This past weekend I got to thoroughly enjoy the PM5.1. After a several hours of both gaming and music listening at modest levels, with a few breaks in between, the box and back panel were HOT!!! Yeah, I'm going to make a properly ventilated cabinet for this system's guts (and run decent speaker...
Ditto! For hardware and some games, some recent searches resulted in a bunch of Reddit hits. All were private and had me going "What the heck is this? Are they trying to get us to download their app so they can mine our data?". I tried it for a few days a while back and would get bombarded with...
A few years back I swapped an old Asus notebook for a 12yr-old (now 15yr-old) Shuttle XPC cube when I needed a core for a custom arcade cabinet I wanted to build. Raspberry Pie 3 seemed inadequate, and Pi4's were harder to find than unicorns at the time. I doubled its RAM to 8GB, found a Retro...
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No rush. Finally got it setup this weekend. Also upgraded to a more worthy sound card. Sounds good, though it plays a tiny amusing sound when I turn it off... I'll take measures to avoid excess wear. I'd consider either ordering a reworked one then sending mine in for a core refund, or...
Hi all! I recently acquired a PM 5.1 from a guy through Craigslist...I know risky, lol. They seemed trustworthy and very fond of the system but life and interests led to them not really utilizing it anymore, but it is in rather good condition. Though exploring the interwebz for basic information...