General PC Help Thread 2

[Ironhide]

Think the CMOS battery on my PCs motherboard has gone tits up, it's one of those in the plastic housing that attach with a cable.. are they motherboard specific or is it just a case of getting one of the same voltage?

[Kezzer]

I dont think they will be motherboard specific, and IIRC most are CR2032's

[Victor Mildew]

I dont think they will be motherboard specific, and IIRC most are CR2032's

These are the ones I replaced mine with when it went flat.

[Rubix]

I am looking at mini PC's, does anyone have one? would you recommend them?

I don't need it to play games but I do need it to have storage and run Photoshop (Which my laptop no longer supports)

I have currently looked at the below two models but I don't really know what I need.

https://amzn.eu/d/gpbCroz

https://amzn.eu/d/8yOuGNh

[Ironhide]

I am looking at mini PC's, does anyone have one? would you recommend them?

I don't need it to play games but I do need it to have storage and run Photoshop (Which my laptop no longer supports)

I have currently looked at the below two models but I don't really know what I need.

https://amzn.eu/d/gpbCroz

https://amzn.eu/d/8yOuGNh

Have you looked at the Intel NUC range?

[Xeno]

I am looking at mini PC's, does anyone have one? would you recommend them?

I don't need it to play games but I do need it to have storage and run Photoshop (Which my laptop no longer supports)

I have currently looked at the below two models but I don't really know what I need.

https://amzn.eu/d/gpbCroz

https://amzn.eu/d/8yOuGNh

\I have never heard of NiPoGi but beelink are okay.

Minisforum do a number of small for factor pc's which are pretty good and configurable.

https://store.minisforum.uk/collections ... 3692544278

[Rubix]

I am looking at mini PC's, does anyone have one? would you recommend them?

I don't need it to play games but I do need it to have storage and run Photoshop (Which my laptop no longer supports)

I have currently looked at the below two models but I don't really know what I need.

https://amzn.eu/d/gpbCroz

https://amzn.eu/d/8yOuGNh

Have you looked at the Intel NUC range?

I have not, any good?

[Frank]

Does anyone here have a Thunderbolt 3/4 (or USB-C, I suppose) dock for a laptop that works reliably? I bought a Kensington Thunderbolt 4 one off Amazon the other day, and I've noticed it frequently fails to wake the external monitor up when I wake the laptop up. Sometimes if I turn the whole PC off and on again, it still refuses to connect unless I've unplugged and plugged the strawberry floating cable back in. For something that's upwards of £200, it's a woeful performance.

Googling, it almost seems to just be a thing with thunderbolt docks, and I just... can't get my head around it. If it doesn't work reliably, why is *every* manufacturer trotting out the same thing?

(I'm after one with a separate cable to connect the dock to the PC, since I need probably about a metre and a half, and most of the captive ones are 0.8m, which really restricts my choices )

[Jenuall]

I've just got some bog standard USB-C dock that I picked up from Amazon but it seems to do the trick. Only a short cable on it though (although I guess there's nothing stopping it being attached to a USB-C extender)

[massimo]

Does anyone here have a Thunderbolt 3/4 (or USB-C, I suppose) dock for a laptop that works reliably? I bought a Kensington Thunderbolt 4 one off Amazon the other day, and I've noticed it frequently fails to wake the external monitor up when I wake the laptop up. Sometimes if I turn the whole PC off and on again, it still refuses to connect unless I've unplugged and plugged the strawberry floating cable back in. For something that's upwards of £200, it's a woeful performance.

Googling, it almost seems to just be a thing with thunderbolt docks, and I just... can't get my head around it. If it doesn't work reliably, why is *every* manufacturer trotting out the same thing?

(I'm after one with a separate cable to connect the dock to the PC, since I need probably about a metre and a half, and most of the captive ones are 0.8m, which really restricts my choices )

I'm always hearing people recommending the OWC thunderbolt docks. https://amzn.eu/d/bOVnzi4