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Hello everyone. I am planning on upgrading my PC (already), and i plan on using my old SATA ssd(boot drive) and two M.2 SSDs. My question is, Can I simply plug them into the new motherboard and they will work? I read that you have to do a fresh install of Windows, but will all the files be OK? Also on my current PC, I had a SATA HDD, in the first SATA plug in, as the boot drive. I ended cloning everything into the SATA ssd, and I tried to plug the SATA SSD into the first plug in and it wouldn't work... so on the new PC, would I have to make sure its in the second SATA plug in like it is currently? Sorry if I poorly explained or its a silly question. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance, happy new year to you all.

Before we start you need to look at yourself if you need to tell me that old processors aren't as fast as newer ones. I have 2 lenovo A70 systems they're old but have 4gb ram each, theyre towers with PCIE support so very modular, run cool and quiet, support windows 10 & 11(microsoft have issues) and have gigabit ethernet. There is enough here for a decent desktop experience but modern games, some productivity software and WEB BROWSERS will choke on this budget pentium cpu as well as windows 10 background tasks. The one thing I wont attempt is using old storage when basic SSDs are so cheap, the system supports sata 2 which is plenty for a responsive system. Theres a Kioxia 240gb ssd dangling in the below photo but it will be getting a 3d printed bracket. E5800 pentium performance in 2023 The system was really unresponsive with 90% or 100% cpu utilisation browsing the web. The geekbench score of 382 single core and 618 multicore nails the performance issue here. The mod Its possible to use old xeon 771 chips in core 2 duo/quad era motherboards often going from single/dual core 65nm chips to full blown 45m quad core chips that can overclock to 4ghz. The mod requires a bios patched with xeon microcodes, a taped sticker on the cpu pins and either the motherboard alignment pins cut out with a 18mm snap off knife or pre modded cpu from china. As I already own an x5460 I found premodded bios files for my system and flashed them via windows. This youtuber modded the bios, I tried to do patch myself but couldnt get the patcher to recognise a current Lenovo .rom file. Install As I was feeling traditional after dissaseembly I dropped my new cpu onto the socket pins. Using a microscope and steel soldering tweezers the one bent pin got mostly bent back. A cmos reset was required without it posted but wouldnt get to windows. Cmos reset by removing the CR2032, unplugging hdmi and mains cable then holding the power button. Cooling Its really obvious that this system needed new thermal paste on the cpu, northbridge, southbridge and gpu but I think we forget how bad modern cooling can be. Even though the system came with only a 65w pentium chip the system still came as standard with a bulky aluminium heatsink and thick modular fan and fully supports my 120w xeon cpu. The experience Using this system is night and day better its so much more responsive and doesnt get become unresponsive from windows update or anti virus scans. Browsing the internet is responsive and video playback works in HD. Booting the computer is much faster with 16.4 seconds to the windows login screen or 20 seconds to desktop. The new geekbench score with a 10.7% imrovement in single core performance thanks to the extra cache on the premium xeon and 90% improvement in multicore performance. The caveat The old geforce 8400 graphics card is lacking while its got some video accleration in the form of 'second generation PureVideo HD' for h264 which DOES improve playback in vlc, youtube uses vp9 and seems to be moving back to that from av1, while I can playback 4k30 content at 84% utilisation its not a zero impact thing like on a 12th gen system with vp9 acceleration. Alternatives The 3.16ghz xeon x5460 is about the best cpu you can expect to pickup at a reasonable price but other options like the intel 2.8ghz q9505, q9500 and q9550 or 2.66ghz q9400 share a similar used price and cache and if you're using a non oem mobo its not unreasonable to overclock those cpus to well beyond the 3.16ghz I achieved. Yes its easy to pickup better samples but its the used market and depends on your area. Lenovo_ThinkCentre A70_L-IG41M2_BIOS_MOD.zip

