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Please no full atx (too big), looking for an 1155 micro ATX motherboard. Preferably a z68 or z77 (needs to have overclocking for my i5-2500k). Will consider a p67 if price is right. Sidenote: looking to pay $60-80ish USD depending on condition.

Bracket Orientation Diagram: Drive "Stacking" and Mounting Diagram: ...and now we wait until early February

I recently reclaimed 4 x crucial m4's (9.5mm) from my server. These drives have seen a few years in server usage, but are still relatively spritely in their current health and worth dropping into my pc. Where I began to run into problems was simply in terms of drive mounting options because I'm...

Don't think admin password would be it. Yeah I didn't see a disabe uefi option either. Your bios version seems to be the latest at 2.17, im a bit stumped right now, i know its not fun swapping laptop CPU's :(. I should be able to get to it tomorrow or friday, doing a little midnight coding atm.

I feel like theirs a secure boot option lurking somewhere in there. You may need to disable UEFI because of apu swap , but I'm not seeing any clear bios settings to do so. I may have to break out my laptop and reassemble it to see what I had running. Whats under "USB Interface Secuirty?"...

No worries at all. Good news, bad news. Good news is I ran into the same exact issue when I first upgraded with the default bios and I was able to get the a10 apu to work marvelously. The problem is with a particular bios setting, that somehow interrupts the a10 apu from working it's magic...

prices reduced, bump

bump prices reduced.

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Cool! I can't wait to build a desktop again. Although its a little ways away for me right now, since this thing is doing decent enough in terms of performance to get me by. I'm planning on getting myself another 24-27" monitor, a newer tv since I'm still rocking a 40" 2006 Samsung 720p LCD in my...

Heck yeah! All you need is a dremel, some ebay heatsinks(I suggest ~2 spare stock heatsinks depending on how many pipes your looking to add. And possibly an odd sized heatsink if your planning to add a "layer" fins within the fan area like i did. But just that the AS permanent thermal epoxy...

Lol @ CLP. Thanks Mussels your always awesome as usual! Also I just looked in my box of heatsink parts, and I have 2 perfectly good k55n heatsinks still, so I'm thinking insted of adding a tiny 4" heatpipe to bind the 2 seperate sets of fins, maybe I can bind the fins and add another heatpipe...

By default the APU runs in Turbo Mode. But can be disabled in AMD Overdrive. Coolaboratory liquid pro is interesting, althought im not sure how comfortable I am using a liquid metal alloy on an exposed chip like within a laptop. Especially if it takes 48 hours to harden/set. but its something...

It's really difficult in some ways to get consistent temp readings with these chips IMO, because of the "Turbo Feature" I tend to use this chip in 2 ways. When working I'm typically doing CPU intensive Tasks, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop (with OpenCL more GPU now though), Many Many Google...

good to know but wayyyyy overkill. I definitely need to keep my portability. Once I add the wire mesh to that gaping hole in the bottom, its about as good as back to stock. I've always thought laptop + water cooling seems sorta silly, the same way that watercooling a game console is sort of...