I'm not a carpenter, so, i don't know. But internet says MDF is fine regarding ESD,
topic i found: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/esd-workshop-setup/
Well, then we can agree to disagree.
Random sample of people doesn't accurately show the needs/requirements of the populous. Better sample pool would be where there are people from all walks of life, with different preferences.
I meant random sample for determining average height! not for computer design!
horses for courses,
for testing a medicine, you'd limit to people with the relevant illness, eg a measles medicine only for people with measles.
for computer design, you want to involve at least a few from each genre of player, from tower manufacturers, to mobo manufacturers, peripheral manufacturers, programmers if relevant eg for designs of hardware protocols, eg optical drives I think dont have an active way of notifying the system when a disk is inserted, the software has to keep checking. that is blatant bad design,
to bring in people with experience of building PCs,
even if you bring in a few people from ANY genre, you'll get big improvements, the way these hardware firms function is downright stupid.
you need some people with less knowledge as well, because people with too much knowledge start to accept things too much.
an ignorant person will see things the experts miss because their perspective is fresh.
horses for courses,
for testing a medicine, you'd limit to people with the relevant illness, eg a measles medicine only for people with measles.
for computer design, you want to involve at least a few from each genre of player, from tower manufacturers, to mobo manufacturers, peripheral manufacturers, programmers if relevant eg for designs of hardware protocols, eg optical drives I think dont have an active way of notifying the system when a disk is inserted, the software has to keep checking. that is blatant bad design,
to bring in people with experience of building PCs,
even if you bring in a few people from ANY genre, you'll get big improvements, the way these hardware firms function is downright stupid.
you need some people with less knowledge as well, because people with too much knowledge start to accept things too much.
an ignorant person will see things the experts miss because their perspective is fresh.
just not true, its not about blindly doing what anyone says, but for the suggestions to be looked at,Since if you can compromise between all of them, you'll end up with a product that is suited for more people; compared to the random people who's ideals mostly may align, but in reality, form a minority. And with this, you'd end up with a product that caters to minority, while the goal was to cater to the majority.
betatesting works like magic for software development,
In PC hardware world, what is put out is usually left for consumers to stand up with and get used to.
this state of affairs is just plain stupid! it is stalinist hardware design!
what you have said is "victim mentality", where the victim justifies the aggressor. in this case we computer users are the victims, and the electrical engineers at Intel are the aggressors, hassling us with their hare brained designs.
all big companies in other realms do market research, they dont just create something and blindly impose it on customers like a commercial version of Stalin.
but they will pay market researchers a heap of money to test out the product on the public, before it becomes official. even the government does this with trial runs of a new idea. eg I think in Canada they trialled universal basic income, where everyone receives an income unconditionally.
I got asked for feedback once for a Pepsi cola advert by Kantar market research! so they even do market research for adverts.
what you have said is "victim mentality", where the victim justifies the aggressor. in this case we computer users are the victims, and the electrical engineers at Intel are the aggressors, hassling us with their hare brained designs.
all big companies in other realms do market research, they dont just create something and blindly impose it on customers like a commercial version of Stalin.
but they will pay market researchers a heap of money to test out the product on the public, before it becomes official. even the government does this with trial runs of a new idea. eg I think in Canada they trialled universal basic income, where everyone receives an income unconditionally.
I got asked for feedback once for a Pepsi cola advert by Kantar market research! so they even do market research for adverts.
Since if you don't like one brand's product, there is limited option regarding brands. With some components, you only have two choices. E.g CPU, either Intel or AMD. With GPU, you have 3 choices: Intel, AMD or Nvidia. Sure, with GPUs, the selection is wider due to the AIBs, but the core chip and drivers are still from either of the three.
it wasnt just Intel or AMD, there was Motorola, ARM, MIPS, PPC, many CPU's were created over the eras, and ARM have totally outdone Intel + AMD for smartphones, because x86 is very inefficient in terms of power.
the BBC in fact were involved with a computer design called the BBC computer, which at our uni was used for our rather pointless maths degree computing project. ARM is a descendant of that computer. You switched on the BBC computer and it was ready to use, as the OS was in the ROM, and you could program it directly in BASIC as this was built in. The Acorn Archimedes computer was the next gen BBC computer, and the original ARM chip was for that, ARM = "Acorn RISC Machine".
