My main pc is in peices. I need to reassemble it

Looks expensive

So you are using one of your extras right now?

It was free and it works

Yeah my spare has a 3rd gen i7 and 32gb of ddr3 ram

I had alot more computers but I keep trading for more ram.

I just like building PC's

I usually turn my spare computers into nodes for my computer cluster

i got 16gbs of ddr3 1600 + lots of random BS agp cards and dialup modems for 6 bucks

and a 200gb hard drive that for some bizzare reason had a installation of windows 98 on it, but i just DBAN'd it and used it as an external

I have a box of DDR2 RAM, multiple different sticks of DDR3, and even a few spare DDR4 16 GB DIMM sticks but the spare DDR4 is already claimed by a future NAS im building.

What does lots of ram help with on a NAS? disk cache?

I have 4 8GB sticks of ddr4 ram I might use or I might sell

Depends on where I go with one of my projects

i got 32GB on my pc, i would install more buts its maxed out, i use it for hosting while also playing an absurdly modded minecraft server

My main pc supports up to 64gb of ram

What kind of project

Im building a FreeNAS system with 10GB and eventually 40 GB networking. It also going to be loaded with about 200 TB of raw storage. It's going to be a tiered system with slow spinning rust for my ripped movies, SAS SSDs for from bulk storage for my cluster VMs to use, and a pair of Nvme to host all my VMs that are running on my cluster. The read and write cache for that needs a good bit of RAM.

Definitely keep it for the future, barring DDR5 becoming mainstream

40Gb networking! Is that optical fibre or does that work over copper now?

Sounds like a beast

One of my graphics cards in my main pc died and I don't want to use this 1050 to replace it. My main pc has a 6 monitor setup

I'd be using DAC (direct attach copper). It used the fiber connection ports on my network switches but is much cheaper because it's copper. However fiber gets cheaper if you need more then a few meters of cable.

Is it Cat8 or something beyond that

Something completely different

Used enterprise stuff?

I was trying to find sas controllers because sas drives are really cheap and a raid array sounded like a fun tech project

SFP-xxxx?

Some of my networking is used enterprise and some is new high end ProSumer networking.

For 10GB it's SFTP+

For 40 GB it's qsfp+

wait is this gigabyte not gigabit?!?

My main switch can be flashed with Open Networking to allow me to control my network with SDN (software defined networking).

Gigabit, my phone keeps auto correcting for some reason.

I flashed a router with Tomato to use as a wifi adapter since my pc only has ethernet, but thats about as far as i've gone on home networking lol

i do plan to finnaly get wired ethernet throughout the house though, as fibre internet might finnaly be here in a few months

Software-defined networking is a really cool technology. It allows you to separate the control layer and the data layer of your switches to allow more fine control from a centralized environment with different networking switches from different companies all from a single control.

So like QoS, Subnetworks, and way more, all in one box?

I wasn't familiar with that particular company, but it is a software defined networking technology. Except that one looks like probably a proprietary while I would be using the open source and open standards.

Open Networking is proprietary? Nice name for them...