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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to Unimportant in Desoldering 8-pin bios chip off of HDD PCB??   
    The safe (for your PCB), poor man's way of replacing a SO device with only a plain soldering iron is to sacrifice the old chip. Use small snips (or a xacto knife) to carefully cut the chip's pins at the point where they enter the chip's body. Then the chip will fall straight off (If it does not, the body is glued the PCB, in that case try heating the chip's body with your soldering iron and use a little force) and then you can desolder the pins one by one.
     
    Putting on the new device is simple after that.
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to Master Disaster in Desoldering 8-pin bios chip off of HDD PCB??   
    The general process when desoldering is...
     
    Apply some fresh solder to the old joints (only really required for old solder but won't hurt anyway)
    If you're using solder wick place the wick over the joint
    Place your iron over the wick to melt the solder
    Do one joint at a time moving to a fresh piece of wick for each joint
    You should ask if they have a vacuum desolderer available, if not they should at least have one of the spring loaded ones. Using a desolderer makes things much easier.
     
    I STRONGLY recommend you don't try to desolder a motherboard for your first attempt. Even if you get the chip out without damaging anything you've still got to get the replacement back in afterwards. Certainly don't try it on anything you would be upset to lose.
     
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to FanielDanara in Desoldering 8-pin bios chip off of HDD PCB??   
    One thing that I haven't seen mentioned yet is to be sure you're using enough heat and not forcefully pulling the chip off. If you don't heat up the chip and the PCB enough you could rip up the pads and that's a whole different mess I don't think you want to deal with.
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to SupaKomputa in Desoldering 8-pin bios chip off of HDD PCB??   
    This is a pretty simple procedure, why don't you hand it over to someone with the skills.
    Anyone familiar with heatgun can do it quickly. Give him $10.
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    lonely_sata_cable got a reaction from kingknightrider in Bad hardrive???   
    ok so i did the second paragraph. anyways i figured it out. 
     
    there is a diode your next the the sata power connection on the back of the PCB the was blown out by using the wrong power adapter.
    to fix this i was going to just desolder it and it should just be able to turn on long enough for me to get my data off of it. sadly this did not work for the diode isn't just simply soldered on to the board. instead i just ordered a new PCB from https://www.onepcbsolution.com/ my PCB model number is 2060-800039-P1 and thankfully they had the right replacement for me. only thing i have to do (and i opted into this, they offer to do this for you) swap the bios chip over. im doing this myself because i feel it gives my the perfect reason to research and learn how solder.
     
     
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to lewdicrous in Corsair advanced replacement RMA   
    Doesn't it mean they'll just replace the faulty product? (The mouse in this instance)
    Tried asking them about it?
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to Wh0_Am_1 in custom water cooling companies   
    You forgot Swiftech, they do waterblocks.
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to AvocadosGuac in Is overnight enough time to dry out electronics with rice?   
    Eh id give it like 24-48 to be safe.
     
     
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to SolarNova in custom water cooling companies   
    Monsoon <---( some unique res's and fitting designs)
    XSPC <---(nice glass res's)
    Alphacool <----(90mm thick rads aka 'Monsta' rads)
    Primochill
    Koolance
    Bitspower
    Barrow  <---(they do fittings that look like Bitspower but MUCH cheaper)
    Mayhems <---(great coolants)
     
    For me personaly i would go with EK for blocks, Monsoon or Barrow for fittings, Alphacool for rads, XSPC for glass res, and Mayhems for coolant,
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to jnkokseby in custom water cooling companies   
    People who go all out tend to use Bitspower fittings, they come at a hefty price tag though. They look amazing, I think they do at least. Singularity Computers sell unique stuff too, very premium stuff.
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    lonely_sata_cable got a reaction from mohajem in Sata III 4 port pcie raid card   
    And no i heard if you do a software raid0 performance isnt as good as a physical raid controller
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to RazerOrCorsair in Which keyboard?   
    i think i'm going to get brown
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    lonely_sata_cable got a reaction from Bayfish in Sell Corsair 100iv2 and get Cryorig C1?   
    wow i didnt know the fx 8350 got that hot, even on water, honestly i dont think your gonna get much better temps its gonna differ a little maybe better or for the worse idk either way not much.
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to just_dave in Tread ripper 1900x   
    I'd take R7 1800X + decent X370
    It does perform good in gaming and good in productivity. It is a beast when OCd to 4.1 or 4.2GHz.
    100Hz shouldn't be a problem, check how the games are optimized but i think it should be OK
    Check with other users who play these games on Ryzen, i am bit worried about the GTA V
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to Thermosman in HELP!!!   
    They are compatabile
    Btw please use more specific titles on future
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to just_dave in Tread ripper 1900x   
    1900X is pretty bad choice for purely gaming.
    The X299 chips (minimally 7800X, 7820X) perform similiarly to classic Ryzen because of the crappy Mesh interconnect that has higher overall latency than CCX, so they aren't really for gaming even though they have slightly higher per core performance.
    I'd take 1800X or room heater for gaming.
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to Jarsky in 4U server chassis dual mini itx   
    Your best bet, is probably just to get something like a Norco RPC-422x and customise the rear housing and stand offs and the front controls - as its basically the largest 4U case you can fit into a rack. Possibly the biggest issue might be accounting for the PSU and 2 motherboards...may need to look at dual 1U PSU's or something like that.
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to brwainer in 4U server chassis dual mini itx   
    if you get a quote then sure I'd be interested to know what it ends up being
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to dalekphalm in 4U server chassis dual mini itx   
    I think you’re probably better off doing one system, and installing a VM hypervisor on it, such as ESXi, Windows Server Hyper-V, Proxmox, etc. 
     
