• Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I upgraded to a new GPU a few weeks ago but all I’ve been doing is playing Factorio which would run just fine on 15 year old hardware.

  • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I have a smart tv but is kinda old, so, when i want to watch a bit of youtube without ads i connect my steam deck and open it with firefox. The ads-free experience is well worth the time to do it.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Core i9 - Well there’s your problem.

    No NVMe M.2s? What a noob! HDDs in this day and age!?!? Would you like a floppy disk with that?

    4 slots of RAM? What is this, children’s playtime hour? You are only supposed to have 2 slots of RAM installed for optimum overclocking.

    Does the dude even 8K 300fps ray trace antialias his YouTube videos!?!? I bet he caps out his Chrome tabs below a thousand.

    • IceFoxX@lemm.eeEnglish
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      14 days ago

      NVMe uses SSDs as well as flash memory. NVMe is just the protocol.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        14 days ago

        I think they were saying that the read write speeds being from a NVMe would be faster than (an unspecified) SATA drive. But that was my assumption while reading

        • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          14 days ago

          SATA SSDs are still more than fast enough to saturate a 2.5G ethernet connection. Some HDDs can even saturate 2.5G on large sequential reads and writes. The higher speed from M.2 NVMe drives isn’t very useful when they overheat and thermal throttle quickly. You need U.2 or EDSFF drives for sustained high speed transfers.

      • TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Although joking, I do tend to assume that people who say SSD refer to the traditional SATA SSD drives and not M.2.

    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      14 days ago

      HDD for long term storage. More reliable, has a higher number (essentially infinite assuming the drive never fails) of read/writes before failing. Cheaper and higher capacity than any ssd or m.2. Also if you dont keep applying a small electrical charge to an m.2 they eventually lose the data. HDD doesnt really lose data as easily. Also data recovery is easier with HDD. Finally you know when a HDD is on its way out as it will show slower write speeds and become noisier etc.

      I used to work in a service desk looking after maybe… 4000 desktops and 2000 laptops for a hospital and the amount of ssd and m.2 failures we had was very costly.

      • TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
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        13 days ago

        I actually only installed M.2 a few years back when I went serious on my PC. I’m aware of the issues, although it’s still running good. I wonder how long it will last. I still have a few IDE drives, and some no longer can be read. Not because they’ve lost the data, but it just doesn’t spin up correctly. It will be interesting to see how it works out, at the moment I’m keeping an eye out on the health using CrystalDiskInfo. There’s certainly been cases of M.2 sticks with shitty firmware, but so far I seem to have avoided them. I’m also trying out a RAIDed M.2 mini NAS, it will be fun to see how that works out compared to the traditional NAS.

  • LANIK2000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Honestly feels like that’s necessary, with how much youtube jitters on my gaming rig. At least before I remember that YouTube runs like shit on every machine.

        • LANIK2000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          14 days ago

          YouTube on Firefox is a complete no go as far as I’ve tried. And not sure how much Firefox is to blame since other video players work just fine on it.

          But no, I’m using Opera or other chromium browsers for Youtube nowadays. Still jitters from time to time.

  • gubblebumbum@lemm.eeEnglish
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    14 days ago

    i just upgraded from a core2duo with 2gb ddr2 to a 7th gen i3 with 8 gb ddr4 and for the first time in my life an actual gpu (nvidia k620).

    • Cort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Heh, I did something similar for my dad. He went from 2x core2quad 24gb DDR2 to a 12th Gen i5 with 32gb ddr5. Something like triple the compute power, at under $500 when he paid ~$5k for the original

    • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
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      14 days ago

      That’s crazy! If you don’t mind me asking what do you typically do on your machine and how much time do you spend on it?

      I’m just curious because I spend a lot of time on my PC and can only imagine how horrible all the stuff I do would be on that hardware lol

      • gubblebumbum@lemm.eeEnglish
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        14 days ago

        I have only used it for doomscrolling and watching videos so far. I spend at least 12 hours on it, Im disabled and live in the third world so I dont have a lot going on in my life lol.

  • magikmw@lemm.eeEnglish
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    14 days ago

    He heck is HHD+? Is this some new fangled storage tech I’m too SSD to understand?