But by the time I can afford that

It will be the old one

I could afford it but justifying replacing my perfectly fine GPU is hard

Yeah

I just recently upgraded my GPU and I got a lot of expenses coming up so

I have a 1660 Super

Nice

Another thing about upgrading my GPU is my monitors are 1080 144hz

So don’t think I would be able to push the performance of a 3060

I just have a 1050 Ti

But I only have one monitor so it works

I bought a 1660 for the time being

Until the 3080 is back in stock wt reasonable prices

Currently have a gtx 1660 and a gtx 760 in my system

I guess I could do that

The one I took out is a 1030

I have a few 1050ti's

Even "better" ! Dell PERC 5/i! Best SAS 3Gb/s RAID card 2006 has to offer XD

It has 8 ports, supports raid 10, all i needed

I just got it because it was the cheapest one that came with the cables, i will probably upgrade it if i upgrade beyond gigabit for my home network

If you mean 8 physical ports, being able to handle 32 drives at full (3 GB) isn't bad.

no, 2 sff-idfk ports, 4 drive per port

is there a good resource on all the sff-xxxx ports?

althought it can probably do more with a SAS expander

i only have a single drive in it now, so all its doing is adding 512mb ddr2 cache

writeback and read ahead

i also got an Oracle F40 Flash Accelerator, that i will use for caching, once i have a proper server motherboard

rn i'm just using some ancient g41 core 2 duo board, with only 1 pcie slot

anyone here ever heard of powerline Ethernet adapters?

Yep, never tried em tho

they'd be a possible option if 1. you don't/can't run an ethernet cable and 2. there is too much interference for wifi to work right

like if your neighbor uses a 60s microwave that completely nukes the 2.4ghz spectrum

or if it is a high density area and the wifi spectrum is overcrowded

how good they are will depend massively on how the wiring within the walls of your house is, and there isnt really a good way to find out if they'll work good for you other than trying em

I set my parents up with power line many years ago because the router was in a different room and their desktop had a hard time getting useful wifi speeds and the network printer kept dropping off the network (it still has problems today over ethernet but it happens much less often). It would not be my first choice if there is anyway you can run ethernet or if you can invest in a better wifi setup that may work where you need it. There is also a technology called MoCA that uses coax in your house to transmit ethernet that may be an option if you have coax in both places of your house. It's not cheap but I've heard you can get much better speeds then you can with power line ethernet.

when *aren't* network printers a pain, honestly

the only printer i have that's never given me trouble is a old parralel port laser printer that someone threw out...

with 90% toner remaining <:KEK:795742276549607456>

When you throw in the fact with cheap, modern, multi-function inkjets that statement is even more true. I bought a basic ethernet laser printer when I went to college and while it isn't perfect, it's been so much more reliable then that HP my parents use has ever been.

Outside the occasional network quarks, my laser printer's biggest problem is that it pulls over 13 amps whenever it starts a print. When I lived in the dorms, it kept tripping the breaker about 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time all of the lights in the room (and I imagine adjacent rooms) would dim from the voltage sag.

yes. using one. Wouldnt really recommend. We have gigabit Internet and I only get like 25-50 Down and 20 Up

I will be buying a cable router in a few weeks so I get the full 1000 Down and 50 Up