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    AMD Ryzen 7 5800x
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    Gigabyte B550M AORUS PRO-P
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    16 GB DDR4 3200 Mhz CL16
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    Gigabyte Aorus RX 570 4 GB GDDR5
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    Aerocool XPredator Black Edition (Full Tower)
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    Seasonic X-650 80+ Gold
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    Logitech K280e
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  1. How did you come up with this 27w magical number? I'm in Romania and it just happens that I have a bill for electricity where they messed up and incorrectly read the meter and billed me for a few months worth of consumption. With VAT included and everything, I paid 1332.50 RON (268 EUR) for 1123 kWh ... that works out to around 0.24 EUR for 1kWh - leaving my computer 24/7 I normally hover at around 300-350 kWh a month. So even if you're billed 0.25 EUR a month, a computer consuming 50 watts would consume in a month 31 days x 24 hours x 50 watts = 37,200 watts or 37.2 kWh which would work out to 9.3 eur a month if we go by 0.25 EUR a kWh. Get some Atom or similar board that can run with DC in to be more efficient ... for example random example : https://www.ebay.com/itm/386300722519 - add a couple 2 GB DDR3 800/1066 SO-DIMM sticks and you have your nas. Has barrel jack connector to power it with 12v, using any generic 12v laptop adapter style power supply (just match the diameter of the barrel jack) Only 2 sata ports, but you can add a sata controller on the pci-e x1 slot if you want more... but the molex connector probably won't have enough power to power more than 2 mechanical drives.
  2. As you upgrade your bike, you will have more than enough fuel... it's just an annoyance at the beginning.
  3. it uses the amd-mediatek collaboration card, RZ600 ... see in your favorite linux distribution if it's supported.
  4. Look on your Anker charger, and see on the label if it supports wide input voltage or not. It should support something like 90v AC to 250v AC. If it supports only 110v AC give or take some small range then you can only use it in 110v countries, or you would need to use a 220/230v to 110v converter to power your charger. That converter would need to be rated for at least around 150 watts (maximum output of your Anker plus around 20-30% of that so 120 + 120/4 =150 watts If it supports the whole input voltage range, then you can use any adapter to convert the AC / input plug to that country's plug shape and the charger will be able to take as much power as it needs from the wall. The output capability won't change no matter the input.
  5. The delay is most likely because the hardware chip uses some kind of lossless video compression ( mpeg-2 or h264 in lossless mode or something else proprietary or not, like for example series of png images, motion jpeg etc etc ) to convert the data to video and streams it (potentially encrypted, if hdcp and drm is enabled) through the ethernet cable. On the receiving end, the chip decodes the stream and displays it... so you get maybe 10-50ms delay during hardware video compression, then maybe 5-10ms delay due to decoding.
  6. Most likely you won't be able to use the ethernet cable for anything else. The extenders will use the 4 pairs of wires in a non ethernet standard way, splitting the signal across all wires to send it across. You probably also can't connect the cable to a ethernet switch for the same reason.
  7. You guys should look into a led display , like those advertising led matrix displays, made out of multiple tiles. Here's a catalogue : https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0079/3513/1738/files/2021_Catalog-LED_Display.pdf Retail prices ... probably costs around $150 for a 160x80 tile, so it will cost some money for a 1080p ... 168 tiles to make a 3.84 meters by 2.24 meters , so like 29k ... could probably get a discount to 20k or so.... but you'll need to add the server or whatever splits the hd image to the tiles. $70 for 84 x 84 pixels tile, 250mm by 250mm : M-ID2.9 P2.976 Rental Series LED Module in 250x250mm 2.976mm Pixel Pit – LEDLightsWorld 1080p display would end up to 5.75 meters by 3.25 meters
  8. The electrolytic capacitor vented, blew up. it usually does that when it's subjected to reverse voltage or too much voltage or due to some other critical failure. You could desolder the base and replace with another capacitor, it's probably something like 470uF 16v electrolytic or something like that. Cleaning all the electrolyte with some isopropyl alcohol or other solvents is a must. The contacts that go in the pci-e slot or Make sure you didn't plug the connectors the wrong way or make sure they're not at an angle or partially inserted potentially causing some kind of short. So basically it may be repairable, if you're lucky it's just a 20-50 cent capacitor.
  9. The RAM is not used only by the game. It's also used by the operating system and other programs you may have running in background (browsers, discord, other things). Yes, ram amount matters. Running in dual channel (2 sticks) also improves performance, up to 5-10% extra performance in some situations. Some processors are more sensitive about frequency : for example, there's a noticeable performance increase on Ryzen processors going from 2666 Mhz to 3000 Mhz and 3200 Mhz and a bit less noticeable from 3200 to 3600 or more. Intel processors used to be less sensitive about frequency.
