The contact cleaner dries on silicone really fast, if you have a can of compressed air, it'll lube up the holes and the air will dart out any real crap in them.
And if you're still not satisfied you can just brush the holes yourself with a more rigorous toothbrush. Since the holes won't be damaged by contact cleaner or tough bristles.
Next gen motherboard prices are pretty wild. Sure, they'll go down eventually, but hot damn is this next gen expensive compared to the last when it was new.
b660 boards are already pretty affordable. Zen 4 is fricking nuts right now between the mobos and the ddr5 but once they start rolling out 650s it'll be alright.
Being an early adopter of a new platform always feels like shit
Contact cleaner is really a wonder tech-fix. Everyone should have it. >Stickdrift gone >Disc reading issues due to dirt gone >Oder buttons not longer clicking, they click again
1. You're a reddit mong
2. That thermal paste would be no problem to clean off with a toothbrush and isopropanol
3. The bent pins are a far worse problem
Go back
I had a friend that installed his CPU sideways and it bent the pins. I used a toothpick to straighten them out and put it back in the board and that straightened it the rest of the way out. Told him to just never take it out after that lol.
You must have fricking good eyes to have pulled that off. I've fixed a few bent pins myself (maybe 5 or so), but if I installed a CPU sideways I'd just get a new one instantly.
Exactly, I know I'm an idiot with this shit and since I'll be using the computer for thousands of hours it's easier to pay a guy 200 bucks or however much it is to put it all together.
He knows what he's doing so well he probably does it in 20 minutes and makes some easy cash and I get a computer that turns on.
what is wrong with people like you? I thought it was just general laziness but you say it's because you're too stupid that you cannot build a PC?
if you can use Ganker, you should be able to get SOME info from the internet about building a PC, even if you are honestly just dumb, this shit is not hard at all.
i believe 99% of all healthy humans that can read should be able to build a PC just from following instructions on the manuals, they are just overestimating how hard it is to build a PC. picking the right parts is way harder than putting them together
what happened that so many people believe that theyre too stupid to do simple stuff, not even just building PCs, but they do believe that they're experts on way way harder topics like health?
Ok you're making a fair point so I'll give a serious answer, yes you're right I could do it if I wanted to. But I'm a person who overthinks absolutely everything and thinks of very pessimistic outcomes to shit I'm not absolutely certain about. I have no experience with building PCs and if I'm putting together an expensive rig I don't want that to be my first time learning in case I make some rookie mistake.
If I was homebuilding a calculator or whatever with parts that don't cost much who gives a shit and you might say a PC is basically the same thing but when I'm spending around 5k on my next PC (wanting to use VR) I just don't trust some part of myself to make a stupid mistake somewhere and I do think that hardware handling is a real skill and you might just be so good at it that you don't realize how good you are. Or maybe I am just a brainlet.
Also, I'm just going to play fricking doom again on this PC, it happens every time I get excited for new games and find out they all suck then I play doom
Depends on the components, but building a PC the right way can take a couple of hours to get things right correct. I've built close to 30-40 PCs and my most recent build with an AIO and midtower case took me about 4 hours to get everything mounted and routed correctly. If I was charging someone that'd probably be my rate.
>been building my own pcs for 20yrs >offer to build my relatives a pc at no charge for labor >they just keep buying overpriced and underpowered prebuilds
Yep. My Dad spent $4,000 when he only needed to spend $2,200 tops.
That being said, you are the liable if anything goes wrong over the next 10 years and they will hound you to death / blame you. It's not pretty.
>you are the liable if anything goes wrong over the next 10 years and they will hound you to death / blame you.
Yeah I did this for a friend once. I would never recommend anyone buy anything but a prebuild unless they are capable of diagnosing and fixing problems on their own, and they wouldn't need me if they were. Just not worth it, let them deal with customer support and warranties
Yep. I had a old workfriend I built a PC for in 2015 contact me last year asking to help him upgrade... Like homie, we haven't talked in 4 years. But glad he liked my work 🙂
>That being said, you are the liable if anything goes wrong over the next 10 years and they will hound you to death / blame you. It's not pretty.
Built my sisters PC. Years later, the ISP I set her up with wants to replace her network cables with fiber and give speed upgrades for free. She flips out and avoids them for 2 years... They shut down her internet, she flips out on me cause it's my fault. Yeah yeah, whatever, new ISP. Now she won't shut up that I destroyed her old ISP email account, whilst raging about how terrible her new ISP email account is
haha, who would do that???
Not me! Not me who did it for a full on fricking month because I checked the heat sink but not the fricking cover on the CPU itself. That would be fricking moronic
I think it was AMD on this particular one. Forbidden chinese import so honestly it might have just been a tiny chinese man or a brick of lead telling my GPU to do the work instead, but still it had this micro-thin film of plastic on top and it fricking got me. Still not sure how I missed it as soon as I finally took the cooler off to work out why it was doing such a piss-poor job and realised it slid off a little too easily.
I had a microfreakout when I pulled it out and bent the connector itself, thought the pins were irreparably fricked, thank god the computer worked fine afterward
you can def pull them out by hand with enough force, especially if it's a cheap mobo with crappy soldering
still would take an absolute mong to think you're supposed to pull shit straight off the board lmao
My brother once managed to insert two VHS tapes in the same slot at the same time when he was a baby
You'd be surprised what clueless determination and a little oomph can achieve
Some players pull the tape down into the slot, there's a lot of empty space inside the machine and it's feasible to put another one in if it's built poorly. Half the time they just have shitty plastic tabs holding the door closed, so anyone pushing against them can break it.
he invented a new fan bearing type that spins so fast and silently the camera can't detect the movement
Didnt this guy end up in prison?
I've seen this posted before and someone said he ended up in jail
no doubt
2 years ago
Anonymous
There's also no GPU in there. The dopey news team probably caught him "mid invention" and had him sit it next to an already plugged in monitor to set the scene.
To some degree. When they shoot those stock photos, they might ask "hey, is there any proper or improper way to do this here?" and the cameraman probably just dismissively says "don't worry about it, just try your best to act natural". My guess is that it's the blind leading the blind.
