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corsair is decent, evga, thermaltake PSU's are cheap (not great) but at least shouldn't present a fire hazard.

Cases like that are very rare, but if it gives you piece of mind...then absolutely, go ahead and pick up a quality budget PSU.

Personally, I'd just keep it as is if it's running fine. A new PSU would probably be more than 50% of what the entire system is worth.

A RX 5600xt with the updated BIOS would be a pretty big jump or you could wait for AMD's next gen of GPU's...I have a RX 5700 and the difference between this and my old RX 570 is like night and day.

I have a rx 5700 (non xt) so I think it's pretty well balanced. This CPU/GPU is more than enough for me for now running VR titles. My cue for upgrading usually is when there is a game I'm really interested that I know my hardware can't run...

IMO, The 3000g is the way to go. Unless you insist on buying new, a used 2200g or 2400g is even better for around that price.

Like others have mentioned, I'd try to find a used 2200g or 2400g - They aren't at all bad. Athlon 300ge or Athlon 3000g are fine for light gaming...

I have a 1600af running at 4ghz...perfectly happy until it is no longer able to do what I need it to...I'll probably upgrade 2 years from now when they have a 2600af...LOL. I'm usually a gen or two behind and I'm okay with that.

I'm not well versed on console hardware (I have an xbox one that's been sitting on the shelf for the past 3 years) but I just find it astonishing that AMD integrated graphics will go from being roughly as powerful as a GT1030 to performance between a RX 5700XT and GTX2080 (as another poster mentioned) If this is true, graphics cards may become obsolete in the future.

Sorry, I meant the system info. I think I've found something similar for Win10 called desktopinfo, but it's not quite as nice looking.

I love it...that is slick as hell...do they have a version for Windows (or something similar) by chance?

Until I sit down and write it out, I'm guessing that I would pass the distance and orientation of the next pixel to a separate move() function which assumes control of the motor. I tend to overdo it when it comes to making my code simple...I'll probably have a function for move_left, move_right, etc, etc...

I wouldn't trust Windows when it comes to reported clock speeds. God only knows where it pulls its numbers half the time.

I don't believe anything but the rpi4 will output 4k. I did this project last year with an old 1080 monitor, the smart mirror software was relatively easy to install. However, I really wanted to use a pi zero and this was an impossible task at the time. The software simply would not run on it. I ended up using my rpi3.

Dang

LOL...I've heard of the jaguar2 but I had no idea it was this powerful. The last article I read mentioned it's roughly equivalent to a rx 5700xt?

Wow...that's pretty freaking amazing then. I know the architecture in consoles has been completely different than pc's, but why isn't this an option for pc users?

Surely he'll need a dedicated graphics card though, right? This is the first I've heard of Ryzen 7 APU's but I'm sure they can't match the performance of dedicated graphics cards...

It's probably the PSU. However, even if you do discover that the PSU is bad, it may have taken your MB or other components out with it. Do you by chance have another PSU to try? If not, you could always order one and if you find the MB is also bad, save it for your next build.

Thanks! Now I remember I believe I have 2 bipolar stepper motors, I also have the adafruit motor HAT for the rpi for much better control. I can't see moving the motors for this project as being overly difficult...It would, however require a very steady platform. it's just going to be a lot of trial and error determining how much the motors need to increment per pixel (I'm assuming focal distance won't matter?) and then turning the laser on/off at appropriate times. Your idea of holding the laser in one spot for brighter pixels really draws my interest. For now though, I'd be thrilled to get a drawing on the wall! I think I'm going to start this using python turtle to test the logic and see if it can follow the pixels to re-draw the image.

This is a Christmas project for work, so I have time I will probably just use b&w pictures since the glow board is only one color anyways. If they have different colors, that would be really neat too, but it would make things a bit more complicated. At this point, it will just be really simple shapes or something like 'Merry Christmas' or something... I've used stepper motors before in other projects and I know there's different ways to increment the motors for more power or precision. I forget though if you can do like 1/2 or 1/4 steps though.

Thanks, unfortunately I feel the 'easy' way would be too time consuming for the motors to draw and wouldn't look realistic. My goal is to make it look like a person drawing with a pen. I've read about Dijkstras algorithm but have yet to put it into practice. Another simpler approach I've considered is starting at coordinates 1,1 (boolean values are stored in an 2 dimensional array) and moving down the y axis, if no pixels are found, increment x by 1. When it does locate a 'True' value, I will have logic which searches for an adjacent pixel (whether it be above, below, left, right) and follow the pixels which are assigned as 'True' values. When it runs out of pixels, it will then scan at coordinates x,1 and do the same thing. If all of the lines are connected, then it 'should' work without having to reset the y coordinate, I believe. I have yet to put it into practice so it may fail miserably...It also doesn't look to be very efficient. After this is figured out, I then need to figure out how far to 'step' the motors for each pixel (based on the focal distance and laser diameter) I am very new to python, so this project may just be too advanced for me. As I mentioned earlier, I'm also having issues getting opencv installed on my raspberry pi. A workaround for that (as far as I can tell) is to convert images to lists of boolean values which represents whether a pixel exists at x,y coordinate and then save the 'lists' on the rpi...

I've concluded that many of the present day remakes aren't about improving or the original (at least not in a meaningful way). They are about a quick buck and the producers seeking glory with their Hollywood comrades on how 'woke' they claim to be.

I think I got a good start on the coding part. Last night I wrote some python code which opens a file and will return a boolean value based on whether there is a non-white pixel at x,y. I think I'll only be working with b&w images since the backboard only omits one color anyways. This was done on my main pc, but I'm hoping to be able to transfer the finished product to a rpi. However, I cannot for the life of me get opencv installed on my pi 3. I thought I had all of the packages installed, went to try the code and imutils would not load properly. I kept receiving an error about an object not being found. I was just using Mu and python 3.7 but I think the raspbian OS is still defaulting to python 2.7. I believe maybe it installed an older version of imutils, but I'm not totally sure.

For the love of God, I hope they don't remake Back to the Future. The original was an absolute masterpiece. I have no doubt it would suffer the same fate as Ghostbusters. I know there have been talks but the original producers won't allow it to happen (yet)