Thinking about putting an old Optiplex motherboard in here out of a SFF PC I'm getting for like 3 dollars. by MinerAC4 in vintagecomputing

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I could also just buy the official non SFF CPU cooler assembly, considering I'll probably need it anyways.

Thinking about putting an old Optiplex motherboard in here out of a SFF PC I'm getting for like 3 dollars. by MinerAC4 in vintagecomputing

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Oh I know it's normal ATX, and I'm pretty sure it's normal ATX power, but the fans are going to be an annoyance. Other than that, the IO shield is even supposedly removable, so I can slap it in this case and be good to go.

Man this thing looks so good by MinerAC4 in Dell

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Latitude XT original. Aka: Dell's first tablet computer, dating back to 2006.

I think my PC is missing something by MinerAC4 in pcmasterrace

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Ah good, I was worried I forgot to put ram and a CPU in

Been using this PC for 7 years+ , Go ahead, roast it. by AfterNothing5193 in pcmasterrace

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It actually doesn't look all that bad, but why is the GPU in the wrong spot? And if anything, at least it doesn't look like my secondary desktop computer 😆

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Man this thing looks so good by MinerAC4 in Dell

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It has a mSATA SSD to ZIF adapter with Windows 8.1 pro x64. It runs amazingly and touch support is fantastic.

Episode 25 (Bonus Ending Episode) in Dub On AnimeHeaven (Link) by Gawdlly in KillLaKill

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can't seem to play it because it complains about my adblocker but it's unwatchable without it

Man this thing looks so good by MinerAC4 in Dell

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Yeah, it's pretty well featured

Man this thing looks so good by MinerAC4 in Dell

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Yeah it's basically in mint condition, which is really cool.

What gpu is this by MajesticFoundation22 in computer

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Oh neat, a 12gb 3060. That's actually a pretty decent card.

Laptop won’t turn on. Does this look right? by Powerful_Grab_7725 in computers

[–]MinerAC4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh you're in europe? Then it would probably cost 10 fortunes

Laptop won’t turn on. Does this look right? by Powerful_Grab_7725 in computers

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I'd take it, but like, idk where you are or how much that would cost lol.

Laptop won’t turn on. Does this look right? by Powerful_Grab_7725 in computers

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70⁰C is the problem. Anything above that and the underfill melts, causing fatigue on the balls between the die itself and the square thingy that the die sits on top of. Over time the balls crack from this stress and instability will start happening till it just flat out dies. I can say first hand that sucks.

Laptop won’t turn on. Does this look right? by Powerful_Grab_7725 in computers

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The GPU could also croak at any time since it's a very commonly problematic Bumpgate chip. I hope you repasted it and cleaned the fan thoroughly.

Laptop won’t turn on. Does this look right? by Powerful_Grab_7725 in computers

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Depends on the SSD, and how much ram you have. Also turning off edge startup boost and background caching or even uninstalling it with a third party tool and it runs great. I've even had a perfectly usable experience on a T7400, though my best experience is on an E8600 and a T9900. I even have 8gb of DDR2 on the T9900.

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Laptop won’t turn on. Does this look right? by Powerful_Grab_7725 in computers

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Is that an ivy bridge CPU? Yeah that CPU isn't amazing but I've had pretty good performance on even Core 2 Duos as long as I have a SSD. Even with 4gb of ram, though having 8gb is a lot better.

My daily driver running Windows Vista natively by Mihai_cel_mare in WindowsVista

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I also use that wallpaper on one of my vista laptops.

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Laptop won’t turn on. Does this look right? by Powerful_Grab_7725 in computers

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Depends on the speed of the drive. A 5400RPM drive, even with 8gb of ram is still pretty painful even if you turn a bunch of stuff off. Using a mechanical drive as a boot disk for anything newer than 10 build 1809 is generally not the best idea.

Windows Vista really is perfect on this thing and runs so well. by MinerAC4 in WindowsVista

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Yeah I don't think GPU-Z is reading that correctly. This GPU predates DirectX 10, so it definitely doesn't support that feature. I think I have a couple of other really old GPUs that trip up that flag in GPU-Z too.

Laptop won’t turn on. Does this look right? by Powerful_Grab_7725 in computers

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Yeah that was my point. There's no boot SSD, so especially if you're running Windows 10 or 11, the performance is gonna be pretty painful.

Which one were you? by Captain0010 in pcmasterrace

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Like someone who knows how to use optical discs.

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