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    Question Recommendations for a decent HDMI switchbox that won't break the bank?

    Hmm, looking at the reviews, I see a big problem with that one for me. Apparently the DVD remote for the Xbox interferes with it. Considering I am planning to connect my Xbox One S to it and use it with said remote as a 4K Blu-Ray player, that's a bit of a problem. I tried looking for a few...
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    Question Recommendations for a decent HDMI switchbox that won't break the bank?

    Thanks, that is a great list. Though only one of the ones in that list has more than 7 ports., and it doesn't really answer my questions about 4K@60/4K@120. By the way, I have to admit, the Notes this product has written on it's page do not inspire confidence in it's quality...
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    Question Recommendations for a decent HDMI switchbox that won't break the bank?

    I am seriously running out of HDMI ports. My TV has four, but I have multiple consoles both old and new that I switch between that I connect to it. Even with the four ports I have resorted to couplers and manually switching wires, and that's just a mess. That's not even counting the cablebox...
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    Question Any place I can get a replacement battery for my Lenovo ThinkPad T480 without breaking the bank?

    I'm not saying it has to be cheap, I even said the ones on Amazon were suspiciously too cheap. I'm just saying it's a bit unreasonable to have to pay more for the battery than the Laptop itself cost. That's for the T480s, it actually uses a different battery than the T480.
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    Question Any place I can get a replacement battery for my Lenovo ThinkPad T480 without breaking the bank?

    I know that Lenovo sells them (Or did, I can't find them anymore) but they charge more for the battery than I paid for the laptop, I got this laptop used about 2-3 years ago for under $100. I recently had to pull both the internal and external battery out because they were swollen, so now I...
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    Question Just got a used AMD Lenovo Thinkpad L14 Gen 3, it keeps turning off without warning

    I just got an used AMD L14 Gen 3, I plugged it into AC power, turned it on... and before Windows could even display the first setup screen it shut off... I tired to boot a backup program off a live USB... and it shut off. I entered diagnostics, noticed that the battery was at 1%, and ran the...
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    Question I just got an ad for a game when I restarted Explorer ?

    No, don't have that installed.
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    Question I just got an ad for a game when I restarted Explorer ?

    On the bottom-right, it looked like a standard windows notification. Trying to Google about it seems like I am not the only one, it appears to have come from Windows itself, not an app.
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    Question I just got an ad for a game when I restarted Explorer ?

    My Windows 10 system was having a few issues, and when I checked I saw that Explorer had run into some kind of memory leak and was eating up all of my committed memory. I restarted it which cleared that up, but then I suddenly got a system notification. I was worried since I have disabled just...
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    Question Can I not get a flow-through GPU if I have another card installed directly behind my GPU?

    Yes, the card is pretty short, it's a sound card. Didn't consider that the exhaust would be from the back, the card should clear it by a significant margin then. The 5090 FE is the only one with the PCB in the middle? I thought all the 5000 series FE cards were like that, but I thought the 5000...
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    Question Can I not get a flow-through GPU if I have another card installed directly behind my GPU?

    My case is a Cooler Master HAF X. It has a 230mm front fan, two 200mm top exhaust fans, a 140mm rear fan, and a 200mm side fan. Here is an older picture showing the 2080 with the other card behind it: View: https://i.imgur.com/I8uYMaJ.jpg I wanted to eventually upgrade to a 5070 Ti...
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    Question Can I not get a flow-through GPU if I have another card installed directly behind my GPU?

    Do flow-through GPUs rely on having empty space behind the card to cool properly? I have another card that is directly behind my current GPU, but I want to upgrade. Issue is the potential cards I would want to upgrade to seem to use a flow-through design, which I am worried the other card will...
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    Question Suggestions on a dual-analog hall effect controller with a good d-pad for modern and retro games ?

    I'm trying to find a sort of jack-of-all-trades controller that I can use on my PC (or devices like a MiSTer) that will work well both for modern PC games and for emulated retro games, preferably for $50 or less, though I know there are a lot of $30 ones these days and it would be great if one...
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    Question Any ideas on how I can either use USB or an unused CPU2 power header to power fans with external PWM?

    Unfortunately since it's a prebuilt with many components of it being proprietary I don't have much options of a different build or case, and I can't afford to build an entirely new PC, I have to try to make do with this. This fan configuration was considerably keeping the temperature down until...
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    Question Any ideas on how I can either use USB or an unused CPU2 power header to power fans with external PWM?

    Yes, though I only got the GPU for it recently, but since the day I got it I tested it and it was hitting over 80C. The airflow is pretty much nonexistent. The case just has three very high CFW fans that each use almost a full amp in the front and depend on trying to force air through the...