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I used to use the PCI slot fans nearly 20 years ago. But never had one of the ever cool 3.5” coolers. Did they ever work okay? My new to me HP Z2 SFF has no fan slots and I know it’s going to have some amount of thermal issue so I either need to case mod/ make something or use a product from...

I’ve been looking at all the low profile dual slot options available and the HP G4 EliteDesk and Z2 variants that can take those cards since my favorite Dells cannot. I was hemming and hawing over it and a 4060 as a 4060 runs like my 6700 XT and it actually has enough power for some 4k gaming...

I’m considering putting in an NVIDIA low profile video card in my livingroom HTPC ( currently WX 4100 ) so that I can play Darkest Of Days again. I’m limited to single slot so the pro cards are pretty much what I can use that has any decent power to them. I know that my WX 4100 benchmarks...

I’ve been out of the loop and have not looked into cards in almost 2 years. But I have been enjoying my little Dell Optiplex 3060 ( I3 8300 16gb ram ) with a WX4100 for a while now. The 6400s were/ are known glitchy with an optiplex.. just happened to stumble on Arc A380 thanks to Amazon...

My sister in law has an older Thinkpad Yoga with a 6300U. Similar to my T470 in specs. Her keyboard went bad and the windows install borked itself last week. I reset the install and got it running again keeping her files and stuff. She wants a new computer since she has had to use another...

My house is a dead zone for cell service. We have WiFi calling but it sometimes cuts out. But we have great internet. Wife said we need a land line of some sort for people to get ahold of us . Cable carrier wants like $20 a month extra.. Ooma is supposed to be free + taxes. Anyone use it? I...

I have not done this in years but now I think I have to. I moved over an hour away from my mom and she has fallen for phishing scams a few times. I’ve been able to stop her before anything bad happened in the past, but a few days ago she did it big time. They gained remote access to her...

My wife has wanted to play Zoo Tycoon again for a while, and she lost the discs years ago. So for Christmas I found a good set of discs and got them for her. Her laptop of course has no disc drive, AND the discs have some form of copy protection which prevents me from grabbing iso files. They...

I want to play RDR as I’ve never played the original. I bought the Xbox 360 version to have, just for peace of mind. Is there a real way to emulate it? My HTPC with its WX4100 gets about 18 fps in Xenia and it’s an I3 8300. Will my Ryzen 5800x/ Rx6700xt run it at 30 fps? Or should I get an...

Just put a Netac M.2 in my optiplex 3060. It shows correctly in bios but it does not show in device manager or disk manager. Bios is set to RAID. Am I missing something?

I may have stumbled across an interesting discovery if it’s true. I bought an optiplex 3060 over a 3070 due to a huge discount compared to the slight performance difference between 8th and 9th gen… it appears that motherboards are identical and have the same BNO628 number next to the Dell logo...

I was testing my new HTPC for thermals yesterday after installing a front fan ( Optiplex 3060 SFF. Dell omitted front fans after the 3050 ). It has a WX 4100 Temps seem to be good but it only shows 50-75% usage and reports about 1000 mhz on the core yet the FPS and benchmarks tell me, it has to...

I ordered an Optiplex 3060 to get all the nice things I wanted in the same form factor as my 3040. To save time, I want to clone the SSD to a 512gb NVME that I have and then install it in the 3060. Is windows 10 going to play nice? I haven’t tried this in a while. Normally I would reinstall...

My HTPC can probably use an upgrade from its I5 6500. I’m considering a k series processor as I’m pretty sure it’s supported ( optiplex 3040 SFF ) and would be almost 1 ghz upgrade but being a 91w chip, the aluminum SFF cooler may not do. I see eBay, there are copper parts but they don’t say...

I have a main rig. 5800x with 16gb of ram and an Rx 6700. Can pretty much max out my HRR free sync 1080p monitor with graphics all the way up.. since moving to a new house. I haven’t even hooked it up yet. I’ve just been playing with my htpc and bios modding the Dell RX550 4gb I have. I paid $40...

I just bought a cheap key for saints row 3, away from my computer until after Labor Day. I can’t find the option on steam on a web browser. Is there any way to activate without having a steam app ?

I have a Dell low profile Rx 550 4gb in my htpc. Trying to get a little more out of it. Any of the game benchmarks on YouTube have 550s running 1400mhz which is +200 on this card. Afterburner is unlocked but when I click apply overclock it reverts. Or are new builds of AB glitchy to this older...

Just put FO4 on my media pc with an RX 550. Memory serves me that it should do 40 fps at medium settings. It said could not detect settings so I set it to medium preset. It’s locked at 30 fps. I set it to 720p and it had no change. I haven’t played since 2018 according to steam. Has anything...

I just bought a house. Old TV quit. New tv is just a Hisense 58” 4K that was on rollback. I’ve never had 4K but I didn’t even think about it. My media center PC which I also play some light games on has an R7 450 4gb that will not play anything gaming above 720p except 2004-2005 era games will...

Call me old fashioned, but I’ve used an Xbox 360 wired controller for a decade on my PC. I’m turning my plex server into a media center gaming computer. Fiancé wants Wii capability and I’ve had it set up to stream Steam link for a while now. So I will need wireless controllers being it’s...

