islane

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   by islane 9y ago

   If some of the components are sourced used, then the price for this could easily be <$1000 for the core components, though you could make this cheaper with a different CPU and GPU, cheaper memory, see below: (prices estimated from eBay
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   by islane 9y ago

   https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-HyperX-Predator-SHPM2280P2H-... I would suggest this card, it should work, it is SATA based as opposed to NVMe. I have installed a few of these in on several older systems (x58 based and ot
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   by islane 10y ago

   I have been reading Damn Interesting for over a decade now. It is one of the few unblemished places on the internet when it comes to well-written, fascinating articles (possibly the only one now that isn't either riddled with clickbait
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   by islane 10y ago

   Echoing the comments from others, My "main" pc is about 7 years old running the x58 platform (socket 1366) - it easily outperforms my work-supplied development laptop. For the uninitiated, the ebay workstations mentioned are typic