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teagone posted:[edit] Ended up ordering this adapter instead: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N7OJ3AY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Reviews on Newegg and Amazon report no fires with this one Yeah, that looks better, 90° angled ones that have posts that strip the insulation seem to be safer Edit: oh, and regarding that video I linked, even that guy fell prey to the problem, because he felt like an old adapter that had been working for years was probably OK, which just goes to show how long it can take before the problem manifests itself. I replaced all of my ones that are the potentially dangerous type and binned all the spares I had too. Even if it doesn't happen to you, it's just a cheap adapter, it's not worth the risk. The problem basically seems to be a combination of poor manufacturing tolerances, lack of gold plating (which can allow migration of the metal over time) and the fact that the SATA power connector is such a drat fine pitch. The Molex connector end itself is fine, it's just so basic and chunky that it's hard to gently caress it up. Star War Sex Parrot posted:We had about a hundred go up in smoke in our lab. I wish I knew who the supplier was on those. I'd imagine the faulty design is probably produced by a ton of no-name Chinese factories, using the cheapest possible materials. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Dec 8, 2016 |
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apropos man posted:So in one paragraph you're against RAID and the next singing its praises? Might be that he's singing the praises of software RAID.
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eszett engma posted:Speaking of bad Molex-SATA adapters, I'd like a sanity check on an idea I had: take a bad adapter and cut off the SATA connector, then take a SATA power cable from a dead PSU and connect the Molex plug to the SATA cable using wiring nuts. Is there anything about that arrangement that would cause problems? As long as you do a clean job (as mentioned, soldered with a bit of heat shrink over the joint), it's probably going to be better than most of the cheap and shonky adapters you can buy anyway. Edit: this is the first time I've ever heard of "wiring nuts".
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GobiasIndustries posted:Do USB 2.0 ports on a desktop PC provide a standard amperage? I've got 2 small devices that need ~200mA to run, I was wondering if I could power them off the ports of my desktop, it's a Phenom II X4 processor, not sure the exact motherboard right now. Yeah, you can generally guarantee 500mA @ 5V from any USB port. Edit: but it might only allow 100mA without enumeration HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Jan 16, 2017 |
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FizFashizzle posted:My computer can't play witcher 3 Your CPU isn't the absolute latest, but it's not slow enough to be the problem; it'll almost certainly be lovely graphics that's the problem, and with an all-in-one, there's little hope of upgrading the GPU... Might want to find out what graphics actually are in the machine already though, just so we know. Try running Speccy, makes this easy.. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Jan 16, 2017 |
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Kubrick posted:Can anyone recommend a good set of speakers for a gaming desktop in the ~$50-100 range. I don't need surround sound or anything, but I enjoy listening to Pandora and the death rattles of my enemies in Battlefield 1. My apartment is above a bedroom so I probably shouldn't get a sub-woofer. I can highly recommend these Yamahas, for what it's worth: http://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio-visual/speaker-systems/home-speaker-systems/nx-50/?mode=model HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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teagone posted:These are allegedly really nice https://www.amazon.com/Edifier-R128...onitor+speakers Oh wow, and for $100, drat
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kiwid posted:I'm thinking about getting some IP cameras for our server room. I was thinking about the Ubiquity G3. You can install the software on any suitable server, the NVR is just a convenient "appliance" form of that
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ufarn posted:My i5-750 and Noctua NH-D14 are about 7 years old. Should I re-apply some thermal paste to the cpu? Put it under a stress test such as Intel Burn Test or Prime95, and if after a little while you don't go over 80°C, I personally wouldn't worry about it. If it gets a tad too warm, re-applying thermal paste isn't a big job. Noctua's stuff (NT-H1) is still decent, so no worries about using that again.
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Rexxed posted:If you have a clamp style multimeter you may be able to read the AC current through the power cord from the wall. Only if he opens up the cable and separates the live and neutral wires, putting it around both wires won't work.
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Paul MaudDib posted:The long and short of it is that your CPU is pretty hopelessly out of date. That was not even a high end CPU... in 2012. You're welcome to give it a shot but you probably aren't going to have much luck. I think you've quoted the wrong person
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Actuarial Fables posted:Once you've wiped/destroyed the drive, unless you're being targeted by a government agency or similarly funded organization, you're safe to dispose of the machine however you want. Pray tell how one would recover ANY data after the data storage device is removed. Freezing RAM from a recently powered off machine and transferring it to another system only works in a very small time frame, and therefore simply isn't possible on a discarded machine. The EFI and BIOS don't store any user data.
