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Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Core i5-3470 3.60GHz
Gigabyte Geforce GTX650 1GB GDDR5
16GB DDR3-1600
Samsung SH-224AB DVD-RW
FSP Bluestorm II 500W (recapped)
120GB ADATA + 2x Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST31000340NS 1TB
Delux MG760 case
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Re: best cheap/free scores 1.1
Well of course, that's the idle temperature.
Try running a game or Furmark and log the temperatures (GPU-Z, SpeedFan, MSI Afterburner... etc.) Most likely will peak around the low 60's Celsius, but that will depend on the ambient temps, though. Either way, for longevity's sake, keep under 50-52C.Last edited by momaka; 05-05-2019, 06:34 PM.Comment
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Main rig:
Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Core i5-3470 3.60GHz
Gigabyte Geforce GTX650 1GB GDDR5
16GB DDR3-1600
Samsung SH-224AB DVD-RW
FSP Bluestorm II 500W (recapped)
120GB ADATA + 2x Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST31000340NS 1TB
Delux MG760 case
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I acquired my ThinkPad T61 today for about £50 and is in really good nick. A 2.00GHz model (with the 1280x800 panel) but the condition it's in is borderline immaculate barring the shiny keyboard. It gave me some leeway to pretty much build it up if parts happen to get a little bad. And the BIOS is a modded Middleton one, which removes the whitelist.
The fan could be replaced, however... It croaks when it spins down, but I can deal with that a little later. Parts seem to be available at the ready so I'm prepared for it with the maintenance manual. Just wished I figured out what it shipped with from its serial number.Comment
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Scored these today:
Albatron K8SLI - dead sadly
- nF4 SLi chipset, Skt939. Came with a Athlon 64 3000+
ASUS Geforce 7300GT 256MB PCI-E
Winfast Geforce GT220 1GB
Intel i740 8MB AGP2x
Winfast PxDVR3200H PCI-E TV Tuner (wonder if it's compatible with 10)
and last but not least, a Gigabyte H55M-S2V/Core i3-540 combo. 2 dead MOSFETs on the VRM sadly, so no fix until I get a new soldering iron (a 60W one, the ones I currently have are both 40W). Shame as board looks fine otherwise.Main rig:
Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Core i5-3470 3.60GHz
Gigabyte Geforce GTX650 1GB GDDR5
16GB DDR3-1600
Samsung SH-224AB DVD-RW
FSP Bluestorm II 500W (recapped)
120GB ADATA + 2x Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST31000340NS 1TB
Delux MG760 case
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Today's freebies:
Asus X55A laptop. OS was hosed and wouldn't boot....had master password, which prevented entry to the BIOS to reinstall OS. THis came from a shop, which baffled me....clearing the password wasn't hard.
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Flip the laptop. If that's the Asus platform (core chassis) I think it is (from looking it up), those things go through keyboards like potato chips. My inlaws had one (same age, but more GPU/CPU power), they fought with it. Due to the issue replacement keyboards were unobtainium for a bit.
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-for-Asu...-/151181051784Flip the laptop. If that's the Asus platform (core chassis) I think it is (from looking it up), those things go through keyboards like potato chips. My inlaws had one (same age, but more GPU/CPU power), they fought with it. Due to the issue replacement keyboards were unobtainium for a bit.Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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I was definitely going to flip it....it's not a bad laptop, but it doesn't hold a candle to my Precision M6400!
The Asus has some celeron CPU in it, I might see if I can swap it with somehting a little better. It has 4gb RAM, which is the max. FWIW, testing this morning revealed even the battery is good. 2.5hrs powered on so far and still over 50% life remaining. This message posted from it.
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Managed to fix the H55M-S2V board.
God, I couldn't imagine Gigabyte cheaping this much on PCB quality. The gate tabs literally ripped off, hence why I had to solder the MOSFET gate tabs together. I know, it looks very ugly, but it works fine (measured fine in all ways possible)
Anyways, board POSTs fine, haven't checked beyond that.Attached FilesMain rig:
Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Core i5-3470 3.60GHz
Gigabyte Geforce GTX650 1GB GDDR5
16GB DDR3-1600
Samsung SH-224AB DVD-RW
FSP Bluestorm II 500W (recapped)
120GB ADATA + 2x Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST31000340NS 1TB
Delux MG760 case
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dont blame the chinese fab-house for your lack of equipment - that resoldering job is terrible!!
and get that loose bit of solder off there before it falls onto a motherboard and shorts something!!
that's why you use flux cleaner afterwards.....Comment
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That loose bit of solder on the top of the photo is because there's nothing under the MOSFET gate tab to solder on. I had to solder both gate tabs together with lots of solder, THEN solder to whatever small bit I had left from the ripped gate pads. It's leaded solder, and it didn't fall at all when I flipped the motherboard upside down.