My Fiancé likes Nintendo Wii. I just can’t spend $200 on one knowing Dolphin will run Wii nearly perfectly. What is the minimum AMD GPU that will run Mario Kart Wii for instance? I’m wondering if the R7 450 4gb that I have ( 4gb DDR5 HD 7750 basically) in my Plex server will work. I’ll move...

I have gotten some DVD loose lots to expand my plex server. A couple of the movies that I would really like to watch are showing errors even though the discs are really not that bad. Is there any software that can rebuild the data into something usable?

My fiancés father wants internet to his butcher shop 1/4 mile down the driveway. I got a useable signal to the barn when I put in a security camera. I have direct line of site between buildings. This only needs to be fast enough to sync quickbooks and possibly run a couple security cameras. Long...

I just ordered a Netac 256gb sata drive for my plex boot drive because it had a good sale going making it basically the cheapest could buy without going for an obvious fake drive, I used one in my fiancés old laptop and it works but I re vitalized that laptop as a backup. So while it works it’s...

I have a silly setup to play older games with my plex server and an R7 450 4gb ( re launched Radeon HD 7750 basically ) I currently use steam link. Resolution and screen size have small issues. But is AMD link better? AMD says this card does support AMD link. The system runs 1440x900 which is...

Anyone good with arduino? My father in law is a butcher with a smoke house and he wants to introduce water to create steam and raise the humidity for a couple products. He needs specific humidity levels. I know arduino can operate solenoids based on inputs and this should work but I have only a...

I have an Optiplex 3040 SFF for my plex server. I'm putting in a cheap video card ( Radeon R7 450 4gb ) so that I can stream some simple games out via Steam Link. One thing I would like is an NVME drive. The 3040 has the traces for the M.2 slot but no slot. Could I use a cheap PCIE 1x m.2...

After my Mystery box 7750 seemed to be troublesome I got looking for a replacement. Since I decided that my plex server could use a video card. I might even install steam and make use of my steam link for casual gaming on the big tv I snagged an R7 450 4gb for roughly $25. I know they are...

Got a Low profile Visiontek HD 7750 from the mystery box. Part of me wants to stick it in my Plex server for no reason. The other part thinks sticking it in a SFF cheap Dell and play old games and emulators on living room rv. Suggestions anyone?

My girlfriend is a teacher at a high school and has burned through her allotment of pages at their in school print shop. She's allowed something like 1,000 pages per month, and then there is another printer she is allowed to print 1,000 pages from but it is slow, down the hall, and she will burn...

I'm now onto re building my personal PC into a DIYPC- A5 BK case ( cheap case but aesthetically pleasing to me ) I've built one other computer into this case and that is a Dell mobo I5 3570/ RX580 rig.. Anyway the only thing I do not like about this case is there is an LED light on the front...

My Rig has been running since 2019. Crystal Disk as of a couple months ago said my M2 PCIE SSD ( was in my budget in 2019 ) had 7% life left. I had read into this on the interwebs and it appeared to be that it was actually 7% depleted and thus, still perfectly good. However I've noticed the...

I've now essentially case swapped a Dell Optiplex 7010 ( built from a parts bin motherboard )... Thing is these require 3 things to keep error codes out of startup.. Dell 5 pin CPU fan, and Dell 5 pin case fan are the main ones in a sea of 120mm+ cases... The Corsair 4000D doesn't even have...

You may have seen a recent thread of mine where I stuck an RX 580 in a Dell Optiplex 7010 just because I could. And I thought I broke the front panel connector and ordered a replacement mobo but I ended up fixing the original. Now that computer is running well. I opted to keep the I5 3570 in it...

I'm working on my coworkers laptop. Trying to speed it up for her. It has a failing HDD and win 10 home. I stuck an SSD In it and expected to reinstall windows. But it will not boot windows installer. It hangs on an HP screen and reboots... I eventually got the original hard disk booting off...

For no real reason at all. I decided to build a Dell Optiplex 7010 MT that I scored for $50+ shipping. Came with a 3570 and 4gb of Ram.. The 7010 is the last generation not to use the 8 pin motherboard connection, so I have an EVGA BR 500 that will go in, and an MSI RX 580 that might not even...

My 2013 era Samsung B2230 I have finally decided to retire as my main monitor. It has DVI-D only so my 1070 is the last generation of card that it will support without an adapter so I ordered an LG 24GN650-B since it's Freesync is verified compatible with Gsync so either brand I go, it'll work...

My Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 1070 started an issue yesterday. Once the GPU reaches temp where the fan spins up, it goes to 100% fan speed. I have not re set the drivers yet, but did uninstall afterburner as I thought that was the problem but it's not.. I would re set the drivers now except I'm...

I got one of the HP Chromebooks from CDW Outlet for I think $93 shipped ( it was like $70 itself so no top quality notebook. But CDW's retail on the model was $250 ). It is however a current product and up to date Playing youtube videos I notice there is a lot of blue artifacting happening on...

I know normally a 120mm AIO isn't recommended however I only have a R5 3600 with PBO turned on and a cheap office type Rosewill MATX case with only room for a 120mm. Currently it runs a R5 2600's Wraith Spire with the vapor chamber. I have not stress tested it lately but when it was a new build...