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I often treat anything that has only a power connection and no data connection (fan connectors, molex/SATA powered bay devices) as hot-pluggable. I should probably stop doing that. The PSU did power down after a few seconds. What kept happening is that the fan controller in the motherboard kept...

Technically yes, but it was only a fan connector input. That's the part that confused me. The cooler wasn't plugged into the mobo. It was wired to a PWM splitter powered by a SATA power connector. The only connection paths to the motherboard from those components would be through the USB...

Yeah, I tested the PSU with another system and it all worked fine. The breadboard tests were done with a spare PSU I keep around specifically for testing things. Luckily most of my drives are in an external drive box, waiting on cables to connect them to my LSI HBA card. Still means my highly...

Update: I plugged in the system on a breadboard and shorted the power good wire to ground manually. The fan on the PSU spun up, the motherboard gave a POST beep, and then came the sound of frying bacon and the magic smoke came pouring out of the SATA ports. If it wasn't dead before, it is now...

Alright, bios reset and battery pull did nothing. I've pulled the board from the case, disconnected everything except the ATX connector, and used a backup PSU. When I turn on the PSU, the system won't turn on, PSU fan doesn't spin, etc. No signs of life, EXCEPT, the X79 chipset heatsink heats up...

The part that confuses me is that I shorted the input of the cooler. It takes in PWM signal and 12V from the motherboard (or the PWM splitter in my case) and sends back the tach signal. The 6-pin shouldn't be sending power back along that line. The cable connecting the PWM splitter and the...

It's a TEC cooler, so it needs a good power supply. The USB power is for software connectivity. I got it because I wanted as much cooling power as I could get, with a very small space. It also compliments the TEC coolers I have in my 2P "Server". It appears, however that the PCIe power for the...

Not really sure if this is the best place to put this, but it seems my motherboard might have gotten fried from a short circuit. Here's what happened: I unplugged the control wire from my CPU cooler, plugged it back in slightly misaligned, and the system shut off and wouldn't turn back on. When...

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Custom loop parts and a like-new MasterAir Maker 8 up for sale.

Son of a... I just spent like $45 on a 710 for extra monitor connectivity in my system.

They're v1 chips, and the RAM is 1.5V

Been a while. GPUs and RAID Card sold. New parts ordered, which means some custom liquid cooling stuff coming up soon.

Yeah, my gaming system (SB-E Xeon and R9 Fury) *might* pull 600W under full load. My old Kabini system used to pull less than 30W from the wall at full load.

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Well, I've been gone for a few days because I broke my car. Hit a patch of ice on Saturday after work and spun into a ditch. Ended up tearing one of the axles out of the transmission, which was a fairly cheap fix, but also shattered the fluid pump in the transmission, which means I'm looking at...

Bump^ On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... Five golden dimms Four waterblocks Three headphones Two graphics cards And a cooler for my PC

Bump^ On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... Four waterblocks three headphones two graphics cards and a cooler for my PC

Bump^ On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... Three headphones Two graphics cards And a cooler for my PC.

Bump^ On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me, two graphics cards, and a cooler for my PC.

Bump^ Also I'm bored so I'm going to make my own 12 days of Christmas for the next 12 days. On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a cooler for my PC.

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I didn't think to look. All of my previous trades and sales had went smoothly. He was new to the forum as well.

So 3 months or so back I traded with a guy on another forum. I agreed to trade the CPU, Motherboard, and Cooler from my old system in exchange for a pair of more powerful processors. My side of the trade went well, his side did not. He did not sufficiently protect the processors for transport...

First snow of the winter here at my house. Celebrating the winter holiday season with a Bump^

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Happy Thanksgiving [H]'ers. To celebrate, everything on the thread is 10% off today and tomorrow.

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They've got stock clocks of 2.0GHz, with boost up to 2.8GHz. You can probably get a bit more with some changes to the base clock. They're not going to be great as gaming processors due to the low clock speeds. For multithreaded work they're pretty hard to beat for the price though.

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Hey, it's been a while. Bump^ Might have some open-loop liquid cooling stuff up here soon. Decided to go back to air cooling.

I've got an LSI 9260-8i RAID card with a battery backup unit lying around doing nothing. I was going to use it in my gaming system for extra drives but ran out of expansion slots. If you'd be interested in it, send me a PM.