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Pit bull, got him from someone who wasn't doing a good job with him, you could see his ribs and spine. His previous owner wasn't around and had another dog that he said was greedy with food, there were other ways to keep him from getting that skinny, but he's a healthy pup now at least. Here's a pic from his first day with us when he was 5 months old. here he is after about two months. The camera woke us both up, that said, I wouldn't trade Mistral for a thing.

Both actually, the pup's sharp as a knife...when he's awake at least.

My lazy boy Mistral.

When I get ready to work on it, is it alright if I shoot you a pm? Any knowledge I have about CRT work is second hand besides a 40ish y/o old Sears portable tv I still haven't been able to get working.

Ok, cool, need to check the heater circuit when I have the time to take a crack at fixing it, I opened it up initially when the issue cropped up but I had nothing to test voltages or replace components at the time, now I do, I just need the time.

Man......I liked it too. I hope it's not the tube, I was hoping that a cap just went bad, I'll have to look into it in the near future.

It looks fine, I can't remember the res...768 I think, but it works fine for about 2 to five minutes then the picture fades to black. If I turn it off for a few minutes and turn it back on, it will work for several minutes before going out again.

I would be interested in seeing an LTT crt video, that said modern flat panels aren't that bad but I'm also using a cheap lcd tv as a monitor. I still have my crt but I think it has a bad or leaky capacitor since it can't seem to display an image for more than a few minutes.

I have noticed the weird performance thing most heavily in Crossout, but I haven't played since I upgraded due to bad internet speed lately. Another thing I'm wondering is if I might be dealing with a bottleneck between the i5-3570 and my 1050, and what type of performance hit that might result. I don't really know what to look for.

Memory from both pc's is identical. The psu seems fine, to be honest, I think the older systems psu was giving out, but there's no what that somehow boosted performance. The only difference in the computers is size, age, cpu, and psu output as far as I can tell,

Pretty sure it's dual channel, 4x 2gb, same setup as the older one. I though it was weird too.

So before I I upgraded to a 1050, I had been using an Asus Radeon HD 6570 1gb gpu oc'd to 800mhz, first on a pc that had an i5 660 dual core (with hyperthreading - 4 threads) in a sff Dell, I got honestly poor performance in many games but at least had a loosely playable experience in Skyrim SE on low. I fast forward to about two-three months ago, I bought a newer Dell full tower pc with an i5 3570 quad core cpu (without hyperthreading - also 4 threads). When I first got it, I planned on buying a new gpu to go with it, but before the upgrade to the 1050, I popped in my hd6570 to get me by since the igpu was awful and almost instantly I noticed that some games seemed to run worse while some did improve. Are there certain game loads that worked better on my hyperthreaded dual core that have a harder time on a non-hyperthreaded quad core? Should I look into a cpu with this feature?

I forgot about this thread to be honest, I still have the case, but due to a multitude of financial issues, I haven't done anything with this build since the last post. That said I do want to finish it since it's currently a footrest under desk at the moment... As for what I did to it, I gutted the whole case. The front usb is a pair of usb3 with what I assume is a standard connector, same as the front audio ports. The usb3s came from a long since dead small form factor Acer OEM. The audio ports came from the HP. The plastic bit from the power button, power LED, and hard drive activity LED, was removed but the metal connector bits from inside the plastic plug that connects to the motherboard are still there, a bit more finicky to plug in, but so long as you know what two wires do what, you'll be fine. For the front usb/audio, I'd say be careful with plugging in things from OEM boxes since some may be proprietary to a specific line of pre built systems so do good research first.

The fail rate for the 1tb ones slightly worries me, since that's my current main drive.

Got the 2tb sitting on my shelf with the others, I've had it for several years as the D drive in several pc's. Are you just planing on using an HDD or using an SSD as the C drive?

I can vouch for the WD blues, I've got six of them between 500gb-2tb, all still work but four aren't used since I don't have space in my pc for all of them, I have however had problems with Seagate drives.

I got into hardware by having an old Win98 Compaq clunker to screw around with, it didn't work so I started messing around with things like unplugging stuff and plugging it into other areas, even made a handful of jumpers out of aluminium foil and I eventually got it to work just to discover the hard drive was RIPed. I still can't do crap with programming and software, but as some others have pointed out, get them an old pc (I'd say go for one with a small, fixable issue) and work on it with them, even let them tinker with it on their own, even if it breaks, it would be a learning experience.

Nothing special, but it's cozy enough for me.

Yeah, I've noticed some OEMs do that, Dell seems to design most of their systems to use cooler mounting through the motherboard to the back of the case, noticed this on the OptiPlex 790 and 980sff, so I'm running on the assumption that the 7010 does the same. So as long as the screws for a given cooler are long enough and have the right threads, I should be able to use the back of the case still as the mounting bracket.

I was planning on harvesting the connector from my old 980's fan and using the basically dying pc to test things out. Maybe make a DIY Dell to standard fan adapter. Maybe an aio liquid cooler for the lols.

Yeah, still gonna put on some new paste for sake of maintenance but I'm not going to worry about the cooling. If I swap out the cpu for something a bit beefier, I might change the cooling.

So this is what it spat out when it finished. There are thirteen of these things geez....

Yup, 980sff uses the same cursed connector, I'll experiment with trying to get a non-Dell fan working with out having to butcher the replacement fan and stuff, but that's a discussion for another time.

I've got it running right now. All that's left to do is wait...

I forget that, I like to tinker, I know the 980sff uses the same fan as my 7010, so I might be able to test out making a aftermarket fan work using the 980 as a sort of test bed...