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Anyone good with hardware store-type hardware questions? Overheating laptop, I'm trying to clean it/check the heatsink, but my laptop's design requires it to be almost totally disassembled for this. Some of the screws I've encountered have had nut inserts on the other side that have been spinning with the screws, but I was able to get to the back side to hold them in place to get the screws out (and then the nuts fell off).
Now one last screw to get the monitor off, and it has the same symptoms, but this time the back side with the nut insert is basically inaccessible. Anyone know how to get one of these out without being too risky? And will putting it back together be a problem?
I'm not a great expert at these things.
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Not sure where to post this but I seen some here in regards to Steel series RMA. I received an email from them after they received my keyboard stating they were going to send me a new keyboard. That was January 29th. I am still fighting with them . Going on 6 months!! Any one have any suggestions on how I can get my keyboard??
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I'd start calling them daily to get progress reports. Make yourself annoying enough that they'd rather fix it than ignore it.
If they're not forthcoming, small claims court exists pretty much for this kind of dispute.
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Yeah pretty much what Craton said. I had to pester Cooler Master about one of my keyboards on several occasions for two months to get them to move it through the RMA process. It sucks when you have to do that, but sometimes things like this get lost in such big companies.
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On July 13 2015 03:31 Craton wrote: Er, I'm assuming by IDE connectors you mean two cables for power (IDE = ATA, which is the really old HDD cable). Probably you have some combination of the small 3-pin or 4-pin connector or a 4-pin molex. Mostly it's to provide compatibility with multiple systems.
The small 3-pin can only control fan speed by means of changing the voltage provided (less voltage = lower RPM). Too low of voltage and the fan won't spin at all (the range of voltage a fan works with is dependent on the model of fan) The small 4-pin has PWM which allows for more granular/efficient fan speed control The molex cable basically has no RPM control, so it runs at 100% speed.
In some systems, fans don't necessarily need to be running all the time. If the temperatures are low enough a fan can simply go idle.
On July 13 2015 03:32 Myrmidon wrote: It probably has two connectors so you can daisy chain.
The fan is probably getting old, maybe unbalanced or with extra friction somewhere that's making the force insufficient to get it to spin on its own sometimes. Cleaning it and oiling the bearings (assuming it's a cheap sleeve bearing model, which it almost assuredly is) may help. If that doesn't, you may want to replace it. Case fans are usually pieces of junk anyway.
That said, if your motherboard is using voltage control for fan speed regulation on that header, the voltage output may just be lower than what the fan needs to start up. This can be as high as 9 or 10 volts in some nominal 12 volts computer fans; for some others, it's close to 3 volts or so. If there is some setting, if you want the thing to spin, you could just set a higher fan speed. Some motherboards will spin up the fans to max at the start to get them running and then ramp down, for what it's worth.
And as noted above, even if the intent is to have it running, there are situations in which you may not necessarily need the fan active. If temps are fine, then who cares?
Thanks for the help guys. I do have it set to run at 50% in the BIOS, which is enough, but it does need to be running or the case gets too hot pretty fast. I'll take it out and do some cleaning.
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Hey guys, I need a software that'll make a professional looking "double" timeline like this one but less cheesy:
On the top half I'd have the prime ministers and on the bottom half I'd have the mayors of a big city, this would be used to see how they overlap and stuff. Any way to get this done cleanly?
Edit: This would be even better, it's a screenshot from a website called "Preceden", it costs $30 though x_x.
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Thinking of buying the Razer Blackwidow Chroma keyboard. Is it reliable/durable enough to skip the additional warranty?
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On July 14 2015 04:24 Djzapz wrote:Hey guys, I need a software that'll make a professional looking "double" timeline like this one but less cheesy: On the top half I'd have the prime ministers and on the bottom half I'd have the mayors of a big city, this would be used to see how they overlap and stuff. Any way to get this done cleanly? Edit: This would be even better, it's a screenshot from a website called "Preceden", it costs $30 though x_x.
Can't really help you much with this, unless you didn't check the alternatives yet. Maybe you will find something of use in there.
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Thanks, I'll check those out.
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Any good GSM Android phones with good battery and little to no heat issues? and I don't just mean "okay" with 5-6 hours SOT
I'm talking about insane 8-10 hours SOT with standby in like the 2 days. I would consider an iPhone 6 plus but... it's way too expensive and doesn't have an app I need nor an alternative.
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I build a new rig yesterday.
i7 4970k h105 liquid cooler
To test the cooling performance, I ran prime95 small ftt test for a couple of minutes.
room temp = 28°C prime 26.6 small ftt maximum = 63°C prime 28.5 small ftt maximum = 80°C
Is that the expected cooling performance? Everything ok?
Thanks for any replies!
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You shouldn't run any version of prime95 small fft, really
it also depends a lot on the vcore used, the default voltage can vary a lot on different 4790k's and make a gap of potentially 10c+. You can easily check that in software or set it yourself, though.
i usually use an x264 test for checking load temps but it's probably easily/simpler to just go download cinebench r15 and run it back to back 2-3 times to check temps there
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Quick question about monitor!
I'm using an Asus ML239 monitor right now. I'm wondering if I should replace with something bigger (for gaming/videos). My budget is around 500$, can spend more if needed! Should I go duo/triple monitor? Go for an ultrawide?
Thnx ^^
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You should be fine at that size. Most people tend to run 24", but the difference between the two is pretty minimal. I think 24" market segment has the widest range of options while still being well priced.
$500 can get you a 27" 2560x1440p (on sale), but that's a lot more demand on the hardware. You can also get a 27" 1080p, but then you end up with less pixel density; I don't know how the quality is for those. I wouldn't get an ultrawide unless you have a specific reason -- games and video are catered toward 16x9.
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I think no matter what, a second screen is invaluable. 2 screens gives you far more freedom than one big screen does
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Quick question about that: what freeware would you guys recommend for dual monitors? I use Ultramon because it has "smart taskbar" which stretches the taskbar across both monitors and has the icon on the respective taskbar that the application is on. Is there good freeware that can do the same?
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I do not use anything right now, is not neccesary unless you want multiple taskbars, different desktop backgrounds (without manually editing an image to include both in one file) etc
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On July 18 2015 07:21 Cyro wrote: I think no matter what, a second screen is invaluable. 2 screens gives you far more freedom than one big screen does
What about ultrawide screens?
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