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    Question How to know which port can do the fastest for a SATA adapter on a Dell laptop ?

    My bad on delayed response. The NAS is a 5 inch and the boot don't matter to me on drive type. PS. I just figured out the common desktop drives are the 3.5 and laptops are 2.5. So when I said 5 inch I meant 3.5. O_o
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    Question Questions on Iris xe mother boards; laptop and desktop.

    TY for the list :) I wish I had a system siting around for this. As I'm on a supper budget and in debt so I going off grid and want the minimalist energy consumption for night time battery use. I do have a gaming rig but the energy use is to high for night time. So I decided to use a power...
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    Question How to know which port can do the fastest for a SATA adapter on a Dell laptop ?

    Ok well I guest the sata 2 is not terrible for me. Any pointers on what port I should use for a big 5 inch HDD ? I prefer not to have the boot system on the big 5 inch NAS HDD. So what port for boot/OS and what port for the NAS ?
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    Question Questions on Iris xe mother boards; laptop and desktop.

    I want to run a game at its minimal requirement but don't need performance for playing it just amount to prevent it from crashing all the time. I will be running this as a near retro game server streaming it to my tablet. Diablo 2 Resurrected min req is Intel® Core i3-3250 AMD FX-4350 and...
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    Question How to know which port can do the fastest for a SATA adapter on a Dell laptop ?

    Owch.. sata 2.. ok Thank you so much. To the e-wast scrap yard some of it goes.
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    Question How to know which port can do the fastest for a SATA adapter on a Dell laptop ?

    Hi I have a old Dell Latitude E6400 Laptop with 4GB RAM and a duo 2 CPU at about tire 3 (cant remember), Nvidia TN137. I want to us it as a plex server, NAS, seed box and 24/7 video player. I was wondering what speed each of the following slots/ports can produce; 3x mini PCIe, 1394, express...
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    Question Cant remember name of app. Help its a old simple network traffic monitor.

    Task manager takes up more space on desktop. But I already use task manager windowed to really small to monitor my vRAM. I really liked the transparentize option.
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    Question Cant remember name of app. Help its a old simple network traffic monitor.

    Hi all I jus installed a used graphics card and reinstalled NVidia and the net monitor stopped launching. So I uninstalled the app and forgot the name of it >_< All I remember is the first part of the name was net xxxxxxxxxxxx. Its not "networxs" The task bar icon look's like a green triangle...
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    Question Generic question about using Odroid XU4 as a portable media server ?

    I have two Odroid XU4's. I'm wanting to use an old tablet's screen so I have most files at 480p to 720. I'm a noob ween it comes to the file formats and what not. I want to have the server run a media play back. like plex, headless torrent like handbrake and an NAS. I'm about to go off grid and...
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    Question Any suggestions for out door use monitors ? From steam deck to glamping. DIY budget.

    Hi all I have a few projects in the works. I plane on doing some glamping/fishing. I want a 17 inch and about a 7+ inch. Odds of getting a used/broken tablet with AMOLED or OLED monitor on eBay ? I'm guesting I'm not going to find a AMOLED or OLED 17 inch monitor on a used/broken laptop. I also...
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    Question How to get direct x 12 and USB mouse/keyboard passthrough on any VM ? any os !

    AFAIK it don't by default. But I think I'll drop windows and go with steam deck OS as it has no problem handling direct x 12(maybe only steam games) and try VMware as I don't need to use a PCIe slot. Bummer is I know so much more on windows.. but windows future and it's future in mobile pc seams...
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    Question How to get direct x 12 and USB mouse/keyboard passthrough on any VM ? any os !

    I'm a slow reader. But this seams to cover it. https://community.spiceworks.com/t/hyper-v-pcie-including-usb-pass-through-not-just-graphics-devices/1014134