the x86 CPU has literally a lorry load of stuff that is never used within it. it is only successful because they maintained backwards compatibility. whereas Motorola didnt try this, halting at the 68060. the 68000 series was vastly cleaner design than x86. it was generally 16 bit instructions and 32 bit data. I'd have to check the Motorola programming manuals for the specifics. the 68020 onwards were fully 32 bit. I think the 68000 didnt have 32 bit division, but the 68020 did. its just a much simpler cleaner machine code than x86, a real joy to use. x86 64 bit is much like 68020 32 bit.
ARM is where they brought in people from other realms, in particular people who create compilers, and it shows in spades, where ARM is a lean machine in a higher league than x86. extreme efficiency.
our computing department was in fact involved in the development of ARM, and that included software experts eg in compiler design.
its a british product, although now I think bought up probably by Japan.
ARM was so good, that Intel eventually had to redesign x86 to have a RISC core.
the UK also developed transputer chips by Inmos, in fact based in Bristol, which was parallel computing where you could connect up any amount of transputers like lego. versus x86 where the parallelism is built in and not reconfigurable.
the americans dont "own" technology, eg the UK + France created a supersonic passenger craft, Concorde, also from Bristol (Filton), the US still hasnt done this. The UK also developed vertical take off and hover aircraft eg the harrier jet, but what happened is in the Thatcher era there was a surrender attitude, where all technology was shut down eg the transputers or handed over to the US.
even our Unix based department got shut down and replaced by a Microsoft department. luckily I got through the system before the americans shut it down! so I know a lot of stuff that is no longer taught!
the BBC in fact were involved with a computer design called the BBC computer, which at our uni was used for our rather pointless maths degree computing project. ARM is a descendant of that computer. You switched on the BBC computer and it was ready to use, as the OS was in the ROM, and you could program it directly in BASIC as this was built in. The Acorn Archimedes computer was the next gen BBC computer, and the original ARM chip was for that, ARM = "Acorn RISC Machine".
the x86 CPU has literally a lorry load of stuff that is never used within it. it is only successful because they maintained backwards compatibility. whereas Motorola didnt try this, halting at the 68060. the 68000 series was vastly cleaner design than x86. it was generally 16 bit instructions and 32 bit data. I'd have to check the Motorola programming manuals for the specifics. the 68020 onwards were fully 32 bit. I think the 68000 didnt have 32 bit division, but the 68020 did. its just a much simpler cleaner machine code than x86, a real joy to use. x86 64 bit is much like 68020 32 bit.
ARM is where they brought in people from other realms, in particular people who create compilers, and it shows in spades, where ARM is a lean machine in a higher league than x86. extreme efficiency.
our computing department was in fact involved in the development of ARM, and that included software experts eg in compiler design.
its a british product, although now I think bought up probably by Japan.
ARM was so good, that Intel eventually had to redesign x86 to have a RISC core.
the UK also developed transputer chips by Inmos, in fact based in Bristol, which was parallel computing where you could connect up any amount of transputers like lego. versus x86 where the parallelism is built in and not reconfigurable.
the americans dont "own" technology, eg the UK + France created a supersonic passenger craft, Concorde, also from Bristol (Filton), the US still hasnt done this. The UK also developed vertical take off and hover aircraft eg the harrier jet, but what happened is in the Thatcher era there was a surrender attitude, where all technology was shut down eg the transputers or handed over to the US.
even our Unix based department got shut down and replaced by a Microsoft department. luckily I got through the system before the americans shut it down! so I know a lot of stuff that is no longer taught!
Mobile phones used to have replaceable batteries. E.g look at the older Nokia phones, e.g infamous Nokia 3310 (dubbed as the most durable mobile phone in the world).
E.g one could easily disassemble entire mobile phone and replace components easily;
I used to use Nokia 3310 a lot in my youth and i also replaced the outer shelling with better eyecandy one (different color and decal). Also, i replaced the keycaps when it wore out. Best part, i could replace battery. Or even carry spare with me, just in case battery got empty and i needed the phone to work.
