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Well it's been running all day with some bottles of lemonade in it, and it's built up ice inside it, so I'd say it works pretty well.

It's not the refrigeration cycle. It's completely electronic. No refrigerant and no pipes or compressors. LTT made a whole video about them a few years ago. I honestly don't have a clue what the wattage is, but it came from the store with nothing but a small heat sink and 90mm case fan. I have to imagine this AIO would vastly outperform it, even with the terrible mounting pressure. I don't have any way of measuring the actual performance, aside from simply feeling how cold the inside of the fridge gets. I mostly did this just for the fun of it. I got the fridge for free, so I didn't mind mutilating it.

It doesn't have a compressor. It uses a peltier pad. One side gets hot, and the other get cold. The more heat you can dissipate from the hot side, the colder the cold side gets.

So I have one of those cheapo mini fridge things that uses a small peltier pad for the cooling. It wasn't getting very cold, and the worn out fan was really loud. So after finding this ancient asetek AIO at a yard sale, I decided to try to wire it up to the fridge using all the mounting pressure of cheap duct tape. Used Noctua NT-H1 for the thermal paste. Haven't had time to see if it cools properly or not, so we'll see.

So I know next to nothing about server grade hardware, and about as much about NASes, so genuinely don't know if THIS is a good deal or not. it comes with 24TB of storage included. frankly, that seems to me like it's probably worth the price on it's own, but what do I know? I looked up the specs, and it has a fairly low power 1.5Ghz quad core processor (and only 1GB of RAM, but I imagine that's easily upgraded.), so I'm not thrilled with that, but I really don't know how powerful a home NAS really needs to be. I'm totally new to this kind of stuff. what do you guys think? does this seem like a decent deal? I am really tempted to get it, but I don't want to just throw away $750.

Found this while looking for a macro keypad. 84 programmable keys, and it's only $35 usd. Shipping to Tennessee was $18, so if I bought one it would come to $53, which still seems fairly reasonable. Assuming it doesn't suck anyway. It also has a credit card reader, so clearly this thing is made for retail use, which makes me concerned that it wouldn't work as regular macro pad for windows. Anyone have any experience using something like this on windows? I think this could have a lot of potential for stuff like editing and streaming if it functions properly. 84 keys is a lot for the price too, so even with exorbitant shipping cost, it still seems like a decent deal. Any and all thoughts are appreciated.

I did all of that. The repair tool claims to have fixed it. It didn't. And when you go to turn on features, and check the boxes for .net it says it applies the changes, but then when you open the list again, they're not checked anymore. I'm telling all of you that I've tried every obvious solution that the internet has to offer. Nothing has worked.

yes. it doesnt exist. note the picture of my registry with it not existing that i posted.

again, did you even read the post? i clearly said i have all the windows updates.

i cant. theres no newer version installed. did you even read the post?

i cant. it tells me i have a newer version installed.

im running window 10 home. i've got all current updates.(according to windows update anyway.) so in order to install discord, i need to install .NET framework 4.5.2 or later. windows swears that i have 4.8 installed. but when i go to installed programs, theres nothing there about net frameworks. nothing at all. and when i go the registry, the folder where net framework shit is suppose to be (the NPD folder) doesnt exist. and when i check installed updates, theres nothing about net frameworks. i even googled all the KB numbers for the installed updates, and none of them are related to net frameworks. when i try to install .NET framework 4.8 it tells me that it cant install it, because its already installed. but i cant install discord, because i dont have a .NET framework installed. i also cant install VLC media player. SO WHAT DO I DO ABOUT THIS?!?!?!?!?! i have scoured the internet looking for a solution to this problem FOR 3 MONTHS NOW. nothing. and i've seen posts on microsofts support forums asking this same question, and they always brush it off as if the person asking about is lieing or something. they tell them to check installed programs, and then go download the installer, despite the fact the poster says they tried all that. microsoft refuses to do anything about this. i've heard that reinstalling windows can fix this issue, but i've also heard from the same people that microsoft keeps brushing off that reinstalling windows didnt fix anything. im completely at all loss at this point.

So I ran the auto overclock scan thing on Afterburner and it's been stuck at this point for like 20 minutes. The clock slider keeps going up, but the actual operating speed doesn't change. What is happening? What do I do? 20200219_203251.mp4

I'm sure this has been asked a dozen times or more, but I've looked and looked and can't find a straight answer to my exact question. I have a motherboard (MSI mpg x570 gaming plus) that has a 8+4 CPU power connector. But my power supply (EVGA 850 B3)only has the 8 pin connector dedicated for CPU. The rest are either "VGA"(which I assume simply means graphics) or SATA. I know the extra 4 pin is largely unnecessary, but I'd like to plug it in anyway. But as I said, my power supply doesn't have an extra 4 pins for CPU. So would it be safe to use one of the other connectors? Or do they not deliver the proper power for CPU use?

Well I'm not worried about degradation. I'm really more worried about throttling, and possibly crashing. I've seen instances where drives will get too hot and just shut down completely. And even if they don't crash, they can still throttle down to almost HDD speeds if they get hot enough.