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I want to make copies of words. i would use a cass recorder if it was the 1970's but I have 2020 android phone. i looked at the google play and all i found only 'apps' that used cloud connection stuff. I do not want to use a cloud, I want the phone to be a recorder that remains in my...

my old H270i computer died, using 2x16 of 3600 ddr4. I changed going to Z490i and a 10700. that did not change. so I chased a spare 16gb, and it started working, the whole problem was one memory failed, of the two in the itx. the new MBoard can use 64gb ddr4 total. since ddr5 is the new...

context : I want a bunch of sata harddrives in a housing outside my computer case, the computer has only sata data sockets. so, instead of having 12 sata cables running from housing to case, using 3 sas 8088 cables would do the same thing, just much tidier. this would require using sas breakout...

I am currently running a 10700K on a strix z490-i "in" a lian-li pc-q33 itx case. the Q33 has a horizontal motherboard "in" gets quotes because I am running the case without the top, front, and side panels. because I am running four 3.5" harddrives, using up all the sata sockets on the board...

with 3D printing commonly available, and the sight of cables anathema, where are the printed cable covers ? something that snaps over the exposed cable so it looks like a dragon crawling out of the case and biting the motherboard kind of thing.

hi, I am a data hoarder. I am currently running 14 (12.7) tb harddrives . I have one folder that is 11.4tb that pretty well fills one drive. I have the overflow, 6+tb on a second drive. I want to be able to combine some 14s to get a folder big enough for it all. I ALSO want it to be regular...

I have no sound from this, it plays video but no audio. A: download VLC apk, transfer apk to tab, install vlc = sound. aka, NM, I figured it out.

context: I was typing away and the system locked up, shut itself off and restarted, windows, what can one do ? I have seen an icon that implies that what I am typing is being saved as a draft, just what I need at the moment. but I see no way to access the draft that was saved,the page came up...

for context: I am working on a storage solution, consensus is that I should look at building a nas box. rigging my lian-li itx case to house 8x3.5 of spinning rust pretty much requires a second similarly sized case be grafted on to it. I still have the original lian-li itx case I got for this...

I have an itx machine that I use to data hoard, it currently runs 4 14tb spinners but I want to add another 4. consensus is I want a separate nas box for the drives, but I don't. so it occurs to me that the main advantage of the nas box is the different OS that allows a better filesystem and...

I am running windows 10 on an ITX gamer board. I have four 14tb spinners plugged into the sata ports, and two M.2 filling those slots on the board. I want MOAR storage. I got a sabrent USB 3.0 hdd dock, and it plugs into a Usb socket on the back panel, giving me another drive, but occupying a...

I replaced my motherboard with a asus strix Z490i gaming. I plugged the adptor cable into the jack of the motherboard rear panel . and then into the standalone amp which pushes a stereo pair of speakers. got no audio output. fiddled for a couple days and the audio on the TV, plugged into the...

when I open a window of a folder that is full of 2mb BMP images, the displaying of the thumbnails is REALLY slow, and it takes minutes for the icons to arrange themselves in order. it seems to be reading the files and doing some indexing. once it gets done it runs fine, but the next folder...

I used to game, I bought a box with a CD in it, and loaded the game into windows XP. I could download user made extra levels to install and play offline because I needed the phone line for other stuff. then I got hit with a wedding ring and all of that went away. I recently started waking up and...

In windows 10 the entire screen started jumping up and down a pixl or two, a white line appearing and disappearing at the bottom of the screen. Then the screen went black. I pushed the power button to shut down, waited a moment then pushed it again to restart. Up came the bios screen. Into the...

back in the day, when my brain worked right, I used PowerQuest Drive Image to create a backup bootable copy of my OS harddrive, on a separate drive, unplugged but mounted. so that when I got a virus, or the drive caught on fire, I could just swap plugs into the backup and carry on. I very much...

I type by choosing each key and pressing it with my index finger. so the caption needs to be large and distinct. I often type in dim ambient lighting, so radium grade glow in the dark captions would be great. I do not game so response time = meh. audible clicky is not desired, but a bit of...

my cpu required replacement so I went with a 10700K, I also got a NH-U14S for it. all good. but. I really HATE clamping an axial fan directly onto a fin stack, as required for size constraints in a standard case. having the top and bottom of the fan hanging out, just blowing air randomly is...

I live in an apartment, it comes with wired internet, I think from spectrum, uses an Arris blinky light box that coaxes into the wall and cat5 to my windows box, been running fine. My computer died, a new cpu and motherboard fixed it right up but plugging the coax into the new z490i has no...

My main machine, a i3 7350k Strix H270i 1050ti 4 spinners And 3 120mm fans Ran fine off a 400 watt Seasonic platinum fanless For the last few years. Until it locked up and did max headroom audio. So a I7 10700k Strix Z490i Arrive tomorrow. The plan is to use everything else as it was. The...

