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I have a somewhat unusual use case. I need to replace the system I built in this thread with a more up to date one, preferably eliminating the two peli-racks with the disks. What I'd like to do, instead of the hardware RAID controllers, SAS expanders, and arrays of hard drives, is just plug a...

Edit: Sold! Up for sale is an MSI GeForce 2080 Ti Seahawk EK. I've upgraded the machine this lived in, and it's been sitting around for a period of months, so it's up for sale. There was nothing at all wrong with it when I removed it from my system a couple of months ago, and I'll do a...

It's been a while since we worked on a graphics card together, in part because this one took me almost a year to figure out, but I've finally got something resembling a complete story about it, so here we go. On the bench we have an EVGA RTX 2080 XC, which is the same board design as the...

With my humblest and most sincere apologies to the [H] member who sent this little guy to me for taking as long as I have to get around to making this thread, it's time for some... NUCromancy. Eh? Eh !? :D On the bench today is a Gigabyte "Brix" (I think?) GB-BSi5H-6200 NUC, which according to...

Edit: Sold. Man, the name of this thing is a mouthful... Up for sale is an EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Super XC Ultra graphics card in what I would describe as excellent used condition. This is the three slot reference PCB variant, EVGA part number 08G-P4-3183-KB. Everything that came in the box...

Folks! It's that time again! On the bench today, we have an EVGA GeForce 980 Ti SC, which has this handsome axial flow cooler, but is otherwise a run of the mill nVidia reference design 980 Ti, with a slightly faster BIOS. This card was sent to me by a Hardforum reader, who I won't call out...

I want to start this thread by first thanking the [H] member who sent this card to me at his own cost, "no strings," as he put it. It sounded like he (or she? I'm not sure) wanted to remain anonymous, so I won't tag him here, but I hope you'll all join me in thanking him for sending it to me...

It's been a while since we've collectively looked at a dead graphics card, but as I'm sure many of you can relate to, the last couple of months have been a real turd sandwich for me, and I just haven't felt like doing this, but that ends today. I made a mistake uploading the video to Youtube...

Folks! I've got another card on the bench today, and that's this MSI 980 Ti Golden Edition. This card came to me as part of a lot of dead graphics cards, and it's the least promising among the bunch, so we're looking at it first. I made a video for those who prefer such things. As an aside...

I concentrated on the video for this one, so I regrettably didn't get a ton of photos, but what we have on the bench today is 2014's king of heat, a Radeon R9 295x2. For those unfamiliar, this is two full-fat Radeon 290Xs on one board, which can be engaged together using Crossfire, or simply...

Ladies! Gentlemen! Welcome back to Graphics Card Necromancy, where we routinely fail to repair dead graphics cards! On the healing bench today, we have a really special guest, graciously provided by our very own Halon, in this Matrox M9120 Plus, which seems to have a little problem powering...

Folks! Following up on my previous thread here, we've got a new pile of dead graphics cards on the bench, and we're going to attempt to get at least one of them working. For those who prefer video, I made a video version. The cards in this case are Radeon R9 290X's - once again, we'll call...

Edit: Sold! Up for sale is a Gigabyte Aorus 1080 Ti Waterforce water-cooled graphics card. I'm selling because I upgraded to a 2080 Ti, and one can only use so many graphics cards. Asking $475 shipped anywhere in the US. I'm open to shipping internationally, but I assume the price would...

Ok, so, just to be clear, I'm totally aware that this card sucks, SLI sucks, I'd do better buying a 2080 Ti, I could just buy a working GTX 690, repairing a graphics card isn't practical and so forth. I am doing this purely for my own education first, and amusement second. Seriously. This...

I've caught the upgrade bug, but I'm already figuratively drowning in perfectly good hardware, so I'm putting most of it up for sale first. The prices I'm listing here include shipping, unless otherwise indicated. I prefer Google Pay, but I can accept Paypal as well. I've been a member at [H]...

