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  1. KenjiUmino
    have you tested the keyboard without the hub and the hub without the keyboard ? could be a dead usb hub as well. the cheaper usb hubs die easy - been through a lot of hubs already. and of course they could technically be able to fry whatever is plugged into them ...
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    yes: a new keyboard. open device manager with the keyboard unplugged and plug it in with the device manager window open - any changes ? do you hear the "device connected" sound when you plug it in? do other usb keyboards work? have you tested the not working keyboard on other computers? if you plug the keyboard in and nothing happens it means your keyboard is toast. if the keyboard works on other computers and/or other keyboards also don't work on your laptop then there is something funny with your laptop
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    "laptop" and "sounding good" are not compatible with each other. some sound less shit than others but small laptop speakers can only do so much.
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    look up HDMI ARC. optical audio and coax SPDIF has severe limitations. it won't do more than 2 channel PCM - that means no PCM or "HD" surround sound over optical - only AC3 a.k.a. "dolby digital" or DTS.
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    make sure you have the TV set to output sound via HDMI ARC (audio return channel) and have the soundbar connected to the correct HDMI port on the TV (only one of them is ARC capable)
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    if you want to upgrade to skylake/kabylake/coffeelake you need a new mainboard and new RAM - and when you plan to spend that much dough then you can possibly throw in a matching case too. then just move your PSU and graphics card out of the dell into the new case and not bother with the dell case being compatible with the mainboard or not. eventually, you can just put the original PSU back into the dell (better get an inexpensive replacement) and sell the dell or use it as a 2nd computer for low spec stuff
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    something as powerful as vega 8 on an m.2 stick ? YES PLEASE i can see it in my head already ...
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    could already be a thing if a modder would try hard enough. filter capacitors used in many guitar/bass tube amps are large enough to fit a compute stick inside. now all we need is a somewhat decent graphics card the size of an m.2 drive so we can shove a dedicated GPU in there along with the compute stick
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    usually, coil whine gets worse when there is more stress on the coils but on some devices it can totally happen that the whine is always present even when idle. that PSU i talked about makes that noise as soon as the power button is pressed. i even had coil whine on phone chargers - i could tell when the phone had finished charging because the pitch would change slightly but the noise was always present, even with no phone connected.
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    SSD/eMMC storage integrated into the CPU ? please, NO !!!! i already hate it when RAM and storage is soldered onto laptop mainboards. good luck with data recovery if that drive decides to crap out. yes it MIGHT make smaller devices possible but how much smaller do you want it?
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    jep, probably coil whine. i have a PSU that does this. it can be annoying AF
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    hooray for power supplies with working short circuit protection
  13. KenjiUmino
    this. if you got a single headphone/mic combo jack, you need a splitter because the contact points on the combo jack don't match the mic plug and the laptop is usually configured to mute the speakers as soon as it detects ANYTHING plugged into that jack because it assumes that whatever has been plugged in to be a headphone or headset type.
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    when the CPU power cable was touching the heatsink you got 12V shorted to ground, triggering the PSUs safeguards (hopefully) so it shut itself down immediately. totally seen this happen myself on my old core 2 duo system when a molex connector hit the copper fins of the cooler - there was a spark and the system shut down but after tucking the cable away and pressing the power button again the system bootet right up and worked fine like nothing happened. probably? inspect the cables - do you SEE any actual damage?
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    exactly - a good start would be to know who the original manufacturer of the power suppliy is.
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    any background info on that ?
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    if blue & black cables would be OK then look at the Sharkoon SilentStorm Icewind
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    AFAIK this feature was already present in non-pro PS4 consoles but you could not do a lot in terms of fancy overlays and other customisation a dedicated streaming software like OBS is able to offer
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    what frequency range and wifi standard are you using? 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz 150N, 300N, AC ? technically, wifi and ethernet are different and independent devices. even when they are both on the same card or integrated onto the mainboard
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    even a 750ti outperforms the 1030 noticeably
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    i actually did not even mean to be rude - sorry if it sounded like this but seriously - i've read this question so many times now. i guess it needs to be communicated more often and more clearly.
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    why do people ALWAYS forget that the mainboard chipset can provide additional lanes.
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    you mean like this:
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    i would not use a simple Y splitter for microphones - dunno for sure but i think having a microphone connected to two inputs at the same time could cause problems. i would either buy or build a switching device - assuming the microphone has a phones plug - the device would look something like this: building such a switchbox yourself is easy and inexpensive - simple 2 way switches are cheap just connect all grouns together, solder the signal wire for output A to one outer pin and output B to the other outer pin, the middle pin goes to the microphone
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