Even the most ancient of systems are infinitly more responsive with an ssd

No I still live in the Anderson county and Knox county area

Oh I might be in Knoxville in a couple days if I can get my truck fixed

I'm going to McKays

If you can get a desktop for cheap, you can put a nice GPU in it and have a quality gaming rig for quite a few years, particularly if your comparing to a console.

Even if a pc can;t play the latest games, theres a boundless backlog of older games that are still amazing too!

I live near a computer recycling center so I get stuff for free. I scored a 4GB 1050ti once and it still works

I don't know any computer recycling places near me, i mostly rely on ebay and going to thrift stores in big cities, they have the best stuff

Even if i have to drive for a few hours to get there

That's lucky

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.