Top 10 most anxiety inducing moments. The fear of losing a $2,000 device is a strong one.
“Is this definitely the power button?” “Are the fans supposed to be spinning already?” “Did the monitor just flicker?” “I should have tested it outside the case first, what if I have to take it apart again?”
I’ve had a gtx 660 pop when it was drawing 300+W at nowhere near safe voltages.
And a cheap p55 asrock mobo with a godlike clock gen but only 4 shitty vrm phases, everything was fine until I switched to water cooling without realising the tower fan was also cooling down the vrm heatsink.
External build, every time. I’ll put the mobo on top of the box with the ESD bag under it, snap in all the relevant components, and give er a quick test boot. Don’t run it that way for an extended period because the thermals are abysmal, but being able to put the whole board in the case knowing damn well itll work is a nice feeling.
I knew it was good practice to do that, but I was excited, impatient, and probably overconfident as well tbh. It worked out fine this time, but I could have ended up wasting so much more time if I needed to start disassembling things to troubleshoot. I’ll definitely take the time to do it in the future if I ever build another.
Top 10 most anxiety inducing moments. The fear of losing a $2,000 device is a strong one.
“Is this definitely the power button?” “Are the fans supposed to be spinning already?” “Did the monitor just flicker?” “I should have tested it outside the case first, what if I have to take it apart again?”
It turned on fine.
why isn’t it turning on!!! oh, plug it in lol. STILL NOT TURNING ON OMG??? …damn forgot to flip the psu switch on.
They are hard to kill
Source: I’ve done terrible things to computers
Most components will still run for atleast 30s while half of it is on fire.
Source: I’ve nearly burned the house down twice now.
I’ve been gaming for like 10h a day or more on my pc with an i5 3450 since about 2012, shit is still working great I don’t know how
I’ve had a gtx 660 pop when it was drawing 300+W at nowhere near safe voltages. And a cheap p55 asrock mobo with a godlike clock gen but only 4 shitty vrm phases, everything was fine until I switched to water cooling without realising the tower fan was also cooling down the vrm heatsink.
Oh yeah I popped a 660 too, damn that was a long time ago
Yeah but this one time my buddy’s cousin’s friend fried his motherboard because he didn’t use one of those bracelets!
External build, every time. I’ll put the mobo on top of the box with the ESD bag under it, snap in all the relevant components, and give er a quick test boot. Don’t run it that way for an extended period because the thermals are abysmal, but being able to put the whole board in the case knowing damn well itll work is a nice feeling.
Doesn’t help you for wiring your LEDs tho
I knew it was good practice to do that, but I was excited, impatient, and probably overconfident as well tbh. It worked out fine this time, but I could have ended up wasting so much more time if I needed to start disassembling things to troubleshoot. I’ll definitely take the time to do it in the future if I ever build another.
That overconfidence’ll getcha. I had to manually behind cpu pins back once, that wasn’t awesome