I have some old phones that I would like to reuse instead of letting them dust to death or disposing them. Before you ask, giving them to relatives isn't really feasible as it would just be a downgrade for almost all of them (glares in jealousy) Not to mention most of these phones are laughably old or in bad condition so there's that as well. I'm going to describe the phones, their respective conditions and what could possibly be done with them though feel free to give your suggestions on what I should/could do with them. Do keep in mind that I'm on a very tight budget and I'm very hesitant to spend money on these phones unless it's abosu-fukin-lutely worth the investment. FYI, I'm on a Samsung Galaxy A50 so I can't really "upgrade". Additionally, as of now, I'm not really in the need of a secondary phone though maybe I could put a sim with unlimited data into one of these and use them as mobile hotspots? Is there a ROM that focuses on cutting down background processes so that I can maximize the bandwidth/antennas for hotspot use? Though this isn't really useful considering I'm not going anywhere in this lockdown to need a hotspot in the first place but hey its best to be prepared I s'pose. Or maybe i can salvage the parts and use them to make some other stuff? Your suggestions would be very much appreciated. Again as I'm a beginner to modding, custom ROMs, rooting and whatnot, I would definitely like some advice as this also gives me the oppurtunities to safely get into modding without the risk of damaging/bricking/f**king up my phone. Hence, your suggestions are welcome with open arms. 1. Samsung Galaxy A70 (2018) Condition: Dead screen Description: AFAIK the rest of the phone works fine just the screen has committed not living. This was mainly due to a shoddy screen replacement by an even shoddier repair shop (dude literally couldn't be arsed to glue the screen back fucking taped it) the reason was that the phone being out of warranty and the screen replacement from Samsung official was ~$USD 80 whereas Mr Shoddy did it for ~$USD 25 and threw in an admittedly decent case as well. (Just so we're clear this wasn't my decision my dad wouldn't listen). I'm willing to do it myself (would be a good experience for me) but the screen costs about ~$90 so yeah. Not really willing to fix a phone when for twice the price I could just get a new one that is far more superior. Use cases: Can't really think of any. Maybe a Pendrive? mini computer? Can the micro USB connector even output to a display? Would really like some advice on this one. 2. Nokia 1 Condition: Working as normal Description: Ah yes this ******** aka my first smartphone. I have no intention of giving this to anyone simply because I'm not sadistic enough nor do I know anyone masochistic enough to take it. It runs on Android 10 (Go edition) and has a mere pittance of 1GB RAM and 8GBs of Storage (oh god the flashbacks, it's all coming back to me. no pls no). needless to say, a 5 dollar USB stick has more storage and perhaps more performance as well. Battery life is non-existent and so is its ergonomics. True to Nokia's design philosophy this mf will not fucking die. The number of times I have dropped it and it just took it like a tank is amazing. if you're wondering how much I paid for this it was a whopping ~USD 40 used. A damn good deal for someone who had been stuck on feature phones until then. Use case: Security cam? there's an app on Google Play called Alfred (good name) that's made for this purpose and I'm gonna try it out. Maybe Install DroidCam and turn it into a webcam (albeit a crappy one though laptop webcams can't really speak for themselves) Video Doorbell? Could use some suggestions here as well. 3. Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Condition: Working (installed new battery) Description: Ooooooh boy time to travel back to 2014 the era of the unfathomable abomination that is the curved screen. This one I just got recently from my uncle [begin rant] who also has an S10+ in a cupboard but won't give it to me because it has his data on it. When I offered to transfer the data to his S21+ Ultra max storage variant he said "later" which = never [end rant]. It still has its S pen that doesn't work with any other phone or the clicky top that other S pens do. Not really sure what to do with this one. It's running Android 6.0/Marshmallow. Use Case: Since it's so old maybe I can use this as a testing/learning ground for flashing ROMs. <--This could also apply to the others. Drawing ....surface? (cant really call it a tablet now can I?) Again would like to hear your suggestions. Last but not least 4. Huawei Nova 3i Condition: Screen is halfway out Description: This was my dad's old phone and during his time using it, he had the bright idea of putting his phone in his back pocket and sitting on it. For 3-4 years, Every, Single, Day. One day he drops it and is surprised to find the phones screen halfway tryna make a run for it. So yea basically the phone's screen is halfway out and the buttons (both volume and lock) are f**ked and the screen has dead zones and other touchscreen related issues. Use Case: I cant think of much either. Maybe I can disassemble that finger print reader and somehow connect it to my laptop to make windows hello/finger print login possible? Probably not possible with the A70 since its reader is on the side, maybe the Note Edge? Though I would assume its fingerprint tech is inferior to the Huawei's due to the age gap. So to list out some of the universal use cases I can think of are: a) Put a sim with unlimited data and if possible flash a custom ROM that limits background/network processes/activity so that the phone's antennas can be maximized for hotspot usage. b) Disassemble and salvage parts like cameras, batteries and whatever can be reused. Perhaps can DIY them into something else? I'm not exactly sure c) Turn them into Security cams, I know there's an app called Alfred on Google Play that I will try out and see if and how well it works. d) Turn them into smart storage units? I'm thinking since some of them have large storage capacities maybe turn them into External storage units? Maybe flash a Barebones/lightweight ROM with an adequate file explorer and job done? That about sums it up for the phones if you have any question regarding details feel free to @ me and I'll try to answer asap. Again I'm open to any ideas you all may have.