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Space Gopher posted:No, because "perfectly good" IDE drives are vanishingly rare. Magnetic hard drives are mechanical devices, and they wear out. Trusting your data to a drive old enough to start climbing the other end of the bathtub curve (which is any IDE drive, at this point) is not a good idea. Nobody should be trusting their data to any single drive anyway, keep backups. I have piles of IDE drives that work fine, but aren't in use, but mainly because they're too small and too slow, not because of their reliability. However, it wouldn't be worth spending any money to re-use an IDE drive today, when one can buy a new drive of many times the capacity for probably the amount it would cost to buy a PCI Express IDE controller. I'd suggest he purchases a USB dock that happens to have IDE on it (as well as SATA, more future utility) and then he can use it to recover data, but not actually re-use the drive permanently. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Apr 24, 2017 |
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Actuarial Fables posted:Sorry. I thought my lighthearted joke was a good idea at 1am. Wow, I really didn't pick up on that, huh? Sorry! That's what I get for reading Reddit, and expecting someone to say something like that in all seriousness. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Apr 25, 2017 |
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TorakFade posted:Short question: I have an SSD - 250GB Samsung 840 - since 2012, being a normal guy that uses it for Windows and installing a few games it hasn't seen any serious wear and tear. The SSD is no doubt perfectly fine, but the fact you're worrying about it at all tells me you don't have backups. To make backups of a mere 250GB of data is trivially cheap. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 18:25 on May 24, 2017 |
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Skarsnik posted:Is there much to choose from between hard drive manufacturers these days? HGST (Hitachi) is statistically better than others, the rest are kind of a wash. A lot of people hate Seagate, but it's mostly down to a few specific lovely models. Everyone's got their anecdotes.
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Ularg posted:I gotta replace my aging and dying seven-year-old HDD. I have one picked out but I wanted to ask if there's going to be a simple way to transfer the data over that won't break everything. Like moving over my Steam library and a bunch of programs. Steam is easy. Just copy the Steam folder. You don't have to do anything else.
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Arivia posted:Apple still does that sort of thing, but they’re y’know Apple. They also make the OS, Dell/HP/Acer do not
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Q8ee posted:Is DS4 a simple plug-and-play kind of deal, or is there some janky software I'll need to download for that as well? In my opinion, if you want to avoid jankiness altogether, go the Xbox (360/One) controller route. All games in the last few years have built in XInput support, the buttons will match up with the controller, and you don't need to gently caress around. The Xbox One controller is Bluetooth (I have no experience with it, though), but the Xbox 360 one has its own special dongle which always works fantastically. vvv Huh, I have literally never had that happen, and I had a 360 from launch. Fair enough. I did go through 3 Xbox 360s, though, they were way less reliable than the controllers
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DDR3-1333 is probably the bottleneck. If it was me, I'd try to pick up some 2400 or at least 2133 with tight timings Edit: It could be that you have decent RAM already, but you never actually set the RAM speed in the BIOS. Don't know. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Jan 8, 2018 |
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40-Degree Day posted:I looked in my BIOS and was able to enable an XMP profile for my RAM. it bumped it up to 1600Mhz. Thanks for all the help guys. I'm gonna look into upgrading my RAM soon anyways. You can't anyway, a 4790K only supports DDR3. At least you got your RAM up from 1333 to 1600, that was definitely worthwhile.
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40-Degree Day posted:Yeah, I was able to raise a few settings and it stayed at a stable 60fps. Glad to hear it.
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Q8ee posted:What fans would you recommend for a Fractal R4 case? I've been using stock fans all these years, but want to buy more to keep temps low. I was thinking of getting 2x Noctua NF-A14, one as an intake and one as an exhaust. Thoughts? Noctuas aren't cheap, but it's hard to go wrong with them. My define r3 is filled to the brim with Noctuas. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Jan 22, 2018 |
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Hipster_Doofus posted:That's just plain loving criminal. I've seen PSU designs where the connectors are not keyed differently, so you can trivially plug things in incorrectly and fry them. I cannot fathom what would cause someone to design such trash. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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DizzyBum posted:Cross-posting from the Monitor Megathread: There are built in diagnostics you could try: https://www.dell.com/community/Monitors/U3014-Issues/td-p/4110823/page/2 It sounds like it could possibly be a power board problem. Many monitors have had lovely capacitors go, causing weird issues. I would definitely check that possibility, any tv repair place could swap some caps on a power board.
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DizzyBum posted:I just *really* like this monitor. I don't blame you, I'd really love a 30" 2560×1600 Dell as well. In my opinion definitely worth repairing, seeing as the most expensive part, the panel itself, is most likely not the problem.