Surprisingly cool. I just threw some old fans front top and back, and am using a stock Ryzen fan on the CPU on which I haven't changed paste for four years. Cables all over, frick management.
It's some Corsair gaymer case that I got for cheap, lots of bays for HDDs, doesn't have that moronic PSU box. And had space for my DVD drive.
Even the GPU is cool, despite being a two fan, I was smart and checked the reviews (ASUS 3060 Ti OC).
>type "how to build computer" in google >sheer infite resources, infos and tutorials telling you in easy steps so that even a literal preschooler could do it
i honestly dont understand how you can frick up building a pc. you either know it enough to not be so dumb to put the thermal paste under the cpu or you are very well aware that you have no clue what youre doing and just look it up. i mean, if you know what thermal paste is and that its used on the CPU then you *have* to know to put it on top, right?
There was a tragic accident when an AMD user's board got a replacement from milsurp. It cooked-off and his entire family was completely safe because he was in the basement. Tragic.
The cpu and gpu are garbage tier home office parts that are only worth max $100 together at the time. The store paired them with excessive ram and a giant hard drive to overcharge him for a shit pc.
You mean more than 2 per channel (i.e.4) and yes but that's very uncommon outside of enterprise. You're not going to find a motherboard that's both compatible with a corei3 and has 6 ram slots.
You gays are moronic.
All you need is pic related. Spray it on all your PC components. And then you can literally fill your case with water and never worry about heat again.
If you have a case with glass panels, you can throw some tropical fish and shit in there. Maybe a piranha. You can literally share tendies with your PC-case-piranha-bro while you’re gaming.
looks like it
my biggest problem back in the day was unscrewing the thumb sticks and realizing that the hex nut base came out with them. which wasn't really a problem,t hey go right back in.
Sure, but it happens once and you panic before realizing it's fine. I can't imagine how fricking stupid you have to be to rip the connector out like that.
Is there no way to make these new graphics chips run cooler without slapping an xboxhueg heatsink on top of them? The upcoming 4090 looks gigantic. Wonder how huge the 5k and 6k series will be.
Yes. If they didn't power blast them they would be the most efficient graphics cards ever made, but then AMD might win on fps charts in a couple games by 7 fps. 30 series can get its default power draw cut by 30-50% and only lose around 10% performance.
>OKAY GUYS THE ALGORYTHM THINKS WE'RE GOING TO NEED 10.000 IMAGES OF A WOMAN UH *rolls dice* COOKING *throws a dart* PLAIN OATMEAL CAKES *guts a dove* IN A GAS MASK
i ordered a pc and it came with the cpu slightly loose from shipping so i opened it up and resocketed it and it worked fine but by doing that i got that paste all over my hands and accidently got a little bit on the pins. hope it wont randomly break one day because of it
>been building computers for over 20 years >still stress the frick out whenever I have to use pressure to install a new heatsink, use thermal paste, or even just handle the motherboard
>Building my first PC when I was a teenager >So nervous that my hands are violently shaking and I can barely screw shit in without the screw slipping >Still manage to not frick anything up
I don’t get how people can even possibly do shit like what’s in the OP. Are they not following a guide like any sensible person would?
Unironically probably someone who was using a guide, misunderstood the guide, and had zero intuition, mechanical understanding or common sense
I built my first PC at 13 without using a guide. All I read were what parts I needed.
>What parts I needed.
I can see someone stupid enough to buy incompatible parts or not thinking about whether their form factor fits the case or their 2m wide heat sink will fit in their house, but once everything is together it is essentially just slightly more fiddly lego.
Which is also engineering in a nutshell since we standardized a lot of construction.
Haha yeah, what kind of moron would buy parts without making sure they fit in the case? Surely not me. And then I cut a hole in the case and carried on with my mentally disabled life.
Don't worry bróthér, you are not alone. Because I am more moronicer.
Reasons I am actually banned from Ganker include: >"Fixing" form factor issue by sawing a hole in the back so the ports could be reached. >"Fixing" a damaged fan cowl for a GPU by spraying a SHIT TON of WD-40 into a live and running GPU fan (WORKS, please try at home!) >Making a ghetto heatsink by gluing pennies onto my ram.
Thank god I do stuff like shitpost on Ganker, like a smart person now.
>spraying a SHIT TON of WD-40 into a live and running GPU fan (WORKS, please try at home!)
Dude I do that to my household furnace every fall. I mean I could just replace that dying and squeaking fan, but it's some custom part and I dunno where to order another. Some WD-40 gets it going and mostly stops the squeaking, much better while it's actually spinning
I wound up putting my CPU in rotated wrong on a new 10900k build.
Bent half the pins on the mobo.
Surprisingly still ran, but at half ram and things were always..... wonky.
Got a new board and luckily CPU is okay.
However I cost myself $200 in 30 seconds of carelessness.
Dumping a glob of paste and pressing down will spread it in a chaotic way and it could spill out the sides.
Spreading it yourself in a thin layer avoids this.
Literally don't be an ape, the cpu cooler holes force it to go down straight and uniformly. I have never once had a problem with a "Pea size glob in the center" method. The only thing I do slightly differently since 2018 is put even tinier globs a quarter of an inch from each of the corners because the center glob spreads in a circle on a square surface and sometimes don't get the very edge of the corners, not that it's made a big difference anyway
And it also makes it cool unevenly. The reality is there are only two valid approaches: pea-sized dot in the center and multiple dots positioned where the dies would be under the IHS
Rgb fans are actually aesthetic as frick. But for some reason they aren't idiot proof at all. You can actually blow out the LED header if you plug it in wrong. I don't know why they fricked that up
I like RGB except for homosexuals that do any animation, solid color is the only acceptable choice
but yes rgb wiring is a fricking nightmare especially if you have a lot of fans
Yeah I had to set up a molex connector for my cpu fan because the header that was close to the cpu was incompatible lol it came with the molex connector so I decided to use it. Have to open the case and physically change the color myself. I also got some corsair case fans at least that one came with a hub that is just a usb type 2 connector
1% better temps.
heat rises, when it is in a normal horizontal position the heat goes up into the pcb/back plate, but in this position it is able to keep going up unobstructed and out the case.
