I agree. Pricing aside gaming itself just isn’t quite as enjoyable to me as it used to be. I’m in my mid fifties so I know that’s a natural progression. Unfortunately the gaming industry is all about playing online and at my age that just isn’t...
This is another modern product that the makers scream to me I must have it, but for the life of me I can't find one single reason I should.
I have USB/Thunderbolt docks already that have no screen and they just work already.
A lot of it...
With DRAM less drives does it not help to over provision a bit extra as the controller adds that to the "SLC" cache? I think I remember reading that back when they came out.
I still over provision my non Optane SSDs anyway. It's how I roll.
Recently got some Audioengine HD3 speakers and slapped a Topping E30 DAC into it with some silver RCA phonos I have had for years (it was those or some Furukawa FD phono RCA cables that cost like £250 back in 1992).
Rather lovely little combo.
I remember on this forum 10 years ago all the US folks laughing at the UK having so many Govt/police security cameras everywhere.
I said at the time..."It's going to happen to you too!" and I got told "No way cos...freedom and 2A and stuff!"...
Had good results with laptops, including my Framework with PTM. I was happy enough with it I used it for my 9900X built desktop. Had no issues. Not used it on a GPU yet as my current one is still in warranty.
As for real stuff or not, I've just...