fargonaz

Your sarcasm is not helpful... I suggest you tone it down a bit.

Was the case previously used as a bird cage?

No, I think they housed mice in it, the brown wire that (on the dell board) jumped two pins on the switch/led header has gnaw marks. I know the people this computer came from and do some computer work for them from time to time, they're nice people but...there's issues.
 
Correct! The biggest challenge will be to see if I can adapt a 20 pin ATX supply to feed the board. Just getting the board to power on is going to be the hardest thing, I can make some assumptions of what does what based on wire colors and wire gauge. I may be sunk if the motherboard uses some weird turn on for the PSU. Since I have a working system with this same Merlin board I do have a leg up as I can probe it at power on to see what does what.
 
So far tonight I got the power/LED header from the Dell case re-pinned to plug into the HP board with the switch, power LED, and HDD LED in the correct places and that weird shorted wire the OEM boards like to have also in the correct cavity. So with that done now it's onto the harder part which I'll tackle later on, I need to swap a CPU and some RAM into the complete HP system so I can probe and take notes. It looks like two wires are constant at the 6 pin 12V (measured those two with the system plugged to power but off/no cpu/no ram) and one wire at the smaller header with green and white in a single row is 5V. That 5V worries me as those wires go back to the PSU and could be my undoing...except I have some buck/boost circuits and a handful of boost circuits so I can turn that 5V into 12V if that's a PSU turn on or do whatever I need to do voltage wise with it.
 
Irony that the board is a 'Merlin' since it's going to take a 'Wizard' to make this work!

Was the case previously used as a bird cage?

Hello all! I'm new to this forum, and like many others I was drawn to this by LTT's video. 
 
I strongly dislike leeches who ask for advice and contribute nothing in return, so I will try to avoid being that myself.
 
After weighing the pros and cons, I decided that the pros strongly outweighed the potential risks, so I decided to drop some money on a P106-100. 
 
Taobao sellers are reluctant to sell internationally for the same reason a US-based eBay seller would be reluctant to sell to me, a Malaysian citizen: international shipping and logistics, customs clearance, and unfamiliarity with the system, all contribute to sellers simply sticking with a "no, we don't ship internationally" stance. Plus, the entirety of Taobao's UI is in Chinese, which makes it difficult for buyers in the first place.
 
There are services known as Taobao "Agents", who essentially act as middlemen. Agents are logistics experts whose sole purpose is buying products from Taobao and shipping them abroad. Established agents typically own their own warehouse in China, and will typically do all of the necessary negotiation with the seller on your behalf. Of course, that means you will have to pay more shipping, as well as a service fee on top of it. That being said, it saves you from a lot of the hassle. 
 
I personally used buy2taobao (aka buy2you), and it cost me $8-10 on top of the base product from Taobao. Shipping costs will vary, obviously. Just putting this information out there.
 
Anyway, my card is still on the way, and I will update when I've managed to install the drivers. I will modify the driver inf files myself, because it looks simple enough. Honestly a lot of people are turned off by the illusion that their computers will be flooded with malware from suspicious drivers, but for crying out loud you can modify the drivers yourself. Oh well, at least their reluctance will keep the price for the cards low.
 
This will actually be my first PC build, but I'm not super tech illiterate so I'm not worried. I'm still choosing the other parts, and haven't decided if I want to go for Intel or Radeon. Obviously if I wanted to stay safe, I'll stick to a build similar to what Linus demonstrated in his video. But I've seen another forum post where it appears that someone got it working with AMD parts, but didn't elaborate how. Does anyone know anything about it?
 
And to the one person commenting on how the card appears to be limited to PCIE 1.1 speeds, I thought all of the P10x cards had PCIE 1.0? Which is why I discarded my initial idea to try to use it as a laptop eGPU, because it would bottleneck so hard I'm not sure it would even surpass my laptop's built in 760M GPU.

The much sought after motherboard whisperer.

I'll be sure to upload the final result, but it will be a couple months before I get all the parts.  Got to buy a piece at a time. 

