General Chat Thread

[tinyitx]

Scott John Morrison is now the new Australian Prime Minister. So, is he doubling up as a moderator here?

 

[Duality92]

Has anyone looked at AsRock H310 mATX boards, especially H310CM-HDV, H310CM-DVS and H310M-DGS?

They're borderline infuriating. Decent, affordable and at 18,8x19cm they could easily be fitted in an SFF case BUT the pci-e socket, for some reason, isn't the first expansion slot, making it impossible to install a GPU.

They're like mini-DTX-ish

great for cases with three PCIe slots, unless you use a Katana.

 

[VegetableStu]

two quotes from Jonnyguru's recent review on the BeQuiet! 500W Gold SFX-L PSU

When Silverstone kicked off their whole push for more power in small form factors, I thought it was a brilliant idea. They cast a light on a long neglected part of this industry, and I thought we'd get a nice long list of other companies jumping into the market and giving us all kinds of awesome performance in a tiny space. Regretfully, this doesn't seem to have come to pass. Corsair and Enermax have tried, but it seems like Silverstone is still the only one really pushing things in this space. Well, now German company BeQuiet has decided to get in on the action. Let's have a look at this little 500 watt wonder and see if we have another worthy competitor to Silverstone.

The Bad:

• way too many big names are still missing from the SFX market

 

[SumGhai]

I don't know if this was brought up before here on the SFF Forum: Cooler Master has been asking for responses to a survey about small form factor builds and preferences. It seems they're interested in bringing more sff cases to their lineup, so responses to the survey will help.

The survey is linked here if you're interested: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1...yTJMMvTE6HAgLYnrLk0usCS5h-Dvl0ow/formResponse

 

[VegetableStu]

So I was reading on the Phanteks Evolv X, and I'm wondering what would a double ITX system look like... o_o

EDIT: or maybe even an ITX + STX system. or one regular ITX and one thin ITX

 

[tinyitx]

8800GTX was Nvidia's flagship 12 years ago. How is it now? Is it still a beast when compared to recent 'weaklings'?
Arrange these cards in the order of ascending gaming performance and see if you get the order correct.
a) 8800 GTX
b) GTX 650
c) GTX 950
d) GT 1030

Answer is in the link below.
http://www.expreview.com/61883-4.html

 

[Ionrent]

 

 

[VegetableStu]

I heart Chrome iOS's new UI and usability update

 

[Phuncz]

I love that my 4-5 year old phone and tablet just got the latest iOS update. Still running fast as well !

 

[Aichon]

Yeah, I just updated my 2013 iPhone 5s and 2014 iPad Air 2, and they certainly feel faster. Apple said that they'd significantly improved things like app launch times, even on older devices, and it certainly feels like they weren't lying. Then again, my iPad Air 2 still felt plenty snappy anyway, despite its age, but my iPhone 5s has been getting a bit long-in-the-tooth, so the speed improvements are more noticeable there.

 

[Solo]

My original Pixel freezes every time I unlock it.

 

[rfarmer]

I was shopping SSDs at Newegg and ran across this Dogfish M.2.

I hadn't realized that SSDs had a high consumption of hot drinks.

 

[Windfall]

Saw this interesting tidbit on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/9m37xg/toscale_rendition_of_what_a_tr4_mini_itx_board/

 

[VegetableStu]

not enough VRM, LOL

 

[CC Ricers]

How come I can't find USB mice that have detachable cables at the mouse end? I just want to plug in the length I want and go.

 

[el01]

How come I can't find USB mice that have detachable cables at the mouse end? I just want to plug in the length I want and go.

https://www.asus.com/us/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG_Gladius/
https://www.asus.com/us/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-Gladius-II/

It's even micro-USB!

Although one slight design limitation would be the space in the front (underneath the scroll wheel, I assume) and below the click button assembly. To fully fit a USB-C or micro-USB head, that's still a ton of space right next to the scroll wheel. I guess you can compensate with mouse height (like on the ROG Gladius II), but that makes things kinda awkward sometimes.

 

[tinyitx]

How come I can't find USB mice that have detachable cables at the mouse end? I just want to plug in the length I want and go.

I think some of the Razer and Logitech mouses have detachable cable.
And, the Asus Gladius II.
Cable is detachable but I am not sure if it is brand/model specific or you can replace it with any USB cable.
Check them out anyway.

 

[rfarmer]

How come I can't find USB mice that have detachable cables at the mouse end? I just want to plug in the length I want and go.

You can also go with a wireless mouse like the Logitech G700 which allows you to plug in a usb cable.

 

[Windfall]

Are there ANY usb-c wireless or wired keyboards?

 

[el01]

Are there ANY usb-c wireless or wired keyboards?

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categ...rd-—-Blue-LED-—-Cherry-MX-Red/p/CH-9145030-NA

And then maybe a dongle from micro-USB or whatever to USB-C?