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Horrible things people can do to their PC?

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After working on PCs for nearly 20 years I have to say that the worst thing that anyone can do to their PC is to smoke near it. The tar in the cig is vaporized into the air and it sticks to all the hot parts in the PC. Then dust sticks to the tar, then the tar sticks to the dust, then dust sticks to the tar, then the tar sticks to the dust, then dust sticks to the tar, then the tar sticks to the dust, then dust sticks to the tar, then the tar sticks to the dust, then dust sticks to the tar, then the tar sticks to the dust, then dust sticks to the tar, then the tar sticks to the dust, then dust sticks to the tar, then the tar sticks to the dust, then dust sticks to the tar, then the tar sticks to the dust, then dust sticks to the tar, then the tar sticks to the dust, then dust sticks to the tar, then the tar sticks to the dust, then dust sticks to the tar, then the tar sticks to the dust.... 

 

 

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What the fuck?

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I have actually seen worse. The old woman brought in a P4 computer that would boot up and run for about 2 minutes and then shut down. After opening the case I found the cause. The heatsink was so full of this garbage that the trailing edge of the fan had polished it smooth.

 

Actually ended up replacing the entire HSF.

 

I asked her if she smoked around her PC, she stated that she did and she kept the ash tray right in front of the PC because it pulled the smoke away from her face!!!!!

 

I should have charged more than I did for the health risks.

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Buying a Q6600 for USD $700 off of eBay. My friends are retards.

can i shoot them?

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When people leave dead rats inside their case or caught on the exhaust fan.

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You call that horrible?

 

When people hit on their PC, thats where my limits goes.

 

I want to exicute that people.

 

Hitting sweet stuff like PCs is not allowed in the Tech world!

Unless you have a Cit case, then you can hit that bitch as much as you want.

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Flashing mobo with wrong bios

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can i shoot them?

Please.

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My friend bought a GT 210 and was all like "Yeah, I'm into PC gaming now!". He plays dota 2 at 720p, says skyrim runs on ultra, I'm pretty sure he doesn't know how to set the quality btw.

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A GT210?! Really?!

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A GT210?! Really?!

 

My friend bought a GT 210 and was all like "Yeah, I'm into PC gaming now!". He plays dota 2 at 720p, says skyrim runs on ultra, I'm pretty sure he doesn't know how to set the quality btw.

When I got my 6570, I tried playing all my games at crazy settings. The only one I succeded with was Portal (1080p, maxed out with 4X MSAA).

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Underclocking. Yes I actually saw a few guys that did this just to avoid buying better cooling solutions.

That is actually a good idea if you want to save on power cost for something like a NAS that is constantly on.

 

I read that as "horse" :P

That would be amazing.
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Having a computer that looks like it was hit by a dust storm and then got attacked by rainbows by having too many colors...

 

 

 

 

You just dont do that

Sorry. :P

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As long as I dont see any of that I am fine with it  :D

Is ghetto okay with you? That PERFECTY describles my poor rig.

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Never clean it and it over heats! 

very true, although i am guilty of this very mistake several years ago when didn't know a lot about PCs and was afraid of opening up the cabinet

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Is ghetto okay with you? That PERFECTY describles my poor rig.

I used to have a super ghetto rig. It was literally the insides of an old laptop and the case was a cardboard box with holes in it. Never been happier then when I upgraded from it  :ph34r:  :ph34r:

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I used to have a super ghetto rig. It was literally the insides of an old laptop and the case was a cardboard box with holes in it. Never been happier then when I upgraded from it  :ph34r:  :ph34r:

Wow. Sadly, my Momentus 5400.6 out of my netbook is faster than my WD Caviar Blue, so until I can get a drive caddy thing, it's being held up by a twist tie on the SATA wires, so I don't block the ventilation hole.

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You call that horrible?

 

When people hit on their PC, thats where my limits goes.

 

I want to exicute that people.

 

Hitting sweet stuff like PCs is not allowed in the Tech world!

 

physically hitting a PC? That's not that bad, well maybe on newer computers. You need to hit some older computers to get those old 5 1/4" MFM hard drives spinning :P

 

I think some bad things are:

Spyware

Water in PCs

Broken ports

 

But the WORST thing I see online is people taking a bat to a computer because its old. I can understand giving your monitor a whack on the side when you get pissed at the thing, but going, "hey, this thing is old and I have a newer computer, lets go and break it for no reason." pisses me off. If you don't want it, give it to a thrift store or sell it. Someone will want it.

Old shit no one cares about but me.

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My friend bought a GT 210 and was all like "Yeah, I'm into PC gaming now!". He plays dota 2 at 720p, says skyrim runs on ultra, I'm pretty sure he doesn't know how to set the quality btw.

skyrim vanilla i wouldnt be surprised if 720p at ultra. that game has extremely poor textures and requirements

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skyrim vanilla i wouldnt be surprised if 720p at ultra. that game has extremely poor textures and requirements

Yes, that's right actually.

But I'm not sure if it runs 8xmsaa at 60 fps...(I don't remember if the preset ultra includes 8x or 4x msaa, but I think it is 8x)

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Yes, that's right actually.

But I'm not sure if it runs 8xmsaa at 60 fps...(I don't remember if the preset ultra includes 8x or 4x msaa, but I think it is 8x)

msaa doesnt do anything for that game. dont even nkow why thats there cause even when u modify skyrim with something like an ENB they tell you to remove it

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