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BFG-9000

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- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question Need a very slight speed reduction cable for my AIO fans.
  
  The most reasonable solution is to cut the power wire of one fan and connect the ends with a through-hole resistor. Those resistor...
  
  Thursday at 11:17 PM
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question Newb question about SSD reliability.
  
  SATA can be hotswapped. Use an internal SATA drive in a drive sled and it will be as speedy as any internal SATA drive. If you are...
  
  Thursday at 10:22 PM
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question Exhaust fan dying?.
  
  Corsair A1225M12S is a sleeve-bearing fan so is hardly a "modern" fan. It has a rubber seal under the sticker, under which you can...
  
  Thursday at 10:10 PM
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread News Indiana bakery still using Commodore 64s originally released in 1982 as Point of Sale terminals — Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg sticks to the basics.
  
  Kodak developed a 1.3Mpixel digital camera in 1987 and sold it to the public (generally to professional news or studio photographers due...
  
  Thursday at 4:22 PM
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question Exhaust fan dying?.
  
  0.38A is on the high side for a sleeve-bearing fan. Peel the sticker off the hub and pop up the rubber plug underneath to oil it. That...
  
  Thursday at 4:38 AM
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread News Indiana bakery still using Commodore 64s originally released in 1982 as Point of Sale terminals — Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg sticks to the basics.
  
  You know if you had paid NASA to design and build you a pickup truck for $865 Million back then (equivalent to nearly $4 Billion today)...
  
  Thursday at 4:21 AM
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question Optically bonded monitors? (Samsung ultra wide?).
  
  Basically, screens have way too much area for it to be economical to apply antireflective coatings to them. So bonded just means the...
  
  Thursday at 3:49 AM
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question HP M1212nf laser printer stuck in initializing loop.
  
  Looks like the firmware update on your 14 year old printer was not successful. Beginning in 2016, HP started to push firmware updates...
  
  Tuesday at 8:49 PM
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread News Nvidia RTX 5080 allegedly adopts faster 30 Gbps GDDR7 modules, delivering 960 GB/s of bandwidth — The remaining Blackwell lineup is expected to sti....
  
  960GB/s would be pretty impressive and almost as fast as Radeon VII had nearly 6 years ago with 4096-bit HBM. Of course HBM turned out...
  
  Tuesday at 8:39 PM
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question I need help tuning custom resolution to prevent using faulty part of my monitor ?.
  
  Well, in Windows at least you used to be able to block off that part of the screen using the docked magnifier, so it would still be...
  
  Dec 14, 2024
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question Choosing a UPS, stands between the Eaton 5PX2200IRTN or the APC SMT1000IC ?.
  
  I have a number of APC XL1000va which were the predecessor to that model + rated 80-800w, and they work fine with a 5w load. Probably...
  
  Dec 13, 2024
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question Fastest bootable storage possible for a system with PCIe 1.0.
  
  If you truly have SATA II and see 300MB/s then you have one of the very last Radeon Xpress 200 chipsets which was paired up with the...
  
  Dec 13, 2024
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question 8x HDD Array circuit planning.
  
  You know how they say 90% of engine wear is from cold starts? Once spinning, fluid dynamic bearings have no metal-to-metal contact and...
  
  Dec 10, 2024
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread News Microsoft allows Windows 11 to be installed on older, unsupported hardware but specifically nixes official support — minimum requirements for full....
  
  Well you should at least be able to manually upgrade to the latest annual build so will be up-to-date once a year. After checking to...
  
  Dec 10, 2024
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread News Microsoft allows Windows 11 to be installed on older, unsupported hardware but specifically nixes official support — minimum requirements for full....
  
  When Windows 10 was released in 2015, they had just laid off 18,000 employees the year before, including the entire QA department, on...
  
  Dec 10, 2024
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