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  1. jojo69

    So after this BTC halving, should I invest a ton of money or what?

    Bitcoin rewards one in direct proportion to ones faith in it.
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    Kingdom Come: Deliverance

    tree chopping simulator? yeah, tried that
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    3Dfx Rampage testing (2013)

    A lot of the old threads, if they get necroed, the mods lock them forever. I don't know why. I hope it doesn't happen here. To add some actual value to this post, there is a guy I enjoy on youtube, vswitchzero, that has done repairs on a number of 3dfx cards. He was inspired to start his...
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    Perpetual Free Steam Codes Thread

    damn, that was fast
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    WTB, 17" screen, win 11 laptop for an old lady

    hmmmm, extra $100 for something with a warranty and new car smell...thanks Kelvarr, I might be able to sell that.
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    WTB, 17" screen, win 11 laptop for an old lady

    OK, that right there is funny shit
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    WTB, 17" screen, win 11 laptop for an old lady

    You can edit thread titles?? I found it, never knew you could do that
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    WTB, 17" screen, win 11 laptop for an old lady

    Thanks for the offer. I went over there with a tape measure and her current display is 17"...she wants 17", not smaller. I'm kind of surprised, been striking out here, plenty of 15.6 but nothing in 17. Maybe I should start a new thread specifying screen size now that I have more information...
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    WTB, 17" screen, win 11 laptop for an old lady

    probably the last bump, then I'll sift through the offers and make a decision, thanks everyone who has weighed in.
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    WTB, 17" screen, win 11 laptop for an old lady

    going to bump this a couple times over the weekend, quieter that it used to be in here
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    WTB, 17" screen, win 11 laptop for an old lady

    a few options offered, going to watch for a few days and see what comes up, bump
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    WTB, 17" screen, win 11 laptop for an old lady

    She is pretty adamant about a large screen laptop, she uses it on the couch. In fact I am scrapping out 2 desktop systems from the house. I would think we could find something suitable between $2-300 don't you think?
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    WTB, 17" screen, win 11 laptop for an old lady

    It seems like I'm on here every couple years looking for a "new" laptop for myself or a close friend. This one is for a friend's elderly mother. The one she has will not support Win11 and the nagging about that bothers her. It is also pretty slow, though that may have more to do with cruft...
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    1366 x58 Xeon Enthusiast overclocks club

    I'm not arguing. The Teraractyl is still my primary battlestation. Overclocked xeon hex, 48GB of ram, nvme boot drive and a 1080ti in it these days...it does the business at 5760 x 1080 to this day.
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    Post your "Ghetto Mod" pics

    lol
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    1366 x58 Xeon Enthusiast overclocks club

    well, pentium 3s lasted a good long time, particularly in dual socket setups
  17. jojo69

    The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

    Great writeup mvmiller12 , thanks for taking the time
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    EKWB Lays Off 25% of Workforce, Blames Lower Watercooling Sales

    fuck EK, never again, what is even going on here some sort of pro EK bot farm??
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    The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

    compact flash IS IDE, pin for pin, pretty sure that's what's inside these
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    Kingdom Come: Deliverance

    thread needs more Taco
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    The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

    Whoever ends up with that, the thread deserves repair updates I think.
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    The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

    I actually just negged an Ebay seller, and I don't do that lightly, I was shopping on Ebay to avoid feeding Bezos, paid $5 extra, and then the item arrived in Amazon bubblepack. The dude essentially pocketed my $5 and laughed at my attempt to resist...this fucking world man...
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    The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

    I could actually use that, PM sent
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    The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

    hmmmmm, those are nice
  25. jojo69

    The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

    I have cobbled up some ghetto-ass cooler mounts over the years that worked fine.
  26. jojo69

    The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

    I'm so glad this is going to work out
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    The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

    I'd be all over those if I was local
  28. jojo69

    World Community Grid

    bummer...cold here
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    The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

    yeah, that was a sweet freebie, I'm full up on lappys at the moment and have a policy of only taking shit I can actually use
  30. jojo69

    power supply runs fine with paperclip, but not with motherboard

    Yeah, thankfully easy to unbox, I have a 1U supply with bulged caps in the pile not so much easy to unbox. I just have to document enough repairs at this point to justify a DigiKey order.
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    power supply runs fine with paperclip, but not with motherboard

    Yeah, shit is pretty tight in this little TFX thing.
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    power supply runs fine with paperclip, but not with motherboard

    Tis the tinkering season makin' a list checkin' it twice gonna see whose ESR isn't nice capacitor claus is comin' to townnnn
  33. jojo69

    power supply runs fine with paperclip, but not with motherboard

    These were the green TEAPOs, which I have seen failed a lot, really common in monitor supplies.
  34. jojo69

    power supply runs fine with paperclip, but not with motherboard

    Yeah, since I figured this out I found another one in the pile with bad 5Vsb. It seems like a lot of these older supplies implement a single chip solution as the oscillator/switch that slapps the HV DC across a tiny little xfmr to generate the low voltage that is then rectified and regulated to...
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    The [H]ardForum Perpetual Freebies Thread

    would take
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    power supply runs fine with paperclip, but not with motherboard

    Awwwwww, love you too. I'm just glad I was able to end up making a thread that might actually be useful to someone. I don't know if you guys have noticed, but the internet sort of sucks for this kind of stuff these days. All the good old hits are buried under mountains of vacuous "fixya"...
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    power supply runs fine with paperclip, but not with motherboard

    Aaaaaand, it's fixed. Get the thing out of the box. Follow the purple wire down to the board. Find 2 badly bulged little electrolytic caps right there, 330uF 10V, the little multi component tester thing doesn't even see them as caps...reports "no, damaged or unknown part". No 330uF in stock...
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    power supply runs fine with paperclip, but not with motherboard

    So digging a bit more into how this all works; the chip on a mobo that pulls ATX pin 16 (the green wire) low to start the supply is called the PCH (platform control hub). The PCH is powered by the 5V standby on ATX pin 9 (the purple wire). Since my supply works when pin 16 is manually pulled...
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