Another thing going for Nokia 3310 was the insane amount of different covers, where one could customize and personalize their mobile phone for their likening.
E.g just a tiny sample of different cases;
And if you dropped it, at best, casing came off or battery popped out, but after reassemble, it worked without issues.
Today's smart phones are terrible in terms of component replacement. You can't do anything on your own. Only in certified repair shops and even then, not all issues can't be fixed. And when built-in battery dies (or the max capacity dwindles to nothing, as it is with Li-Ion batteries over time), you have to buy a new phone. That's adds a lot to e-waste.
this is a much better MO, reminds me of the old landrovers, where you could keep replacing any parts, and even in the most remote place in Africa, there is always someone who knows how to fix a landrover!
the EU ought to clamp down on the modern MO of people having to junk their phones when the battery goes.
its blatantly done to force you to keep buying so they can make more profit. it doesnt help the EU, as it mainly just helps Samsung and Apple, so there is a conflict of interest with the EU.
the EU ought to clamp down on the modern MO of people having to junk their phones when the battery goes.
its blatantly done to force you to keep buying so they can make more profit. it doesnt help the EU, as it mainly just helps Samsung and Apple, so there is a conflict of interest with the EU.
but can I extend the 3m one with a USB3 C extender cable?Well, it's not PCI-E pretending to be USB, but instead USB being able to send data to PC via PCI-E. And maybe even vice-versa (though, i'm unsure why would you like PCI-E add-in card to output it's data to USB port).
Official specs: https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-4060-GAMING-X-8G/Specification
Whereby;
Output
DisplayPort x 3 (v1.4a) - it can do 4K at 120 Hz
HDMI™ x 1 (Supports 4K@120Hz HDR and 8K@60Hz HDR and Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) as specified in HDMI™ 2.1a)
Digital Maximum Resolution
7680 x 4320 (8K)
Cables;
2 meters, USB type-C to HDMI 2.1: https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-Thunderbolt-Compatible-MacBook-Surface/dp/B0BXWBSJ77/
3 meters, USB type-C to DP 1.4: https://www.amazon.co.uk/UGREEN-DisplayPort-Thunderbolt-Compatible-MacBook/dp/B0CDW73QH7
With DP cable, there are 3 length options: 1, 2, and 3 meters.
I have ordered the USB3 C female to female fixed adapter, as I cant see any other way to do this.
my requirements are beyond the scope of the cable manufacturers! there are a ton of cables out there, but no short USB3 C female to female ones, and no short SATA 3 male to female ones with clip.
on ebay, the sata cables are called female to female, and I cant find a clip-female to male extender, nor on amazon. I did find these 2 items at a further site, but I think they are probably not SATA 3 because of the data rates mentioned:
cable item with a very long URL
fixed item with a very long URL
needs to be shorter, no longer than 50cm, preferably 45cm or less, to be sure to keep within 1m.
the DP1.4 will handle any video data my mobo and graphics card can output?
With wireless data transfer, you can always listen in. It is then just the matter of decoding the data flow to readable info.
For example, when i pair my smart watch with my smart phone, i can scan all the bluetooth signals my phone picks up, and it has picked up 2nd phone, which isn't from my household (most likely my neighbors, though the wall). I've also picked up LG TV, which is funny since i have Sony and Samsung TVs in my home. The SSID shows the name, so i can tell what device my phone found.
but I think they use encryption, can you decode their signals?
with public key encryption, each device can have a private key, say key_private and a public key, say key_public,
where anyone can encode with key_public, but only the recipient can decode that same message with key_private.
with this, A and B can communicate where you cannot snoop on the communcation, by A sending B key_A_public, and B sending A key_B_public, where anyone can snoop on those public keys. eg B will broadcast its public key to anyone who requests it.
but then when A sends to B using key_B_public, nobody can decode that except B, similarly for the return messages.
PGP is the famous example of this, where private_key = huge_prime_number1 eg 1000 bits, and
public_key = huge_prime_number1 x huge_prime_number2
where it relies on the fact that it is easy to find say a 1000 bit prime number, but unfeasible to factorise the product of 2 of these.
this is probably how they do end to end encryption, where you can communicate with someone publicly and nobody else can listen in.
we were taught about this both on the maths degree and computing degree, just the principles, not the specifics.
eg I could give you one of my PGP public keys in ascii form in this forum, and you could send me a message on this forum and nobody else apart from me can decode it. you will only know the message because you encoded it.