My main machine, a strix H270i went belly up. I am looking at a strix Z490i to replace it. Mainly because that is all I can find on Amazon that looks like it will do what I want. I do NOT intend to overclock this machine and am mostly after reliability as a daily driver. Hence Asus and Intel. A...

is there a specific brand/series of ecc memory that is well established as working best, reliably, in this setup ? the motherboard is a X399M taichi. I am building a new computer to address shortcomings of my current I3 7350K system.(32gb @ 2400mhz, mboard chipset limit) ecc memory seems to...

when I built my current computer in 2017 I was on a limited budget and did not want to spend money on excessive overkill, overkill was fine but not overboard. so I chose a I3 7350K since it was way cheaper than a 7700K with equal clock speeds. the the only tradeoff I saw was 2 vs 4 cores. I see...

last century I used bootmagic to dual boot w98 clones using dual harddrives. so when the in use OS or harddrive died I could just boot the backup on the other drive, clone it, and carry on. since symantic bought powerquest I lost interest in the product line. now I am running W10 on a nvme with...

I have no interest in 'social media'. but I keep being directed to Facebook for information on subjects I AM interested in. how can I access the data on facebook I want without submitting my all to Facebook ? posted here because it IS a security question, neh ?

I plug in a coax from the wall into a box from the cable company. I use a cat5 from that box to my computer, and presto I gots internet to the computer. the motherboard has antenna "for wifi" howcome I cannot get my phone to see the computers wifi ? does the computer wifi require something...

since hardly any sporty stuff is made for my Yaris, printing what I want seems to be my option. I need a printer for that. "as good as a Prusa" being high praise, a Prusa i3 MK3S looks to be the ticket. where do I buy one from ? czechloslovokia ?

I started buying these for my new build about a month ago since then the price has dropped from 465 to 385. Plain boxed with factory looking light plastic end isolators. Sealed static bag. 0 out of 9 failures so far. 7200 rpm , 512mb ... um, cache? 12.7 real tb...

Since my MB & case did not come with a boot beeper I bought a bag of 30. Reviews mention low acoustic output. I would rather have high output. Lots of live Nugent & Sabbath etc... Were they speakers I'd series parallel 4 to a monoblock. But they are NOT speakers and I am clue free if I...

Still Air is a pretty good insulator. Air bubbles in thermal paste are bad. So how to minimize air bubbles in the CPU/ heatsink interface ? A Vaccume chamber. Put the paste CPU and heatsink into a chamber. Draw as hard a vacuum as possible. As the pressure drops any bubbles in the paste will...

It seems to me that cooling a high powered card would work best by taking a suction on case internal air and expelling the heated air directly out of the case. Yet the concensus I see is that having 3 fans recirculating the heated air inside the case and using other fans to expell the heated...

I got 2 x 4in3 drive cages and I want to stuff them full with 4 seriously cheap SATA drives to see if mine are going to fry their drives, as reviews indicate is possible, while keeping my new (8 x 14tb) in their shipping boxes. 3.5" don't care what size.

I've ordered a thin laptop dvd burner for my new desktop build. I have not seen the power&data sockets but I fear it will need a Special Laptop to Desktop adapter, which I Cannot find. Am I delusional and they use Standard SATA cables. or ???

2080ti Or Rtx titan

Ripjaws V 2x8 2400. Stamped aluminium with sticky thermal tape. Each stick has one side populated, the other empty. The tape sticks to the memory bits well, and peels off with reasonable prying. The tape sticks to the circuit board astonishingly well and unsticking them is not a trivial...

Yup, shopping cart. Per rule (26) No selling of items that are not 100% LEGALLY OWNED and possessed by the seller. This includes items leased, rented, financed, stolen, or that have any sort of lien against them. I want a shopping to transport ahem. Computer parts to and from my car. New, or...

Ducting the CPU HS seems right. to build the duct right I figure I need to have a CPU in the socket, so the HS is in exactly the right place. No way am I going to use my new CPU for this. Is my assumption, that the socket protective cover would space the HS up more than a CPU, silly ?

Is plugging a sas drive into 2 motherboard sata III ports a normal "no sweat" thing to do, or is it another impossibly dumb idea that took over my brain ?

The point is to have the cooler touching the cpu evenly across the entire contact area. Finer and finer grit sandpaper on a mirror achieves improved microfinish, so the valleys get smaller, just as the peaks get shorter. Polishing is good, but I believe it is not really creating a FLAT...

Given that batteries are getting smaller and better, Has anyone yanked the circuit board from a UPS and installed it inside the computer case ? A fistful of electric bicycle battreries could be scattered around inside the case using unused space and wired together. Would the ups circuitry...