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    GekkeTheun got a reaction from Origami Cactus in story on how i destroyed my first gpu   
    i'm dutch so excuse me for my bad english.
     
    okay so, this story is really stupid. i was 10 years old and just got a new pc. it had an amd a10 7870k and an rx 460. 5 months after i got it i decided to clean my graphics card when my mom was away, since my mom wouldn't allow me to get into my pc case, she was afraid that i would break something. i should've listened to her, because i knew nothing about computers and i wasn't very careful. anyways, i opened up my pc case. i tried pulling the graphics card out without unscrewing the screw but did notice the screw about 10 seconds later and i unscrewed it, removed the graphics card from the pc and voila. at this point, nothing seemed damaged, but just wait. as i said, i knew nothing about computers like most fucking 10 year olds. i unscrewed the screw on the graphics card, removed the heatsink with the fans (which went smoothly), i set aside the heatsink and the fans and i got the genius idea to wash my graphics card's pcb with water and soap.. and so i did. the pcb was wet and there was soap everywhere. i tried drying off the pcb with a hairdryer, but it didn't quite work because there still was a shitload of water on it. so i put back the heatsink without cleaning it and applying thermal paste, i screwed on all the screws on the gpu accept for one because i lost it, i plugged the card in without screwing the gpu slot screw in.. and... the system did boot, for 3 seconds. the fans on the gpu start spinning like crazy, and a few moments later the system died. the pins on the gpu were still dripping with water when i put it in, so that's probably why the whole system died. i do still wonder how it managed to still boot for 3 seconds though.
     
    moral of the story, don't let your 10 year old mess around with computer hardware.
     
    i do not look forward to getting roasted in the comments though.
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    GekkeTheun got a reaction from minibois in story on how i destroyed my first gpu   
    i'm dutch so excuse me for my bad english.
     
    okay so, this story is really stupid. i was 10 years old and just got a new pc. it had an amd a10 7870k and an rx 460. 5 months after i got it i decided to clean my graphics card when my mom was away, since my mom wouldn't allow me to get into my pc case, she was afraid that i would break something. i should've listened to her, because i knew nothing about computers and i wasn't very careful. anyways, i opened up my pc case. i tried pulling the graphics card out without unscrewing the screw but did notice the screw about 10 seconds later and i unscrewed it, removed the graphics card from the pc and voila. at this point, nothing seemed damaged, but just wait. as i said, i knew nothing about computers like most fucking 10 year olds. i unscrewed the screw on the graphics card, removed the heatsink with the fans (which went smoothly), i set aside the heatsink and the fans and i got the genius idea to wash my graphics card's pcb with water and soap.. and so i did. the pcb was wet and there was soap everywhere. i tried drying off the pcb with a hairdryer, but it didn't quite work because there still was a shitload of water on it. so i put back the heatsink without cleaning it and applying thermal paste, i screwed on all the screws on the gpu accept for one because i lost it, i plugged the card in without screwing the gpu slot screw in.. and... the system did boot, for 3 seconds. the fans on the gpu start spinning like crazy, and a few moments later the system died. the pins on the gpu were still dripping with water when i put it in, so that's probably why the whole system died. i do still wonder how it managed to still boot for 3 seconds though.
     
    moral of the story, don't let your 10 year old mess around with computer hardware.
     
    i do not look forward to getting roasted in the comments though.
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