I think cryptocurrencies use this kind of idea, hence you need a private key to do cryptocurrencies, crypto = cryptography ie coding and decoding.
with public key encryption, each device can have a private key, say key_private and a public key, say key_public,
where anyone can encode with key_public, but only the recipient can decode that same message with key_private.
with this, A and B can communicate where you cannot snoop on the communcation, by A sending B key_A_public, and B sending A key_B_public, where anyone can snoop on those public keys. eg B will broadcast its public key to anyone who requests it.
but then when A sends to B using key_B_public, nobody can decode that except B, similarly for the return messages.
PGP is the famous example of this, where private_key = huge_prime_number1 eg 1000 bits, and
public_key = huge_prime_number1 x huge_prime_number2
where it relies on the fact that it is easy to find say a 1000 bit prime number, but unfeasible to factorise the product of 2 of these.
this is probably how they do end to end encryption, where you can communicate with someone publicly and nobody else can listen in.
we were taught about this both on the maths degree and computing degree, just the principles, not the specifics.
eg I could give you one of my PGP public keys in ascii form in this forum, and you could send me a message on this forum and nobody else apart from me can decode it. you will only know the message because you encoded it.
I think cryptocurrencies use this kind of idea, hence you need a private key to do cryptocurrencies, crypto = cryptography ie coding and decoding.
SSID, besides being a name of the network, is also unique ID. Due to that, several modems can use the same frequency but since each and every one has unique ID, PC can tell a diff between them.
Now, i'm not a network expert and can't quite explain it in layman's terms. Maybe someone else comes along and explains it better.
In the mean time, found this explanation: https://superuser.com/questions/124...e-difference-between-one-computer-and-another
reading that, sounds like they are single threading the wireless communication, rather than untangling parallel transmissions like happens with TV stations, their MO is a similar concept to ethernet and token ring, where only 1 person talks at a time. its the same MO as cars driving down roads, where there is only 1 car at a time at any point! where a car has to wait for an unused segment of road at a T junction.
this could mean that connecting your PC to your modem with a cable will be faster, as you avoid collisions with your neighbours' modems.
I did use a TP link kind of system via the ethernet socket, a BT "Broadband Extender 600", where it sends the internet via the electricity mains of the house, but it caused interference sounds on my computer's loudspeakers. my solar panels connect to my modem as "internet of things" via 2 TPLinks, one near the solar inverter (converts DC to 50Hz 230V AC) and one near the modem. where I can view all 16 panels individually at a website! (needs a password).
you connect one gizmo to the mains and the ethernet cable to your modem. you connect the other gizmo near the PC, with the ethernet cable to the PC. you pair the 2 devices on first use, and now you have internet via this.
the above is designed for the UK mains, and probably will work with West Germany, but I dont know about other countries. I dont know if East Germany used the same mains as West Germany. you could receive east german tv in west Germany, they had military parades which lasted for many hours with Honecker observing these! so they did use the same TV protocol. you can use a german TV in England, but I think you wont get audio, as they arranged the audio signal differently. Both are PAL. british TVs wont work in the US where they use NTSC, and wont work in France where they use SECAM. google says SECAM was used in Russia also!
today everything is digital.
this could mean that connecting your PC to your modem with a cable will be faster, as you avoid collisions with your neighbours' modems.
I did use a TP link kind of system via the ethernet socket, a BT "Broadband Extender 600", where it sends the internet via the electricity mains of the house, but it caused interference sounds on my computer's loudspeakers. my solar panels connect to my modem as "internet of things" via 2 TPLinks, one near the solar inverter (converts DC to 50Hz 230V AC) and one near the modem. where I can view all 16 panels individually at a website! (needs a password).
you connect one gizmo to the mains and the ethernet cable to your modem. you connect the other gizmo near the PC, with the ethernet cable to the PC. you pair the 2 devices on first use, and now you have internet via this.
the above is designed for the UK mains, and probably will work with West Germany, but I dont know about other countries. I dont know if East Germany used the same mains as West Germany. you could receive east german tv in west Germany, they had military parades which lasted for many hours with Honecker observing these! so they did use the same TV protocol. you can use a german TV in England, but I think you wont get audio, as they arranged the audio signal differently. Both are PAL. british TVs wont work in the US where they use NTSC, and wont work in France where they use SECAM. google says SECAM was used in Russia also!
today everything is digital.
