Ace hardware carries one of the best assortments of odd ball bolts and screws. Whenever I need shorter/longer screws for an off the wall project they are my one stop supplier.
If you have to cut them down, put a nut on them first. The nut will help straighten the threads when you remove it after you cut the screw short.
And they're machine screws, not bolts! 😠 💢
I'm just wondering how it (or any other computer) got put into RAID mode with only 1 storage device installed ?
Or is there something about this particular machine that I am not aware of ?
Also, a fresh install is not the end of the world, as...
Not so much a pipe dream, cause as soon as I can get my quantum phase change isolinear omega particle chips into mass production, dram, nand ect will immediately go the way of the dinosaurs, hehehe :)
But seriously, I agree that it is about time...
I guess I am one of those folks who demand the very best possible performance from my machines, since they make me $$$$, and as they say "time is money"...
My IT guys Work did multiple head to head comparisions of mid-tier drives with & without...
Well, I hate to repeat myself, but this has been common knowledge for many many years....so I'm not sure why anyone who's been around here for a while would not know about it :D
It's definitely been on my list of top 20 things to do immediately...
To be honest, it was intended for my 8 year old to play minecraft with his buddies on, but he didn't touch it at all and instead played on a laptop because of course that's better than a computer and a big monitor. And since he refuses to use it...
Nice little mini-me box 4 sure !
Just curious, but when you say "kiddo" do you mean a youngin (6-12) or a tweener (13-19) ?
I'm only asking because I know kiddos tend to do some weird stuff with their toys, and tweeners have been known to use &...
Games, like almost every other app that runs on computers, are bottlenecked by 1) sloppy, inefficient coding, and 2) Legacy crap code from days gone by (16/32bit pieces) and 3) primitive backwards compatibility with old stuff like pcie gens 1 &...
OR...
They could be using one of TSMC's newer interconnect technologies or perhaps they have contracted with Intel for their packaging methods that use L4 Cache as an interposer.
There are newer less problematic methods for constructing chips...
Apple of 1986 and 2024 are 2 different world completely.
It was an under 10,000 employee with limited R&D budget, they are now over 160,000 employee and a 30 billion a year R&D budget (that a bigger R&D budget than a company like AMD total gross...
I guess I should have said "in recent times", and yea, they always have "taken liberties" with other companies stuff, but even though they aren't up to the level of Intel & AMD YET, they are making steady progress, and they have the added...
Well, I'm no apple fan boi (except for when those massive dividend checks arrive :D), but if anyone has the drive, resources, and engineering talent to make something that seems nearly impossible into something that works really well (like this...
Yea, 32GB is useful in almost every system, unless all you do with it is browse, word, basic excel etc...for anything beyond that, I absolutely refuse to use anything less, especially as apps & their sloppy coding cause their memory requirements...
TPU has an SSD database which I find helpful: https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/
It's been mentioned above but, definitely avoid QLC and DRAMless. I check prices on the capacity/type and then determine which (if any) aren't QLC/DRAMless...
Just a side note, although going to 32GB is a worthy goal, on that AM4 rig, going past 3200 is really not that important or worth the extra $$, unless you're just a benchmark wookie or epeen junkie, hehehe :)