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  1. Lolucoca
    Well, it shouldn't damage them that much, I've been doing it with a "mix and match" capacitor bank for years lol
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    Scratching a PCB is super hard
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    Well, it's not the most weird but it's one of the most annoying: Having to hard flash a BIOS to make something work again.
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    Now those are pretty damn expensive I got one from Knipex as well and it cost me around 32EUR when I bought it, that's all you'll need
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    I would just use an Arduino with like an IR remote to control the colors and stuff
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    I use insulated wire for most things but those are often on consumer grade boards. For veroboards, get uninsulated wire, it'll do
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    Or maybe probe the holes with a multimeter first to see if there's any voltage potential on them
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    I would try to solder it on and see what happens
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    @SCHISCHKA Of course you don't need 8GB of RAM for a NAS running freenas. I run mine on 2GB which is totally fine. But I wouldn't go lower than that.
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    What I would do is just build some cheap ass Celeron/Pentium system, add a couple gigs of RAM and install freenas. You can handle RAID within freenas. If I were you I would use Plex, it's easy to use. Streaming Data over a Network isn't a hard task cause the decoding is not taking place at the NAS side of things. A Pentium will totally do.
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    well, a USB cable has resistance and a logic signal can get lost or lose data quite quickly, especially at such high speeds... You'd have to design quite sophisticated circuitry to boost that signal, the cheap and dirty solution would just be to add a hub.
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    I got a 22400mAH one from EC Technology which I bought on amazon for 30 quid and it works really well.
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    That's all boring stuff... Build a retro console, use it as a webserver... Boring! How about using the GPIO to hook up sensors to build something like a DIY drone?
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    Here are a couple MCP40151 digital 50k potentiometers and on the right there are the smallest SMD transistors I had on hand, just for reference.
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    Server hardware is a pain in the ass to manage but I guess if you can find a board for cheap why not give it a try? I mean, 1366 is quite old by this point but you should still get some decent multithreaded performance out of it...
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    Why use mosfets when you can use standard transistors? You don't need to switch a high load. I would use standard 2n2222s (I think, BC547s are more common around here) to switch them. Sure, mosfets have a few advantages over transistors but then again they can't handle a very high switching frequency (which can be quite important if you plan on multiplexing the LED strips). What you can also do is get an arduino with an ESP8266 wifi board and run a webserver on that one. Arduino is quite simple to program and it's hella fun. You can use a RasPi but it's quite a bit harder. I'm using an arduino for quite a similar purpose (switching light bulbs) and it works really well. If you plan on switching really heavy loads (and most of all loads that require mains voltage like light bulbs), use relays. They're quite cheap nowadays but you can always use salvaged ones. Relays can switch a lot of current at quite a high voltage but your possible plans on multiplexing the whole thing would fall flat cause relays can only switch so fast...
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    I have that same board, tried updating the BIOS? It didn't work properly with my Q8300 either, I had to update the BIOS.
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    technically you can just boot a linux distro like arch, ubuntu, mint or if you want the hannah montana distro and manually delete the file
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    technically you can but the motherboards that support it are quite expensive. Also cooling will be an issue cause SMP systems have to be cooled quite well which can cost a pretty penny.
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    Don't we already have a discord server?
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    I use either isopropanol 99% or brake cleaner
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    Umm. What can I say. First, you don't need both a DVD ROM and a BlueRay Drive since the BlueRay one will likely be able to read both DVDs and BlueRays. Also, I wouldn't go for an AM3+ based system since those CPUs are struggling in games due to poor single threaded performance. I would get a used like i5 2500(k) which will likely outperform the Phenom. You can get those for quite low prices online. Then, I wouldn't go for a 5400RPM hard drive since it can take quite a while for games to load. The RX480 seems like a solid choice, you should go for one, those are (imo) the best bang for the buck video cards that you can get right now.
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    what if I told you AMD makes LGA type CPUs as well and Intel makes PGA CPUs as well? There are pros and cons to both of them. AMD uses LGA on server CPUs because there are more pads to carry a signal and Intel uses PGA in laptops because it's harder to damage (to my knowledge).
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    Looks good to me
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    this is pretty strange. Because if they have like capacitors in series with the cable, it's acting as a low pass filter. It's not gonna let DC pass. It should be connected as like a cap to ground so it reduces ripple. It's not gonna make much of a difference.
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