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Hardware recommendation posts should discuss how to make hardware decisions for oneself. Direct shopping recommendations are off-topic and will be closed, so be very careful posting hardware recommendations. For specific hardware shopping recommendations, please post in the Hardware Recommendations StackExchange.

A good hardware recommendation post is in the general form of "how can I figure out what hardware will fit my needs" manner. Simply asking for a list of products is a shopping recommendation and will be closed as off-topic.

Be very careful when posting hardware recommendations. Make sure that your question will be helpful to more than just yourself (otherwise it's too localized), and that it can generate useful discussion of how to figure out the right hardware for a given situation.

For more information about what constitutes a good hardware recommendation post, see http://meta.superuser.com/questions/2991/what-is-the-difference-between-shopping-recommendations-and-hardware-rec-tagged-q on Super User Meta.

For specific hardware shopping recommendations, please post in the Hardware Recommendations StackExchange.

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When buying a new PC, should I stick to known brands or configure myself?

Six years ago configuring a PC was so simple. Nowadays everything has become very hard – and for most users, it's too hard to understand the technical terms. At the moment I am trying to configure a good PC for my work, games and other…
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Laptop charge 126W for a 120W laptop

My laptop specs say :input 19V and 6.3A, That means (120W charger), I hve recently bought a charger because my old charger broke up. So this new charger provides 19.5V with 6.5A (126W) ; That are higher than the laptop's specs. Should i look for…
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what is the difference between ASIC and FPGA

Recently I started to experiment with FPGAs and while doing this I found out about ASICs. Can anyone explain me the main differences between them. From what I have read so far, I understand the following: FPGA can be reprogrammed, while ASIC can…
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Performing mechanical movements using computer

How to make a computer (in particular, my laptop (Acer Extensa 5220)) to perform some mechanical movements without buying anything >$5, soldering things inside computer or creating big sophisticated circuits? Traditionally CD-ROM tray is used to…
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How to choose mainboard chipset

I have socket 775 Q9400 CPU, for which I need to choose mainboard. I know some criterias which I have to follow(Intel chipset, FF ATX, DDR3, number of SATA, USB ports, Ethernet ports, etc), However, there are so many choices of Intel chipsets like…
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USB Keyboard/Mouse switch?

Wondering if there is such a device similar to KVM, but which will give me opportunity to share only my USB keyboard and mouse with 3 computers. I would like to manually switch to certain computer.
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What is the difference between header and connector when it relates to motherboard, especially when it talks about i/o connectors?

What is the difference between a header and a connector? So I have been trying to find the answer to this, but I am unable to get a clear answer. I have read https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/connector-basics/pin-header-connectors and Wikipedia…
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Toolbox for Computer Hardware

I have a lot of computer hardware (hard drives, cables, etc.) and I need a better way to organize. Could anyone recommend a toolbox intended for this sort of thing, or some other good method for storage? I have a two drawer wide file that I…
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Can someone please help me identify these chips?

I unburdened some old hardware. I don't know exactly what kind of hardware component it is. I guess it's some RAM chip, but don't know which kind, or size. Can you help me ? The first one : The second:
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Quiz buttons that can be connected to a PC

I am looking for some hardware that can be connected to a PC. I want to code up a quiz game to use for my company's stands on conferences. The requirement is that they have four/five buttons, and that I can connect a few of them to the machine. I…
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Name of a device for keeping connectors of cables together

I have a few cables which I connect and disconnect to a laptop of mine, always together. I want to force the ends of these cables - the connectors and a bit of slack cable length - to not come apart. Naturally, I can tie (pairs of) them together,…
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How to add a reset button to a desktop PC?

As many modern PCs have no reset button, what would be the best (simplest, cheapest) way to add one (hello to all C64 users)? Looking for an answer for a typical (minitower) desktop PC. The first one where I'll be applying the solution would…
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Hardware recommendations : PC to connect to TV for movies and games

I like to watch movies and to play video games, from my sofa. I happen to have a lot of good movies on my old desk computer (whose disk is almost full), as well as a lot of good games in my Steam library. However I cannot really enjoy them while…
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Laptop lcd cable serial number

I'm having a hard time searching for a lcd cable replacement for a asus' laptop. Which serial number should i use for searching? Here's the foto of the cable:
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What processor is better?

Processador Intel Xeon E3-1240 (LGA1155 - 3,3GHz) - BX80623E31240SR00K - Box or Processador Intel Core i5-2500K (LGA1155 - 3,3GHz) - BX80623I52500KSR008 - Box I am not very familiar with Xeon procs nor iX classes but from what I readed from both,…
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