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I found a lot better of a board

No VGA port (if that's a DVI-I port, I guess you can use that, but the grounding won't be quite as good so you'll get a little more noise in your video signal).
Is this one passively cooled? Might or might not be a problem when it's sharing an enclosed space with a CRT.
I do like the mini-PCIe slot.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 13 2021, 20:14

It should be be DVI-I, as the version with the smaller non-heatpiped heatsink has a VGA port where the tip of the heatsink is.
iMac has an 80mm fan in the plate between the monitor and motherboard area, I can always change it out for a better fan.

I like Wirth's Law.
"The hope is that the progress in hardware will cure all software ills. However, a critical observer may observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in size and sluggishness."

I'm compiling Firefox 84 still; I used to be able to compile it in around 45 minutes to an hour; I'm currently several hours in. Thanks, Rust.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 14 2021, 02:20

It should be be DVI-I, as the version with the smaller non-heatpiped heatsink has a VGA port where the tip of the heatsink is.
iMac has an 80mm fan in the plate between the monitor and motherboard area, I can always change it out for a better fan.

Can you mount a noctua fan on top of the heat sink?

Can you mount a noctua fan on top of the heat sink?

Just any old 120mm will be fine. epoxy it down.

Intel got burned so hard that their marketing CEO is getting replaced.

Hopefully they put an engineer at the top again so they can stop sucking and go back to being good.

Replacing it's wireless card with an intel based dual band card, a slimline SATA DVD rewriter, Hyundai 240gb SSD (cause Crucial and Intel ones are inexplicably marked up in that size), and a splattering of cables to bring connections out and power it up.

My gaming rig doesn't have any Noctua fans in it; PSU has a Corsair fan, then chassis and CPU are a mix of SanAce and Nidec. Plus whomever made the fans on the Sapphire graphics card.


Intel CPUs are coasting on name, their desktop, workstation, and server CPUs are a horrible value compared to AMD. Especially as you get higher in the line. AMD's top end offerings blow theirs out of the water, and are still cheaper than much lower performing Intel chips. They do make the best NIC chipsets, and AMD seems to have backed away from trying to compete with the Atom low power chipsets though.

Replacing it's wireless card with an intel based dual band card, a slimline SATA DVD rewriter, Hyundai 240gb SSD (cause Crucial and Intel ones are inexplicably marked up in that size), and a splattering of cables to bring connections out and power it up.

Just get an atheros ath9k one and you won't need to get drivers/firmware (802.11n max, though). You want an ar9280 or similar chip. Make sure it's one of the dual-band ones. ar9280 is.

I think my card model number is ar5bhb92 in my x201 tablet (I swapped it in). From either a fujitsu lifebook or some random HP model. It uses an ar9280 chip.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 14 2021, 18:54

After some digging, I found out that same part number- AR5BHB92.
Dell calls it a W1919. If it doesn't have BHB in the middle, it's a different card.
Best I can twll, the motherboard includes an N capable card, but 2.4GHz only which doesn't do me any favors.

The dvd drive I bought has a silver tray bezel and fills the iMac's piedrive hole pretty nicely, and I wanted it to rip the USB board out of, so I can't complain too hard it's not as advertised. I need to select another one for my toughbook, and it only has usb 2.0, so I suppose I'll just get another LG drive. It doesn't make false claims about the USB speed, and is put together well enough it's hard to open on purpose.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Jan 14 2021, 20:16

After some digging, I found out that same part number- AR5BHB92.
Dell calls it a W1919. If it doesn't have BHB in the middle, it's a different card.
Best I can twll, the motherboard includes an N capable card, but 2.4GHz only which doesn't do me any favors.

The dvd drive I bought has a silver tray bezel and fills the iMac's piedrive hole pretty nicely, and I wanted it to rip the USB board out of, so I can't complain too hard it's not as advertised. I need to select another one for my toughbook, and it only has usb 2.0, so I suppose I'll just get another LG drive. It doesn't make false claims about the USB speed, and is put together well enough it's hard to open on purpose.

So are you going for the atheros card? AR5BHB92 supports 5GHz 802.11n, too; I'm using it now.
Also, I missed something, I think; did you get that DVD drive for a USB -> SATA controller or something?

Intel got burned so hard that their marketing CEO is getting replaced.

Hopefully they put an engineer at the top again so they can stop sucking and go back to being good.

I hope x86 and ARM both die. Not that I expect either will anytime soon.
Make POWER and MIPS great again.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 15 2021, 08:49

Make POWER and MIPS great again.

They were great on release but then aged super fast. Maybe that would not be the case now.


We do have shit tons of ram which helps risc processors but on x86 processors we now have shit tons of cache.


My current processor has more cache than my first few computers had ram.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Jan 15 2021, 12:18

I got the drive for the drive proper, and the housing.
I wanted to plug directly onto a SATA interface, which I can do with this one. I'd be miffed if it cost more than $20 shipped or I actually wanted a USB 3.0 interface.

Because I'm stupid, I'm putting the board without wifi/usb 3.0 in an optiplex GX270 chassis I had. 210W psu, and originally held a micro-ATX motherboard. Only tricky part will be working out the pinout of the front panel's ribbon cable, and getting it connected to the correct header pins. The MSI chassis did indeed have a mini-ITX board in it- but two problems. There's no power supply, because the stock mobo ran off a 19V 65W laptop brick, and I don't have the top cover for the chassis anymore.

Eddy: found pinouts, I just need to breakout the ribbon w/ high density plug.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Jan 15 2021, 19:36

work

Next week-end (not the one of tomorrow), I will get my new laptop.
Hopefully I won't screw up the Win10 license transfer process.

Imagine actually choosing to use windows 10

My current processor has more cache than my first few computers had ram.

Yeah I had a VIC-20 (learned BASIC and 6502 assembly on it); can relate.
Still have it since it hasn't died like my C64's all did.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 16 2021, 07:22

Intel got burned so hard that their marketing CEO is getting replaced.

Was Intel really just sitting on their laurels due to lack of competition? Sitting seems like a good approach to maximize profits when Intel hasn't improved its 7nm manufacturing process.

This post has been edited by Anime Janai: Jan 24 2021, 04:21

Learned there's going to be a beagleboard line based on RISC-V. It's a shame that it's gonna use a PowerVR GPU, though, so I probably won't be too interested.
I got burned on PowerVR when I got a MIPS CI20 and I'm not about to repeat that mistake and be left with a kernel I can't upgrade unless I want to lose hardware acceleration.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 16 2021, 20:49

Spent way too long today getting a USB controller passed through to a VM so I could re-jailbreak an old iOS device I got with an OS X VM.

It's now almost 5 AM. Since it's a three day weekend I'll probably just try to survive until tonight (I expect a friend to come over later, so hopefully I'll be able to stay awake with enough tea and social stimulation).

I blame Apple for making this so hard.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 17 2021, 11:50

I should have start trading bitcoin last year

Ported X11 quake to use SDL for sound today so that I can play it and have other sound programs running simultaneously (such as cdemu, which emulates CD redbook audio playback). Previously I had to choose between sound effects and music unless I wanted a modernized OpenGL variant of the engine.

I made my modifications to the id software/John Carmack code from the old release. Unfortunately that means my software quake is still CPU-bound to x86 since it has some stuff that's in assembly without C equivalents. Not sure what C/C++ code I'd need to borrow from a modern "fork" in order to fix that, but I hope to play it on my powerbook some day.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 18 2021, 03:27