What's your latest tech purchase?

[A Computer Guy]

Let's call this by the proper name, scratch disk. Lex is right to assert a PC doesn't typically require anything beyond RAM.

The proper name is virtual memory.

 

[Totally]

Paperless has been a myth since the 1980's...
In fact, it seems like we're using more paper than ever these days, at least work wise.
The only reduction in paper use appears to be news papers and advertisement.

It may be but I'm going to try, and I've cut down a lot. Instead sending out a bin of paper to be recycled once a week I'm almost down sending it out on a monthly basis.

I still keep one around, but TBH the only thing I ever use it for (at home) is to print a return shipping label or official forms/documents.
Some things are still old school, I recently renewed my passport and that's physically mailing in your old one w paperwork by snail mail.

Ironically the infrequency in which it's needed is the reason why it became necessary to upgrade to a laser jet.

Same only, only thing I print nowadays are labels. At this point my printer is a gloried scanner with print capabilities.

 

[SN2716057]

I got tired of sticking my head out the window so I bought the TFA Meteo.

Only thing that doesn't work, yet, is the wifi connection.

 

[lemonadesoda]

my entire school system and hospital in the town i live in has been paperless since around 2015. all the students from grades 6-12 get assigned a macbook, thats what they do everything on now, including their textbooks. and grade k-5 get an ipad. nurses always bring in a tablet/laptop to the doctor office visits, as do the doctors when they come in after the nurse.

my town is just ahead of the game i guess, i don't know. i wish more would go paperless though true. i think we should also give students ereaders, as its so much nicer to read on a proper ereader than a macbook/ipad.

Are there an unusually high number of opticians and chiropractors in your town?

i would detest have to use electronic textbooks for working/ studying.

 

[Space Lynx]

Are there an unusually high number of opticians and chiropractors in your town?

i would detest have to use electronic textbooks for working/ studying.

kids seemed to adapt to it easily, but yes I agree with you, I hate staring at a screen for my work.

also, there are some studies that show note taking by hand on paper has better recall in the long term memory storage.

its nice all that paper is being saved though honestly. now if only government would move to a LAN based, redundant offline backup done every two to three weeks, and all government, state, federal, local, was also paper free... I can't imagine how many trees would be saved. probably a fucking lot though.

I never used to like ereaders, but the Kindle Paperwhite has grown on me so much that I actually prefer it now over a regular book, its e-ink though, so not like a regular screen at all. its very comfortable on the eyes.

 

[Kapone33]

I don't know if it's a Tech purchase but I just got Aromored Core 6 on Green Man Gaming for 13% off. I can't wait to play this Game!

 

[lexluthermiester]

My dev environment would like a word with you...

I'm sure it would, but you're not the average user/gamer. You're in that 0.5% who need a special config. Your use-case-scenario very likely needs more than 32GB of RAM and a matching pagefile. Still, a locked pagefile size will still keep performance from degrading over time and SSD writes from being excessive. In most cases that require a special config, a secondary smaller, but high performance, SSD dedicated to the pagefile and temp files/folders. Even in your case, letting Windows manage the pagefile is a bad idea.

The proper name is virtual memory.

True!

 

[R-T-B]

but you're not the average user/gamer.

*Cries in Kerbal Space Program*

 

[lexluthermiester]

*Cries in Kerbal Space Program*

I have that game. It runs fine on my config. 32GB RAM + 4GB pagefile.

 

[R-T-B]

I have that game. It runs fine on my config. 32GB RAM + 4GB pagefile.

You must not have touched my mods. Load a few other solar systems, you must.

 

[lexluthermiester]

You must not have touched my mods. Load a few other solar systems, you must.

Um, ok. If performance were to dip, I would buy more RAM, not enlarge the pagefile. Programs hitting the pagefile a lot, with few exceptions, are an indicator that they don't have enough RAM to work in.

 

[InVasMani]

Download more space to hold your expansion pack of the universe, you must.

