I just wanted nice quality ones. I promised myself at the beginning when the AV processor arrived I would do it properly. As I bought all of the amps used none came with cables. I got these. Which IIRC were around £25 a set. They will remain in the system now. I also made up all of my own power cables for around the same each. As I say, quality not snake oil. I don't have a lot of spare RCAs, and the ones I do are literally the throw away ones with the awful connectors on.
So sound solution still to be done it is almost there. I thought I was going to have to redo the ATX connector to shorten it but it seems it was the perfect length. Set it up. One very quick installation later. English DVD (Region 2?) US DVD (Region 1) Oooo really? *grin*
OK so that was pretty frustrating. I could not get any add ons to work, nor the weather thing. It kept coming up with a failed message. So every time you boot everything was failing. It turned out it was the USB NIC. For some reason it installs, and you can see it, and you can sign in, and put in the password, and get an IP and it says connected, but it doesn't work. The only way around it was this. It's not pretty but at least it now works.
Floor Cheetos, Anusol... Man, you leave way too much information in your pictures. Also- Any plans for getting some passive airflow on that ?
lmao the anusol. Gees. That has been there for ages and ages. I've never even used it. I think I bought it like two years ago and chucked it there when Amazon brought it and it has been there ever since. What's wrong with Cheetos? the flaming hot ones are dope ! I'm not sure it needs airflow dude. It uses 17w. Like, a guy set one up on YT and total power draw was 17w. It's like I said to another guy on another forum, it probably draws, uses less power than, and creates less heat than the original CD player and that had no fans. The right angled RCA connectors came today. However, I am going to heed my own lessons and wait until the sound things arrive.
OK forgot to say. The board does not support PCIE booting. So the Optane was out, sadly. That is why it isn't in there. Which is probably for the best, given I needed the slot for the WIFI card. So earlier I designed this. And had the machine machine it for me.
Wee table for the sound device to be screwed to. Just lifts it up above the wiring down there so it doesn't get tangled.
You've got the best eye when it comes picking highlights from photos. I was just enjoying watching Vault pull this together.
Blimey I forgot what a pain in the buttocks a protected CD is ffs. Ripped a CD yesterday from the very early 2000s and it sounded awful. Absolutely awful. I played it, sounded the same until I skipped through some tracks. It then sounded fine, so I ripped it and it came out good. Just had the same issue with a CD set from the same era. Sounded totally washed out and horrible. Then I remembered that they added protection to CDs to stop you ripping them. IE, if you ripped one it would sound absolutely terrible. Problem was some players played them like that lmao. So it seems I have to play the CD, skip the tracks until it sounds right, THEN rip it. I am glad they stopped doing that. It's amazingly annoying !
I've had more issues with the drm making the disc undetectable by a stock player. Ironically, I have to make a copy of them to get them to play. -And the last track on a long album ticking... Hate that.
Yeah the player doesn't half make a noise reading it initially. then people figured out they could just record the audio and convert it to MP3. So it was all a big waste of time.
I attempted to put the cover back on it yesterday. I failed. It was a sod at the best of times, but it seems because of the way I built the internals it would not slot in at the sides any more. So I had to cut off the tangs that used to go in. I also had to cut the back, as it would not clear the new power socket. So for the first time since the day it arrived it is now back in one whole piece. The only issue is you can see the silver through the sides now. Easy bit of painting at the end. It's worse the other side. I had to clearance around back too. But it is all happy enough now.
That lack of ventilation is going to bite you. If the psu needs a fan... Just a spot next to the power plug and a little grill over the chip heatsink would be enough. -Guy that's really good at building toasters.
The PSU likely needs a fan at 300w or above. It is a 350w gold PSU. I am running the Noctua fan I got at 12v. So yeah, it will get hot in there, but I think it will be fine. Like I said, the system draws at best around 25w if it is lucky. I think that is the part you need to realise dude. It is an extremely low powered CPU. Like barely above something like a Pi. https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...5-4m-cache-up-to-2-70-ghz/specifications.html TDP is 10w. It has been used in tablets. The PSU should have thermal protection. I would be amazed if it does not. So it will be a case of "suck it and see" but yeah, it's an extremely low powered system.