I am looking at running an Ethernet line up to my bedroom. i am renting so i cant make any holes to run the Ethernet cable but then i came across moca adapters for converting an Ethernet connection to coax and then back to Ethernet. because i have a pre run coax cable i wanted to know if i could connect my old router thru coax to my existing router as the cost of a moca adapter is not very cheap and I already have a spare router

i have a very old pc is there any way to reuse it? not as my main pc

I have an old PC I wasn't using, and I was going to give it away. I then realized that I could use it to run computations (I write evolving neural networks as a hobby) while I use my main computer for other tasks. Ideally, I'd like some way to have the machine running headlessly, and then just use ssh on a terminal (or something similar) to send an app over and run it. That much I can handle, but I have no idea what distro of Linux I should put on the machine. I'm not super experienced with Linux, so I'm a bit afraid of something like Arch. Any ideas?

This tablet was broken after a 9-hour flight in my backpack. Not sure how that happened but when I checked immediately after landing, 1/4 of the bottom of the screen wasn't responding to touch input. Now, half of the screen isn't responding to touch. In addition to that, the micro USB port seems tricky now. Specs: - 8" iPad mini-like display (768x1024, 3:4 IPS panel) - 1.2 GHz (?) quad core processor (handles games pretty decently) - 1 GB RAM - 16 GB ROM - WiFi only (no bluetooth adapter) - Android 4.4 - Micro USB with support for OTG - Mini HDMI port (I have a mini HDMI to regular HDMI cable) I want to know if there is an app that could possibly let me control the other half of the screen without having to rotate the device literally every time I have to tap on the bottom side of the tablet. I want a trackpad sort of app that I can place on the responsive part of the screen. I've used the mini HDMI feature and it seems to work pretty well aside from the letterboxing. The micro USB is a bit tricky to use because it's broken. Ive used a mouse on it although I'd really prefer not to. If someone can, please tell me about an app to control it with another phone or from a PC through WiFi. The lack of bluetooth was really a big turn-down for wireless input... I'm also interested in suggestions for other new uses for this device. I think it'd make a great TV partner. Is it also possible to use a micro USB hub for this device? I've seen some for Samsung devices, although I'm not quite sure if they're universal...

