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    I finally have to deal with the sizeable coolant leak my car has developed from a cracked radiator end tank. It loses anywhere from 200 to 400mL a day, depending on how warm it is outside and how much I've driven. And here I thought tax return season meant paying off some of the credit card.
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    Monitors and TVs usually just "resume" where they left off so that's normal behavior. Also, if things behave normally then you're fine. There isn't just some magical "yo bro u ok" button that gives you a clear-cut answer on if things got damaged or not. But realistically if your provider cut it, it was probably a pretty clean power cut so the chance for damage is rather unlikely.
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    Power outages really aren't not that black and white. In my experience it's very common for there to be harmful voltage fluctuations when the power "cuts" out: we just had a straight loss of service caused by a tree snapping a line last month, which caused a fairly significant voltage spike, and that in turn managed to cause an HDMI port on my TV to become highly flaky. As for the second part of what I've quoted, I don't think that's inherently the biggest issue. In my experience with my provider, when they get things back up it's not unlike flipping a power switch in the sense that we just go from no power to normal power (which is how it should be). The most harmful parts of power loss originate from issues like what I just experienced; whether it be a tree falling on a line, some dumbass deciding their car looks better parked where the power line used to be, or a transformer deciding it wants to transform into a firework. While I'm sure the power flicking on and off rapidly isn't exactly great for anything, it's realistically the super out of whack voltage spikes during power loss which cause things to let out the magic smoke.
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    Can confirm, my mid-2009 MBP came with 2GB of 1066MHz DDR3. Not that the speed really matters here since 1066 is the fastest the C2D supports.
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    Yep, they're just regular NEMA 5-15P to IEC C13 cables. Realistically any gauge wire will work, since even 18AWG is theoretically capable of delivering a little over 1kW without issue.
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    Just like taxes we have to guess and get sentenced to death if we get it wrong.
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    Closing apps will do nothing for his battery unless there's one particular app that refuses to suspend and drinks battery for no reason, iOS has gotten really good at managing itself and all your junk. It's actually more likely that his battery life will get worse if you keep force-closing everything.
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    I'd suggest you download Snappy Driver Installer Origin. If you do the full-fuck package it's like 58GB, however that has drivers for everything you could possibly want. Being that your board is out of an HP, that makes it pretty damn hard to get drivers unless you have the model of the PC it came out of.
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    Can't go wrong with a good 'ol 4TB MX500.
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    It was 20C literally yesterday, wat Now it's -11C

    flibberdipper replied to iamdarkyoshi's status update

    We casually went from mid-30s to mid/high 60s between yesterday and today.
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    I ended up swapping the CPUs between my Precision 3420 and the OptiPlex 7040M, so now the Precision has the 6600T and the 7040M has a 6500, and what a difference that makes. My PL2 is still seemingly limited to 45W but it's so much more responsive already: now it can at least pretend to play 4K60 YouTube (before it would just display one frame and nothing else).

     

    Bonus is where the 6600T is technically a lower power chip and it's now in a system that's on 24/7, there's theoretically a little power savings there?

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    Avast has essentially become what Norton, McAfee, an AVG all used to be: A bloated turd that barely works, and if I'm not mistaken they still sell your info like nobody's business.
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    Ditto on this. Using Avast is a death sentence in itself, you might as well run something worthwhile.
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    Dear god I never knew they made the USFF with a Pentium 4... Now I want one of those AND a 780 USFF for both ends of the whacky USFF generation: Pentium 4 shitbox and a Q6600 shitbox.
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    lol nah, they're normal socketed desktop chips in pretty much all of the 1L OptiPlex, EliteDesk, and ThinkCentre models.
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    I think my ultimate plan would be to limit the long-term turbo to 40-45w since that's about what the cooling in this thing can handle before encroaching on the 80s.
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    Same, 1L Dells will forever have my heart. I reeeeeeeally want to get a newer model that's 12th or 13th gen but I'm not feeling that rich. Only problem (for me) is that the I/O on newer models is somehow worse. IMO the 7040 is perfect: 6x USB3, 1x DP, 1x HDMI... The newer ones are either 4x USB3, 2x USB2, 1x DP, 1x HDMI or 4x USB3, 1x Type C, and 3x DP... Like come on guys lol
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    Bought this (apparently) brand new 130w power brick for this PC I got for free: an OptiPlex 7040 Micro. Mine has an i5 6600T, 8GB of single-channel 2133MHz RAM, and a 128GB SanDisk X400. My inner dumbass really wants to give it an i7 6700, 32GB of RAM (anything higher than 2400 is overkill, but it'll probably get 2666), and a 512GB MP33. Just for the memes.
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    Not directly, no. RGB vs plain white is completely different, and even just going between models manufactured by the same company can't always be reliable.
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    It's likely almost negligible. I remember seeing something somewhere and a full-size USB keyboard with backlighting only requested to draw something like 100mA at 5V... which is essentially nothing. And that's just how much it requested: not how much it actually uses.
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    It's probably a back burner project to begin with, but I also have to imagine that designing and sourcing cables isn't a super easy thing to begin with, much like the screwdriver.
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    This is how I store almost all of my motherboards, graphics cards, and other expansion cards in a metal filing cabinet. They all work fine. Not to mention I've built many things on carpet, including my friend's build with a 7700X and 4080.
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    Nope, not me. Though I do have this one, amusingly.
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    okay but why do I actually live in a stereotypi…

    flibberdipper replied to da na's status update

    Suddenly I feel like my room is pretty clean in comparison.
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    You're not my mom! The amusing part is that unless I'm just retarded they do in fact still list High Sierra as being supported.

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