Why do people automatically think more fans = better cooling?
I have 1 fan in addition to my CPU/GPU cooler and because I actually put thought into the airflow properties/pattern it works fantastically.
Aren't these kinds of submersed builds dumb? Won't the solution they're in eventually mess up the components?
It's mineral oil or something similar which is non conductive and repels moisture and any dust that gets in should end up on the surface. But yes it's wasteful and pointless other than to create a surreal aesthetic. Water has unmatched thermal properties when it comes to being used to cool things. If you're going to use a liquid cooling solution water is completely superior to all other coolants. The only reason other coolants exist for things like automobiles is to manipulate the boiling/freezing temperatures but a PC doesn't reach anywhere near the temperature extremes where that is required.
my room has no proper airflow, it used to have one but after a renovation it just gone. I have an AC I switched every night though to help me sleep, else I would be dead already.
>dumb fricks commenting on this when the back bottom and top aren't visible, probably allowing airflow from the fans mounted there
stay classy Ganker. you morons probably take a look at the lian li o11 dynamic and conclude it has shit airflow too
>make computer >spill gaming juice >bleed all over motherboard while changing RAM >break fan screws >can't reach post
Dont fall for the build your own computer meme. Just pay somebody else like a functioning adult who doesn't have time to learn nerd shit.
bro if a mega moron like me can build his own PC, manage to underpower his GPU by accident by using a daisy chain, and use a split cable on my CPU so it won't turn on, and then trouble shoot that shit using Ganker, then so can you.
Use your resources. Ganker is full of buttholes, but they know what they are talking about.
/v/, is building a computer really as people say it is? I'm about to build my first computer, but I've never done it before and I'm worried I'll frick up.
Sometimes you can get mismatched parts if you're not paying attention. >Make sure the motherboard and CPU have matching sockets. >Make sure motherboard and PSU have the same connectors. They switched the standard a few years back >Make sure your PSU is rated high enough to power your GPU and CPU >Make sure your motherboard size is equal or smaller than your case size
it's very easy, I recommend searching JayzTwoCents PC Build tutorial on youtube he does a good job of dumbing it down for people who have never done it before
>JayzTwoCents
I thought he was bad because he was an intel and nvidia fanboy?
It really doesn't matter who they're shilling for if you're just looking for a basic neutral build guide.
Whether it's Linus or Jayz2Cents or GN they all know what they are doing and are good at explaining it. It's literally just pick whose voice you like the best.
i don't know any $ not spent on hardware feels like a waste, if they charge 100$ that's 100$ that could have been spent on ram, a cpu, an ssd or a better graphical card.
unless you're moronic like utterly moronic it's not hard to do it yourself. even if you ignore le static meme
I don't know how much they charge but here is not a cost comparable to an actual piece of HW.
In any case, I would rather have it done and then add that RAM stick myself later. I wouldn't send it in for that.
it's very easy, I recommend searching JayzTwoCents PC Build tutorial on youtube he does a good job of dumbing it down for people who have never done it before
Follow the arrows, follow the instructions, etc. Take a couple hours to watch some build guides by reputable tech youtubers like Linus or whoever. As annoying and punchable as his face is he's popular because he knows what he's talking about.
Is your computer running slow? Are you losing more and more video games? Come get your PC supercharged today. I do PC and video game repair at an affordable price. Just drop it off and I'll let you know when it's done.
I remember I bought a power supply from Best Buy one time, and not even a week later just having it on had this horrific burnt plastic smell to it. Took them a fricking month just to replace it.
Power supplies fail more often than any other component. The likelihood of it failing within the first two weeks is relatively high, but once you're past those two weeks the odds are very good it will last for several years. Then the failure rate slowly climbs like other components.
Rule of thumb, for anyone who doesn't know, is if you're unfamiliar with brands and have two power supplies that have the wattage you need and price you want but can't tell which is better, hold them in your hands and figure out which one is heavier. The heavier power supply tends to have more copper in it, which means it's more likely to have better cooling. This of course increases the likelihood that it's well manufactured and will last. Using this method I've never had a power supply fail on me under 6 years of use, and my PC will regularly stay on despite brown outs or small blackouts that power cycle everything else inside my house. It's like a miniature UPS.
I tried putting it next to my dead heart and when I picked it up, it shattered like glass then sort of 'melted' into the rug when the bits went to room temperature. Why can't they put a fan in that fricking works! This is my 5th rug ruined.
easy fix
this
if the pins aren't bent, carefully dip, NOT STROKE, a non conductive cloth with isopropyl alcohol on it
can just douse the moron in contact cleaner and mop up the mess with a compressed air can
for the socket you can wipe it clean the same way
also a soft toothbrush works on pins, extra soft, one for babies
Probably easier to just douse the friend in gasoline and drop a match on him.
He would die from first degree burns.
And you'd have one less dumbfrick coming to you with their self inflicted woes.
You're assuming I have a queue in the first place.
Yeah but then you'd go to prison for aggravated assault, doesn't really seem worth it imho
the cpu can be cleaned and reused but how the hell would you get the thermal paste out of the thousands of little holes in the mobo?
The contact cleaner dries on silicone really fast, if you have a can of compressed air, it'll lube up the holes and the air will dart out any real crap in them.
And if you're still not satisfied you can just brush the holes yourself with a more rigorous toothbrush. Since the holes won't be damaged by contact cleaner or tough bristles.
just blast the board with alcohol to flush them out I guess
Meh, MoBos are cheaper all things considered.
Next gen motherboard prices are pretty wild. Sure, they'll go down eventually, but hot damn is this next gen expensive compared to the last when it was new.
b660 boards are already pretty affordable. Zen 4 is fricking nuts right now between the mobos and the ddr5 but once they start rolling out 650s it'll be alright.
Being an early adopter of a new platform always feels like shit
Lol tooth brush use one sometimes
oh BEAST!
Contact cleaner is really a wonder tech-fix. Everyone should have it.