I have the old HP ProBook 4520s and I want to reuse it beacause I only have desktop and I need a laptop what upgrades can I do to make it good for some coding all my usage is coding and internet no gaming

I have the old HP ProBook 4520s and I want to reuse it beacause I only have desktop and I need a laptop what upgrades can I do to make it good for some coding all my usage is coding and internet no gaming

So the HDMI inputs on my LG 47LD650 stopped working overnight. I love this display more than my Samsung UN55ES7500 actually (regretting the switch but that is another topic) and don't want to let it die just yet. Display panel is fine, software works, can navigate through the menu. I did some looking around and this is apparently a common occurrence. More searching and I found that the problem can usually be traced to the HDMI control chip. I don't have the knowledge or skills to replace the chip, and the main board has been discontinued. A google search found some listings on Ebay offering to repair the board for enough money that i might as well buy a new TV and some obscure websites with the board for sale for around $100, which I have no idea if it will work (I haven't tried my local repair shops yet but if anyone knows a secure source please let me know). I don't think i'm brave enough to try and bake the board. I found an interesting video where the guy uses a hair dryer to heat the chip and it seams to work but he admits only as a short term fix. I might try that later. I'm not necessarily looking to restore this TV back to factory condition, As it is only a secondary TV, I thought it may be a neat project to put it into a custom housing for the garage (I have some aluminium diamond plate lying around) Does anyone know if there is another board I can use for this panel? (from what i can see it is a LC470WUH).

I am building myself a New PC, so was wondering what shall I do with my old one The specs are as follows: CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 Ram: 4GB (DDR2 I guess?) Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce 210 Power Supply: 230W Generic 160GB HDD Motherboard: Some Asus, but cant confirm. This PC was bought MANY years ago prebuilt from HP. DVD RW 5.25 inch drive Using this as a Home Server/NAS is pointless, as I am the only user in house. My parents are quite happy with their phones and tablets. They have never used PCs in their life, and do not expect them to any time. Would love to hear your ideas.

My Dad owns a little computer shop and he's racked up quite a collection of old parts that are mostly ridiculously outdated. Is it worth modding cases and reusing old parts? Mostly to create browsing computers and maybe even low-end gaming computers for indie titles and older games. I'm not an expert modder but I could re-paint some old cases and cut into them to make them look more aesthetic. Not sure sure if worth the effort tho.

Hello, not sure if this is the right place to post this but I was wondering whether wiping my 4 year old HDD (https://www.mwave.com.au/product/seagate-st2000dm006-2tb-barracuda-35-7200rpm-sata3-desktop-hard-drive-ab85968?gclid=Cj0KCQjwybvPBRDBARIsAA7T2kgOnjJR6YGXtnN-UkjHnG5n24DNTcVHsvZygbfVQ4Ej9KoBogGy__AaAslYEALw_wcB) would be fine to use in a new system, I also have a 250gb ssd and a 500gb ssd for games, the OS and such so the HDD would just be for basic mass storage. So yea, essentially just want to know if 4 years of use is just not worth keeping. Thanks

In this guide I will show you how to make the most out of an old card. (Like a Nvidia GT 330) First off we will remove the OEM cap on the gpu if it is an OEM gpu. (The GT 330 is a dell OEM card) This should work on newer versions of windows (7 and up) 1: Open Regedit (winkey + r then type regedit and hit yes) 2: Navigate to directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Nvidia Corporation -> Global -> NVTweak -> OemConfigurations 3. Double click on MediaCenterLoadPolicy (it should be the only one) Then change the value data to 0. 4. Now restart the pc 5. Great! Now its time to overlock the Gpu, Go download and install MSI Afterburner from: https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner 6. Open it and you should see a screen that shows GPU core clock, memory clock, voltages, etc... 7. This is where it gets a bit tricky and will take some experimentation. SLOWLY raise the core clock and memory clock and make sure to monitor your temps (in the graph below the gpu clocks, I recommend not letting them get over 70c under load. I also recommend turning the fan speed up and making it manual to cool the higher clock speeds. 8. Once you get to a desired overclock test it with Furmark (Run it for like however long you need, the longer the more accurate results): http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/ 9. If your gpu crashes during games or Furmark then restart your pc and try again until you get a stable overclock. (Lowering the clocks from the previous OC) (On my GT 330 I got my core to 600Mhz and Memory to 890Mhz with it still being stable) 10. Now click the startup button to make the OC start on windows load-up and Bam, You did it! You should see frame rate Increases in most games (some wont have a big difference tho) Sorry if there is a duplicate guide, I didn't check and I was bored so I made this guide for anyone who had an oem card and for people who wanted to oc an older card but didn't know how. Good Luck!

