Recent content by jdfelosi

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    Question what was your first legit video card?

    If im not mistaken it was the VooDoo 5 5500 that was a dual, and then the uber rare voodoo 5 6000 which was a quad, running at 166mhz all on pci of course lol. pics for reference.
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    Discussion Considering upgrading 2500K business PC (UPDATED)

    im basically in the same process as you with the 2500k, i went ahead and went amd, my purpose of upgarde was my gtx280 died and bought an rx580 at a sweet deal of 120 new and it won't work on the asrock p67ex4. keeping case / psu / and drives (temporarily) upgrade has cost me rx580 8gb 120$...
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    Looking to re-stream a media player over coax, with only HDMI-out connection on the player

    https://www.amazon.com/RadioShack-HDMI-Coaxial-Converter-Adapter/dp/B06XWZMFD8 i use these to convert hdmi source to coax for the existing runs in my home, hopefully i'll finish my cablechase soon and can do away with them, but they'll get it done
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    Question Do I need the CPU to test fans/AIO?

    Just jump ps_on to ground, you can run your psu without a board, will have to power fans from adaptors and not motherboard, but it'll work
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    Question How to reset BIOS without reinstalling motherboard

    used to be fairly common to see reset buttons on the io panel for a while. but what i normaly do is just take an old 2 position switch and a servo connector or 3pin jst and some wire and remote mount it somewhere easier to get to.
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    Question RX580 upgrade/install problems p67 extreme4

    i saw reports that a high margin of the boards that flashed to 3.1 (only version avail on their site) bricked their boards and had to get new bios chips sent to them for $25 and had to do it via money order. The bios flash on their site has to be done within windows 7/8, not found a reliable...
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    Question what was your first legit video card?

    I still have my old VooDoo PCI and AGP cards, the first discrete video card i had was an old CGA ISA card. have lots of old stuff lying around, plan on putting them into epoxy in my upcoming desk build.
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    Question RX580 upgrade/install problems p67 extreme4

    I got a good deal on an RX580 8gb XFX card. The GTX280 i had in my aging i5 build finaly bit the bucket, just quit posting got it to post with an old 8400gs long enough to get another card on the way its on an asrock p67 extreme 4 board with the original bios, i never updated it too many people...