>Stickdrift gone
>Disc reading issues due to dirt gone
>Oder buttons not longer clicking, they click again
this
throw the thing away and buy a new one. easy
1. You're a reddit mong
2. That thermal paste would be no problem to clean off with a toothbrush and isopropanol
3. The bent pins are a far worse problem
Go back
I had a friend that installed his CPU sideways and it bent the pins. I used a toothpick to straighten them out and put it back in the board and that straightened it the rest of the way out. Told him to just never take it out after that lol.
You must have fricking good eyes to have pulled that off. I've fixed a few bent pins myself (maybe 5 or so), but if I installed a CPU sideways I'd just get a new one instantly.
how is it possible to install it sideways?
Put it in the wrong orientation than unga bunga it in bending and breaking every pin in the process.
why does that make me hungry ?
I find it bewildering how people can't follow such simple instruction
>Hellmann's
Also known as Best Foods west of the Rockies
And to nobody's great surprise, a creamy white sauce is popular on the west coast.
They make a ranch of gaming-themed accessories.
frick I never noticed it
it's so satisfying to watch
why did someone spend hours making this, for the (You)s?
>for the (You)s?
Nah, this certainly would've been posted somewhere that got monetization from views
>Ultra durable.
first time i noticed its a tube of mayonnaise
Can I eat this?
Please do not eat your CPU or motherboard.
without mayo
They don't call it a chip for nothin
Why do morons even attempt to build a PC if they have no idea what they're doing? Pay someone more competent after you already paid so much for parts.
Exactly, I know I'm an idiot with this shit and since I'll be using the computer for thousands of hours it's easier to pay a guy 200 bucks or however much it is to put it all together.
He knows what he's doing so well he probably does it in 20 minutes and makes some easy cash and I get a computer that turns on.
don't forget how to breathe
you are now breathing manually, also
the game
Frick you, you are now blinking manually
Frick you
Your heart is now beating manually
what is wrong with people like you? I thought it was just general laziness but you say it's because you're too stupid that you cannot build a PC?
if you can use Ganker, you should be able to get SOME info from the internet about building a PC, even if you are honestly just dumb, this shit is not hard at all.
i believe 99% of all healthy humans that can read should be able to build a PC just from following instructions on the manuals, they are just overestimating how hard it is to build a PC. picking the right parts is way harder than putting them together
what happened that so many people believe that theyre too stupid to do simple stuff, not even just building PCs, but they do believe that they're experts on way way harder topics like health?
Ok you're making a fair point so I'll give a serious answer, yes you're right I could do it if I wanted to. But I'm a person who overthinks absolutely everything and thinks of very pessimistic outcomes to shit I'm not absolutely certain about. I have no experience with building PCs and if I'm putting together an expensive rig I don't want that to be my first time learning in case I make some rookie mistake.
If I was homebuilding a calculator or whatever with parts that don't cost much who gives a shit and you might say a PC is basically the same thing but when I'm spending around 5k on my next PC (wanting to use VR) I just don't trust some part of myself to make a stupid mistake somewhere and I do think that hardware handling is a real skill and you might just be so good at it that you don't realize how good you are. Or maybe I am just a brainlet.
Also, I'm just going to play fricking doom again on this PC, it happens every time I get excited for new games and find out they all suck then I play doom
Why are spending so much on a new pc then? You can already play doom now.
Because VR games look awesome, Into The Radius, Alyx and Blade & Sorcery all look pretty dope.
>200 bucks
Does he give you a blowjob on top of building your pc?
Depends on the components, but building a PC the right way can take a couple of hours to get things right correct. I've built close to 30-40 PCs and my most recent build with an AIO and midtower case took me about 4 hours to get everything mounted and routed correctly. If I was charging someone that'd probably be my rate.
>200 bucks
you did w0t m8?
TWO HUNDRED WHAT NOW ?
Pay me 400 and I will install McAfee on your PC + make your internet, and computer, faster.
I'll show you how to download more RAM for $50.
>200 bucks
My local tech shop installs shit for free. Then again I have been going to it for over 10 years so it might just be for loyal people.
This had better be bait, computers are easier to put together than lego.
>not paying the professional lego architect $200 to build your new set for you
ngmi
its literally just lego for adults, if you can't figure it out with absolutely no research you're a genetic dead end
I would normally say it's more expensive than LEGOs but holy shit LEGOS are expensive as hell.
if you can make an ikea chair you can build a computer
having products designed to be moron proof means people overtime gradually overestimate their own competence and underestimate their own stupidity
Because people tell them it's not more difficult than building legos. And that's still true, it's just some people can't read a fricking manual.
>been building my own pcs for 20yrs
>offer to build my relatives a pc at no charge for labor
>they just keep buying overpriced and underpowered prebuilds
Yep. My Dad spent $4,000 when he only needed to spend $2,200 tops.
That being said, you are the liable if anything goes wrong over the next 10 years and they will hound you to death / blame you. It's not pretty.
>you are the liable if anything goes wrong over the next 10 years and they will hound you to death / blame you.
Yeah I did this for a friend once. I would never recommend anyone buy anything but a prebuild unless they are capable of diagnosing and fixing problems on their own, and they wouldn't need me if they were. Just not worth it, let them deal with customer support and warranties
Yep. I had a old workfriend I built a PC for in 2015 contact me last year asking to help him upgrade... Like homie, we haven't talked in 4 years. But glad he liked my work 🙂
>That being said, you are the liable if anything goes wrong over the next 10 years and they will hound you to death / blame you. It's not pretty.
Built my sisters PC. Years later, the ISP I set her up with wants to replace her network cables with fiber and give speed upgrades for free. She flips out and avoids them for 2 years... They shut down her internet, she flips out on me cause it's my fault. Yeah yeah, whatever, new ISP. Now she won't shut up that I destroyed her old ISP email account, whilst raging about how terrible her new ISP email account is
what was her fricking problem with free shit?
Oh, fiber optics let the.... ISP?... see into her building and monitor her
>It's got the word "optic" so they're installing eyes in my house
Assuming even that much thought went into it.
