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So heres an idea, We all (or mostly) build our own PCs here, and we almost certainly all (or mostly) have a custom PC, naturally they are not without their problems and sometimes things go wrong over time, so I am wondering am I the only one who just lives with some little things not working quite right, so I Thought I'd make this thread, the basic idea is to explain what little problems your PC has and how you manage to deal with/live with them on a daily basis.

 

I'll start by saying I have a Enermax T.B Apollish fan in the top of my case (I actually have more than one the rest are fine, this one is a bit dodgy) and it doesn't start up for some reason. to fix it I generally just spin the blades myself if I got the case open anyway and it starts from there, or I start upping and downing the voltage from my fan controller which eventually kicks it into life.

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My only issue is the bluetooth on my mobo is really spotty, sometimes its flawless sometimes it doesnt work at all.. dont need it often enough to really care but its a mild annoyance 

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Fan noise. Don't have enough money to watercool.  

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Driver issues and loud H100i stock fans and a load others like bent USB 3 header on my mobo means no front panel USB3 for my r4

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Stock Intel CPU cooler is so loud and maybe my PSU fan is loud too but I can't determine.  I am too lazy and scared to transfer my components to a Fractal R4 that I have 

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Mt 2TB seagate green drive, when not in use it spins down, then when you click on something for instance a film you hear it spin up and it takes about 30 seconds to launch in VLC, good idea for energy efficiency, but a royal pain in the ass when being used to SSD speeds in regular use.

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another thing i live with is a off center pump bearing in a h100 cooler... i might try fix it my self but re filling the loop will be a mind fuck >.<

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one of my Corsair SP fans clicks as it spins. I'm gonna buy some more, when i get $$.

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annoying involuntary double click when I never ask for it

dont know if there is a fix....

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After making sure everything in my build is silent.. I've started to hear the PSU Fan and the HDDs D:

Missing one of my rubber grommets at the back of case (for watercooling hole).

GPU looks a little skewed/droopy from the weight of the card.

Also Nvidia won't let me use my 3 1080p monitors in surround (should have gone AMD).

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Graphics card backplate blocking one of my front usb 3.0 connectors on the motherboard, so it can't be used

 

Coolermaster fan for evo 212 runs at 100% so every time i start up i have to load up a program to set it at a lower speed (only a temporary cooler until custom water cooling loop is installed) I wear headphones to make it quiet.

 

When built new computer, i didn't do fresh install of windows so lots of things don't work (was very busy at the time) (microsoft office says that i've installed it on more than 3 computers and won't work so i'm currently using word pad :) )

 

RAT 7 cursor sometimes locks up on a x axis (rarely but still happens)

 

Middle finger twitches sometimes and I accidentally right click (on my g9 i had a border next to right click so i could rest my finger on to prevent this)

 

Messed up painting one of my xbox controllers ages ago so it's forever sticky until i decide to fix it =]

 

First world problems....

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I got 8gigs 8x1gb sticks of ECC DDR2 Server ram and nothing to put it on  :(

It was 14$ on ebay and i tested on a friends server they all work great  ^_^

 

 

Also got a HP wx4000 workstations mobo that has x2 PCI-E slots and runs on LGA 775 and nothing to put it in :(

It was 22$ on ebay and works ^_^

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Stupid case, full of holes for watercooling that you can't even put in and taking off front panel to install a fan took me around 4 hours...

My fan's cable was missing 2cm from connecting to motherboard so i had to put tons of cables from psu to it so my fan is 100% on all the time, like a freaking vacuum cleaner ......

My 2x4GB Kingston HyperX t1 aren't low profile even tough i ordered those so i have no idea how will i install hyper 212 evo later down the line... also they look really bad.

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Coolermaster fan for evo 212 runs at 100% so every time i start up i have to load up a program to set it at a lower speed (only a temporary cooler until custom water cooling loop is installed) I wear headphones to make it quiet.

Go into the bios and look for CPU Fan control and set to "silent" mode, I had to do the same until I figured out that option was in the bios.

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Go into the bios and look for CPU Fan control and set to "silent" mode, I had to do the same until I figured out that option was in the bios.

True, I never bothered to check the bios for that option. It hasn't fully driven me crazy yet haha

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My sisters wifi card the key is if its not working restart the pc until it does lol

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My PCI ports aren't very secure so when I tug on my audio cable just a bit, it moves my sound card and causes my computer to hang. It gets quite annoying during skype calls if that happens.

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Extremely long boot times. A super crappy graphics card.

Life is pain. Anyone who says any different is either selling something or the government.

 

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I still have a non-modular power supply that makes cabling my PC a pain in the rear.  I can't wait til that AX760 gets here.

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My Asus Maximus IV Gene-z/Gen3 came with a somewhat broken outside plastic for cmos reset button on IO shield. Never cared about it.

 

 

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Graphics card backplate blocking one of my front usb 3.0 connectors on the motherboard, so it can't be used

 

Coolermaster fan for evo 212 runs at 100% so every time i start up i have to load up a program to set it at a lower speed (only a temporary cooler until custom water cooling loop is installed) I wear headphones to make it quiet.

 

When built new computer, i didn't do fresh install of windows so lots of things don't work (was very busy at the time) (microsoft office says that i've installed it on more than 3 computers and won't work so i'm currently using word pad :) )

 

RAT 7 cursor sometimes locks up on a x axis (rarely but still happens)

 

Middle finger twitches sometimes and I accidentally right click (on my g9 i had a border next to right click so i could rest my finger on to prevent this)

 

Messed up painting one of my xbox controllers ages ago so it's forever sticky until i decide to fix it =]

 

First world problems....

I have that same x axis lock problem with my rat 5, so annoying, but it has never happened in game so I don't worry,

 

also my south-bridge gets hot so I installed a blower type fan on the back of my psu to cool it, it is very loud even running at only 5 volts

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I want a PC that does whatever you think within a millisecond.

 

No input require, no mouse, keyboard.....just what you think and it does.

 

Possible?

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