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Companies naming most of their products:
- AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
- Nvidia RTX 3080
- Team T-Force Vulcan 16 GB DDR4-2400
- Dell Alienware R11
- Sabrent Rocket 2 TB NVMe
Companies naming their monitors:
- Viotek GFV22CB
- Acer KG241Q
- Dell S2421HGF
- Philips 272E1GSJ
- Asus VG248QG
"Hi, can I order the new Dell *summons demon*?"
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Let it do apple or razor style: Last year was a razer blade 15 so this year it is called razer blade 15.
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@James Evens They all have model numbers that indicate what year they are. So. I don't see a huge issue with that. Consumer can't be arsed to find that out, it's their own fault.
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My new network card came recently!
It uses the Intel AX200NGW network card. It got warm during testing, so I slapped a heatsink on it:
For some reason though, I haven't noticed any improvement in network performance even after installing the correct drivers. My PC is around ten feet away from an Google Wifi cluster router, and our house uses a Gigabit ethernet connection. What could be causing this problem? Tagging @Windows7ge on this.
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Nah. They’re probably as good as anything else. They might not even have the wire go up all the way. Wifi is pretty high freq. whip antennas got popular for old school walkie talkies. Those had several feet of wire all coiled up. They were low freq compared to wifi though. Even 2.4ghz is still ghz not MHz. Antenna length is a factor of wavelength. There’s not a lot of point in having an antenna longer than a wavelength you are using, and those things are set up for each other. Even a better antenna might not work as well.
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@Windows7ge I don't have much experience setting up Linux systems, so I may not know how to configure a bootable Ubuntu drive. The process would be to download an ISO and put it on a flash drive with Rufus like HBCD, right?
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Just now, Schnoz said:
@Windows7ge I don't have much experience setting up Linux systems, so I may not know how to configure a bootable Ubuntu drive. The process would be to download an ISO and put it on a flash drive with Rufus like HBCD, right?
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Santa: "Hello UK, what do you want as your present this year?"
UK:
Spoiler(Also, new status update format. Nice.)
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me: awake at 3 am
brain:
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I strongly recommend Spigen phone cases. I've had them for my (now dead) Mate 9 and my current Pixel 3 XL. They're pretty slim and don't add a lot of thickness to the phone, and they're some of the best cases I've witnessed at surviving impacts. I cannot tell you how many times I've dropped my phone, only to have that case save it.
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@Letgomyleghoeyeah I learned my lesson about buying Otterbox cases a long time ago. They're way overpriced, usually make holding your phone feel like holding a brick, break super easily, and from my experience don't offer any more protection than a much cheaper low-profile case like Spigen.
- Schnoz and zeusthemoose
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Protip: When requesting software services from or donating devices to my electronics repair organization, please take care to hide/delete anything heinous or disgusting. Neither me nor any other members of The IT Club want to see your NSFW My Little Pony desktop wallpaper that induces involuntary projectile vomiting and bursting aneurysms.
BTW--the keyboard was sticky, and the inside was...also sticky. I wore gloves on that one.
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To be honest, a MLP wallpaper that's NSFW doesn't sound that bad compared to some of the things I've found before. One customer of mine left a CD-R in their laptop that was filled with pictures of herself.
- Letgomyleghoe, Schnoz and soldier_ph
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@ProjectBox153Oooh, are we sharing stories now? I have two:
- That same computer had a Word document solely consisting of links to some of the most hideous pornography-related subreddits. I didn't click on the links, but...reading the names and brief descriptions that the owner left was almost traumatizing.
- On a happier note (for me, at least), the previous owner of a donated laptop left a DVD of a copy of The Sims 3 in the disc drive.
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I have some stories that I can't even share here as I would probably violate the community standards. When you work with computers that various people own you see a lot of stuff. On the bright side at least I've been able to find pictures for people from their broken computers. That's always nice.
- soldier_ph and Schnoz
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Found this video--they basically put a Slotket in an original Xbox and slapped a 1.4 GHz Tuatlin processor in it, as well as soldering on more memory:
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@Letgomyleghoe Do you have an OG Xbox 360 or a 360 S? If it's the original Xbox 360, it's more likely to be prone to overheating issues. I'd recommend a repasting for either model, but both models are difficult to open.
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xbox 360 s, I didn't have the right size screwdriver to remove the cpu cooler so I couldn't do that, but I pulled the whole thing apart and cleaned it out, It had less dust in it then my pc surprisingly, next thing will be repasting.
EDIT: the disk reader got broken too, it's not 100% broken but got knocked, I'm probably going to replace that as well.
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@LetgomyleghoeI wish you luck on your next Xbox servicing! However, there are three things you may want to know:
- After removing the CPU screws, the X-bracket needs to be pried off in a specific manner (it's quite easy, iFixit has a guide for it)
- If you're adventurous and have a really sharp, thin object, you can try delidding the CPU. I delidded mine successfully with an iFixit Jimmy tool. There are surface-mounted components around the two dies (XCGPU + eDRAM) though, so if you want to consider delidding, I can dig up some photos so you know where they are.
- The optical drive controller board is paired to the motherboard, and the Xbox 36t0 has multiple models of internal disc drives. I'm not sure if the control board is soldered onto anything, but make sure you get a replacement ODD that's an identical model as the one in your 360, and transplant your controller board onto it.
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Google docs doesn't recognize 0,5 spacing but 0.5 which frustrates me as an non-native english speaker because in german it's not 12.5 but 12,5
- Schnoz and soldier_ph
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while its not the first time i've seen the m.2 image, it still hurts to see
- Techstorm970, Schnoz, soldier_ph and 2 others
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Get your flexible storage solution today!
- WaggishOhio383, Schnoz and soldier_ph
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Good.
I know colleges use College Board exams as a benchmark for students, but I have always disliked the idea of these types of tests.
- They limit opportunities for the poor. I have refurbished and donated over 50 computers to students in need to enable online learning. I've seen what it's like to be financially disadvantaged. People barely got by to eat, let alone during COVID-19, which hits financially disadvantaged groups the hardest. How could they afford the over USD $100 needed to take a single Collegeboard exam, let alone over ten?
- There is no one-size-fits-all benchmark for students. There are some people who are just bad test-takers or people who can't focus for long periods of time. Students can't express any unique talents they have in the tests, either. How would someone ever get in their dream college with 1280 or something? It's just a single number that doesn't provide anywhere near a complete reflection of a student's talents and abilities.
Aaand that's enough ranting for me today.
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I said we happy today
- soldier_ph, Schnoz and Letgomyleghoe.
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