Jesus Christ. At least tell me you got to frick her
I used to do this but then I found it it was easier to just give my parents my old pc and clean hard drives
go back
I'd like to do a vented refrigerator set up. Has anyone here tried this? What tools did you use?
step 1: install gentoo
Just needs a solvent to remove it, stuff like brake cleaner or contact cleaner would make it go away fast, why are redditors so fricking stupid..
>a friend
Why don't Redditors just admit they did something moronic?
>he doesn't use copper tubing
>mixing metals
dumb frick
does nothing
It's forbidden by the Talmud, you idiot.
Bro, your BD-DVD drive?
Where the frick is the power supply? How thick is the backside of that case?
It's called galvanic corrosion moron, your loop will turn into a green goopy mess in a few months.
use non conductive liquid?
Of course. Your loop liquid is water mixed with coolant. It will be medium for ion transfer and reaction.
>green goopy mess
That's why you use opaque tubes
why would you go through all that trouble and not top mount the radiator, brainlet?
>Why don't you put the 360 mm radiator in the place where only a 240 mm raditor would fit?
>brainlet
Front is optimal because you get the cooler air from the outside straight to the rads.
Looks heavy
>copper tubes with what looks like an aluminum block
enjoy the corrosion
Are you running power cables to the thing from a mile away? Any powerbox could cause sparks to jump on this thing.
Where is the power supply?
Behind the motherboard probably.
how often do you need to reapply thermal paste, never did it for my 7 year rig
About every 7 months or so.
Same. At that point I pretty much say it's time for a new PC lmao.
>how often do you need to reapply thermal paste
Never, as long as you don't disturb the contact between the CPU and cooler and assuming it's proper thermal paste and not chink shit.
as long as it isnt shit, mx4 always came out like new when i cleaned a 10-y-o machine, another had dried as shit nth1 despite being 5-y-o
>friend
I blow on my cpu from time to time when the room gets too hot
How can someone be so moronic. Also I love hardware gore
DON'T FORGET TO PEEL YOUR PLASTIC
haha, who would do that???
Not me! Not me who did it for a full on fricking month because I checked the heat sink but not the fricking cover on the CPU itself. That would be fricking moronic
What is intel putting plastic on their cpu now?
CPU cooler anon.
So it's nice and fresh when the user installs it
I think it was AMD on this particular one. Forbidden chinese import so honestly it might have just been a tiny chinese man or a brick of lead telling my GPU to do the work instead, but still it had this micro-thin film of plastic on top and it fricking got me. Still not sure how I missed it as soon as I finally took the cooler off to work out why it was doing such a piss-poor job and realised it slid off a little too easily.
just use a toothbrush and a bit of isopropyl alcohol bro
looks like it was buried in tarmac wtf
>just put it in the oven for a bit to reflow the solder. 200 degrees F should be enough
>*Turns the oven to 200 C*
wtf
Its fine, just change out the thermal paste.
Me when I try to remove the USB3 header. Those connectors seem welded together.
I had a microfreakout when I pulled it out and bent the connector itself, thought the pins were irreparably fricked, thank god the computer worked fine afterward
I dont get it.
Nevermind I just saw it. Is it that easy to remove the whole slot?
if you don't unclip the white locking bits and moron strength yank it out maybe.
how did that kill a mouse, i put my fingers in my fans all the time
he probably just got stuck and starved to death, though it looks like it tore his skin up a bit
our fingers are very sturdy
try to put your foreskin into it and see what happens
Instructions unclear, dick caught in computer fan.
We have bones.
Mice are made of cartilage.
The only developed animals with cartilage for skeletons are sharks
you can def pull them out by hand with enough force, especially if it's a cheap mobo with crappy soldering
still would take an absolute mong to think you're supposed to pull shit straight off the board lmao
how the hell does someone manage to do that
My brother once managed to insert two VHS tapes in the same slot at the same time when he was a baby
You'd be surprised what clueless determination and a little oomph can achieve
Some players pull the tape down into the slot, there's a lot of empty space inside the machine and it's feasible to put another one in if it's built poorly. Half the time they just have shitty plastic tabs holding the door closed, so anyone pushing against them can break it.
Unga bunga
What the frick were they going for here? Is that a lightbulb? Why does it get worse every time I look at it?
T-Tyrone-san
He has to burn his fingertips off somehow ok
>AYO IUM GONN WELD THE SHIET OF THESE MOAHFOCKA
His proportions are the weirdest thing in this image.
that poor hard drive
They grow up so fast
>monitor shows computer is on
>fan not running
he invented a new fan bearing type that spins so fast and silently the camera can't detect the movement
no doubt
There's also no GPU in there. The dopey news team probably caught him "mid invention" and had him sit it next to an already plugged in monitor to set the scene.
Didnt this guy end up in prison?
I've seen this posted before and someone said he ended up in jail
He invented a new crime
> Hey hey people, Sseth here
whats up with his head?
why he giving me the horny look
>gintokingetsanetflixadaptation.jpg
>black steel
There is a stock picture for everything. Should be a R34.2 at this point. Frickers are all day shooting random pics.
>touching an open power supply like that
kek! KEK!!!! Also why the frick did they glue a lightbulb to it lmao
>this fricking pic
been years and i still can't deal with it
Idiot.
PSUs have been bayonet-cap since 2004.
... Is that a lightbulb?
It's what we had to use before LED's were a thing, don't tell me you didn't have lightbulbs in your rig back during the DOS days?
How do you think you get that sweet RBG Chroma?
I think it supposed to represent a vacuum tube.
>exposed psu
>handling the 24 pin cable with pliers
>trying to plug the 24 pin into the back of the motherboard
>a fricking lightbulb
>we need more women in the tech field!
>this will help
Just hold the metal that's blackened for no apparent reason
Do you think these are done on purpose?
To some degree. When they shoot those stock photos, they might ask "hey, is there any proper or improper way to do this here?" and the cameraman probably just dismissively says "don't worry about it, just try your best to act natural". My guess is that it's the blind leading the blind.