Over the next few months I plan on pricing and acquiring the parts for my newest build.  This will be my 3rd build but first in a while as my last build has lasted me several years.  I hope that this new build will last the same length of time and give me even more room to upgrade as needed.  This will be a semi-budget build(under $1,000 US).   Looking forward to all the help from the community over the next few weeks and I hope I'm able to build the best PC possible and show it off for you all.  PCpartpicker listed below.  Thanks in advance for any and all help. 
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU AMD - Ryzen 5 2600X 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $179.99 @ Walmart CPU Cooler Deepcool - CAPTAIN 240EX RGB 153.04 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $77.82 @ Newegg Business Motherboard Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard $119.89 @ OutletPC Memory G.Skill - Trident Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $124.99 @ Newegg Storage Samsung - 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $82.89 @ OutletPC Video Card XFX - Radeon RX 580 8 GB GTS XXX ED Video Card $189.95 @ B&H Case NZXT - H500i (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case $94.99 @ Amazon Power Supply Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $54.99 @ Newegg   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total (before mail-in rebates) $965.51   Mail-in rebates -$40.00   Total $925.51   Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-02-07 16:25 EST-0500    

Air coolers last longer, a block of metal wont randomly die because an air bubble made its way from the radiator to the pump. The tubes of an AIO absorb liquid just like any other watercooling tubing, that will eventiually create air pockets and from what i have seen on this forum that takes 3-5 years before it kills the pump or the performance is awful because there is a lot of air. Meanwhile air coolers only have the fans that could die, which is the same as any AIO. If you want a cooler to last, i would buy a decent air tower over an AIO. Makes sense money wise too as most 240mm AIOs get beaten by air coolers for the same or less money

two packs of rough bread.. (not really a big hit outside Denmark, Norway and Sweden I think, so dont know how many of you know what it really is?)

hehe...dog food...it was on sale !

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Dogpile!

Bring it, I will take on the whole damn community if I have to!

Embarrassingly I didn't have Java. I never thought to check because I was sure I had installed it. It also never crossed my mind to check, foolishly. I think fingers cross it will work. I downloaded Java and downloaded the files again. It was still the same but I remembered someone telling me to check associated files. This time .jar was there, because I'd obviously downloaded Java THIS TIME. I had to change it and downloaded it again. This time it is a .jar file. You saying did I have Java triggered my brain to check and well you now know as do I. Thank you, both of you.
@Radium_Angel @fargonaz

School isn't prison, mate. If you're sick, just tell the teacher and ask to leave.
 
And text your mom, man. She worries.

Total PC computers: 55
Total laptops: 74
Total tablets: 145
Total cell phones: 25
 
Reasons for all the tech:. Most are used by students at my wife's school being that they don't have the budget for stronger computers. Nor do the students have the finances for them either. So I have built each machine and worked with several companies to fund these students with the technology to help them learn. Plus it's from donations from my own company as well. 

Hey ltt group just here to give  my 2 cents like jay, its my birthday in February so my dad sent me a little cash and I decided to buy an rx 570 red dragon 4gb from new egg, im from Guadalajara mexico, Mexico was on the sites world wide shipping awesome!! I even got it on sale everything was looking good for an updated build from my r9 280, but out of the blue today a few days after the original purchase I got 3 emails from newegg back to back letting me know 1 there was an error with my address, ok i can call and fix that, 2 that they were gonna be sending and rma and 3 that it was already back a facility and i could expect a refund after 3-5 buissness days, i waited in chat for about 2 hours, i was number 80 just to be told they dont know what went wrong with my address... I now have to wait to get my money back and buy somewhere else defenetly not recommended 

To me that says you're paying $69.95 for the two year subscription which equates out to $2.91 a month.

I can...
I take the fan off, I turn the fan over, I put it back. 

what? I wasn't correcting your use of the word rumors, rumours is another way of spelling the word, I just mean that it's speculation, and it may not be true that there will be low numbers of cards on launch.

Because we like freedom 

Isn't this for General Discussion? Where the iPhone thread was?
 
Anywho, pros:
far more customizable, launchers, skins, you name it plug in a PC and drag'n'drop, no iTunes or equivalent program proper File Mangement much cheaper phones, and you can basically pick a phone that suits your needs in different price ranges, even if you want to go with a flagship better community support in terms of custom ROMs. Literally many varieties of ROMS that I can choose from  
To be clear, I could list lots of cons of android, but we're talking pros here. 

..because he makes money repairing primarily Apple products that Apple won't repair, or charge an exorbitant fee to repair?