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    Need suggestions on speakers

    Logitech Z625 THX certified 2.1 set on my rig.. no complaints
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    What's your latest tech purchase?

    HP is marketing garbage for stuff like this. 1 HP = 746 watts so you will start blowing breakers at a little over 2 HP.... Jeremy Fielding did a good video going over this on YT. Check it out
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    I think my friends pc actually died, never had that happen yet

    Could be the mb battery, they do die eventually. Did you change it?
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    [WTB] [WTB][USA] looking for a used 7th gen Intel or newer laptop, need it for work.

    Post only to bump or with your offer. Any other posts, helpful or not, fall outside of forum section rules. Sent you a PM btw
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    WCG-TPU Cruncher's Hardware/Tech Support Discussion Thread

    Restart the PC and check the "event log"... that will tell you what user name it's logged in as and the machine name. Iirc this issue has been reported a few times on the wcg forum. EDIT 2 rigs are showing up here https://www.boincstats.com/stats/15/host/list/0/0/1150308/1
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    What's going on with WCG

    UPDATE! Article here: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=784 WCG forum thread: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=683841 Fingers crossed for smooth sailing for at least a little while
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    TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

    UPDATE! Article here: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=784 WCG forum thread: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewpostinthread?post=683841 Fingers crossed for smooth sailing for at least a little while
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    Psu Weird noise

    Are you using powered speakers and are they plugged into PC and the wall when you unplug the PC?
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    TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

    Have a bunch of OPN jobs running on my Ryzen 1700 and 5950X rigs
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    April Fools' Day Roundup

    Silverstone has a rep on the forum... @SilverStone Technology what's the chance of making your April 1st case a real thing?
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    What's going on with WCG

    Same here! Looks like all of them uploaded but still sitting at Ready to report
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    What's going on with WCG

    WCG is claiming that they will be ready to start taking in finished work on Monday and then proceed to start sending work within a few days after that. They experienced pretty much a total hardware failure and have been working to replace and get the new stuff running (57k usd was the cost from...
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    New build and not enough cables?

    If you don't have the 6+2 pcie cables you should be able to order replacements from CM or custom ones from a variety of vendors. Note that in the case of your psu the cables are interchangeable on the power supply end but the opposite end they are not. This is what the gpu end of the pcie 6+2...
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    New build and not enough cables?

    See list from your psu- the 6+2 cables are for the graphics card EPS 4+4 and EPS 8 pin for motherboard (second pic (purple) is your cable layout)
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    New build and not enough cables?

    motherboard 8 pin and gpu pcie 8 pin cables are completely different- read the manual. What model/brand psu is it and is it new?
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