https://xdaforums.com/t/tool-all-in-one-tool-for-windows-android-tv-tools-v4.4648239/
I took a quick look and found that this tool which I guess can solve most of android TV issues, comments below said v3 is better. My TV is too old so I haven’t tested.
I have revisited my brainworms as they whispered loud enough in my head
I did the normal, sane person thing of actually measuring the length inside the case from the front to the expansion slots and, you know what, I understand why they said 280mm is the clearance because you actually have to put the card in but the length is actually 287mm. and I did the the further, even more completely sane thing of taking the current GPU in there and taping a thumbdrive to the back (~285mm) of it and seeing if I could fit it and, yeah, I could finagle it in
also I measured wrong and got my brain set on 290mm
you know what 9070 is 290mm long? the Asrock Challenger (also technically so is the 9070XT variant because they use the same heatsink and fan shroud but no that’s too much money but also so is a 9070). and then I got the idea to look around for teardowns of this specific card
some guy on reddit went insane and took off the shroud and stuck 3 92mm Noctuas as replacements
as a product of the American education system I don’t know no good math but I’m pretty sure 92x3 is 276, which is shorter than both 280 and 290 and this picture clearly looks like the fans are completely covering up the heatsink and if you add a bit for gaps and whatnot, this would clearly be shorter than 285, nevermind 290
okay so we wait and hey an open box Challenger 9070 popped up at the local Microcenter. less than the fake MSRP it launched with and also like a lot of Microcenter open box specials, that shit was fucking new
and I measure it and and it’s 288mm
okay it doesn’t matter I’m already pot committed
okay so I’m physically holding it to the case and it looks like it fits but I can’t do my original plan of normal human lever movements to gently glide it in because the shroud is tall enough to block the card from coming up as you push it in. okay, fine, the case is made of thin steel, I’ll just disfigure the bend over the expansion slots to let the card slide in.
it wants to fit, it wants to go down, but it’s just a smidge too thick. so I once again do the sane normal thing and take off the IO plate from the card and we’re able to go down but it’s missing the PCIE slot by like, 1-3mm. I need to be able to get a little more room for the card’s ass.
so anyway I took the front off the case, installed the card and then screwed the front back on, where it’s currently being held in by 3 of it’s 4 screws and just the general tension of all of this nonsense I’ve done
also I had to take out the fans out of the bottom because the clearance between them and the GPU was such that actually there was no clearance and on first boot I got an awful rattling sound made from the GPU fans spinning against the back of the case fans. but realistically, if there’s a GPU taking up most or all of the length of the case, those fans are just shoving air into it anyway and the CPU has it’s own flow (case fan is intake, cooler fan is pushing towards the PSU and I’m letting the PSU exhaust)
now I just need to get a rubber mallet to bash down the steel I maimed
is that a peerless assassin… sick…
the macbook neo click-anywhere trackpad is extremely good, why is apple so much better at this
if i were laptop shopping again I would have gotten a Neo for Laptop Shite and then a drawing tablet of somekind for Drawing Shite.
Picked up a dell mini PC today for $20. Fourth generation i5, so about comparable with my T440p’s. Probably memory compatible with the T440p’s, and possibly even CPU socket compatible, which is significant because it would mean five of my eight computers could use the same spare memory I had, or that four of the eight computers could use spare CPUs I have. Annoying because the power supply it uses is some weird proprietary format and because it only has VGA and Displayport output. Good because it already has 8gb of memory and has two memory slots. Good because it comes with a solid state drive, which is worth $20 by itself.
