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Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.
Two questions:
1. Having a 2.5" SSD floating around in my 3.5" bays is silly, but ~$12 for a 3.5"->2.5" converter seems really expensive. Is that the best option?
2. What's a good operating price for an external hard drive? I'm ideally looking for 1-2TB, USB3.0.

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Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.
How likely would it be that if my video card was knocked out of the MOBO and partially bent in the process that it would be damaged? I can't test anything because I need to leave it as-is for the inspector.


edit: If you're curious about the rest of my computer

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.

Bob Morales posted:

Did you ship it? Heavy video cards will come loose during shipping. In the old days some builders would put a dab of hot glue on the AGP connector to hold the card in.
I did ship it. It's not that heavy, and this time it went 400 miles. I've shipped it ~5000 miles and driven it ~2000 miles without a problem.
edit: Also, it didn't just come loose, it's bent. And it came out with enough force to tear out the SATA connectors (at least I assume that's what did it).

Elysiume fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Jun 8, 2013

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