Rent-A-Worker

Interesting. Could you share the pinout diagram here? Or point me in the right direction? I’ll like to learn more. Thank you

Hi all, question for those familiar with PCIe pins and gpu riser, I have question about this riser I bought from ADT (official seller) There seems to be a strip that connects alternating PCIe pins, on both side of the riser. This appears different from a riser I bought from them before. Pictures attached below. Should I try using it? Is there a safe way to test it without frying my motherboard? Thanks in advance! PS. The first two are images of the riser in questions from either side, and the third is comparing the new and old riser.

Thanks everyone for their suggestions. For now I’ll leave it alone. Perhaps with more time the scratches would smoothen out. Otherwise if they irritate me I’ll follow the suggestion to sandpaper/blade/torch it.

Hi all, Been using the LTT screwdriver for several months now and it’s been great for the past 3 PC tear downs and rebuilds (mostly same parts, in new cases) plus several minor home improvement projects. Somehow I managed to get several scratches/grooves into one of the flat sides of the handle. They are fairly minor, perhaps no more than 0.1mm, but they definitely can be seen and felt when brushing over it with my finger tips or nails. I was wondering if this would be something I could buff out or smoothen with sandpaper? I’m not too sure how the plastic would behave, and whether I would be making this worse and lose the overall texture of the handle. Any advice or suggestion would be welcome. p.s. I have attached a photo of the affected side, am I making a mountain out of a molehill?

What I dislike the most of this transition, is the way EA forces you to move to their broken EA App. Your origin launcher working fine? Here is an ad for our new app that you cannot close or skip, that prevents you from interacting with settings or your games. Reinstalling origin or trying to use an older version? Nope, EA has hidden a flag/program that splashes the same ad on your screen. I can understand depreciating old software and not providing support, but surely making a working program non-functional is a dick move.

Hmm I can't find a clear image of the adapter, but from GN teardown of the 3070 it looks like all the 12pin are connected to the board.

True, it's better to get purpose build cards that can handle the higher power draw. Although I am still not sure why Nvidia then used the same 12 pin for the 3090/3080 as in the 3070, as one could also then use a 2x 8pin to a 3070 I remember something about more parallel wires should reduce the overall resistance of the wire? (foggy memories of high school education). Not sure if that's a plus if you use the stock bios

After seeing the 2x and 1x 8pin to 12pin cable for the 30 series gpu, I was wondering if its feasible to make a 3x 8pin to 12pin cable. Would such a cable (plus the proper cooling and bios) allow to founder's edition draw more power like the 3x 8pin STRIX or FTW3 gpu? Or would I have a fire in my pc instead...

For those ordering, be warned that you have to specify which brand card you want, otherwise the seller can send you a random one (MSI, Gigabyte, Galaxy, Colourful, Gainward)

Well just to update, I found a simple solution. Its Microsoft SyncToy, a freeware. Its rather old, of 2009, and a very simple interface. You would have to create your own file pair ( a destination folder ), then link it to the folder you want to sync via SyncToy. Can mirror both ways, mirror one way, or keep all data in the destination folder. Then run the softaware once in a while to back you your data.

Hi guys, I am looking for ways to quickly mirror or back up my laptop's data to my external HDD. My laptop is my daily driver, and has about 1.2TB worth of data. Most methods I have tried would require about an hour or more to finish, and is inconvenient to have the HDD always attached to the laptop since i need to move around frequently. Also I do not have a reliable internet connect at my place, so cloud back up is slow and difficult. Currently I simply have a raw copy of all my data on an external HDD, and which I copy and replace about every month. While it does copy over in a reasonable amount of time, I am too scared to let it copy over while sleeping for fear of corrupt data. I am looking for a method that would allow me to 1) to back up my data to the external HDD about once a month 2) allow me to mirror key data (documents, power-point etc) to a smaller portable HDD, which i can quickly update at the end of the day So far I am looking into Crashplan (free) for the once a month backup, but haven't found any good file syncing software. Would love to hear your opinions about it. So can you guys give me any good recommendations? Thanks in advance!