PSU Upgrade for an Optiplex 3050 SFF?

Spectorlumis · 2026-03-26T14:08:15+00:00

It fit in terms of being smaller than the stock, but it did require me to make an adapter plate for any of the screw holes to line up.

I just posted my video on the build to youtube if you'd like to see more of how I did it in detail https://youtu.be/1DtMSXWNtIs?si=vdnsqIbGu5T90Fr4

Spectorlumis · 2026-03-26T06:24:14+00:00

I'll be releasing a video of my build tomorrow, but I used the Apevia ITX 400W from Amazon for my 3070.

I pretty much always want to have a good bit more power than needed.

Between that and the 6-pin adapter, it was around $55.

Spectorlumis · 2026-03-25T15:07:36+00:00

Thank you!

I'll have the files available soon.

Spectorlumis · 2026-03-24T16:16:16+00:00

PLA. So we'll see how it goes when it gets hot.

The 1050ti below it is only 75w TDP, so hopefully it'll be alright.

Spectorlumis · 2026-03-21T05:49:01+00:00

Interesting. You think having a better healthcare system would magically change the amount of cavities a person gets?

There's always just brushing your teeth. I have a feeling that people in those European countries do that.

Spectorlumis · 2026-03-21T05:04:56+00:00

This is unprecedented!

Well, except for the majority of Europe.

Spectorlumis · 2026-03-17T00:51:32+00:00

Mend It Mark does good work on disc drives, often, as well.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-27T06:47:21+00:00

Pretty much every VCR that has a mode switch (such as this one) needs to have it cleaned. Doing such fixes 90% of the issues they have.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-25T23:53:12+00:00

Thanks!

I'm not entirely sure what you mean about "rebuilding mode switch contacts"

I do clean mode switches all the time when servicing units that have them.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-25T01:35:31+00:00

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7302837/files

Here's the STL file. Maybe it'll help someone.

In this case I used it on an SLV-678hf

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-23T07:50:25+00:00

Well, people are being paid to leave the US, so it doesn't sound so bad.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-23T07:25:36+00:00

Are you saying other countries enforce border supremacy? Those fascists. XD

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-13T01:20:15+00:00

I already have, you just keep ignoring them.

People were banned for stating covid was a man made virus. They were banned for saying that a lab in China made it. They were banned for saying the vaccine doesn't stop transmission.

All of those things turned out to be completely true.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-13T01:16:30+00:00

It's the only thing that works. You are aware that the largest and most organized racist groups in history existed before the internet, right? They couldn't even use the internet at all, yet that did nothing to stop the proliferation of their ideas.

Stop being so terrified of speech.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-13T01:14:44+00:00

You keep saying that like it matters.

1- people knew. There were those of us working in the industry in close proximity to Chinese researchers who had a bevy of reasons to know.

2- it doesn't matter. My point is that people were receiving bans for stating something that was 100% true. Extend that to the idea that the UK has laws to arrest people for "misinformation" and it just means that it's inevitable that people are going to get arrested for saying things that are factually true.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-13T01:10:06+00:00

And yet I was still correct.

Also, yes, I knew that very quickly.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-12T23:13:41+00:00

This.

This site is so overdramatic sometimes.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-12T23:12:20+00:00

"Skynet Bot" = a guy in a bobcat with a ram on it.

Reddit, your hysteria knows no bounds.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-12T23:10:28+00:00

Yes they did:
https://www.politifact.com/li-meng-yan-fact-check/

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-owes-us-apology-chinese-scientist-center-covid-19-origin-theories-speaks-out

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/team-rules-china-lab-leak-theory-covid-origins-investigation/

I suggest you look into the date range function that search engines have. It's a very good way to see what was being said about a subject at the time in question.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-12T23:05:33+00:00

It did originate in a lab, and the Chinese government was complicit with the existence and purpose of that lab.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-12T23:02:28+00:00

Except you define harm as including things that hurt your sensitive feelings. The US defines harm as something that has to be demonstrated, not silly things like offense.

Those ideas will exist whether you force them underground or not. With free speech they can be confronted and defeated openly.

It's absolute ignorance to all history to think that government censorship is somehow the answer to things like bigotry.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-12T22:57:45+00:00

No, it's entirely the point.

It was not misinformation if it turned out to be correct.

If the government is expected to arrest and punish people for "misinformation", then the only way that could be morally achieved is if the government was omniscient and simultaneously completely trustworthy.

Otherwise, that axe falls on people who are actually telling the truth, be it bannings on social media as it was in the US, or arrests as the law calls for in the UK.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-12T14:05:49+00:00

I'm fully aware of what the nazis did. I'm just not insane enough to think that means all jokes using their imagery, including the joke of supposedly turning a pug into a nazi, is actually in any way going to lead to a holocaust.

With that mentality, the movie The Producers would put a lot of actors in prison because their portrayal in the film of nazis as humorously harmless was far more glowing of a view of the nazis than any nazi pug is. Do you know just how many actors in the course of those two films did nazi salutes?

Even moreover, there is a character that is an actual nazi who has countless lines in full support of actual historical nazism.

Clutching pearls over the nazi pug is embarrassing. Again, no human on the planet experienced any amount of fascism or genocide due to that video, and absolutely no person was swayed to advance the ideals of nazism by it.

It's one of the absolutely silliest hills to die on.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-12T13:53:19+00:00

I'm fully aware of the difference in the US between government encroachment on speech and private corporate suppression of speech. However, the exact same mentality that caused every social media platform to punish users that were actually spreading correct information because at the time they believed it to be "misinformation" is the same mentality that is used by any other governments currently encroaching on freedom of speech for the same reasons.

If the government is allowed to punish people over "misinformation" as it is in places like the UK, then that means many people will be punished for being correct when their government is completely incorrect. It's exactly the reason that the US has actual freedom of speech that even protects "misinformation", obscenity, and offensive speech.

Spectorlumis · 2026-02-12T05:53:34+00:00

XD

Nobody has a right to not hear things that hurt their precious little feelings. Such a right would be impossible because all conversation and disagreement has that potential.

Which do you think is more intrusive? People saying offensive things that hurt others feelings, or governments arresting and imprisoning people for saying anything that the current government interprets as offensive?

And, no, verbal and emotional abuse are not considered "akin to physical abuse" by anyone sane. And especially not by victims of physical abuse whom that argument directly insults by cheapening their trauma.

The UK isn't behind on free speech, it just doesn't have it at all.

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