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I personally dont enjoy aluminum on laptops. While they look premium and may contribute to their thermal solution, they never felt good in the hand, pick greasy fingers up like crazy and I was always afraid of scratching or bending/denting the panels. Matte plastic finishes do conceal scratches and wear much better and they dont bend/dent permanently.

That is not light gaming is it?

I use an R7 250 alongside my A10 7870k APU, and I can play Warframe on max settings.. I dont know how that is not a good value.. but sure.

I'd say an R7 250 should have you covered for light gaming.

I'd pull it out and keep it sepparate, the less parts in the case the better. You dont know where and how the machine is going to be in the cargo hold. If it is going to be upright, upside down, on it's side, or if it is going to have a lot of stuff stacked on top.

You will need to add support to the graphics card if you intend to leave it in. Otherwise nothing else.

Maybe an external capture and streaming solution may be simpler.

I can only recommend the HyperX Cloud just from pure experience. The Void's microphone has a tendency to break, and the Astro, I cant speak for it as I have never seen or used one.

My desktop speakers are so VR Ready..

I would recommend against the 1000W PSU, you dont need that much. I would recommend against the storage M.2 drive and go with a WD Black instead if you intend to use it for games and general storage. I would also recommend against RoG motherboards, since the price tag is overly inflated just because it is branded RoG. So far, everything else looks okay otherwise.

HardwareCanucks did make a video about playing off a Kingston HyperX Savage, and how it worked relatively painlessly. So... There is that.

In that case, then go right at it. Games and Programs are not essential irreplaceable data. And you are not constantly writing and reading from it. You should be fine then.

I havent had good experiences using external HDDs as internal replacement. An old laptop I have needed an HDD replacement, I thought to cheap out and buy one of those external Touro hard drives, take the case off, and stick it in. It lasted two months. I replaced it again because I thought I had bumped the laptop while it was on, but no. The second replacement lasted 3 months, and I kept it almost completely stationary. I can only come to the conclussion that external drives are for ocassional use.

Greetings. I have recently acquired a Celeritas II to replace an ancient Razer Lycosa keyboard from ages past. And I have been having a good experience thus far. The Flaretech Optical Switches are definitely something different for sure. I have been trying to learn more about the keyboard however, to see proper ways of cleaning, maintenance, maybe some instructions on how to replace the Switches, since Flaretech are supposedly easily removable from what I have been able to gather thus far. And the lack of reviews and material in English is kind of worrying, why is Zowie not that popular in the west? are they known for bad quality or something? If you had a Celeritas before or other Zowie peripherals for that matter, what was your experience like?

Yes, this is mostly an experiment. No, this is not my main rig. I am just too silly to let an idea go once I get it. If you do dig though my older posts, you can find how they also told me my experiment with AMD's APUs and their Dual Graphics setup was not worth it for gaming, yet I was intrigued by the prospect. Well, my main rig is designed and constructed with that setup in mind, and no, it isn't worth the effort. Damn cheap to build though, I'll give it that. Once again, thanks for all your input. It's been a big help.

Hm.. I will dig around for that lenovo mod to see how invasive and complicated it is and if it can be replicated here. If it ends up being too sketchy, I will look for a higher clocked Dual Core for this and try that one instead. Thank you both for the very prompt and useful answers.

From what I have read so far, it determines how fast of a front side bus you can have on your CPU. And reading on the subject of upgrading a laptop's CPU, it is brought up again and again. Specially with Socket P 478, as not all motherboards with that socket will support the newer faster CPUs, the Q9100 is 1066mhz FSB and T2310 is 533mhz

Greetings. I wanted to ask if anyone could recommend a benchmark or similar tool that would be able to tell me the current and maximum supported MT/s of a motherboard. Or ultimately if you knew the answer I am trying to get out of it. I have an HP Pavilion 2621LA. CPU-Z displays the motherboard as a Wistron 30CD (80.39), and Intel GM965 Chipset. It does have a Pentium T2310 Dual Core CPU. Socket P 478. I have already upgraded the RAM to it's maximum of 4GB, and equipped it with an SSD, My objective would be to replace the CPU with a Core 2 Quad Q9100 and I need to know if this motherboard will support the CPU. Googling Wistron 30CD doesn't yield anything interesting that I could find, other than a couple other people asking the same question and responses being along the lines of how not worth it it is (please resist the temptation to say the same, I am only looking for the information). And HP is definitely not going to help me mod one of their products. I am aware that thermals may be a problem if the upgrade ends up being possible as well. I just happen to have access to a couple of these CPUs at the shop already, so it would be pretty much an almost free thing.

