09-11-2025, 08:00 AM
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#3681
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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After constantly running out of memory in my workstation (I use a Hyper-V machine to access corp and have a lot of memory-intensive apps), I just upgraded from 32 GB of memory to 128 GB. I will never run out of memory again… ever.
So if anyone is interested in a 32 GB kit (8GBx4) of DDR4-3200 with RGB for cheap, let me know.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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09-12-2025, 12:47 PM
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#3682
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
After constantly running out of memory in my workstation (I use a Hyper-V machine to access corp and have a lot of memory-intensive apps), I just upgraded from 32 GB of memory to 128 GB. I will never run out of memory again… ever.
So if anyone is interested in a 32 GB kit (8GBx4) of DDR4-3200 with RGB for cheap, let me know.
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Desktop memory I assume? Not laptop memory?
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09-12-2025, 11:41 PM
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#3683
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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Yeah, desktop memory.
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-James
GO FLAMES GO.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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09-15-2025, 12:26 PM
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#3684
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Yeah, desktop memory.
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Darn. If it was laptop, I'd be all over that. I hope you have an easy sell though.
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09-19-2025, 04:59 PM
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#3685
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
After constantly running out of memory in my workstation (I use a Hyper-V machine to access corp and have a lot of memory-intensive apps), I just upgraded from 32 GB of memory to 128 GB. I will never run out of memory again… ever.
So if anyone is interested in a 32 GB kit (8GBx4) of DDR4-3200 with RGB for cheap, let me know.
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Thanks for this, reminded me to do so. Just doubled mine, in my two empty slots.
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10-03-2025, 09:40 AM
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#3686
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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One of the ports on my AmpliFi router seems to have died and I need at least all 4 for my office so went looking for a switch.. was going to get something inexpensive from MemEx but figured I'd check out Amazon Warehouse and they had a managed Netgear 8 port switch with PoE for cheaper than the budget TP-Link one. I've never played with a managed switch before, and the PoE might come in handy to test some PoE cameras that I've been thinking of setting up. Neat!
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10-06-2025, 01:45 PM
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#3688
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Franchise Player
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Alright, someone needs to tell me why I shouldn't buy two of these for my office setup...
https://www.samsung.com/ca/monitors/...s40fg756enxza/
Seems like a crazy good deal on a monitor that's a) large enough without being massive like a super ultrawide; b) insane pixel density as compared to competitors should be excellent for office productivity tasks; c) high enough refresh rate for just about any gaming use case; d) curved but not too aggressively.
The only cons I see are that the peak brightness is just OK and the displayport standard is 1.4 vs 2.1 which is of only hypothetical importance. Why shouldn't I buy this at this price? Am I missing something?
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10-07-2025, 08:52 PM
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#3689
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CP Gamemaster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Gary
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Why do you need 2 ultrawides?
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10-07-2025, 09:13 PM
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#3690
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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Originally Posted by Mazrim
Why do you need 2 ultrawides?
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Why not?
Personally I'm OLED only from now on, but unless you need really good HDR those monitors look deece.
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10-07-2025, 10:37 PM
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#3691
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Mazrim
Why do you need 2 ultrawides?
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One for me and one for my partner, we share an office in my new place. Although I might try putting them together sometime and seeing what that looks like...
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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
Why not?
Personally I'm OLED only from now on, but unless you need really good HDR those monitors look deece.
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I'm OLED only for TVs and if it was purely to be used for gaming, but when I'm using it like 75% of the time for work and general stuff, OLED pixels are just worse for reading text and then you have the burn in issues. So if I'm getting a do everything screen it can't be OLED.
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10-07-2025, 10:45 PM
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#3692
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: The Pas, MB
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
OLED pixels are just worse for reading text and then you have the burn in issues.
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1. Turning off cleartype helps.
2. Monitors should have some type of burn-in protection. Mine has an option that will shift pixels if they've been in the same place too long, and if it's been on for 4 hours or more it will do a screen clean when I turn it off. Then it has a sleep function.