Every wireless connection has worse latency compared to the wired connection. This is one of the reasons why i prefer wired connections.
could be a question of cost also. without mixed signals, wireless is at the speed of light which is faster than electricity! fibre optics also is faster than electricity. I used to have fibre optic phone and broadband from Virgin Media, Richard Branson's firm.
but the video signal has to be encoded to wireless, then decoded back to say HDMI, and the CPU + software doing this might be slow. with DVDs I think the technology cannot handle HD, you need blurays for HD data rates.
where we currently have power sockets around a house, what we need is fibre optic sockets for an optical modem. then you just plug the nearest socket to your PC or smartphone. where these cables can run along the edges of the ceilings. fibre optic light is much more efficient than electricity. blurays and DVDS and CDs are an optical technology.
but the video signal has to be encoded to wireless, then decoded back to say HDMI, and the CPU + software doing this might be slow. with DVDs I think the technology cannot handle HD, you need blurays for HD data rates.
where we currently have power sockets around a house, what we need is fibre optic sockets for an optical modem. then you just plug the nearest socket to your PC or smartphone. where these cables can run along the edges of the ceilings. fibre optic light is much more efficient than electricity. blurays and DVDS and CDs are an optical technology.
I get that you want convenience, but with your gained convenience, criminals also gain convenience.
E.g keyless cars are one such thing, that i will NEVER get for myself, since it is very easy for criminals to copy and mirror the signal, thus stealing the car under 60 seconds, without a scratch on the car.
Prime example from UK;
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8RrmEizVg
That Mercedes easily costs £100.000 and just look how easily it is stolen. No lockpicking on the door, no lockpicking the ignition. Just mirror the keyless signal, start the engine, sit in and drive away.
I wasnt aware of this problem. I actually prefer manual controls, because that way the car or camera or whatever is an extension of my mind, whereas with automatic controls, there is another agent.
eg I dont like all these automatic updates and pop up requesters on my PC.
with my car, the doors opening is via the remote key, but you have to insert the key to start the car. I dont know if stealing the remote signal is enough to steal my car.
but if you steal a car in the UK, MOTs have to report the chassis and engine numbers, so they centrally have all these where you can no longer properly steal a car. if you have comprehensive insurance, the insurance company will replace your car! the MOT also has to report the mileage, in the old days second hand garages would prop the car up on a stand and put it in reverse, to fake a low mileage, but today the mileage reporting will detect that fraud!
in the theory test, you have to know that you must never leave valuables in the car.
the only valuables I leave when shopping are the satnav and dashcams. but all the cars do this, so I have safety in numbers!
the UK also has extensive CCTV, so you might steal the car, but the police can scan the local CCTV, and track the theft.
thieves might strip out the spare parts to sell. thieves dont steal for their own use, but to sell firstly at a big discount to "fences", and the fences then sell on to others. theft is a form of business!
a lot of theft and arson is self inflicted for the insurance! ie is insurance fraud. eg if a firm cannot sell a warehouse filled with some item, they pay an arsonist to set fire to the warehouse, and then get the insurance money.
serious crime is generally an inside job. so with the theft of a car or arson, the police and insurance firms will assume right away the owner paid someone to do this!
when I made a car insurance claim, they blitzed me on the phone with questions, repeating variously, then the car replacement firm phoned me on my mobile whilst I was on the landline to the insurers, a kind of confusion tactic,
you could fix that problem of the above Merc, by having a different signal each time, eg with my M&S card they do this where, each login I have to use an app which generates a new number each time. so if someone steals that number, it wont work next time. it needs a system where you cant figure the next number from the previous one. eg although pseudo random number generators calculate the next number from the previous one, the number you see isnt sufficient info to calculate the next one!
eg I dont like all these automatic updates and pop up requesters on my PC.