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IratelyBlank posted:What's the deal with old servers posted on ebay for what seems like extremely cheap? I am looking at Poweredge servers with dual Xeons and 64 GB of memory for $200 and I'm wondering what the catch is? I have to share a small workstation farm with several other people in my research group to run simulation software (it's all distributed and remote) and while this is on the low-end of our workstation specs, a few of these would significantly offset the computational load for me if there isn't anything weird going on and and I can just plug it in and install an OS. Power consumption isn't an issue because this won't be in my home. There's no catch, they're just loud and use a decent amount of power, but that's to be expected. Since that's of no concern to you, buy away.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:I'm going to be shopping for a used laptop soon. Does anyone besides Dell do the "genuine" bullshit with batteries and power supplies? There's usually a good reason not to use ebay special batteries and chargers anyway HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Mar 4, 2018 |
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teagone posted:One of the larger HDDs in my Plex server is showing a caution warning in CDI: Once a drive experiences any problem, there's a hugely increased chance that it will experience more problems in future. I'd try to get it replaced under warranty.
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ProjektorBoy posted:Is there even a line of laptops out there that does use socketed CPU's to allow upgrades? I can't remember ever hearing of a laptop where the CPU is soldered in and you can't do a drat thing about it. Actually, this was the standard thing - socketed laptop CPUs - until the current very thin laptop trend. I know I upgraded my Dell Latitude D800 back in the day (both GPU and CPU!!). Instead of a lever you have a little screw you turn to lock the CPU in to the socket.
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Just to chime in with another anecdote relating to that drive model: my wife's machine had one in it, it started to show smart errors, so I cloned the contents to another one I had spare of the exact same model, which had no errors. A few days later, it simply vanished from an os and bios perspective, and only made clicking sounds. That's the drive without smart errors. I then I bought a new drive and restored the contents from a backup. Basically, that particular model of Seagate 3TB drive can't be trusted for poo poo. I also have a third example of that drive where all i/o locks up when you fill the drive to a certain point. I have a big ol' stack of hosed drives at home.
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Wooper posted:I want to connect a monitor to a HDMI port. The monitor has DVI and DP(and VGA). DVI to HDMI cable is half the price of DP to HDMI. dvi to hdmi is passive, that's why it's so cheap
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Qubee posted:I have two exhaust fans on the bottom of my case, but I have a problem with it. my PSU is directly beside the fans, and some of the wires lightly brush against the fans, which causes noise. it's not a big deal when I'm browsing the internet, but when I play games, it makes a very annoying rhythmic sound. I've tried cable tying the wires out of the way, but I've got nothing to anchor them on in the case. I've tried anchoring them to other wires, but it's only a quick fix and slowly sags back down. any advice? Buy some wire grilles of the right size, and screw 'em on to the fans
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Arivia posted:If you're on Windows 10 try disabling fast startup, might be hibernate that's fucky. Wasn't it introduced with 8? Either way, it's utter crap, and inevitably causes issues. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Nov 6, 2018 |
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fishmech posted:Nice hot take but it's not true. It's perfectly fine for hundreds of millions of users, and usually only has a problem if something else already broke. Fair enough, I was being overly blunt. But in my opinion it came far too late: when SSDs were already starting to be commonplace. Such a feature on a system with a hard disk might be worth the potential reliability issues. On an SSD? Why bother? I remember having a very similar feature on my HTC Desire HD. It worked brilliantly, of course only on the original stock ROM, but yeah, almost instant startup. A cold boot took much longer. It was nice when turning your phone after a flight, but that's basically the only time it was ... desirable. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Nov 6, 2018 |
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Hotbod Handsomeface posted:Hi I am reposting this from the build a pc thread as it is more appropriate here. What actual 3dmark test was that? I'd be interested in comparing the numbers with a similar system. Edit: guessing time spy, in which case the numbers aren't weirdly unreasonable HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Nov 10, 2018 |
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Taima posted:, why doesn't youtube bother making actual 1080p content as good as it can be on native 1080p screens? Saves storage, saves bandwidth, thus saving money. There's a reason people who want good quality still buy blurays: bitrate. As far as I'm aware, no streaming service comes close. Truth is, most people don't notice, so it's wasted on them. Don't you remember the early 2000s when everyone and their dog was watching 4:3 content stretched to a 16:9 crt? Many didn't care. Add the fact that internet connections are often slow and unreliable, and you have a nice recipe for low bitrate video. Everyone notices buffering and drop-outs, so avoiding those whilst saving money is win-win. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Nov 26, 2018 |
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Captn Kurp posted:Trying to install Windows Server 2016 on an old IBM xSeries 346 I got for 50 bucks, I've tried a lot of stuff and I've verified the bootable USB works on other systems but when I try to boot to USB on the server it says it doesn't detect any operating systems. Is the USB stick formatted as UEFI boot? That's not gonna work. It'll have to be MBR/BIOS, legacy, whatever you want to call it.
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Lambert posted:Good news, USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 are being renamed a second time for marketing reasons! What the gently caress
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