Recent content by Unknown-One

I've lived at 5 different locations throughout all these RMAs. If it's a problem with the power grid that's killing these units, then it's a problem that spans the entire state of California. The power supply is generally well protected, as it has been connected through a APC SmartUPS 1500 for...

Seems like Corsair honors the warranty of the replacement unit in full, though this may only be the case in situations where they have to replace the defective unit with a completely different and/or newer model. Still, out of all the power supplies they've sent me, I'd like just one to...

I really want to shove an Arc A380 into my Plex server for transcoding, but the lack of DirectX9 support actually makes that a non-starter for the moment. Plex depends on DXVA2 for decoding video, and that's a DirectX9 feature. Both Arc, and 12th gen integrated graphics, only supports DirectX9...

Oh boy, here we go again. They did manage to send me a seemingly good AX760, though it's now having issues as well. It's not meeting ATX spec for hold-up time (minimum 17ms runtime without power), so the PSU often resets if my UPS trips over to batteries. In addition, the 5v_sb rail isn't...

Currently running a Noctua NH-D15S on a 12600k. 60c load temp at stock speed, but a slight overclock was enough to bring load temps up to 80c in short order. Current OC is 5GHz for 2 cores active, 4.7GHz for 3+ cores active (e-cores are stock speed). Encoding 1080p h.265 video in Handbrake had...

I watched the entire video before commenting, so I really have no idea what you're getting at. A design using a captive screw (with a spring to keep it recessed when not in use) makes WAY more sense to me than their chosen solution (There are plenty of cheap LCD monitors that use this solution...

And somehow Sony still couldn't afford to use a captive screw for the base... you know that's gonna get lost real quick...

I mean, I can, but when I said that I was more thinking of a duct that would just fit over a corner (one quarter) of a 120mm case fan, and duct that into the chipset heatsink. Don't need to grab the whole thing, it doesn't need THAT much airflow :P

Nah, not hardcore enough. Disconnect the stock fan and 3D print a custom fan duct to funnel a portion of an existing case fan directly into the chipset heatsink :ROFLMAO:

I actually had issues with this in a recent build I did for someone with a Gigabyte Aorus X570 Elite motherboard. The chipset fan would, seemingly at random, go from 0 RPM to full-blast during normal operation of the system. The UEFI offers no way to adjust the fan curve on this particular fan...

That's actually a pretty neat little device, especially for boot drives in servers or industrial equipment that don't have many drive bays and/or lack built-in RAID support. I could totally see configuring one of these with two small SSDs, enabling its internal RAID 1, and booting pfSense...

I have the regular edition (red heatsink) version of this card, which died similarly, but has no obvious visible damage to the PCB or any components. Want to take a look at it?

From your motherboard's manual / Product page: If you have a NVMe drive installed in the onboard M.2 slot, then only the M.2 slot, and the primary PCIe 16x slot (PCI_E1), will be functional. All other slots on the motherboard are disabled. If you have a mSATA drive installed in the onboard M.2...

I've used this one on a bunch of NVMe drives with success: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KDDKDNN I just cut the included thermal pads down so that they only make contact with the controller and DRAM, avoiding the flash.

It's a stiff riser cable that keeps its shape when bent, so the female end of the riser is just floating over the last 16x slot. This arrangement offsets the card pretty significantly, so I used three motherboard standoffs, screwed together, to offset the PCI slot bracket mount point. Between...