Greetings. Recently I have been having some issues with a couple of keys not registering all the time, so I went in and cleaned them out, then finally flushed whatever was underneath them with some isopropyl. Battery was removed, all the works. The device was left to dry over a good couple hours before getting it's battery back. The keyboard is all good again, so something was probably between the keys and the contacts. However, I started to notice the notifications were really quiet, checked volume, all normal. So I try some music to check the speakers, and the lows are just utterly destroyed, crackly and whatnot, while the highs are fine. I do wonder if this is just a case of letting it dry further or apply heat or if I should order a speaker and crack the phone open. Wasn't aware that isopropyl was that aggressive.

I have an A10 7870k and it has been quite stable. Make sure you have fast memory (2133mhz) in dual channel to get the most out of it. I use my PC for gaming and used the APU on it's own for some time before getting an R7 250 to use in Dual Graphics, and it worked very well. For everyday, you should be well served.

Greetings. I have recently acquired a TECSUN PL-398, to get into SW radio listening, and so far I am picking up a few stations here and there, but the majority are too riddled with interference to be listenable, I can adjust the bandwidth to minimize noise, but only so much. So I looked around and found a few commercial external antennas, but also seen recommendations online about just using a wire and either clip it to the end of the aerial or plug it into the external antenna jack. So I looked into that more and there are a few ways of doing it, some just clip a piece of long wire and hang it somewhere high, others stretch wire horizontally from two high points, and some just let the wire dangle from their window. I am looking for a semi permanent solution and thought about the horizontal style I am on a second floor and there is a 20m gap between my window and some railing I can use around 25 degrees to the right if you are looking out the window. Is it just as simple as tossing a wire, tying both ends and solder a TR Plug to on? I have seen some examples where they either do that or put something they call ceramic insulators to both ends instead of tying directly onto something, plus a dedicated ground reference. Anyone into SW radio listening that can give an opinion? Thanks a lot.

Well, I do have my desktop, this is more of a convenience factor than anything, for example, I would be able to participate of podcasts or roll20 sessions while being out of the common areas of my house, or on late hours without bothering other people. But if a cheap 2 in 1 would outperform this machine, my money would be better placed elsewhere.

Greetings. I have recently come across an HP Pavilion DV2000 (specs here https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-pavilion-dv2000t/specs/ ). And it is in pristine aesthetic condition once I removed all the stickers and ID tags they put onto it at the office back when it was new, some isopropyl and it is as good as new. It was a conference room machine so it only ever fed a projector. Of course, given it's age it needs some parts, an SSD, probably a 120 or 240, been looking at some WD Green 240GB SSDs that are on offer at the local store, I do have 4GB of Samsung 800mhz SODIMM DDR2 myself, and the battery will need replacing, I have seen some extended battery packs for it. My intention is to use it as a laptop for social media and office work, I imagine Open Office or Libre Office plus Firefox will work just fine on anything. However, where my doubts are falling on are on running Google Hangouts, Discord and Skype at once. Plus I will most likely use it for Roll20, which is known for being... not too optimized. This wont make the cut, will it? Is it worth the effort to repair it? My intention was getting a Win10 License for it, but I am open to running Solus or Lubuntu on it if it proves to be too heavy. The machine has run Solus just fine, but with severe lock ups given the semi dead hard drive.

If you want to go the USB route, you can always install linux to a USB stick, the full installation, just be sure it is USB 3.0, it wont be nearly as fast as an HDD, but for college programming, which is mostly text, looking things up and keeping a few PDFs open, you should be fine. Porteus ( http://www.porteus.org/ ) lends itself well for this premise. It is Slackware Linux based, it looks good, and you will have access to the app center if you need additional software. I am using it on a USB 2.0 stick on an old laptop, and it still works acceptably. Otherwise, you could install Lubuntu onto it.

You can send it in if you have time, but be already predisposed about the possibility of having it rejected. They may fix it or replace it altogether, or neither. I dont personally think it's the right thing to do given that you dropped it, but to each their own I suppose.