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10-07-2025, 10:57 PM
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#3693
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Franchise Player
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Yep my LG Oled has the same features, but it's always going to be an issue no matter how you mitigate it, especially as they keep making OLEDs brighter. But yeah, I just find an OLED tough to work or read on, personally. Obviously vastly superior for watching stuff and for a lot of games.
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10-19-2025, 12:06 AM
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#3694
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Nanaimo
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I don't know what I did but I played with power and voltage cores the last few months and my 4090 has been stable for a few months . Since I broke top 100 in the world in port royal benchmark combo for 9800x and 4090 combo without trying. I've never been top 100 ever when benchmarking for a decade. I'm 41 ! . Postion not age lol
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10-23-2025, 11:37 AM
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#3695
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First Line Centre
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My pops went out and got a quote for a build from Memory Express. He uses his PC for photo editing and general bookkeeping, nothing extraordinary. I'm somewhat out of the loop with parts these days, can anyone see anything wrong with what they quoted him?
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/fNZgv4
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10-24-2025, 02:05 PM
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#3696
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Marseilles Of The Prairies
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Originally Posted by Old Yeller
My pops went out and got a quote for a build from Memory Express. He uses his PC for photo editing and general bookkeeping, nothing extraordinary. I'm somewhat out of the loop with parts these days, can anyone see anything wrong with what they quoted him?
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Just generally mid-tier everything. Unsure why he needs a 5060Ti and a 9800x3D for photo editing though.
I would bump down the GPU and get 64GB of faster RAM unless he's planning on gaming. You could also bump down to a 9700 without sacrificing much actual processing for low-level workstation tasks and save a couple hundo. The 9800x3d is a great gaming chip, but it's more than necessary for daily driver stuff.
Also consider a better m.2 drive. Those are fine, but faster ones exist for about $50 more at the same storage level.
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10-24-2025, 02:40 PM
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#3697
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Old Yeller
My pops went out and got a quote for a build from Memory Express. He uses his PC for photo editing and general bookkeeping, nothing extraordinary. I'm somewhat out of the loop with parts these days, can anyone see anything wrong with what they quoted him?
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If gaming isn't very important, Intel could be an option. The 245K is competitively priced with the 6-core AMD 9600x but has productivity performance more comparable to the 9700X.
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10-24-2025, 05:08 PM
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#3698
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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Update: these things are amazing productivity screens. Sharper than my 5120x1440 49" for sure, and a little more ergonomically laid out (23% less width; 17% more height). Plenty bright in a well lit room for regular use, and I'm nowhere near max brightness on it.
Using both of them next to each other would be fairly ridiculous, as there's no reason you'd need more than the one, but I'll try it sometime. Basically it would be a super-Neo-G9 57"; 33% wider with the same number of pixels per inch. Not sure what you could actually run at that size and resolution, much less at 180hz... especially off the RTX 2080 eGPU I'm using right now. But I might be able to find something in the ol' Steam library that looks cool.
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10-25-2025, 08:07 PM
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#3699
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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Originally Posted by photon
One of the ports on my AmpliFi router seems to have died and I need at least all 4 for my office so went looking for a switch.. was going to get something inexpensive from MemEx but figured I'd check out Amazon Warehouse and they had a managed Netgear 8 port switch with PoE for cheaper than the budget TP-Link one. I've never played with a managed switch before, and the PoE might come in handy to test some PoE cameras that I've been thinking of setting up. Neat!
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Check required power levels for the cameras vs what the ethernet port can provide.
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10-27-2025, 11:47 AM
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#3700
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Anyone have any experience with small PCs? I have a friend who can't really use a computer anymore so all he uses it for is iTunes for his music and his current computer is from the Windows Vista era and he doesn't even use it for music anymore since it takes like 5+ minutes to boot.
I'd like to just get him an iPad but he's stuck in his ways so I don't think he'll go for it.
Next best thing would be a minimal computer that's good enought to run iTunes. I've seen those really small desktops that I think are just a laptop chip which would probably be all he needs, but I don't know which brand is worth getting (GMTek, BOSGAME, etc).
I'd get him a Mac mini but they're probably too expensive for his needs.
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