  10. Yes, it's digital, and the most common protocol TCP/IP has error correction and retransmission so even if some error occurs, the data packets are retransmitted. more detail about CCA cables With very long CCA cables (copper coated aluminum wires), like... let's say over 40-50 meters, SOME network cards had a higher than normal amount of transmission errors with the GREEN / Power saving features enabled. This is because the CCA wires have slightly higher resistance compared to full copper wires, and the algorithms that determine the length of the ethernet cable and adjust transmission power to save a few mW of power can get confused and reduce the transmission power a bit too much and you get a few more errors at the other end. Disabling the power saving features / green modes of the network cards solve this issue. Basically, doesn't matter during regular browsing because TCP/IP protocol is used for that and has error correction and retransmission, but for some other uses, like for example applications that use UDP (some video conferencing, telephony, some multiplayer games), it's possible to get the random corrupted packet once in a while which would translate to a green block of pixels on the video conference video, or a glitch in the audio, or your character lagging a few ms on the screen. But again... I'm talking about very long lengths of cable.. for 3-5-10 meters of cable, plain CCA cable will work just as well as a solid core / full copper cable. A more expensive cable won't make transfers faster (you're limited by the network card, the router, connection between your router/modem and the isp) and won't decrease latency. At 1 gbps, a cat5e cable will give you same performance as a cat6 or cat6a cable and cat7 or higher cables out there are either false advertising, or just pointless waste of money. There could be a cat7 cable out there with thicker wires inside and which could theoretically support even 25 gbps but if your router/modem/network card is 1 gbps or 2.5 gbps, you'll still only achieve those speeds.
  11. Any plain cat6 or cat6a cable... you don't need anything fancier. These are good for up to 10gbps, cat6 is limited to around 55 meters at 10gbps or 100 meters at 5gbps or less. Cat6a goes the whole 100 meters. If possible, try to avoid the cables that use CCA (copper coated aluminum) and get full copper cable which should be a bit more expensive. But CCA cables work fine for short lengths (like 10-15 meters), you wouldn't notice any difference. Depending on length, shouldn't cost more than $10-20.
  12. LCD monitors consume usually under 100 watts. It depends on brightness, size etc ... a 1080p 24" could consume as little as 30-40 watts. The basic LG 24" monitors recently bought at work came with 19v 1.2A adapters (around 25 watts) for example. The built in power supplies are usually already over 85% efficient, they're switching power supplies like the computer power supply. The led backlights usually run at higher voltages like 30-70v ... so quite high voltage, low current, which means efficient transfer of energy between power supply and led backlight. If you power the monitor from a computer power supply, you'd have to send 12v from power supply to the monitor, and then you'd have to redesign the backlight circuit to work with 12v or use a step-up/boost regulator to boost 12v to 20v or more, whatever is needed. There's gonna be quite a few watts lost in the cable between the power supply/video card and the monitor So it could actually overall be
  13. It's probably 6300,0 rpm or some mistake in description. But anyway for both fans... You can power them by connecting them directly to the ATX power supply. Take out the 12v and ground wires from the connector, and connect them to a molex or sata connector. Molex would be better, it's rated for 5A of current, your fan says it can do 4.35A max. SATA is only good for 4.5A of current. You can control the speed through the pwm wire just like with any other fan, connect that wire and the ground wire (duplicate it if needed) to the fan controller or the motherboard fan header. And there's more powerful fans available than that... for example this Sanyo Denki 140mm fan runs at up to 7600 rpm and eats up to 55 watts : 9GV1412P1G001 or this delta model that goes up to 7400 rpm and 44.5 watts : PFR1212DHE-SP00
  14. That is a proprietary Dell power supply. You can get an adapter cable that converts the 24 pin ATX to that 6 pin connector... for example this one MAY work : https://www.ebay.com/itm/284505137934 The description says compatible with Inspiron 3470, so it's a good chance it would also work with 3880. If you want to be 100% sure, you can get a digital multimeter and measure what voltages are in that 6 pin connector, on each pin. Looking at the pictures on the eBay listing, I see the 2 12v wires (yellow), the ps_on signal (gray - signal from mobo to psu to turn on) and pw_ok (green - signal from psu to mobo telling it it's ready to supply power)
  15. That controller has the ability to use pSLC , for example the Patriot Burst 1.92 TB with asian QLC nand can create up to 480 GB of pSLC memory (around 1.6 TB of QLC converted to SLC) : https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/patriot-burst-elite-1-9-tb.d1851 But 500 TBW is indeed inflated ... like I said, I'd expect at most 300 TBW or thereabouts.
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