I came to the conclusion earlier this week that I just don't want to deal with mining anymore, so I'm hanging up my pickaxe and my mining gear is going up for sale. Here's what we have. I'm including the links to Newegg for clarity in case I mess up the names. 1070Tis - $400 each, shipped in...

I need a mac so I can get back into the mobile apps game. Years ago, I actually built a couple of apps mostly on a Hackintosh, and I'd really prefer to go that route again, but recent experience tells me that the latest version of OS X is a royal pain to get working as a Hackintosh. I was able...

I originally bought these cards for crypto-mining purposes in mid-June, but after actually doing crypto-mining for a couple of weeks, I think it's not worth the hassle to me, so they're up for sale. I did play some games on them to test them out, and briefly tried out SLI. Both are in like new...

I recently did a major round of upgrades to my fleet of PCs, and i"m now left with the following, which are up for sale. I've tested all these parts today, and they all work at least well enough to boot into windows. All worked perfectly the last time I actually used them. Prices include...

The title pretty much says it all. I've recently done a major upgrade to the following setup: Core i7 5280K (Stock clock speed for now) Gigabyte GA-X99-SLI Sapphire R9 290X graphics card with the Tri-X cooler Corsair RM1000i Power supply Corsair H100i v2 AIO cpu cooler This is all installed...

The system in question: Gigabyte H61M-D2P-B3 (with latest BIOS - F15, I think) Core i7 3700 2 x 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 Ram 1 old OCZ Sata II SSD (Windows 10 on here) 3 Hard drives of 500GB - 1TB each. 2 Western Digital, 1 I forget, Hitachi, maybe Gigabyte GTX 970 - I forget exactly what...

This thread will be about a project much different from standard case mod forum fare. It will make more sense if you read the back story, but if you don't care to do that, just skip this first post - the build process will begin in my replies. Back Story: I work for The University of...

I'm working on a device that consists of two Windows PCs, each of which has two cameras attached. The output from these cameras is very large, at least half a terabyte total per hour, on each PC. This system is installed in an aircraft, and the cameras are used to capture images of the terrain...

Here's my situation. My employer is buying a piece of aerial surveying equipment that apparently stores the data it collects on a RAID 5 array, which is connected to its host Windows PC via USB 3. The boss guy from the vendor claims that the proper procedure for extracting the data from the...

Here's my situation: My employer has recently taken delivery of an airborne LIDAR system that, at full spread, produces over a terabyte of data per day of flying. We'll be taking delivery of an add-on to it in a month or two that produces an additional terabyte of data per day. That's ~2TB...

Up for sale are a set of used, but very good condition parts from my last computer. I'm upgrading, and as such, no longer need these, but they all work totally fine. The asking prices here assume that I have to ship these items individually. If you buy more than one, and I can ship them...

Ever since I first read about the Turions, I've been rolling this idea around... I have an HP zv5320us that I bought in late 2004. The processor it came with, while officially sold as an "Athlon XP-M 3000+" gets reported by CPU-Z as a Newcastle-core Athlon64, but with only 256K of cache...

Whilst cleaning up the wiring inside my case, I accidentally pulled one of the wires out of the connector on my XFX 6800GT (PCI-E flavor). I think I've got it back in right, but as this is kind of an expensive piece of hardware, I was hoping someone could compare their pigtail to the pic of...

Recently, my Dad's Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 failed. Apparently, this is a pretty common problem, but it's beyond the scope of my skill to repair it. Unfortunately, all the internet resources I can find on this problem seem to be data recovery services operating out of the UK, so I can find...

I have the following items for sale. Unless otherwise specified, they are in good or excellent condition, and work like new. 1 512MB Kingston ValueRam PC3200 DDR SDRAM module - I got this as a warranty replacement last week for one that I had agreed to sell. It is brand new, in the sealed...

For the sake of full disclosure, I'll make it known that I'm posting a similar thread over at GenMay. All prices below are negotiable, and would obviously be a bit less if you happen to be local to me, and want to just come pick stuff up. (I'm in ZIP code 77840) Anyway, I have the following...