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Here is a list of dumb things I’ve done. Expensive and dangerous.

 

  1. Peeling the pins off of my new Ryzen 7
  2. Destroying an LGA1155 socket
  3. Squeezing the life out of capacitors with a pair of pliers
  4. Throwing those capacitors into fire
  5. Throwing out perfectly normal RAM

 

What dumb things have you done?

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i tried filling a waterloop once that wasn't completely done yet. so basically i just drowned all my components in demiwater.

thankfully nothing but the pump was powered though, so i let it dry for a few days and everything still works!

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Why does this thread reek of 'I burn ants with a magnifying glass'?

 

I guess the worst thing I have ever done was accidentally breaking off a connector on a DS Lite board.

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2 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

i tried filling a waterloop once that wasn't completely done yet.

It would’ve been even cheesier if you tried to reconfigure the loop while it was in perfect condition. That would be one hella mistake.

As Someone with the username “</TheCoder2019_”, my coding skills are atrocious.

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GTX 1060 OC 3GB or Intel UHD 630

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GAMDIAS Argus M1

 

An old friend of mine - Intel stock cooler (temps through the roof like 60 C under load)

 

 

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Took my dead ram to the shooting range and shot it with a few .50 Cal’s. It kept giving me memory management blue screens and I figured it was time to really explain how I felt.

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i got a second stick of RAM for my laptop, put it in, and wiggled it, rubbing my staticky fingers all over it. i thought it was the end when i powered on and started getting rainbow colours.

stuff is cool. stuff that has fancy lighting is cooler. stuff that has fancy lighting and works is the coolest.

 

i game so i know a bit abt gaming tech, not much abt professional tech.

 

writing this as i finish a 3 hour D2 sesh so excuse anything wrong.

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6 hours ago, RollinLower said:

i've got a new one: while swapping the switches on my Anne Pro 2 keyboard for the 11th ime i ripped out a few of the traces from the PCB. 

woops!

Ripped out? I knife mine out on dead keyboards

As Someone with the username “</TheCoder2019_”, my coding skills are atrocious.

Here are my specs:

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GAMDIAS Argus M1

 

An old friend of mine - Intel stock cooler (temps through the roof like 60 C under load)

 

 

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11 minutes ago, TheCoder2019 said:

Ripped out? I knife mine out on dead keyboards

i mean, i like to try different switches from time to time, but i limit myself to a max of 3 keyboards because otherwise my house would be filled with them right now. So yeah, i don't like hot-swap boards either, and that means i have to de-solder everytime i want to try new switches. 

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On 4/17/2020 at 5:07 AM, TheRandomness said:

I've snapped a few graphics cards in half (without coolers, of course)
Shorted a few, powered one with the power circuitry of another, replaced a memory chip then threw the thing out my window into the garden when it didn't work

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Stuffed Dry Ice into my loop for colder temps.
Took a CPU cooler and modded it into a chipset cooler.
Took pieces of copper wire and bits, soldered them up to create VRM heatsinks.

The list goes on here.

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19 minutes ago, Beerzerker said:

Stuffed Dry Ice into my loop for colder temps.
Took a CPU cooler and modded it into a chipset cooler.
Took pieces of copper wire and bits, soldered them up to create VRM heatsinks.

The list goes on here.

If it works it isn’t stupid

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I tried to separate the ram heatsink from the ram but I ended up ripping out the ram die as well.

This was the top of the line Gskill ddr3 2666 ram back in the days when people thought 2400 was gangster. 

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19 minutes ago, Spindel said:

If it works it isn’t stupid

Sometimes it didn't.... 😁

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Except accidents I really can’t think stuff that really where that stupid. 
 

I mean I don’t build PCs anymore and when I did i did stuff like splicing 3 fans into the same male molex connector (for you kids this was the main power connector back in the days and you hade no fan speed control, it either was on or off). 
 

Cutting out holes in the metal in the case to be able to fit more case fans (you by default only had one intake hole and no exhaust hole because exhaust was handeled by PSU fan). 
 

But I don’t consider those thing weird or stupid because they worked. 
 

Also had a friend solder two ram expandions for an amiga togheter doubling the amount of ram the system could be expanded with. But that also worked. 
 

Stupidest thing I did was an accident and that was dropping a cooler on my Athlon Thunderbird 1333 MHz. If you search for a picture you’ll see this is a bare die CPU. I chipped the corner of the die killing the CPU. I’ve mentioned this one in other threads. 

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1 minute ago, Spindel said:

Also had a friend solder two ram expandions for an amiga togheter doubling the amount of ram the system could be expanded with. But that also worked. 

How does that even work?

 

2 minutes ago, Spindel said:

I chipped the corner of the die

Big oof

As Someone with the username “</TheCoder2019_”, my coding skills are atrocious.

Here are my specs:

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MSI PRO-VLH H310M

Intel Core i3-8100 (Thanks, @Schnoz!)

GTX 1060 OC 3GB or Intel UHD 630

16GB (2x8) Cosair Vengeance LPX CL16 - 2400MHz

GAMDIAS Argus M1

 

An old friend of mine - Intel stock cooler (temps through the roof like 60 C under load)

 

 

Linux Apps you NEED!

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dhcpd

git

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I baked my Z77A-GD65 so nicely that plastics melted. I am going to use that as SMD practice board and to steal shit off it.

mY sYsTeM iS Not pErfoRmInG aS gOOd As I sAW oN yOuTuBe. WhA t IS a GoOd FaN CuRVe??!!? wHat aRe tEh GoOd OvERclok SeTTinGS FoR My CaRd??  HoW CaN I foRcE my GpU to uSe 1o0%? BuT WiLL i HaVE Bo0tllEnEcKs? RyZEN dOeS NoT peRfORm BetTer wItH HiGhER sPEED RaM!!! dId i WiN teH SiLiCON LotTerrY? yOu ShoUlD dEsHrOuD uR GPU. my SYstEm iS UNDerPerforMiNg iN WarzONE. can mY Pc Run WiNdOwS 11 ?? woUld BaKInG MY GRaPHics card fIX it? MultimETeR TeSTiNG!! aMd'S GpU DrIvErS aRe as goOD aS NviDia's YOU SHoUlD oVERCloCk yOUR ramS To 5000C18

 

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23 minutes ago, TheCoder2019 said:

How does that even work?

No control chip on the module just ram chips so the computer saw the amount of ram directly. 

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plugged some rgb fans into the wrong header (single connection from controller) and watched them zing pop and smoke lol.  oops

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7 hours ago, Prodigy_Smit said:

hahahahaha I necroed and you cannot do anything about it pls don't ban me

Actually there's a lot I can do about it.........

 

Freaked out becasye after re-assembling my whole PC, it wouldnt turn on. No signs of life at all. Turns out you need to flip the big switch on the back

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Giving my old 280x gpu to a friend, having no display, and immediately tossing it into a trash bin. No troubleshooting, nothing.

 

This was just before the first crypto boom too, arghhhh!!!! It could have been recycled at least!!!

 

Cannot believe I even did that..

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