with my car, the doors opening is via the remote key, but you have to insert the key to start the car. I dont know if stealing the remote signal is enough to steal my car.
but if you steal a car in the UK, MOTs have to report the chassis and engine numbers, so they centrally have all these where you can no longer properly steal a car. if you have comprehensive insurance, the insurance company will replace your car! the MOT also has to report the mileage, in the old days second hand garages would prop the car up on a stand and put it in reverse, to fake a low mileage, but today the mileage reporting will detect that fraud!
in the theory test, you have to know that you must never leave valuables in the car.
the only valuables I leave when shopping are the satnav and dashcams. but all the cars do this, so I have safety in numbers!
the UK also has extensive CCTV, so you might steal the car, but the police can scan the local CCTV, and track the theft.
thieves might strip out the spare parts to sell. thieves dont steal for their own use, but to sell firstly at a big discount to "fences", and the fences then sell on to others. theft is a form of business!
a lot of theft and arson is self inflicted for the insurance! ie is insurance fraud. eg if a firm cannot sell a warehouse filled with some item, they pay an arsonist to set fire to the warehouse, and then get the insurance money.
serious crime is generally an inside job. so with the theft of a car or arson, the police and insurance firms will assume right away the owner paid someone to do this!
when I made a car insurance claim, they blitzed me on the phone with questions, repeating variously, then the car replacement firm phoned me on my mobile whilst I was on the landline to the insurers, a kind of confusion tactic,
you could fix that problem of the above Merc, by having a different signal each time, eg with my M&S card they do this where, each login I have to use an app which generates a new number each time. so if someone steals that number, it wont work next time. it needs a system where you cant figure the next number from the previous one. eg although pseudo random number generators calculate the next number from the previous one, the number you see isnt sufficient info to calculate the next one!
Yes, my PC case does have separators between PCI slots. It's part of the PC case structural integrity.
Rather than demanding it and forcing your idea on to everybody, you could then just buy that niche PC case that has open area around PCI slots.
you are misunderstanding my use of english! in Britain, we use exaggerated english, often as shorthand,
so when I said the standard demands, what I meant is that to conform to the standard you MUST do whatever I said is demanded.
in german you arent allowed to say "the medicine cured my illness", because the medicine doesnt have volition! but in british english we say that kind of thing all the time, which leads to much more efficient use of language.
germans have to use the passive tense for such an idea, that I cured my illness by using the medicine.
eg if you want to supply electricity to the mains system in Britain, the standard demands it is 50Hz 230V.
you can create electricity however you want, eg 10Hz 10V, but you arent conformant with the standard and cannot export it to the mains.
so this misunderstanding is similar to the german misunderstanding, I am using the standard as a subject even though it has no volition! all standards DEMAND all their rules! but maybe not in Germany!
this is to generalise the word "demand" to mean "this must be done, its not an option". but you are confusing this with the ordinary use of the word demand which is to force something!
eg the british roads demand you drive on the left.
eg the game of soccer demands that you cannot touch the ball with your hands unless you are the goalie or for a throw in or free kick etc. but you can play in your own time how you like.
I am not forcing my idea on anyone! I am suggesting an idea for a standard, where then mobo manufacturers can rely on 3rd party tower manufacturers supplying their side of the standard.
when I say "demand", I mean that if the idea is part of a standard, then anyone making anything relevant, eg a mobo or tower case can freely just conform to the standard, and all the different products will be compatible.
so when I said the standard demands, what I meant is that to conform to the standard you MUST do whatever I said is demanded.
in german you arent allowed to say "the medicine cured my illness", because the medicine doesnt have volition! but in british english we say that kind of thing all the time, which leads to much more efficient use of language.
germans have to use the passive tense for such an idea, that I cured my illness by using the medicine.
eg if you want to supply electricity to the mains system in Britain, the standard demands it is 50Hz 230V.
you can create electricity however you want, eg 10Hz 10V, but you arent conformant with the standard and cannot export it to the mains.
so this misunderstanding is similar to the german misunderstanding, I am using the standard as a subject even though it has no volition! all standards DEMAND all their rules! but maybe not in Germany!
this is to generalise the word "demand" to mean "this must be done, its not an option". but you are confusing this with the ordinary use of the word demand which is to force something!
eg the british roads demand you drive on the left.
eg the game of soccer demands that you cannot touch the ball with your hands unless you are the goalie or for a throw in or free kick etc. but you can play in your own time how you like.