The proportions are all fricked up, his head looks tiny compared to his chest size.
giga homie build
Reminds me of the globohomosexual corporate art style
Why is there a disassembled HDD
>Hand directly on the part of the solder iron that gets ludicrously hot
My fricking sides
Oh sweet, a hardware gore thread
Surprisingly cool. I just threw some old fans front top and back, and am using a stock Ryzen fan on the CPU on which I haven't changed paste for four years. Cables all over, frick management.
It's some Corsair gaymer case that I got for cheap, lots of bays for HDDs, doesn't have that moronic PSU box. And had space for my DVD drive.
Even the GPU is cool, despite being a two fan, I was smart and checked the reviews (ASUS 3060 Ti OC).
>type "how to build computer" in google
>sheer infite resources, infos and tutorials telling you in easy steps so that even a literal preschooler could do it
i honestly dont understand how you can frick up building a pc. you either know it enough to not be so dumb to put the thermal paste under the cpu or you are very well aware that you have no clue what youre doing and just look it up. i mean, if you know what thermal paste is and that its used on the CPU then you *have* to know to put it on top, right?
>Dark Spirit has inv-
Thanks, I chuckled.
I've got to be real that looks like a gt610 or some variation and frankly soldering it is one of the more useful things I think you could do with one.
Are you soldering in that position?
>heat sink, not a weapon
Is that meant as a joke or did they seriously needed to put that there?
There was a tragic accident when an AMD user's board got a replacement from milsurp. It cooked-off and his entire family was completely safe because he was in the basement. Tragic.
Does anyone have the pic of the guy whose mobo got ripped to shreds by customs because it had a gun heatsink or some moronic shit?
Yeah. It's brutal. They didn't even get the heatsink out.
Forgot pic.
>rip apart pci e for some reason
Are they brain dead?
I meant, apparently it was done when it went through customs and they are absolute mongoloids with this kind of stuff.
That looks like its still usable on the second pcie slot. Did they destroy anything else on it?
Do Amerifats really
>bought an MSI Bazooka
>doesn't come with a bazooka
i actually had this mobo
it was great.
then i got an asus one and vowed to never buy one again.
SOUL
grim
one WHOLE TERABYTE???
>thread is still up
i was more suprised to see the game was still running.
link it
Was that today as in today?
Ten year old post
That doesn't look that bad for a 2012 PC. It's not super gamer stuff but better than average.
The cpu and gpu are garbage tier home office parts that are only worth max $100 together at the time. The store paired them with excessive ram and a giant hard drive to overcharge him for a shit pc.
every day is today at some point
replies to this are jealous fricks who are still on 8 gbs of ram power
I like how TERABYTE is all caps.
>12 GB of ram
How? An 8gig stick and a 4gig stick on one channel?
4x3 more likely
Wouldn't that just end up being 8 gb on one channel and 4 on the other?
mobos can have more than two slots for ram anon
You mean more than 2 per channel (i.e.4) and yes but that's very uncommon outside of enterprise. You're not going to find a motherboard that's both compatible with a corei3 and has 6 ram slots.
such a classic. so many newbies replying earnestly kek
You gays are moronic.
All you need is pic related. Spray it on all your PC components. And then you can literally fill your case with water and never worry about heat again.
If you have a case with glass panels, you can throw some tropical fish and shit in there. Maybe a piranha. You can literally share tendies with your PC-case-piranha-bro while you’re gaming.
what anon what about my cooling
Don't, some fricking moron will actually do this
easy fix
just use a toothbrush and dab a little isopropyl alcohol
What the frick happened here? moron strength on the connector without unscrewing it?
looks like it
my biggest problem back in the day was unscrewing the thumb sticks and realizing that the hex nut base came out with them. which wasn't really a problem,t hey go right back in.
Sure, but it happens once and you panic before realizing it's fine. I can't imagine how fricking stupid you have to be to rip the connector out like that.
Honestly I thought thermal paste was non-conductive anyway?
>"N... Neesan... It won't fit! You're too big! Sto-"
>"AHHH!"
>Neesan
Is that a pegging scenario?
Stop making me horny, i fapped like an hour ago.
Is there no way to make these new graphics chips run cooler without slapping an xboxhueg heatsink on top of them? The upcoming 4090 looks gigantic. Wonder how huge the 5k and 6k series will be.
no because the power draw is so fricking huge, the more that number goes up the bigger they have to be
Yes. If they didn't power blast them they would be the most efficient graphics cards ever made, but then AMD might win on fps charts in a couple games by 7 fps. 30 series can get its default power draw cut by 30-50% and only lose around 10% performance.
Just get the **50 models.
>just build your own pc bro
good lord what the frick
I have the exact same board and cooling system but holy frick, that pic scares me
comfy
Ignoring the tubes at their breaking point the radiator has three fricking layers of fans.
Oh frick, you're right
He probably did it so he could strap the radiator in the front of the case
The 2 fans on our side of the radiator are also fighting to push air against the fans on the other side of the radiator
>Tubes at their limit
>Fans pushing air into both sides of the rad, push/push configuration.
why do stock image companies think that everyone solders their own parts?
Stock image companies have no idea what soldering even is, they just know that tech people hold this weird wand thingy in their hand sometimes
>OKAY GUYS THE ALGORYTHM THINKS WE'RE GOING TO NEED 10.000 IMAGES OF A WOMAN UH *rolls dice* COOKING *throws a dart* PLAIN OATMEAL CAKES *guts a dove* IN A GAS MASK
Why are stock images so kino?
Dont you anon? I randomly do it with all my electrical equipment
i ordered a pc and it came with the cpu slightly loose from shipping so i opened it up and resocketed it and it worked fine but by doing that i got that paste all over my hands and accidently got a little bit on the pins. hope it wont randomly break one day because of it
>been building computers for over 20 years
>still stress the frick out whenever I have to use pressure to install a new heatsink, use thermal paste, or even just handle the motherboard
same, heatsink bracketd are still ass and stress me out
>Building my first PC when I was a teenager
>So nervous that my hands are violently shaking and I can barely screw shit in without the screw slipping
>Still manage to not frick anything up
I don’t get how people can even possibly do shit like what’s in the OP. Are they not following a guide like any sensible person would?