Let's say that like me the hinges on your laptop have separated the screen from the bottom half of your laptop, while you do have many ways to repair it, they will most likely be expensive or impractical. for me, the average, broke, high school/college student, replacing the screen would be out of the question. instead of trashing said laptop, I elected to open it up, remove the screen and use it as a makeshift desktop, sure it may not perform better than that first computer we have all had, but it works well under light workloads. This works with most laptops, My first attempt was with and Acer Aspire V5, which my brother had completely destroyed the screen on, another was my asus x200ma. For the convenience factor i first set up the laptop on a hp 2311x Monitor to correct scaling issues, connected some cheap speakers from insignia, and threw on a wireless mouse, no keyboard needed, because the laptop keyboard is the whole system, however i prefer a mouse, rather than the track pad.

I have recently put an old NAS in my pc but when I hooked it up it showed two new drives. The D: and the H: are the new drives. My question is: how do I pair the drives and do I need to format them?

I've been rocking a Corsair HX 750W for 7 years now, and I'm about to build a new PC (upgrading from Sandy Bridge to Zen 2). I was going to purchase a new 750W power supply, but since the wattage is the same would it be wise to reuse my existing power supply, especially since I already have individually sleeved cables for it? Or do power supplies normally get less efficient with age?

I just reinstalled windows on an old laptop of mine and linked it to my microsoft account. It automatically licensed windows as it recognized the OEM key. Despite the fact that it is an OEM key, would it be possible to use this key elsewhere, such as in a vm?

Hey, so I was completing a mini-itx build for my college dorm, utilizing some new and old parts when I ran into a problem. I got all the parts into the case without much incident, and the PC powered on just fine, but my monitor wasn't registering any input. The monitor in question only takes VGA and HDMI, and I have only the HDMI I was using. This build is utilizing my old SSD (250GB), GPU, and RAM sticks (both), but the rest of the parts are new. While working to try and fix the problem, I have done the following: ensuring I plugged the HDMI into the GPU tried plugging HDMI into the motherboard checking that the power and HDMI cords were firmly plugged in changed PC power plug from power strip to the wall socket powered on with only one RAM inserted tested the HDMI cable (works for my Switch dock) tested the monitor (works for HDMI connection to Switch) tried using another monitor (didn't work) checked to make sure all mobo parts were securely in (still didn't work) reseated all internals (still not working) I am at a loss for what to do. I can't exactly go and check the health of my GPU, motherboard, or CPU (my prime suspects) and they're not cheap to replace. I can provide pictures and video if needed. Any ideas? PARTS LIST: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard Crucial 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory (two of these) Western Digital Blue 2 TB M.2-2280 SSD Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" SSD MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB Fractal Design Node 202 HTPC Case w/ 450 W Power Supply Acer SB220Q bi 21.5" 1920x1080 75 Hz Monitor IF AT ALL RELEVANT: I (incredibly stupidly) used a low-power magnetic screwdriver to put in the internals. I only realized what an idiot I was after I was done. Less troublingly, when I power on the PC, the power button works to turn it on, but becomes completely unresponsive after--even when I hold it down for 20+ seconds it doesn't shut off. I need to use the power switch to turn it off.