    Then just create VM’s for each “server”. 
     
    I do this with my home server. One FreeNAS VM (with PCIe passthrough direct access to 6x 3TB drives) and 3x Windows servers doing various things (the primary windows server runs Plex). 
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to brwainer in 4U server chassis dual mini itx   
    There are multi-node chassis, some of which share all drives with both nodes via SAS and most of which have dedicated drives per node, but I’ve only seen these with proprietary motherboards. A dual-node mITX storage chassis sounds very interesting.
     
    EDIT: I found these which are interesting: http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=63#T2281 very pricey though - that’s what happens when you want a niche product
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to Dark in Steam games on a nas   
    Your setup would certainly work but the experience is killed due to the latency (I wouldn't want to deal with it every time I loaded up a game).

    I tested this on my home setup:
     
    Desktop - 10Gb 
    NAS(QNAP TS-EC1679U-RP)  - 10Gb with 8x2TB 850 Pro SSD's in Raid 6 storage pool
    Switch - Ubiquiti US-16-XG
     
    I copied my steam library over, disassociated the local one, and started a few games (I did not have any transfers going during these tests).

    GTA V was awful, I want to say minutes.
    PUBG was actually not bad, noticeable difference but tolerable.
    DOOM was long and the loading between zones (I only did one) was noticeably longer.
    Don't Starve wasn't bad, not much of a difference.
     
     So yes, I would say that it's certainly a functioning method if you don't mind the increased wait/load times.  I would absolutely prefer local storage.  Your mileage may vary.
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    lonely_sata_cable got a reaction from ArduinoBen in Our school's IT is dumb. I need help!   
    Yea sadly the email part is for safety of viruses and crap being sent by the less techy kids and the passwords (atleast for our school) is linked to our lunch number. Which kinda keeps everything organized as far as school stuff with school stuff and then your personal stuff well thats your problem. But in term of the web site we had our graphics design and web tech classes do a class project (8 periods) between graphics design and web tech
     
    EX: 1st period web tech and 1st period graphics design. Where a big group and they held a small competition to make the best looking and functional website for the school
     
    It worked really well considering there some high schoolers just starting out. But maybe you could try and convince those classes to do that and then you have more of a group of people to support you.
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    lonely_sata_cable got a reaction from newgeneral10 in Steam games on a nas   
    So im gonna have a htpc made of some of my older parts ( i3 6100 8GB ram basic stuff) and i was thinking well heck why dont i just throw in a rx 470 thats i have just not being used and play games using the steam controller. but i am in the process of building a custom nas with 10gb networking sooooo as you can tell where im going with this, can i put steam games ( or even the program for that matter) on the nas and access the game from the nas one at a time. maily just save time with the save files and mods and crap i have on games like gta v.
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to staubgame in Steam games on a nas   
    I like this idea. No idea but I'll follow the thread to see what comes of it.
    I got myself the steam streaming thingy (Steam Link) which covers my needs so far for only 16€ (including shipping, was on sale this summer)
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    lonely_sata_cable reacted to Donut417 in 10gb network   
    Remember a router is a multi function network device. They do make 10Gig switches. Plus depending on what kind of Switch you have, like managed switches can do the work that a router does if you set it up properly. Just keep in mind this is going to be expensive, and because of that its not something an average person is going to do. 
     
    You also need to make sure you got the NICs that can do 10 gig and I think you need cat6 A cabling to make this happen. 
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