Unironically probably someone who was using a guide, misunderstood the guide, and had zero intuition, mechanical understanding or common sense
I built my first PC at 13 without using a guide. All I read were what parts I needed.
>What parts I needed.
I can see someone stupid enough to buy incompatible parts or not thinking about whether their form factor fits the case or their 2m wide heat sink will fit in their house, but once everything is together it is essentially just slightly more fiddly lego.
Which is also engineering in a nutshell since we standardized a lot of construction.
Haha yeah, what kind of moron would buy parts without making sure they fit in the case? Surely not me. And then I cut a hole in the case and carried on with my mentally disabled life.
Don't worry bróthér, you are not alone. Because I am more moronicer.
Reasons I am actually banned from Ganker include:
>"Fixing" form factor issue by sawing a hole in the back so the ports could be reached.
>"Fixing" a damaged fan cowl for a GPU by spraying a SHIT TON of WD-40 into a live and running GPU fan (WORKS, please try at home!)
>Making a ghetto heatsink by gluing pennies onto my ram.
Thank god I do stuff like shitpost on Ganker, like a smart person now.
>spraying a SHIT TON of WD-40 into a live and running GPU fan (WORKS, please try at home!)
Dude I do that to my household furnace every fall. I mean I could just replace that dying and squeaking fan, but it's some custom part and I dunno where to order another. Some WD-40 gets it going and mostly stops the squeaking, much better while it's actually spinning
>moronic
More like ingenious. If its stupid but it works, then its not stupid.
>mfw a friend of mine somehow managed to put a Ryzen 3700X in the wrong way and then spent over a week crying about it
I still have no idea how he managed to do that when the socket literally doesn't let you do it
I wound up putting my CPU in rotated wrong on a new 10900k build.
Bent half the pins on the mobo.
Surprisingly still ran, but at half ram and things were always..... wonky.
Got a new board and luckily CPU is okay.
However I cost myself $200 in 30 seconds of carelessness.
so I listened to everyone and found some great guides on the internet, I'm going to follow this one step by step! Wish me luc
needs more paste
Why do they always spread it? The pressure from locking down the CPU is supposed to spread the paste on its own
Dumping a glob of paste and pressing down will spread it in a chaotic way and it could spill out the sides.
Spreading it yourself in a thin layer avoids this.
Literally don't be an ape, the cpu cooler holes force it to go down straight and uniformly. I have never once had a problem with a "Pea size glob in the center" method. The only thing I do slightly differently since 2018 is put even tinier globs a quarter of an inch from each of the corners because the center glob spreads in a circle on a square surface and sometimes don't get the very edge of the corners, not that it's made a big difference anyway
And it also makes it cool unevenly. The reality is there are only two valid approaches: pea-sized dot in the center and multiple dots positioned where the dies would be under the IHS
This video is more comprehensive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lmfF0k2UcU
Rgb fans are actually aesthetic as frick. But for some reason they aren't idiot proof at all. You can actually blow out the LED header if you plug it in wrong. I don't know why they fricked that up
I like RGB except for homosexuals that do any animation, solid color is the only acceptable choice
but yes rgb wiring is a fricking nightmare especially if you have a lot of fans
Yeah I had to set up a molex connector for my cpu fan because the header that was close to the cpu was incompatible lol it came with the molex connector so I decided to use it. Have to open the case and physically change the color myself. I also got some corsair case fans at least that one came with a hub that is just a usb type 2 connector
But that's how you do it. He probably used fake Chinese paste.
NH-D16
Frick water cooling
>NH-D16
What? Pretty sure there is no D16 yet.
I typo'd, sorry. Yeah, I meant the NH-D15
Man, I love their fans
It’s quieter than water cooling, I even chucked one in my Dreamcast and it doesn’t make a noise
Mmm... Gotta love that new CPU smell.
>not storing your tabasco sauce in your pc case
🙂
>mixing plastics
dumbfrick
>I heard someone say something similar about metals
>this is my chance to pretend I know what I'm talking about!
looks nice except the GPU is sagging slightly which is triggering my autism
Is there any benefit to having your GPU on it's side like that besides aesthetics?
1% better temps.
heat rises, when it is in a normal horizontal position the heat goes up into the pcb/back plate, but in this position it is able to keep going up unobstructed and out the case.
No, and in fact tests indicate that unless you have really good airflow it's actually bad for your temps.
no bending and less pressure on the mb
Guess it looks cool, but the cooling is probably rubbish.
>9 fans
>cooling is rubbish
I mean, i dunno man. Bottom is not filled for sure, and we don't see the other sides either.
How exactly are those fans cooling anything
They aren't.
case uses hole tech on the sides you can't see.
>hole tech
Post it.
Why do people automatically think more fans = better cooling?
I have 1 fan in addition to my CPU/GPU cooler and because I actually put thought into the airflow properties/pattern it works fantastically.
It's mineral oil or something similar which is non conductive and repels moisture and any dust that gets in should end up on the surface. But yes it's wasteful and pointless other than to create a surreal aesthetic. Water has unmatched thermal properties when it comes to being used to cool things. If you're going to use a liquid cooling solution water is completely superior to all other coolants. The only reason other coolants exist for things like automobiles is to manipulate the boiling/freezing temperatures but a PC doesn't reach anywhere near the temperature extremes where that is required.
My room can sometimes be hot enough to melt plastic, no kidding. I just run like 8 fans so it won't die on me.
What, you live in a forced ventillation concrete cube?
my room has no proper airflow, it used to have one but after a renovation it just gone. I have an AC I switched every night though to help me sleep, else I would be dead already.
So I was right I see. Did you renovate it? I'm pretty sure you can sue for that if it was forced on you.
RTX PC!
>dumb fricks commenting on this when the back bottom and top aren't visible, probably allowing airflow from the fans mounted there
stay classy Ganker. you morons probably take a look at the lian li o11 dynamic and conclude it has shit airflow too
I'm commenting on the fact that you have 9 fans that are all going to be fighting with each other instead of moving air.
define the difference between a positive and negative airflow setup in a computer case
positive pushes cold air in from outside
negative pushes hot air out from inside
Also, nobody commenting on that thing being a fricking trip hazard?