And believe me, this is the best a blunt 40W China soldering iron can do. Had it been a new Kemot soldering gun (sorta) it would have looked much better. Doesn't help that when the old FETs burned, they literally fused with the pads. Checked for shorts at least three times before powering on, and I was getting green lights on everything. (all tested okay after replacement)
And even then, it may get hot during load (which sounds like a normal thing to happen), but not THAT hot to literally melt solder.Last edited by Dan81; 05-08-2019, 03:58 AM.Main rig:
Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Core i5-3470 3.60GHz
Gigabyte Geforce GTX650 1GB GDDR5
16GB DDR3-1600
Samsung SH-224AB DVD-RW
FSP Bluestorm II 500W (recapped)
120GB ADATA + 2x Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST31000340NS 1TB
Delux MG760 case
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no, the loose bit to the right of the flux above the poly cap.Comment
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Main rig:
Gigabyte B75M-D3H
Core i5-3470 3.60GHz
Gigabyte Geforce GTX650 1GB GDDR5
16GB DDR3-1600
Samsung SH-224AB DVD-RW
FSP Bluestorm II 500W (recapped)
120GB ADATA + 2x Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST31000340NS 1TB
Delux MG760 case
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I got around to it today. It was loaded with capxon and fukkyou caps. None bloated, but all way out of tolerance.
Anyway.....here we go!
Apart:
No bloaters....
...but...yea, 1000uF 10v cap reading 173uF...the other one was reading 51uF. The others were on par with being out of their tolerances.
Back together & tagged.
...and alive & well. It worked before, but I'm sure it wasn't happy....but now I bet it is!
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lol
that's the same model psu that brought me to this forum - mine had a burned pfc coil.Comment
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Nice. Not bad for $5?I got around to it today. It was loaded with capxon and fukkyou caps. None bloated, but all way out of tolerance.
Anyway.....here we go!
Apart:
No bloaters....
...but...yea, 1000uF 10v cap reading 173uF...the other one was reading 51uF. The others were on par with being out of their tolerances.
Back together & tagged.
...and alive & well. It worked before, but I'm sure it wasn't happy....but now I bet it is!
Just a refresher, this was something Ratdude picked up at the goodwill store.
Now you need to build a rig for it... I owe you a part or two for that
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picked up a 2.0ghz black macbook logicboard on ebay for $12 shipped, said tested and Iam really surpised it worked, using said machine with the logicboard transplant to type this message.My Computer: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, Asrock X370 Killer SLI/AC, 32GB G.SKILL TRIDENT Z RGB DDR4 3200, 500GB WD Black NVME and 2TB Toshiba HD,Geforce RTX 3080 FOUNDERS Edition, In-Win 303 White, EVGA SuperNova 750 G3, Windows 10 ProComment
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I have a build in mind for it....which starts with a new old stock VP6...
This one showed up... I recapped it in lytics, as unusual as it is, I didn't deem it worthy of polymodding. Pre-testing this one, if it would POST, it only would show 1 CPU.
...but it's cured now!
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Recently I've gotten into EC flashing due to my broken laptop(s) and started frantically searching methods for flashing the IT5571E-128 chip on the cheap(due to me beaing a student and not having a job) and noticed that ITE newer chips can be flashed via ISP (In-System Programming) either via SMBus or the KBC (EPP - Enhanced Parallel Port) interface. While these can be achieved with programmers like SVOD4/3 or the RT809H/F those options are WAYYY out of my budget so I was horrified. But recently I stumbled uppon some programmers on aliexpress that claim they can program a variety of ITE chips...06-17-2025, 07:17 AM -
My Mom bought some cheap motion sensor lights on wish... then complains about about batteries and this thing chews though them, well it uses 4 AAA batteries and a pack of rechargeable ones is about 13 USD
well since it uses 4 AAA and rechargeable are 1.2v and non-recharge at 1.5 this thing must work with 4.8-6v, I'll shove a USB cable on it, infant i will use a broken phone charge cable... dam this thing uses 430 mA and they made it battery powered...
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Hi all,
I was looking to upgrade my main multimeter (Asita MD591) with something that has more features. I'll use it mostly for board diagnostic and diy repairs. I've been eyeing out many of those multi-function ones from Aliexpress but can't seem to make my mind up. Here are the features that I'm looking after:
- Autorange
- DC volts up to 30V
- Accurate Resistance
- Diode test (Beep mode)
- Frequency up to 200MHz
- Capacitanze up to 5000uF
- as cheap as possible
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Just as the title states. Two cheap SiS machines, surprisingly stable.
What I will tackle in the near future (the build will be slightly postponed due to slight stomach issues - am still recovering and my physical power (sorry if it sounds weird,English isn't quite my primary language) isn't the best at the moment. Especially with the diet I have to take at the moment.) are two SiS based machines.
The first one is a IPC rebranded Mitac 7521T. Why did I feel the need to tackle this machine? Well, just look at the specs:
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"Caseless Cheap Chinese electronic tools" I mean things you get from banggood, ali, fleabay, Am-Zon, etc. like AVR-Transistortester, miscellaneous signal generators, frequency counters, (variable) power supplies, oscilloscopes, low resistance meters, etc., etc. that comes optionally with a case, or comes only with a cheap piece of plastic that barely provides protection to the PCB.
Just wondering what of these (generally flimsy) tools you actually find use (almost) everyday and find indispensable for the price, compared to buying a Fluke or whatnot, if there is an expensive...
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