On Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 5:47:39 AM UTC+10, Skybuck Flying wrote:
> Skybuck's Super PC for 2023 design version 11 final:
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> Publication date: 26 april 2023
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> (All components ordered, payed, delivered and present, build will commence in the coming days)
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> Component Selection/Design & Description/Specifics:
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> 1. 4K OLED Monitor: ASUS OLED PG42UQ (native resolution: 3840x2160, Herz: 138 Hz, 16:9, response time: 0.1 ms, wide screen: 42.0 inch, HDMI 2.0/2.1, DisplayPort, HDR10)
> Price: € 1636,00
> Supplier: https://www.megekko.nl/product/2077/933440/Monitoren/ASUS-ROG-Swift-PG42UQ-4K-Ultra-HD-105-4-cm-41-5-3840-x-2160-Pixels-OLED-Zwart-monitor
> Available in POP-UP Store: No
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Remember this day. In 5, 10, whatever years look back and think whether the money was worth it given whatever you have now will be just a boat anchor in 10y time. :)

I look back on some of my old "investments" and think I should have put more money toward buying more houses. In the 70s I bought a small DEC Vax-11 for almost as much as I paid for an investment house back then.
It did the job at the time, but eventually just went out in a skip.

In the 00s I setup what people now would call a server farm. While colleges were squeaking about how much they spent on the latest supercomputer -- many 10s of millions -- I put together a then big system from parts I bought from local retailers. Each box cost les than $1k retail. :)

With the rapid pace of development at the time we had a little program predict when to buy new h/w so you could optimise the total bang per buck over the long haul. It worked out quite well.

With the ANU spent $200 mn (I think) on a SUN system supercomputer that turned out to not pass any of their acceptance tests when installed (I looked it up and seems like SUN had sold a system to the US Fed govt and it had broken the record for processing welfare checks), our system eventually had 1000+ boxes and 3 TF for under $2 mn. And over 3-4 years we made it all back.. When I sold the company in ~2004 the selling price was pure profit.

I'm still using bits the buyer didnt want or couldnt take back to HK. They are all starting to fail now; many boxes wont even boot. So I'm glad they were real cheap. :)