 

[R-T-B]

Um, ok. If performance were to dip, I would buy more RAM, not enlarge the pagefile. Programs hitting the pagefile a lot, with few exceptions, are an indicator that they don't have enough RAM to work in.

Yeah, you are correct there. I was commenting more on the 32GBs. A few Kopernicus systems will kill that (more bad KSP programing than my mod, but yeah) But we are way offtopic, I just realized. This is a tech purchase thread and we just spend a page debating page file habits.

 

[wNotyarD]

Yeah, you are correct there. I was commenting more on the 32GBs. A few Kopernicus systems will kill that (more bad KSP programing than my mod, but yeah) But we are way offtopic, I just realized. This is a tech purchase thread and we just spend a page debating page file habits.

You guys were all discussing the need to buy virtual memory or not

 

[InVasMani]

It's all about that DL speed to new memory allocation you just gotta resubscribe for more before you run out. As long as you leave a 640KB buffer window you should be fine.

 

[Aquinus]

It's been a while since I bought something new. My backup drive failed and I wanted to simplify cabling and make it perform well, so I cleaned off the desk and bought myself a little TB4 hub, so now I drive 3 displays, all of my peripherals, and charge, with only two cables to the laptop. This hub also supports daisy chaining which is pretty great. At $199 USD it's a little expensive, but from my perspective, you're getting a 40Gbps hub and an extra 10Gbps USB port. For somebody like me who has 4 TB3 ports and nothing else, that's pretty nice without losing anything.

 

[wolf]

Found a dirt cheap GTX580 1.5GB to add to my collection, I only had the 570 in the day but it was basically identical to this, just not the 580. It unfortunately died just out of warranty and was replaced with a GTX670.

$20 AUD, not bad for a card that was $850+ AUD at launch. I like having a selection to use for retro / period specific builds too, or my planned GPU collection display in coming years. Chap was nice enough to throw in a GT630 1GB he had laying around

 

[freeagent]

These came today

 

[wNotyarD]

Just bought a MacBook Air M1 8/256 and a nice hub for my missus. Now I'm hoping she won't ever complain of bad battery and unresponsive experience again.

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

Got a few new things:

1. AMD R7 7800X3D
2. ASRock X670E Pro RS
3. Corsair 32GB DDR5 6000 C30
4. NZXT H5 Flow White
5. Corsair ML140 RGB Elite X 2 White
6. Corsair MP600 PRO LPX 2TB
7. Sony WH-1000XM4
8. Logitech G502 X Plus

 

[gurusmi]

I also got some needed things. 10* Kingston USB 3.0 64GB Sticks, a Sabrent USB SSD Enclosure, One for the 2,5" Hardrive. Additional cableware for my build and a USB 3.0 PCIe interface for my case. it requested a second USB 3.0 Gen1 header that my board don't provide.

 

[A Computer Guy]

I also got some needed things. 10* Kingston USB 3.0 64GB Sticks, a Sabrent USB SSD Enclosure, One for the 2,5" Hardrive. Additional cableware for my build and a USB 3.0 PCIe interface for my case. it requested a second USB 3.0 Gen1 header that my board don't provide.

What model Sabrent USB SSD enclosure and does it support TRIM?

 

[wNotyarD]

Got a few new things:

1. AMD R7 7800X3D
2. ASRock X670E Pro RS
3. Corsair 32GB DDR5 6000 C30
4. NZXT H5 Flow White
5. Corsair ML140 RGB Elite X 2 White
6. Corsair MP600 PRO LPX 2TB
7. Sony WH-1000XM4
8. Logitech G502 X Plus

Just a few, alright

 

[datnoz]

Bought a 6700xt.
Nice upgrade from a firepro w2100 btw

 

[P4-630]

Bought a 6700xt.
Nice upgrade from a firepro w2100 btw

Ofcourse, a firepro isn't meant for gaming anyway.