Fattoxthegreat

Fuck my nonsense. I can figure that shit out on my own. I'm now interested in your plan. Those ribbon cables need to go somewhere. are you planning on putting a motherboard in there? Holy hell, I don't think there are any even small (area wise) to fit. Plus, if it's a desktop CPU, shit's gonna need a cooler. A slim PS2 is 1.1 inch thick. Prolly only 1 after accounting for thickness of the case itself. Is that just going to be jutting out of the top of the case? I was thinking you could get something going if you gutted a NUC or used an RPi but a whole computer? You scare me, Mansley...

What in God's name could you possibly fit in that? Also, thanks for the link, but I've seen that. That's the one where the "plastic posts were automagically™ in the right spot"

I bought a broken laptop on ebay solely for the intention of fixing it. The listing explicitly stated "Just needs new screen." Well, I received it and looked it over (after I had to buy a separate charger) and decided that their diagnosis was wrong. I've dealt with broken LCD panels before and this definitely wasn't one. The screen would turn on and be filled with horizontal white lines. The thing is though, when I (I think) went into the BIOS, the "broken" pattern changed. If it were an actual broken panel it wouldn't change, right? Also, I tried plugging the laptop into an external display and got no signal. So anyway, I concluded the GPU had burned out. Steam was installed on the hard drive so I bet someone played this on a bed or something. I bought a new motherboard, transplanted the CPU and plopped her back in. After all that effort, I still had the same issue. Same horizontal white lined pattern, and still not working on an external display. So I guess it wasn't the GPU. What other component could cause these types of problems? Could it just be the ribbon cable is loose from the panel? Thanks.

Yeah, yeah, it's been done to death. But I want to do it to death a little more. Putting a Mini ITX computer in an NES case. I've read every log the internet has to offer on this but still am unsure of a thing or two. Looking down on the case with the front on the bottom, would it be better to mount the motherboard to the very right of the case, or the very left? Also. none of those logs were very clear on exactly HOW the motherboard was mounted. My first plan was to just buy a cheapo case and gut the motherboard tray and cut it to size. However, one of the logs seemed to imply the plastic posts were automagically™ in the right spot. Then, another one had a picture of what I believe was just a bolt with a nut screwed to a height appropriate for the board to rest on. How should I go about this? Thanks.

Probably has been asked in this thread, but I don't have the wherewithal to find out. When reviewers or more tech savvy individuals talk about power delivery and say things like 8+2 or 3+3 about the phases, what exactly do they mean, and what difference do these numbers make?

Valid point. Can't really argue with that.

Actually, even though I think it would be nice to get to try evey part of building a custom loop, that part is not really my main concern. My main concern is filling the loop and circulating the coolant to bleed all the air. It seems rather involved and I've seen a few people Youtube screw this part up nearly frying their hardware. Also messing up and spilling the coolant everywhere ruining Christmas for everyone.

This might seem silly, but I've been mulling over the idea of building a budget PC in order to try my hand at a custom loop. I wouldn't want to not know what I was doing and potentially ruin expensive hardware. The idea is of course to buy cooling components that I can reuse in a later build. Might seem pointless, but the learning experience is more valuable to me than the finished computer. The CPU waterblock is not an issue, but I was wondering what GPU I could buy that would be both inexpensive and easy to find a custom waterblock for? I know they make these "One size fits all" blocks that only cool the GPU and not the VRegs or RAM, but I am more looking for a block that cools everything. The overall cost of both is the only concern, so if I need to buy a more expensive card to get a cheaper block or vise versa then so be it. Also willing to hear reasons why this idea is stupid entirely. Thanks in advance.

My first computer I built recently is named "Ymir". Then another one I built just for shits n' giggles is still just named "Loser-PC". Might change that at some point. My lappy is named "Kytalborath" because it's fun to just make up these middle earth RPG-y sounding names. Note: The name Ymir had nothing to do with AoT, I've known about that god for well over a decade.

Back when I was a youngster, maybe 14 or 15, I asked my grandfather if I could have his old HP mini tower he no longer uses. I told him I could upgrade it and make it useable. He agreed and gave it to me. I think it was running either Windows ME or 2000. After booting it up, I realized I immediately was at a roadblock. Had no idea how to even bypass the password he left on it. Had never installed an OS at that time and I don't believe I even had the ability to do so. So I just opened it up and found out the components I would need were a little obsolete and would be hard to find. I can't recall if I had another computer or not at this time to look up parts online, but I think I went to a Fry's and tried to find DDR1 RAM but couldn't. So I guess I just gave up and tore the machine apart. This story kinda makes me cringe thinking back on it, because 15 is damn well old enough to have more problem solving skills than this. Oh well. I think even to this day he thinks I am incompetent with computers so he never askes for help. I guess everything turned out better than anticipated.

Invaluable pontification ol' chap. Care to expound upon this notion?

So I was wondering. Why wouldn't we make hard drives with built in RAID levels at the platter level. By this I mean having a 4TB hard drive but separate half of its capacity as a RAID1 of itself so you end up with a 2TB extra secure hard drive (two 1TB platters in RAID1 with two other 1TB platters)? This thought crossed my mind when I looked up the specs of the first 6TB hard drive to hit the market. I saw it had 7 platters in it instead of the anticipated 6. So I was curious what that oddball platter was doing in there, then it hit me; "What if there's some sort of RAID going on in there?" Now, the obvious first reaction to this is "What's the point?" Valid concern. But the way I see it, redundancy RAIDs (1, 5, 6, etc.) are there incase specific sectors on specific platters go bad, and typically these hard drives are going to be in the same system. So if a computer falls off a desk or something, it's taking all the drives down with it anyways so this way, it at least saves space. I can imagine this being far more of a good idea once 10+TB HDDs become more commonplace and instead of buying 2 at half the capacity, you could buy one big one and RAID it with itself. Obviously this idea had data redundancy in mind first and foremost, but I can't see why Striping a hard drive with itself would be any less valid of an idea. Why do you think? Is this just the fevered dream of a mad man? Does something like this even exist (I have no idea)?

Definitely this. I will become the internet!

I have this duster and I have to say, it is really not great. The smallest terminating attachment is still maybe 10 times the area of a compressed air can's straw dealy. Because of this it just simply lack the pressure and "oomph" that a can or air has. It's also impossibly loud and get really hot quickly.

IN? Probably the CPU and Motherboard circa 2010. But I am currently using an UltraSharp 1704FP as a secondary from 2004 or 2005. My other computers are actually rather new. Just built them this year. I do have an Nvidia MX400 PCI card I use for troubleshooting. So the couple of times that was in my systems, I guess that was it.