>Also, nobody commenting on that thing being a fricking trip hazard?
NOT
MY
PROBLEM
Aren't these kinds of submersed builds dumb? Won't the solution they're in eventually mess up the components?
I doubt it's submerged, my guess is the aquarium is in a pocket layer in front of the mobo.
I think there are submerged builds but it is really some kind of oil.
it's liquid methane from gamer girls
yes but not for the reason you think.
Why does he sound like he is transitioning?
>make computer
>spill gaming juice
>bleed all over motherboard while changing RAM
>break fan screws
>can't reach post
Dont fall for the build your own computer meme. Just pay somebody else like a functioning adult who doesn't have time to learn nerd shit.
moron
all over motherboard while changing RAM
lel what
bro if a mega moron like me can build his own PC, manage to underpower his GPU by accident by using a daisy chain, and use a split cable on my CPU so it won't turn on, and then trouble shoot that shit using Ganker, then so can you.
Use your resources. Ganker is full of buttholes, but they know what they are talking about.
Those ram card corners do be pointy doe. Don't slip off while pressing on it.
still using my Corsair C70, with cooling fans
i had that case, it was great for LAN parties
which case are you using now?
I now got a 750D because i need the extra room for hoarding SSD's
>me, mature student in college
>overhear zoomer student bragging about stealing ram from his school's computer
man, that shit is just not cool to me anymore.
did you steal some aswell? or report him? would your college have cameras?
>college costs twice what it should
>"How dare you try to extract extra value out of it"
The only value that could be potentially extracted from going to college is to not bother wasting your time with it to begin with.
that does not make any sense anon
What thermal paste do you all use?
AS5
I don't
>psu on top
is that normal?
In older cases it was normal
what could possibly go wrong
Clean it up a bit and it's good.
>complains about troonys
>slaps rainbow lights all over their pc
Why do pcbros do this?
/v/, is building a computer really as people say it is? I'm about to build my first computer, but I've never done it before and I'm worried I'll frick up.
it's adult legos, it's almost impossible to frick up unless you're moronic
Sometimes you can get mismatched parts if you're not paying attention.
>Make sure the motherboard and CPU have matching sockets.
>Make sure motherboard and PSU have the same connectors. They switched the standard a few years back
>Make sure your PSU is rated high enough to power your GPU and CPU
>Make sure your motherboard size is equal or smaller than your case size
that's what pcpartpicker is for
there's about to be a new PSU standard soon that will be annoying tho
Most normies copy builds they find from youtube which is honestly the best way to do it.
Jay2Cents unironically has some nice videos on how to build a pc
>JayzTwoCents
I thought he was bad because he was an intel and nvidia fanboy?
since when is he an intel fanboy? He spent years shilling for Threadripper
It really doesn't matter who they're shilling for if you're just looking for a basic neutral build guide.
Whether it's Linus or Jayz2Cents or GN they all know what they are doing and are good at explaining it. It's literally just pick whose voice you like the best.
If you get confused about anything don't be afraid to read the manual.
It's not hard. I feel it's just not worth it to save on a few pennies after spending thousands on HW to not have a professional do it.
i don't know any $ not spent on hardware feels like a waste, if they charge 100$ that's 100$ that could have been spent on ram, a cpu, an ssd or a better graphical card.
unless you're moronic like utterly moronic it's not hard to do it yourself. even if you ignore le static meme
I don't know how much they charge but here is not a cost comparable to an actual piece of HW.
In any case, I would rather have it done and then add that RAM stick myself later. I wouldn't send it in for that.
it's very easy, I recommend searching JayzTwoCents PC Build tutorial on youtube he does a good job of dumbing it down for people who have never done it before
Follow the arrows, follow the instructions, etc. Take a couple hours to watch some build guides by reputable tech youtubers like Linus or whoever. As annoying and punchable as his face is he's popular because he knows what he's talking about.
The Hour long Linus video is probably the best. Yes its long but you can't blame it for skipping a detail
Is your computer running slow? Are you losing more and more video games? Come get your PC supercharged today. I do PC and video game repair at an affordable price. Just drop it off and I'll let you know when it's done.
that guys right why would they put lines there
ah a classic
what fricking lines? did he just cut of the goddamn pins? is that what he calls lines?
by lines he was referring to the PCIe fingers, yeah
you can see he cut off the entire section on the right lmao
It's just like Legos, guys
Do you often cut legos to make them fit?
With how expensive Lego is nowadays I would rather cut the pins in my CPU.
even the guys who cut lego don't recommend doing it unless you know what you're doing.
You're supposed to use the real kind. Mayo doesn't conduct heat very well.
How did they drop that processor into place that perfectly?!
Cum magnesis locked the CPU's trajectory while it was falling.
Oh that makes sense.
I remember I bought a power supply from Best Buy one time, and not even a week later just having it on had this horrific burnt plastic smell to it. Took them a fricking month just to replace it.
Power supplies fail more often than any other component. The likelihood of it failing within the first two weeks is relatively high, but once you're past those two weeks the odds are very good it will last for several years. Then the failure rate slowly climbs like other components.
Rule of thumb, for anyone who doesn't know, is if you're unfamiliar with brands and have two power supplies that have the wattage you need and price you want but can't tell which is better, hold them in your hands and figure out which one is heavier. The heavier power supply tends to have more copper in it, which means it's more likely to have better cooling. This of course increases the likelihood that it's well manufactured and will last. Using this method I've never had a power supply fail on me under 6 years of use, and my PC will regularly stay on despite brown outs or small blackouts that power cycle everything else inside my house. It's like a miniature UPS.
I put it between my wife's legs.
I let my son hold it because his mother killed his soul. I can go back to gaming within 3 minutes. He's a champ!
I'm an absolute brainlet about computers. Is there a tutorial for morons like me who want to build the best gaming rig?
I tried putting it next to my dead heart and when I picked it up, it shattered like glass then sort of 'melted' into the rug when the bits went to room temperature. Why can't they put a fan in that fricking works! This is my 5th rug ruined.
Piss on it.