Subj : Re: ESXi
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Nov 10 2025 07:56 am

-=> Nightfox wrote to Accession <=-

 Ni> In the mid-late 90s until the mid-2000s or so, I remember building a
 Ni> new PC every few years or so.  But lately, it feels like there haven't
 Ni> been as much improvement in speed & things to make me want/need to
 Ni> build a new PC that often.

Yeah - I picked up an off-lease Dell workstation in 2012, had a core 2
Duo CPU. When Core 2 Quads got cheap, bought one to add on. Bought a
cheap USB 3 card for it - the only thing that compelled me to get rid of
it was the RAID card in it that became increasingly harder to support
under Windows 10. Finally replaced it in 2022 when I could find a 4c/8t
i7 desktop for less than it would cost to upgrade the ECC memory in my
workstation...

While it sucked power, it kept up well for being a 13-year old computer!


 
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