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Everytime I play with the guts of my rig, I get a few butterflies in my stomach and a little lump in my throat. Almost as if I'm about to accidentally kill my PC.

Having said that, the scariest thing for me that I've done on my PC was with my old Asus Maximus Formula mobo. I removed the north and south bridge heatsinks so I could replace Asus' pathetic thermal compound for some decent one.

The damn thing was like cement. I had to use a hair drier to soften it up and then I had to apply so much force to remove the heatsink that I was afraid that I would snap the PCB.

By the end, crap was everywhere and I was pretty sure my mobo had not survived. But when I put it all back together, it came back to life and the NB temp had dropped by a good 10-15c.

 

Anyway, that scared the pants off me. What scary things have you done to your rig?

 

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Pushing the power button and it doesnt turn on. Shit my damn pants everytime lol.

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I took off my NH-D14 and set it on the table. The moment I accidentally knocked it over was pretty intense. It fell on my toe but it was really the moment of realizing where the heatsink was headed was what got me.

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I took off my NH-D14 and set it on the table. The moment I accidentally knocked it over was pretty intense. It fell on my toe but it was really the moment of realizing where the heatsink was headed was what got me.

Man, I got one of those. I'd hate to break it and break my toes at the same time!

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Man, I got one of those. I'd hate to break it and break my toes at the same time!

My toes are fine. My pride was hurt.

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I don't do scary things to my rig, why would you do that?

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I don't do scary things to my rig, why would you do that?

I dunno. To push it to the limit?  http://youtu.be/9D-QD_HIfjA

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I dunno. To push it to the limit?

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9D-QD_HIfjA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

idk what that was supposed to be, but whatever it is it doesn't work.

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Bent multiple pins on my 8350, then straightened them using the tip of a mechanical pencil (Thank you Linus), and it worked like a charm.

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played peekaboo

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idk what that was supposed to be, but whatever it is it doesn't work.

So much for embedded video. Now it's just a link. Like a peasant.

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity"

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played peekaboo

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I pushed my PC off the desk while trying to remove the bottom dust filter,it didn't boot after and my mobo didn't work no more.

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One day after get back my graphics card from RMA, I tried to unplug the fan connector on my graphics card to clean the fans and somehow I managed to pull the connector on the pcb almost halfway. Luckily I managed push it back in

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Took it to a LAN party(When I had my 780 ti system) And someone nearly knocked it over, i shat myself.

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Every time I boot into OSX...

 

pls don't break pls don't break pls don't break pls don't break pls don't break pls don't break 

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When going to replace my pos Dell mobo I had to remove the retention arm and cover from the board because the cpu was stuck to the heatsink, then try to break the cpu from it because of the crappy thermal paste.

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this is a on going thing but my rooms carpet and every time i got to remove a drive or another part i shit myself and freak out that i may shock something 

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Everytime I play with the guts of my rig, I get a few butterflies in my stomach and a little lump in my throat. Almost as if I'm about to accidentally kill my PC.

Having said that, the scariest thing for me that I've done on my PC was with my old Asus Maximus Formula mobo. I removed the north and south bridge heatsinks so I could replace Asus' pathetic thermal compound for some decent one.

The damn thing was like cement. I had to use a hair drier to soften it up and then I had to apply so much force to remove the heatsink that I was afraid that I would snap the PCB.

By the end, crap was everywhere and I was pretty sure my mobo had not survived. But when I put it all back together, it came back to life and the NB temp had dropped by a good 10-15c.

 

Anyway, that scared the pants off me. What scary things have you done to your rig?

I worked on my pc while I was sick and my nose was runny... I thought I messed up my mobo, but biostar is awesome.

 

Other than that I'm fairly confident in my abilities so I haven't done anything else worth a mention.

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Whenever I have to cut part of a case freehand to make something fit or customize it in some way, no disasters yet.

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When my dad dropped my ol dpc out of the window. Tried to boot worked luckily. Shat my pants thou.

We don't make mistakes, we make happy accidents. ~ Bob Ross

With a hammer everything fits! ~ Quintin B

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was replacing the thermal compound on a gpu and it woudn't run after i replaced the heatsink/fan. Turned out that the new mobo i had wasn't compatible with that particular gpu.

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5.4Ghz @ 1.600 Volts. 

 

Really, why?

 

How hot did it get ?

Nothing to see here - move along.

 

 

 

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