card down to a x8 but should still work for transcoding

I don’t think so. I think you can bifurcate Slot 3 to x4x4, but between Slots 5 and 6, if they are bifurcated as x8x8 you can’t then bifurcate one of them further to x4x4.
Inserting x16 PCIe card disables second slot. There would be other ways of getting four NVMe SSDs, but two of those cards, I don’t think is one of them.