Whelp.
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@ironicbadger yep, that magic smoke left scorch marks when it escaped
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@pasci_lei @ironicbadger My Geekom smoked up recently and I switched to …. to ….
Minisforum. Let’s see.@MartinH @pasci_lei @ironicbadger
It seems like random Lenovo and Dell tiny PCs on eBay have better build quality...
I even pulled a Kaby Lake Inspiron model that was left outside for years and it works fine still
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@janwedek 373 days old
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@ironicbadger well one (larger) is definite a cap - easy to replace or remove and leave as is. But the rightmost can be a resistor or inductor - need to know for sure and if so - need to know resistor value
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@ironicbadger well one (larger) is definite a cap - easy to replace or remove and leave as is. But the rightmost can be a resistor or inductor - need to know for sure and if so - need to know resistor value
@ironicbadger if only someone shared a photo of a good working board…
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@ironicbadger if only someone shared a photo of a good working board…
@in_sympathy tbh I’m going to RMA and sell.
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@ironicbadger Mine is pretty unstable too - it’s the i5-12600 version. I gave up on it.
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@ironicbadger yikes
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@ironicbadger I have been skeptical of them given they push so much advertising for their product.
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@ironicbadger I have been skeptical of them given they push so much advertising for their product.
@xv8 one of those "if it looks too good to be true, it probably is" kinda feelings in the pit of my stomach right now.
1 year out of this box isn't what you expect from modern hardware at all.
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@ironicbadger That is some impressive magic smoke. I have been wanting to switch to a Mini-PC of some kind for my proxmox host but the Minisforum, Beelink, GMKtec's of the world do scare me with lack of repairability compared to the Dell, HP or Lenovo MicroPC’s.
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@ironicbadger oh crumbs. I have a pair that run active-active for my homelab. This does not fill me with confidence!
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@xv8 one of those "if it looks too good to be true, it probably is" kinda feelings in the pit of my stomach right now.
1 year out of this box isn't what you expect from modern hardware at all.
@ironicbadger It's a shame because I did consider it and it looked like really good hardware to replace my power-hungry Mac Pro 2012 that I use as a Proxmox host. 300w on idle really does a number on the electricity bill and I had two of them in a two-node cluster. Total consumption was about 14% of my total household consumption.