I am not forcing my idea on anyone! I am suggesting an idea for a standard, where then mobo manufacturers can rely on 3rd party tower manufacturers supplying their side of the standard.
when I say "demand", I mean that if the idea is part of a standard, then anyone making anything relevant, eg a mobo or tower case can freely just conform to the standard, and all the different products will be compatible.
E.g Antec Performance 1 FT;
specs: https://www.antec.com/product/case/performance-1-ft
Then Fractal Design have list of PC cases that have bridgeless (open) PCI slots.
Full list here: https://support.fractal-design.com/...acket-compatibility-with-fractal-design-cases
And so does every "open air" PC case as well. E.g Thermaltake offers plenty of "open air" style PC cases,
lineup: https://www.thermaltake.com/products/chassis.html?cat=190&product_list_limit=30
that is what I am describing, but it needs to be part of an industry standard, ie standardised and made into a standard, as PC components are components, so it is vastly more efficient to manufacture a component relative to a standard, rather than relative to some nonstandard product. you are taking a risk when you make a product for another product.
eg say you write a program to create jpegs, if you conform to the jpeg standard, the output of your program will work on Photoshop, on Paint, on your bluray player, you dont need to waste time poring through the documentation of Photoshop, Paint, the bluray player etc. just the documentation of the jpeg standard.
but you could test it with say Photoshop or Paint.
eg say you write a program to create jpegs, if you conform to the jpeg standard, the output of your program will work on Photoshop, on Paint, on your bluray player, you dont need to waste time poring through the documentation of Photoshop, Paint, the bluray player etc. just the documentation of the jpeg standard.
but you could test it with say Photoshop or Paint.
with my Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200, the PSU was a standalone transformer, away from the computer!PSU is closed on top, whereby when installing it at the bottom, means PSU fan is facing downwards. This way, PSU has it's own airflow path, completely separate from the rest of the system.
This is the old design, with top mounted PSU.
power cable to the transformer, and then a DC cable to the computer!
the Amiga 1200 was great, it was literally a keyboard and a standalone transformer! nothing else.
a bit like a laptop, but with a separate monitor, and no battery.
In this case, PSU has to take the hot air from inside the case, to cool itself. Since air inside the PC case is already heated up by the CPU and GPU (if using air cooler on both), PSU has only hot air to take, in effort to cool itself. If it even can. This leads to PSU fan spinning faster and noisier, since intake air is hot and won't cool the PSU as well as cold air would.
This is the new design, with bottom mounted PSU. In this case, PSU has easy access to the cold air from outside, from the bottom of the PC case, to draw in and cool itself. This leads to slower fan RPM in PSU and in turn, also less noise from PSU. Moreover, PSU has better cooling due to the cold air it can take directly from outside.
if you have major heat insulation at the top of the PSU then maybe, but I personally think you have just illustrated that the vertical PC tower is an inefficient design, as heat convection is always best vertically upwards, so the best MO is a horizontal PC case, rather than a tower. or just have a standalone PSU like with the Amiga. the USB3 hub with 10 sockets has a standalone transformer, why not the PC?
with a horizontal case some of the thrust will be merely passive from the fact that hot air rises.
with a vertical PC tower, heat will flow upwards to the stuff above an item, which is a form of contamination, whereas with a horizontal case, heat flows from any item up and away from all other items.
with a horizontal case some of the thrust will be merely passive from the fact that hot air rises.
with a vertical PC tower, heat will flow upwards to the stuff above an item, which is a form of contamination, whereas with a horizontal case, heat flows from any item up and away from all other items.
that is harsh language! literally its not my funeral but the funeral of my mobo!With top mounted PSU, you have no choice, you have to install PSU with fan facing downwards (some few cases may allow installing fan facing upwards, if there is grille at the top).
But with bottom mounted PSU, you have an option, either to mount the PSU fan facing downwards, or upwards (that is, if your PC case doesn't have closed PSU shroud without grille on top).
Yes.
It's your funeral. 🪦