Did bottom PSU ATX cases disappeared? Floor dust suckers.
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Nope lol
The capacitor plague era, ever wonder why we don't see a lot of PC's in the early 2000s, this is why as everything with a cap would fail and kill the boards, essentially having to call on the oem to fix it.
RGB. Please. Finding hardware that doesn't light up like a Christmas tree is harder than it should be. Even a simple power LED can light up an entire room.
Not anytime soon. Way too cheap to include(like cents for a mouse or ram and a few dollars for a keyboard) , and way too popular not to include. Well at least you can disable it.
right, you fan disabile them using their unique software which you have to install for every component, signing away your life (cough cough Disney) in the process
Yeah, all of my case fans have a switch on them, when I had it in a bedroom I opened the case and clicked them all off, no big deal, all the parts have been swapped, newest part now has to be 10 years old : /
I don't really mind RGB, but my complaint is why every single LED has to be vivid electric blue. I want old red LEDs back, they were nice, they didn't scorch my retinas.
I have RGB keyboard and mouse because they were cheap. I only use red leds and it feels great. Modern but not annoying.
Agreed. My PC case came with a blue power light, after one night of watching the blinking illuminate my entire room I ripped it out and swapped in a dim red one myself.
For a quick fix, you can make blue power LEDs slightly more tolerable by sticking a piece of yellow post-it note on top of them, it turns them white.
The worst is still around: that GPU's require more and more power. I wished more focus on efficiency. Not long until water cooling is mandatory, to get all the heat away.
They are. GTX 590 from 2011 has a TDP of 375W. RTX 4080 has 320W, while offering over ten times better performance. 4060 outperforms the 1060, 2060 and 3060 while having a lower TDP than any of them.
If you want low TDP, the RX 6400 is twice as powerful as the 590 while having a TDP of 53W.
It's the very top of the line stuff like 4090 that push the limit by achieving that very last 10% performance bump at the cost of using double the power, and that's kinda like complaining a Bugatti Veyron gets terrible highway MPG figures.
Molex connectors were almost universally hated for being flimsy and requiring a lot of effort to connect properly. They were fortunately replaced by SATA connectors.
I can understand the "lot of effort", but flimsy? Those things were built like a tank. SATA connectors certainly aren't more-durable (not that that normally matters, inside a case).
I have seen so many flimsy molex connectors. SATA was far, far, far more robust. They were enormously flimsy. Are you thinking of the right connector?
Yes they were flimsy. When pushing them together the crimped ends would get pushed out the back of the plastic connector casing. Or they wouldn't align properly and would require either major force or fiddly realignment.
They also came from a time when hard drives could draw several amps while in use and much more on spin-up. There was a good reason why SCSI drive arrays used to spin each disk up one-by-one.
Molex connectors are good for 10 amps or so, SATA connectors couldn't have handled that amount of current.
I remember instances where the force required to disconnect the connector caused me to slip and rip a wire out.
Intel's slot CPU interface. Sure it cleaned up motherboard layouts but the need for more comprehensive cooling solutions that would soon follow made this a bad direction to go in.
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