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I built my first PC a few weeks back and while i was building it i was pretty rough but i didn't break it. Has anyone very broken something while building their PC?

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nobe, never.

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only once, and that was when i was realy mad at the part i broke (it was dead and out of warrenty)

 

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i havent broken anything when i wasent playing with all the old ass hardwere i have in my room but i did drop my G1 GTX970 about 1.2m right after i unboxed it. it was fine and there is no way to tell it hapaned so i guess i either got lucky or its really durable

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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9 minutes ago, Bobby_Joe_90 said:

I built my first PC a few weeks back and while i was building it i was pretty rough but i didn't break it. Has anyone very broken something while building their PC?

When i originally built my PC i had a Radeon 6770 which i must have bricked whilst handling it when installing it. I also had 2 dead motherboards straight out of the box too.

 

My luck eh :D

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yes, I have 212 plastic mounting, very broken

got a Hyper 212 for my i5-2500 back in the day and the plastic mount snapped in half while I was screwing it in, returned the thing for a full refund and used intel stock

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Well this one time a 270x caught on fire in my computer. This card was used in mining and I guess technically it wasn't while building the system.  I posted the original video on this forum years ago if anyone remembers. I made the video into a GIF for your viewing pleasure:

 

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17 minutes ago, ShadyHost said:

Well this one time a 270x caught on fire in my computer. This card was used in mining and I guess technically it wasn't while building the system.  I posted the original video on this forum years ago if anyone remembers. I made the video into a GIF for your viewing pleasure:

 

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Can you link me to the video?

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I had a motherboard die within 24 hours, not sure if I killed it or it was dead on arrival.

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On a whim I tried the automatic overclock feature from Gigabyte on a brand new A8-3870K APU.  ...So that CPU never POSTed again.  I may have lied, said it turned up DOA, and had them send me a replacement.

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I had accidently caused an ide cable to burst into flames, i was 6 oh well i have learned :D

 

 

 

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My first build, actually. Dropped the processor on the carpet, with the contacts facing down, didn't think anything of it. 

But When I first powered the computer on, I noticed some smoke coming out of it, which freaked me out so much lol, thought the computer was going to blow up. I was fortunate, though, it was a small clump of dust that burned off, I just blew on the processor to get the rest of the stuff off, and the computer still works to this day

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8 hours ago, DXMember said:

yes, I have 212 plastic mounting, very broken

got a Hyper 212 for my i5-2500 back in the day and the plastic mount snapped in half while I was screwing it in, returned the thing for a full refund and used intel stock

You shouldn't over tighten it. It even says to not over tighten in the manual. I'm fairly certain that was your fault.

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I honestly don't think I have ever broken anything.

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Nothing yet. The parts are tougher than most people would think, but I still try to handle everything carefully. 

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9 hours ago, Scottonpc said:

Can you link me to the video?

I think I removed it from youtube, but I still have the original video file on my computer. 

 

I started a topic HERE if anyone wants to see the full video. 

 

 

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3 hours ago, Dyelon21 said:

You shouldn't over tighten it. It even says to not over tighten in the manual. I'm fairly certain that was your fault.

the manual was not clear enough - ended up with my cat in microwave - I'll sue ya

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No. I treat that Stuff with care.

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I have broken 4 micro USB cables. My chair has really sharp wheels that like to cut wires. I also stripped out a fan screw. Added some glue to the hole to fix it.

That's it.

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Yeah I've broken something...

My first build, with and AMD 6200 in it, i bent the pins installing the CPU :(

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