Kevin, if you or anyone else are having mouse issues, try signing out of the iCloud to see what happens. I get a nearly flat loopback out to 90+ KHz, and about 85 to 90 db of dynamic range. PC number three had a PCI slot, so an 18 year old Audiophile 24/192 sound card got stuffed into it, REW loaded and now I have a new measuring tool.
Maybe one of the 3%ers can be used for picture storage.
It was 87 last time I benchmarked it, and it hasn't changed, but all the other PC's in the world have. The pair of older second gen machines score in the 3rd percentile, while my Ryzen 7 machine gets 80 something percentile. It still scores in the 60th percentile in Passmark's your PC against the world testing. Maybe this oldie but goodie can live on until W10 goes away, and maybe even after that. Could this be the source of my frustration? I backed up all my iPhone pictured on a portable drive and signed out of the iCloud.It's too soon to tell, but I have not had to push the reset button or unplug and replug the mouse in about 4 hours of continuous use. I have an iPhone 10S and I use the iCloud on my current desktop to transfer my pictures from the phone to my PC. My wife had an iPhone 7 back then and I used the iCloud to put reading material on to her phone. As soon as I deleted the iCloud app from the PC, and rebooted, it's mouse returned to normal operation. I decided to clean up the nearly full SSD boot disk by deleting unused programs when I found the suspect program. So much for my death by Windows update or W10 obsolescence theories. This was a good working PC, and labeled as such when it went on the shelf. To my surprise its mouse and keyboard was nearly as schizophrenic as my current PC. It was used as a spare PC with lots of programs loaded, but had not seen power in almost 3 years. Number three is a fourth gen core i5-4670K running W7 overclocked to 3.8 Ghz. Ditto another second gen core i5 with W7. It goes back on the shelf, for possible reuse. It worked fine, and to my surprise downloaded and installed about a dozen updates for W7. It had been an OTA DVR in Florida where we could get about 50 channels with an antenna, but worthless here. The first one was a core i5-2400 with W7 installed, yeah really old and slow. I dragged out my pile of old and unused PC's to see what I could build without spending any money. I decided that it was time to make a new one.
Recommended system requirements: 1GHz Pentium III processor or better, 1Gb RAM, 2,0 Gb free space on HDD, 1024x768 screen. DipTrace works on Mac OS X (Intel based, XQuartz required) and Linux (with Wine). Both 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Vista are supported. 012" is their smallest hole.Īctually this should have all gone in the " Cheap PCB stories.I lost my patience with my current oldie goldie desktop PC due primarily to the mouse issue. DipTrace supports Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and Windows 10. They're very inexpensive and have given good quality but they definitely won't do. I've been using DirtyPCBs (which I think is part of DangerousPrototypes) for simple prototypes recently. I've seen many references to JLCPCB recently. It's just my situation that borderline justifies continuing to use it. I would not recommend the same software to newcomers though. I'm still using an old DOS version of Easy-PC Professional, for several reasons, and I run it in the DOSbox emulator under Linux. You could just draw your board out by hand on a large quadrille paper and use the grid to get the coordinates to type up the gerber files into a text editor-if you would live long enough to accomplish it! Gerber files are plain text, and the gerber file standard is pretty simple but yeah, the size of the job would be unrealistic for all but the tiniest, simplest boards. (This comes from the custom PCBs section of my 6502 primer.) See also for some info and reviews on free PCB CAD. Wikipedia has a brief comparison of a long list of CADs, many of them free, at.