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[Gmr_Chick]

I'm not sure how you wish to class this one, but oh my.....

Pardon our interruption...

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I just have no words........

Holy hell. What the actual fuck? That's insane!

Btw, the seller mentions he tried to "reball" the socket...What does "reball" mean? Whatever it is, it clearly didn't work lol

 

[Jetster]

Holy hell. What the actual fuck? That's insane!

Btw, the seller mentions he tried to "reball" the socket...What does "reball" mean? Whatever it is, it clearly didn't work lol

I didn't notice that. That's probably how it got burnt. A re ball is a special jig to solder a socket on. The jig is expensive so he probably tried to do it by hand.
The solder comes in little balls

 

[biffzinker]

What does "reball" mean?

Remove socket/chip, clean up the solder pads with something like solder wick, apply solder balls with a ball mask, and resolder the component with hot air oven/heat gun.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Remove socket/chip, clean up the solder pads with something like solder wick, apply solder balls with a ball mask, and resolder the component with hot air oven/heat gun.

Yeah, ok...that...sounds WAY out of my league

 

[Mussels]

reball is just fancy soldering, that he fucked up

 

[ArdWar]

What does "reball" mean?

Reball means desoldering the socket or chip (or any BGA parts really), cleaning the pads, putting new solder ball on the pads, and resolder the parts.

It's quite tedious operation if done manually. Bridged pads are uncommon. Considering modern CPU VDD can supply thousands Amperes of current, wouldn't be surprising if the plasma resulted from a short circuit able to do such damages.

 

[freeagent]

Considering modern CPU VDD can supply thousands Amperes of current, wouldn't be surprising if the plasma resulted from a short circuit able to do such damages.

RIP to the board.. but you know that would have been awesome to see!

 

[FireFox]

This is after one month and the PC isn't running 24/7

Unacceptable

 

[phill]

This is after one month and the PC isn't running 24/7

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Lots of big fans come with lots of responsibilities I guess.....??

 

[FireFox]

Lots of big fans come with lots of responsibilities I guess.....??

Just try to imagine if the case didn't have dust filters

 

[lexluthermiester]

This is after one month and the PC isn't running 24/7

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You should have gotten a white or silver case. Dust build up doesn't show as well against those colours.

 

[FireFox]

You should have gotten a white or silver case. Dust build up doesn't show as well against those colours.

Dust filters are hidden behind the Tempered Glass ( is it the right definition Smoked tempered Glass? ) which makes it impossible to see the dust.

 

[dorsetknob]

Most "Dust" in Household environments is Shed skin (shows your little one is growing ....)

 

[lexluthermiester]

Most "Dust" in Household environments is Shed skin (shows your little one is growing ....)

True!

 

[Valantar]

Most "Dust" in Household environments is Shed skin (shows your little one is growing ....)

True!

That's a myth. Unless you spend a lot of time naked rubbing your skin while moving around the house, the vast majority of that is left in your clothes or gets flushed down the drain when showering. Some, sure, but fibers from clothes and carpeting, pollen, soot, sand, asphalt/road dust and other dust and dirt from outside make up much more of household dust than human skin. Nature is incredibly dusty (except when it has just rained), so any time a door or window is opened a lot of dust enters on the air. And of course it enters through ventilation, on your clothes, etc.

 

[Frick]

Yes, these are in your homes, grazing on your old skin.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

This is after one month and the PC isn't running 24/7

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Just try to imagine if the case didn't have dust filters

That's a myth. Unless you spend a lot of time naked rubbing your skin while moving around the house, the vast majority of that is left in your clothes or gets flushed down the drain when showering. Some, sure, but fibers from clothes and carpeting, pollen, soot, sand, asphalt/road dust and other dust and dirt from outside make up much more of household dust than human skin. Nature is incredibly dusty (except when it has just rained), so any time a door or window is opened a lot of dust enters on the air. And of course it enters through ventilation, on your clothes, etc.

I lived in Silicon Valley for much of my life, but had to relocate to the Central Valley (Modesto) 2 years ago due to my dad passing away. And in the two years I've lived here, I can say it's far more dusty than San Jose ever was, and that's mostly due to the sheer amount of agriculture around here - lots of crop fields, open space, and while the dust is especially bad during the summer months, it's pretty much a constant all year round. I went from having to clean my rig's dust filters every month to having to clean them every week to week and a half!

 

[Athlonite]

I lived in Silicon Valley for much of my life, but had to relocate to the Central Valley (Modesto) 2 years ago

Did you get to meet Susan (Gianormica)

Jokes aside roughly 99.9% of the dust in my house is from crappy ole Pinex ceiling tiles

 

[lexluthermiester]

That's a myth.

What the heck was that? Literally no content there. I would debate this with you, but that is not the topic of this thread.