Hello, I'm thinking of switching to hardline tube from soft tubing for my loop. I was wondering later in the future if I can reuse the petg tubing that will be in the loop when the time comes for maintenance. Otherwise do I need to replace all of them with new petg tubing?

Hi, I have an old PC and I'm looking for ideas on what to do whit it, the thing is, it's really on the low end side and it's around 10 years old. I don't want to get rid of it because it has some sentimental value as it was my first pc and served me well for some years for school and even to play some old games (it ran GTA SA pretty decent). I was thinking about turning it into some kind of NAS or home server, I'm a web developer so I thought maybe using it to host demo sites or test, but I'm afraid it might be to slow. I also thought about just installing Lubuntu and having it as a backup in case anything hapens to my main system or any need I had for another PC. Specs: CPU: Intel Atom D410 1.66Ghz, 1 core, 2 threads (x86) RAM: 2GB DDR2 800Mhz GPU: Integrated graphics PSU: Generic 400w It had a 250GB HDD but it died so I currently don't have any storage for it. Btw, did I mention the CPU is freaking passively cooled?!?! Any suggestions are welcome. Pictures of the system:

Alright so in a few months I'm planning to make a new build. I bought a new psu (650 photon) like 2-3 months ago for my current pc because the old one started smelling like shite. I was wondering if it would be perfectly fine to reuse this PSU in a new build in say 3-4 months? I don't want to have to buy another one because da money c:

I mean, modern phones should have all the hardware necessary to be IOT devices. Is it possible to turn your last-gen phones into new google 'show' devices? Like this new Android Things device: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/8/16859082/lenovo-google-smart-display-features-pricing-ces-2018 They'd have the huge bonus of having an audio jack...

I just had my Cooler Master MasterLiquid Pro 240 leak. Fortunatly I have a Thermaltake Core P3 so it didnt affect any other components, but still im pissed about it. I could determine the leak, it was definetly the radiator. I didnt have any warranty so I cut the tubes. Now I have the Pump/Block left over and I wondered if I could maybe start a custom loop with it. My questions are: - Is the pump strong enough? - Should I install a reservoir, or just a radiator, like the original loop had? Id really appreciate some help here, Im new on the topic and so really, if it doesnt work out, I do not loose a lot, I would have to buy a new cooler anyways. Thanks!

So a couple years ago my father gave me his old speakers and stereo receiver. They weren't great but they were loud and got the job done. Sadly, the stereo died recently but I decided a cool way to re-purpose it would be to build a pc inside it! However I actually don't have very much experience with custom pc's (I've built a couple pc's but nothing special). So, before I start I was wondering if those of you could give some tips to my dad and I before we begin. The stereo is a Sony GX700ES, it is very big and I feel pretty comfortable about being able to fit a mini-itx (or maybe m-atx board), min-gpu, sfx/sfx-L power supply, inside of it. I have a couple of things I'd like to accomplish as well with this build. 1. I want to be able to use the physical knobs (the function and master volume ones) to control volume and have the second be programmable (I could figure out how to do the coding, I just need to figure out how to get the knob's connected to and recognized by the PC) 2. Replace the screen on the front with a recessed hdmi/dvi/DP screen. I have seen mini-hdmi monitors however none for this form factor and to my knowledge I just cant cut up a monitor and shove it in there. 3. If possible, set up some of the buttons on the receiver to also be programmable (I dont know if I could somehow use an arduino or something similar to act as a controller for all the things I want to program and then just have that connect to the PC. 4. Replace the RCA output input on the front with an SD card. My biggest problem is being able to assign functions to those knobs and buttons, if I could figure out how to do that to just one button and knob I'd then get creative with the rest. I am planning on paying/asking someone who repairs stereos to open it up and take out the main board and power supply already inside of it, as I know that can be dangerous and I'd rather have an expert do it for me. I am a 100% noob at this kind of stuff, but my father is a pretty good handyman and we have PLENTY of tools. Any/all help would be appreciated, thanks!