Why did you capitalize killer?

I wasn’t familiar with that chain of grocery stores so I looked it up. I found out something kinda funny. Did you know it was originally called C.C. Butts and was founded by Florence Butts?

Wow! That’s impressive!

Well, now we know to never buy RGB SSDs.

The open-source stuff is better.

Which server were you talking about when you said your server has 156GB of RAM?

8GB

My server has 8GB of RAM and it rarely even gets up to 4GB of actual RAM usage.

Yeah, that sounds about right. Mine is smaller and weighs about 40 pounds. I actually put it on my bathroom scale to see if it really was as heavy as I thought. Turns out, it is as heavy as I thought.

How much does your PC weigh?

I actually don’t work with sound professionally. Though, for folks who do, it definitely makes sense to have a dedicated sound card. Though, you’d probably need a different kind sound card. The AE-5 Plus probably has some bells and whistles that you wouldn’t really be able to use for recording and it only has one microphone input. For recording, you’d probably want something more like the Sound Blaster Audigy RX, which has two microphone inputs instead of just one. I’m not sure, but there might be sound cards which have even more microphone inputs.

Also, my AE-5 Plus is my first real, dedicated sound card. Well, unless you count when I used my Sound Blaster E1 as a DAC with my MacBook Pro. When I built my current PC in 2020, I avoided buying a dedicated sound card. I figured that by this point, integrated sound was good enough. Then one week last year, I experimented with my E1 again and was blown away by how something so small could be so much better than my motherboard’s integrated audio. Sure, I could have just kept using the E1, but it’s frustrating to use it as a DAC, you have to fiddle with the volume controls on the PC and the E1. So, I decided to buy a dedicated sound card. I didn’t want to spend a ton, but I wanted to get the best sound card I could for what I was willing to spend. Plus, Linux support is important for me. I did some research and it turned out that the AE-5 Plus was the best option. Plus, Best Buy had it, so I got some rewards points for the purchase, so that was nice.

It’s actually kind funny, because for a long time, I thought the time of dedicated sound cards was totally over. I thought the need for dedicate sound cards died out like in the 90’s. I thought they were antiquated. I thought they were a huge waste of money these days. I thought they were like snake oil. I was absolutely wrong. Dedicated sound cards really are a lot better than integrated sound! It makes sense, though, since they have a lot more room for components than a motherboard ever will! Plus, they’re a bit more isolated from the rest of the board, so EMI is less of an issue, especially with cards like the E1 which have EMI shielding.

Nope. I’m using a Dell Optiplex 990 that my uncle no longer wanted.

I didn’t mean it in a good way.

That’s very Catholic of them.