 

[Valantar]

What the heck was that? Literally no content there. I would debate this with you, but that is not the topic of this thread.

I know it's OT, but hopefully a couple of posts won't bother people too much. Here's a couple of better sources - that link was literally the first result when I searched for it on duckduckgo, can't say I looked too hard at it. You have people claiming to debunk the debunking of this myth, but their methods are very flawed, essentially assuming that because humans shed a lot of skin and shed skin fitting the definition of dust a majority of dust must be skin. I shouldn't have to point out the flaws in that logic. The Woot article seems to misread its source article (if this is the one) as the abstract details sources of arsenic in household dust, not household dust itself, but nonetheless the article contains pretty clear indications that human skin is a relatively small proportion of household dust (the graphs detailing indoor and outdoor suspended matter, for example, and the focus on tracked-in dirt). I don't doubt that shed skin is a significant proportion of household dust, but "most", even read as >50%? Not a chance. Of course this will vary wildly based on a ton of factors, from how many people live there, their hygiene and habits, the rate at which clothes and bedsheets are cleaned, outside air and ground pollution, etc., etc. Still, the only environment where I would expect human skin to be the clear majority of indoor dust would be one with near zero dirt/dust outside, like remote arctic/antarctic research bases. And even there clothes fibres are likely to be more common than dead skin - if the Nerdist article is to be believed, two people shed 7 pounds of skin in 10 years, or ~160g of skin cells a year per person. I can guarantee you that your clothes shed a lot more fibres than that each year (though like with skin cells, a lot of that goes down the drain, but given its much higher exposure to open air than your skin, a lot more is likely to come loose by itself).

 

[lexluthermiester]

I know it's OT, but hopefully a couple of posts won't bother people too much. Here's a couple of better sources - that link was literally the first result when I searched for it on duckduckgo, can't say I looked too hard at it. You have people claiming to debunk the debunking of this myth, but their methods are very flawed, essentially assuming that because humans shed a lot of skin and shed skin fitting the definition of dust a majority of dust must be skin. I shouldn't have to point out the flaws in that logic. The Woot article seems to misread its source article (if this is the one) as the abstract details sources of arsenic in household dust, not household dust itself, but nonetheless the article contains pretty clear indications that human skin is a relatively small proportion of household dust (the graphs detailing indoor and outdoor suspended matter, for example, and the focus on tracked-in dirt). I don't doubt that shed skin is a significant proportion of household dust, but "most", even read as >50%? Not a chance. Of course this will vary wildly based on a ton of factors, from how many people live there, their hygiene and habits, the rate at which clothes and bedsheets are cleaned, outside air and ground pollution, etc., etc. Still, the only environment where I would expect human skin to be the clear majority of indoor dust would be one with near zero dirt/dust outside, like remote arctic/antarctic research bases. And even there clothes fibres are likely to be more common than dead skin - if the Nerdist article is to be believed, two people shed 7 pounds of skin in 10 years, or ~160g of skin cells a year per person. I can guarantee you that your clothes shed a lot more fibres than that each year (though like with skin cells, a lot of that goes down the drain, but given its much higher exposure to open air than your skin, a lot more is likely to come loose by itself).

Those are interesting points of view. While there is likely some merit to the points on offer in those examples, not everyone agrees on the subject, myself included. There are also studies that have shown that much of the particulate matter found in air filtration systems is dead human skin. It's not the exclusive content, but dead skin is a good percentage of the total mass. The percentage of such varies from region to region, as one might expect, it can not be denied that a significant percentage is dead skin.

 

[Lorec]

This is after one month and the PC isn't running 24/7

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I hope Im not out of place to tell You that You forgot to peel film off of Your case

Im living near a decently busy road on 6th floor and get like this around 2-3 weeks in, between feb - may it gets worse because of pollens that are flooding the city!

 

[Valantar]

I hope Im not out of place to tell You that You forgot to peel film off of Your case

Im living near a decently busy road on 6th floor and get like this around 2-3 weeks in, between feb - may it gets worse because of pollens that are flooding the city!

I could never understand people who leave the plastic wrapping on their stuff. I mean, if you have a nice, good looking thing, why leave it wrapped in an easily worn, easily damaged, static-ridden, dust-attracting plastic wrap? It always looks better removed, and if it is partially removed and then put back... ugh.

 

[Jetster]

I jsut bought a 10 year old Fender strat that the guy left the plastic protection on. I was like cool

 

[Valantar]

I jsut bought a 10 year old Fender strat that the guy left the plastic protection on. I was like cool

Good for you, I guess, getting to experience what must have been a very nicely preserved guitar, but for him ... owning it for 10 years and never actually experiencing it as it was meant? That's really weird to me. Especially given just how tactile something like a guitar is.