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I highly recommend this headset! My old ones were good, but these are just better all around. I’m in love with the bluetooth addition and how it’s working. I’m ready part with my BT earbuds now. :smiley:

I did manage to fix my old P800s, it was just a quick stripping the disconnected wire and a quick solder.

I just recently heard somemone saying You can either have bluetooth … or quality sound. Not both.

That’s not true any more. Of course BT will not beat optical audio, but the Sony’s noise cancelling BT headsets + some others have proven to be really good with sound quality. These ones are good too.

Make no mistake, these are gaming headsets, not HiFi sound cans. But getting damn close to ones. I’d say easily top 5 headsets you can buy right now, if not the best considering how well rounded and well equipped they are.

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Do you place the power supply with the fan facing up towards the vent holes in the case or down in the usual orientation? It puts the psi fan directly above the cpu cooler fan and it seems to me they are fighting for air that way

My new Huion H610 PRO V2 graphics tablet. Incidentally, it was plug & play on EndeavourOS! I tried Krita & Kolourpaint and they both worked perfectly. No pressure sensitivity on Kolourpaint though. I can even draw on LibreOffice Impress slides! I will be using this for online teaching. I’m not much of an artist.20210319_193428 Screenshot from 2021-03-19 19-25-23

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Well - the second pic backs up your claim! I don’t want to go head-to-head for bottom honours though! :grin:

@LizziAS On the Power Supply orientation, have the fan INSIDE the case. The case is designed to use that fan to help pull air out of the case. The thermal variance and protection built into the PSU is so much better than any of your other components.

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Etch a sketch is my skill level

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CH341A 24 bios flasher…

Once I learn how not to destroy my bios chip, I’ll use it to put CoreBoot on some thinkpads

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What the what

its a clip you put over your physical bios chip on the motherboard…
you can use it to overwrite to original bios with coreboot (or something else) to get rid of whitelists, neuter the Intel Management engine, or in the case of a thinkpad T420 even allow the use of newer gen cpu’s…

that being said this is obviously not without risk, so I’m gonna look for some good guides first

Are you using Flashrom with it ?

It would depends the bios chip on the motherboard and voltage.

haven’t used it yet… was planning to use the T420 as test subject, but still got to look up how to do it

When you plug the clip check very well cause I got at beginning always problems with, thinking it was something else !

If the bios chip is on the list of your CH341A you are ok with if not, it’s another story !
I remember to use the same as yours but one bios chip didn’t work with so at the end I changed for something better that made it work. I will try to find it cause I didn’t use for long time now and post you a picture, the big advantage of it is the possibility to setup easily the voltage…

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I could always wire the clip to the gpio of a raspberry pi and use that as a flasher…
plenty of tutorials on how to do that online

yes sure, the clip when you find the good way to place it, after it work very well, then you could also use others plug for SOP. Wait I found the box where mine is, I will show you.

EDIT: I see you want to test Coreboot. Which is the bios ship model that you would like to flash ?

REDIT: I checked your tuto, is well done. The ship bios on the T420 is the Winbond W25Q64CV

They said:

supply Voltage 2.7V to 3.6V

W25Q64CV Publication Release Date:May 22, 2014-5-Revision H1.GENERAL DESCRIPTIONThe W25Q64CV(64M-bit)Serial Flash memoryprovidesa storage solution for systems with limited space, pins and power. The 25Qseries offers flexibility and performance well beyond ordinary Serial Flash devices. They are ideal for code shadowing to RAM,executing code directly from Dual/Quad SPI(XIP)andstoring voice, text and data. The device operateson a single 2.7V to 3.6V power supply with current consumption as low as 4mAactive and 1μA for power-down.

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Thank you for the info, seems like you went all out on this one :grinning:

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Some new soil for some houseplants:

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That counts as a new purchase, doesn’t it?

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That’s a WD Elements 5TB external drive and a Pioneer BDR-XD07S Blu-ray burner. The case came with the burner.

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a great purchase!

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