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#20221

my school went through the whole deal of pushing people in grade 6 to decide on what they want todo for college when people who have been in college for 3 years dont even know what they want todo yet XD

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#20222

Well Iā€™m off the venerable FX-8320E has done good work for me for that past two years, but itā€™s time for it to be retired. Long live the new King.

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#20223

Makes a change becasue my school didnā€™t do much pushing at all to get people go college, I knew what I wanted todo but we didnā€™t even do the grades that were required so had to spend an extra couple of years in a lower level course just to get into the standard college class I shouldā€™ve been in to start with, looking back its just a whole waste of time really.

#20224

lol I just got this, seems people are following my post here :smiley:

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#20225

congrats. It was good work :smiley:

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#20226

Thanks, I really enjoyed doing it and surprised how well it turned out. Sadly though I had to take it apart to install my new CPU and havenā€™t put it back together yet.

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#20227

you have a new soldering iron so it should hopefully be alot easier

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#20228

Oh. I should have posted my little X230 keyboard mod. Took like 10 minutes though so I guess there wasnā€™t much to show.

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#20229

Feel free too. The more content we get the more people will think we are a proper forum XD

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#20230

yep I really should get to putting it back together again but before I do I want plan a little. The solder joints between the wires and the board were very fragile and prone to breaking so want to find a solution for that before I do.

#20231

is plenty of ways.

Your best bet is probably gonna be to just by sets of wires with connectors already on them or invest in a crimping kit

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#20232

oh so sets of wires that can connect to pins on the header? crimping kit could be better in the long run if I ever seen to make lots of wires like this.

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#20233

nope. like this

Just solder on end onto the mother board and the other end onto the button

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#20234

Oh those, I do actually have some of them but their male to female.

#20235

then just cut it in the middle and just use it as a interconnect

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#20236

Well looks like Iā€™ll need to wait a bit before I upgrade. I could take the cpu backplate off my 990fx board but thatā€™s more work then it worth. Now I wait for Noctua to ship the AM4 bracket upgrade kit.

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#20237

neat, so just cut the female end and solder the wire directly to the switch and the other male end to the header?

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#20238

if there enough room. could also just solder it onto the wires you already have. is just a switch so you dont have to worry about power draw =P

The point of this is so you have to resolder as little as possible. If you need to disconnect the switch for any reason then you just pull the connectors apart and your done.

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#20239

Yeah thereā€™s definitely enough room for that, so my best bet would be to cut the current wire down on the switch end, solder a wire with only the male to it and the other with the female end to the header? that way I can just disconnect everything whenever I take it apart again?

#20240

Cut the wire in half so you have both a male and female connectors. Take 2 female headers and solder the wires onto the motherboard where you would normally wire the switch. Take 2 male headers and solder them to the switch if they can easily reach the female connectors. If not then solder the 2 male headers onto the wires coming from the switch. Plug the connectors together and you should be good to go

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