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  1. neepheid

    Which GPU?

    Agreed - I've got my eye on one of those next year. My choices are limited to the EVGA XC or the ASUS Dual Mini as I need a card < 210mm long for my wee case, but at least I have a choice this time around :)
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    Has anybody checked out the Raspberry Pi 400 yet?

    Today's modern, large flat panels suspend the nostalgia to a degree but having said that I was staring into an Amstrad tiny green fishbowl for a large chunk of the 80s. I'm not nostalgic for that - probably explains the strength of my glasses prescription...
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    Has anybody checked out the Raspberry Pi 400 yet?

    I have a Pi4 running RetroPie and I find having to dig out a keyboard in order to play some 8-bit stuff because it won't listen to controllers without a bunch of faffing around pretty annoying. Bulky too - defeats the whole purpose of the kit being small in the first place. The nostalgia thing...
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    Has anybody checked out the Raspberry Pi 400 yet?

    Aside from all the serious people talking about Python, I can see some people (myself included) getting RetroPie on one of these and then getting all teary-eyed playing 8-bit games on a small box with a keyboard plugged into the telly, just like back in the day - all that it would need to make...
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    10 year old laptop problem

    Double underline bold italics on the word "leaded". In my experience, lead-free solder is cack.
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    Pi4 to VGA or Display port

    VGA doesn't carry sound, that's why the first one you linked breaks the audio out to a separate jack. You'll only get sound with that if you have an audio input in the target device, plug it into another audio device, or plug some headphones into the adaptor. Second one is unlikely to work at...
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    SFF case that’s supports ATX PSU

    Also, a small GPU (< 210mm in length, I think - check the specs) can be fitted in this case if you wanted to add one down the line.
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    SFF case that’s supports ATX PSU

    No GPU? Jonsbo T8 will take an ATX PSU (although you will be compromised on CPU cooler height)
  9. neepheid

    Shutdown, Sleep or On

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface#Power_states
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    Shutdown, Sleep or On

    I tend to use Sleep for all downtime, I haven't had any issues with my desktop machine - it does what I ask - goes to sleep, wakes up when I press a key or the power button. I give it a restart when Windows nags me to. I only fully shut it down when I know I'm going to be removing the power.
  11. neepheid

    How many USB ports do you like?

    Give me as many as you can at the back. What puzzles me more is some quite expensive cases (usually ITX) minimising or even eschewing front USB ports in an effort to appear all inscrutable and monolithic. That approach I just can't get on board with. I want to be able to plug a game...
  12. neepheid

    LEDs stopped working on Gigabyte B450I Aorus ITX

    Tried something I read online - go into BIOS and set RGB Fusion to off, save, power down, remove power, plug back in, go into BIOS and turn RGB back on. No luck, LEDs still not turning on.
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    LEDs stopped working on Gigabyte B450I Aorus ITX

    Just wondering if anyone has any tips for this. The LEDs on my Gigabyte B450I Aorus ITX board have stopped working. The only LEDs I was using were the built in strip along the edge of the motherboard. I don't know why they stopped working, I just switched the computer on and noticed the...
  14. neepheid

    What have you done to your car today?

    Having felt a little proud of myself for having done some rudimentary preventative maintenance - levelling up from doing my own oil/filter change, I now get the feeling of having drifted inadvertently into the deep end and one of my armbands is deflating... :)
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    What have you done to your car today?

    Painted my rear drums today. Was too lazy to do it when I got them replaced in February, paid the price with an extended scrubbing session with the wire brush :) Orange-y brown neglect. Much bettah!
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    What "man jobs" have you done today?

    Removed - wrong forum, sorry
  17. neepheid

    What "man jobs" have you done today?

    Summer Garden Buildings, when I bought my kit it was £200 but it looks like they've covid-ed up the price to £269 now :( When I say "cheap-ish", I'm basing that on the fact that you can buy a stack of firewood masquerading as a triple wheelie bin store from Amazon for £150 and most half decent...
  18. neepheid

    Wiring a new plug and there’s no earth wire

    I'm still rocking the old school cartridge fuses in my consumer unit (yeah, I know - add a modern consumer unit to the long list of things to do to this old house). Speaking of no longer teaching the fundamentals - I had to find an old person in B&Q to ask them where the fuse wire was; the...
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    What "man jobs" have you done today?

    Also, from a productive weekend - painted the front of the house with my wife. Just finished touching up the little bits round door/window last night. Went from this manky/washed out almost grey green To f'ing GREEN As a bonus, had a slater working on the roof on Monday and he painted...
  20. neepheid

    What "man jobs" have you done today?

    At the weekend I put together a wheelie bin store. It was a cheap-ish kit so as you can imagine construction wasn't IKEA precision/simplicity. Some fettling of door frames was required to get the doors to shut and not stick (as you can see from the wood shavings at the bottom of one of the...
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