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Zagna

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  1. 1 hour ago, Vinay Pundith said:

    - USB to internal floppy adapters. These are plentiful, but they only advertise supporting 3.5" drives. Is this an actual technical limitation, or can a 5.25" drive be hooked up to it as well? (Not worried about physical connector, i have the cable for that). Is there a controller-level limitation that is only compatible with 3.5" FDD's and not 5.25"? I also found a USB 5.25" drive controller that says it is read-only, cannot write to 5.25" floppies regardless of the actual drive connected to it. Why would this be the case?

    This person managed to build one?

  2. 1 hour ago, NewEra4004 said:

    Both of those still require USB-C with DisplayPort Alternate Mode which your laptop lacks.

  3. 48 minutes ago, NewEra4004 said:

    Neither of those will work. Both require an USB-C port with DisplayPort Alternate Mode.

    You can run one monitor from the laptops HDMI port at 4k 30hz and for the second screen, you need a DisplayLink adapter like this

    https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/plugable-usb-3-0-to-displayport-4k-uhd-ultra-high-definition-video-graphics-adapter-for-multiple-monitors-up-to-3840x2160-s/10645115

  4. 11 minutes ago, PartyWire said:

    The Mobo, only has one M.2 slot. attachment is the mobo i am talking about, it has 1 m.2 slot and 4 stat slots right behind the two PCIe 1x (i think that's what the smaller are called.) slots. andd i think i will buy the cheap adapter if there is no other option.

    b450-tomahawk-max-hero.webp

    There's 6 SATA ports.

    4 next to the chipset on the edge, 2 at the very bottom corner.

    So the NVMe takes away 2, leaving you with 4.

  5. The CPU has 20 PCIe lanes for connectivity. 16x for GPU and 4x for either NVMe or 2 SATA devices.

    So if you use an NVMe M.2 via the CPU, those 2 SATA lanes are used up.

    If you use a SATA M.2, one of the 2 SATA ports from the CPU can still be used.

    You still have 4 SATA ports from the chipset.

  6. 5 hours ago, walkerdeath said:

    I knew about the ethernet option, but sadly hdmi supports only up to 1080p which already is not enough as I use a 4k tv as a monitor, and also the usb only supports up to 2.0 speeds, which is far from ideal... of course, if there's no other choice I would consider it, but it would be one of the last choices 😅 but thanks anyway for the suggestions 😄

    4K capable extenders also exist.

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