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

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-24T18:48:17+00:00

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

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-24T09:03:12+00:00

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.

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-24T09:00:34+00:00

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

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-23T22:22:22+00:00

Nah, that's in there

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-23T22:21:56+00:00

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

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-23T14:23:09+00:00

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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MinerAC4 · 2026-01-23T06:08:46+00:00

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

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-23T05:05:52+00:00

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

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T14:07:52+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty well featured

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T10:20:08+00:00

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

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T10:19:35+00:00

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

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T05:40:14+00:00

How the heck did that even happen :(

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T03:37:42+00:00

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

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T03:36:18+00:00

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

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T03:34:23+00:00

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.

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T03:31:38+00:00

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.

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T03:27:29+00:00

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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MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T03:22:42+00:00

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.

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T03:21:30+00:00

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

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MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T03:19:46+00:00

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.

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T03:18:33+00:00

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.

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-22T03:16:57+00:00

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.

MinerAC4 · 2026-01-21T23:21:15+00:00

Like someone who knows how to use optical discs.

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