Enderman

I'd prefer to have a headphone jack at the very least. Having a USB port is handy for game controllers and the occasional pen drive as well. My case has 2 USBs and a headphone jack and it's more than enough.

no its not
im sitting here looking at my usb 3 port (which is also the metal part btw), and its usb 3.0- and its a peice of black plastic.
and the standard usb 3 color is a green/blue, not just a blue like normal 3, for 10gbps iirc

This is the mini PC I have been working on for a while, someone mentioned they wouldn't want one because it has no front IO.
I'm considering adding front IO to future PCs.
What do you guys think?
 
 
A: With no front IO

 
B: with front IO (just an example, could be USB C or other)

Am I reading #3 wrong, or is it backwards? If aesthetics were first, wouldn't there be no IO, like Image A? Wouldn't Image B and having front IO be the Convenience?
 
With the rate USB ports are disappearing from motherboards, I need all the ports I can get. I have two powered USB hubs sitting on my desk right now.
 

Almost never use front io, couldnt care less.
 
Its only when i need a quick cable or need to format/make iso windows 10 pro or 11 that it is handy.
USB-C is kinda cool too.
 
Sadly the back io usb's are almost all used up now 😄

I use them all the time. Headphones, fingerprint reader, usb drives, connecting my phone, xbox 360 controller.
 
I can't imagine not having them, but also I have a mid tower so I don't really make a ton of compromises.

fair, but im sure you can find ports that would match.

I have front IO on my case, I just have a keyboard with a USB passthrough so I basically never use it. I never use more than Type A on the front, so a single Type A passthrough is about all I really need. 

I have no use for front I/O personally but if you're going to do it on there, i'd put it on the side or top.

front io doesnt have to have asthetic downsides.
put it at the top and make it all black like my meshify c and it doent look bad at all.
 
plus front IO at the top front is more useful imo

IO shield looks fine.
They often don't line up perfectly, especially the cheap ones.
Unless you're having problems with plugging stuff in just leave it.
From the picture it seems like everything can still plug in just fine.

UPDATE!
 
 
 
So here are some comparison pictures of different lenses and stuff. I'm currently waiting for 4 new lenses to ship, because the one I am using ain't good enough!
 
Before and after pics

 
This is why you need to be careful when choosing your lens (will be doing a guide on this soon)
Some focus a lot better than others depending on the curvature, radius, thickness, etc...

 
And this is why you need to correctly focus the Wavien collar. Half a mm (strip of tape) can increase the intensity by several %!

 
Here it is with the Wavien collar focused (but still with the mediocre lens)
 

 

btw that black thing the light is pointing at is the light absording felt I used inside the flashlight. It soaks up tons of light, but you can still see how bright the spot is!
 
This morning there was a ton of fog outside so I went out and took pictures at 7:00am
Looks crazy awesome, I will compress and upload them in about 12 hours

It's only a 25W CPU so the big vent at the back is enough to keep it below 85C 🙂
 
I have a 60mm noctua fan that I might add though, to make temps even lower.

Looks nice but rip airflow ;-;

Something I've been working on for a while... though I'd show it off 🙂
Let me know your thoughts!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I had a PC die I brought it to a shop and they tested the parts for me, turned out it was a dead CPU and dead mobo.
You really have to test each component individually to narrow it down.
If you don't have the parts/second PC, then your only option is a shop or a friend.

google is a search engine...

To a certain point, both sequential and random read speeds of the storage drive.
After a certain point it is just the CPU bottlenecking because it has to process all the data being loaded.
That's why load times between HDD and SATA SSD are huge, but  SATA SSD and NVME SSD are not that far apart, if not identical.
Depends on the game obviously though.

To a certain point, both sequential and random read speeds of the storage drive.
After a certain point it is just the CPU bottlenecking because it has to process all the data being loaded.
That's why load times between HDD and SATA SSD are huge, but  SATA SSD and NVME SSD are not that far apart, if not identical.
Depends on the game obviously though.

To a certain point, both sequential and random read speeds of the storage drive.
After a certain point it is just the CPU bottlenecking because it has to process all the data being loaded.
That's why load times between HDD and SATA SSD are huge, but  SATA SSD and NVME SSD are not that far apart, if not identical.
Depends on the game obviously though.

Twist it in a circle, that will free it.
Try to not touch the pins.

GPUs do not use enough PCIe bandwidth to saturate x8.
There will be no performance difference between x16 and x8 (his motherboard is PCIe 3.0)

@WoodenMarker and @Enderman both have it. Believe they're the only ones possibly?

It depends because the human eye isn't analogue, so an image that changes slightly every frame (eg. a video on a screen) is completely different from a white square flashlight on a black background, or the flash of a bulb.
 
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Whats_the_Human_eye_Refresh_Rate_maximum_we_can_handle_more_closer_to_the_Max_Value
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold
 
There's a bunch of papers on it you can find.
2-3khz seems to be the typical limit for a general human being.

Brilliant, thank you!
 
Do they have diminishing returns after a certain length? I've found a 20m cable which doesn't cost much more than the 15m version and looks like it'll do the trick