iamdarkyoshi

Yeah they're turned pin connectors

They're standard 0.1in pin spacing, just like the old fashioned turned pin IC sockets.

The addressable RGB strips are just neopixels or WS2812Bs from what I've seen And for the non addressable ones, the pinout above is pretty much good enough to work from. +12v on the first pin, then ground the remaining pins to light up green, red, or blue

Oh god, all my stuff is down for various reasons :c The triple GTX 480 rig works though

Nobody really knows for sure if T2 has a backdoor. Apple could very well have a piece of software that generates a decryption key based on the machine's serial, kinda like bitlocker. After all, they made the computer, so they know how T2 works internally and how the key is created But since apple likes to keep all that stuff secret, who knows? It feels a lot like "faith based security" to me.

In a way, yeah

Just a heads up, for those discussing bitlocker, I've got a bit of a curveball for you. Microsoft informed me that contacting the manufacturer of the laptop and providing proof of purchase, serial number, etc will get you a recovery key for that machine's hard drive. Not exactly sure how they would have access to the recovery key, but I can confirm it is possible to get the 48 digit recovery key. I successfully recovered data from one of my customer's HP elitebooks with a failed motherboard (and the icing on the cake was the HDD was on its way out with over 23 million bad sectors) and we're an independent repair shop. So bitlocker data recovery IS possible for both the end user and a repair shop, if you can work with the owner of the laptop to get the recovery key from the manufacturer, in this case, HP. I just plugged the drive into a windows computer via USB, decrypted the drive with the key HP provided us, and then copied files off the drive.

I hope so... But its not the first time they used liquid damage as a false diagnosis

They claimed that the machine was badly liquid damaged, which rossmann discovered was not the case. Presumably they [apple] lied to the customer to back out of a warranty repair and having to come up with an excuse for data loss

Its not exactly a top end overclocking board... I'd try higher voltage. 1.35-1.4, just watch thermals

Most 8+4 boards I've seen run totally fine with just the 8 pin connected and the 4 pin disconnected. Unless you get into like LN2 cooling or whatever, the 8 pin will supply more than enough