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I have done this for over a decade, and have set numerous up for loads of friends / family inc. user @amey My recomendation is to get an enterprise SFF desktop (Dell/HP/Lenovo).
They are small, low power, take normal components, easily upgradable and importantly cheap on eBay.There are some even smaller form factor ones like the HP Elitedesk Mini's which use laptop components
https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimicro-home-lab-revolution/
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Fell of Raleigh just before christmas (slippery paving on the seafront), broke my wrist and bent a brake lever. Decided to take a punt on replacing them with these from ali express
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perfect! hope her hip goes well
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Not sure what the american style ones are like sorry? We have this style currently:
But its all metal so has lasted since the 80's by the look of it.
@hugo7 fair enough
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Fwiw the washing line I linked has >40k review
Loads of photos of the plastics breaking though, but I think that I'll do is try taking our old metal one apart and see if I can fix it, if not get that one, thanks.
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Vileda, minky?
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OT but; retractable washing lines, has anyone managed to find a quality one? Id like to replace our old metal housing l one with something similar, but all I can find is plastic ones where all the reviews complain about the plastics breaking down in UV
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In other news, would anyone like to my old case, a Corsair Obsidian 550d, for free?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8eA7RR5q30
Very spacious case, very very solid, with the option of running in quiet mode or air flow mode.
Good
- It does include a 5.25" to 3.5" drive bay adaptor so you can mount two more there and an 120mm extra fan (includes a magnetic air filter)
- also includes a USB 3.0 card reader in a 5.25" drive bay adaptor
- It is in excellent condition.
Bad
- Its missing one of the 3.5/2.5" drive cages (the one directly under the 5.25" bays), so you can only mount 3 of those drives in the anti shock mount things.
Collection from Woodford, but I could deliver locally in east london. I can also include some fans for a reasonable price too if you want.
- It does include a 5.25" to 3.5" drive bay adaptor so you can mount two more there and an 120mm extra fan (includes a magnetic air filter)
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Did you sort it?
if not worth asking these guys, I have seen them repair other eletronics and they were super nice in myt dealings
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Time to repost Bob Hoover
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simple, but a classic
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We have a Monarch softerner, its been good for the last 18 months, our plumber recommended it as he has had the same model for 4 years or so without issue. We have a seperate filter tap for drinking water though.
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... it can probably be done for £150/£180?
The 5600x is only £148 on amazon atm, I have a 3070ti and a 1440p screen and dont feel the need for more. The Ryzen 7 5800x is £176 if you did want more for your use case, but this video shows how over a certain point games tend to be GPU limited more than CPU.
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I just got a B550 board in the sale as it gives PCIe 4.0 and another NVMe slot over my current B450 board, and when I see it drop low enough, I'll probably upgrade my 5600x to Ryzen 9 as a last gasp the platform before moving to DDR5
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The CPU would be my guess
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ooo where is that?
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NO!
LFGSS
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of fixed gear and single-speed cyclists.
I'm on my second HP, my first HP SFF 600 G1 worked flawlessly for a decade ( @cake is now using it as his WFH desktop). I only upgraded to this as I wanted to try W11 and needed an 8th gen intel for native support.
I added a Low Profile GPU for 4k video and some sofa gaming, Its totally silent too.
My parents have a Dell one, which has also been flawless.
(I highly recommend this for people with older relatives btw. You can remote into the machine and just load whatever they want to watch instead of trying to remember how the menus work on their TV to direct them to whatever streaming service they need.)