They won’t let me do it for for free. They think I’m doing bad things if I don’t charge for it.

Thanks for the list!

Looks amazing!

I was doing okay with 4-5 tabs on a core 2. Used Facebook as a test.

I can’t say how your firmware will recognize a PCI-e to NVME, but as long as your aren’t chasing boot time records a SATA SSD should be more than sufficient for boot. You could just use the NVME for speed.

Another option would be to set up 6 SATA SSD drives in there with ZFS2. The striping and read-write speeds should significantly fill the SATA buffer of 6gbps. Due to the striping, you might actually avoid filing the read buffer and be about to sustain a longer high write speed.

The drive farm is also super viable. I have a 6-port board and a SAS card installed giving me 10 or 14 ports, I can’t recall. I have a similar strategy as I described, but I’m only using it for a NAS. I looked into getting a 12-port board, but used it was still $350. It makes more sense for me to buy another SAS card instead.

Sandy bridge still has a little life in it. Most those systems top out at 8-16 GB memory, which is serviceable. You are probably missing out on NVME. The PCI version might also be a gotcha if you upgrade your video card, so double check the compatibility.

Finally, your previously-suggested video card may require new power connectors. While you might be able to find adapters, confirm that your are not approaching 80% of your PSU capability and upgrade if you are close. Power supplies degrade over time, so if you are at 65% it’s time to consider an upgrade on a 10yo PSU.

I’ll absofuckinglutely assist in providing an alternative.

Oh, devolve is a word, but I have only heard it used on procedural dramas to describe serial killers who stop following their patterns.

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Please send me some ideas! Free titles are better since I don’t have a library of older games. I was able to get Minecraft to a playable state, but Hollow Knight couldn’t do more than 4fps. I though Neverwinter might work since it was pretty old, but I only managed what appeared to be 1/4 fps. I’m running tests on a core 2 machine with an ATI Radeon HD4250, Fedora on a SSD, 6 GB of DDR 2.

The purpose is to spread the information to people who might be struggling with win 10 or older computers that can’t upgrade. I’m offering the Linux upgrade for $10 plus the cost of a SSD. I’m only posting to my Facebook crowd because I can’t do much for people who aren’t close.

I will gladly post on Lemmy if I keep going. We have until the test computer is sold. Then I am moving on to the pile of Optiplex 9010 computers I bought for testing.

Who knows what technology will bring us in 5 years. With SSDs, 15 year old machines are still functional for about everything but gaming.

I can hook you up right now with a solid Dell Optiplex 9010, your choice Windows or Linux, just $15.99 a month lease. If anything goes wrong with the hardware, we’ll send you a new one and you just ship the old one back.

*Not responsible for lost data due to failure to use proper backup strategies.

I understand now. Yeah, I have always meant to watch Ghost Stories, but I usually sing l don’t take time to watch older stuff. I’m currently rewatching GITS SAC S2 and can’t stop any time soon.

I never considered the abridged as actual dubs, just satire. That puts sword art abridged as my favorite.

People are exhausting. The key is to just take a step back when answering every question gets to be too much. There are just so many of us that these kind of questions popping up is just a numbers game. Unless you are heavily invested, it’s fine to let someone else get it.

I watched black lagoon on sub. What was the draw? Am I missing the joke and it was terrible?

I think I might have one I can’t use. Might be 2 TB.

I bought it as an experiment to use with my NAS, but my SAS card is running in SATA mode and won’t recognize it with an adapter.

If you or someone wants to have me ship it to you (you pay postage and send me the pdf for the label) PM me.

I did not, but if you want to link it offended page I can give it a whirl.

I’ll link what I think is your page you were viewing and try it here.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-desktop-environment-face-off

Edit: No change. No odd behavior.

I tried to recreate this in Firefox, but also couldn’t duplicate it.

It’s possible they are trying it out, but I’m also concerned you might have a browser highjacker. Do the links go back to Tom’s Hardware, or do they lead somewhere else?

Hah, if you are near Cincinnati, I have a system with 6 SATA ports I just rebuilt for $30.

Look, if you were looking to have more options handed to you, you are in the right place!

TrueNAS is a great diy option. I have it running on an old box of mine. The one real caveat is that you will need enough hard drive slots (don’t just hang them unless you go full SSD), 4+ SATA ports or add in a SAS card, enough PSU to handle all your drives, and enough memory.

I am running one SAS card and 16 GB of DDR 3. Since the attached image I have taken pics of the serial numbers and labeled the drives.