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Did some troubleshooting yesterday. Used a power meter to measure how much power is coming from the outlet. It seems to be at the idle rating of 4 Watts. Checked the CMOS battery with a multimeter, at the expected 3 Volts, but not sure if the connection is making contact with motherboard...

I was more talking about reviews on YouTube. Stuff like this. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzDgXO6ScZ4 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOdRTwplOkM&ab_channel=ETAPRIME So I thought AliExpress was a safe enough platform given that it kept popping up in those YouTube review...

Yeah, definitely feeling that now! At this point just trying to mitigate the loss/risk. Was pretty impulsive because genuine Panther Canyon/Tiger Canyon NUCs with thunderbolt 4 were out of stock/on back-order, and I needed 4-cores/8-threads for the workload. Saw positive reviews of some mini-pcs...

I needed thunderbolt 4 for this particular system.

It has an 11th Generation Intel chipset and an i7 1165G7 for about $460 ($511 was after taxes and shipping), so it was a good price but not totally unrealistically low that it seemed to be scam. I had never bought anything from AliExpress before, but thought the most I was risking was a small...

Fortunately I didn't mention the second power supply, and they accepted the return (albeit with me paying for the shipping.) I have about 9 days to provide a shipping label to AliExpress. Right now it is mostly a cost-risk assessment with the expensive Chinese return shipping and whether or not...

Hello, I am not sure if this is the best place to post this -- but given that NUC/NUC-clone hardware is pretty much just laptop hardware in a mini-desktop form-factor I figured this is probably where I'll get the most help. I ordered a Chinese no-brand NUC clone off of Aliexpress. When I tried...