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[silkstone]

what caused the TG to break? damaged previously, heat etc?

I honestly am unsure. The glass is held in by rubber gaskets so it can't be over tightened. I'd just removed it and was holding it in my hands, I was about to place it down when it suddenly exploded in my hands.
I suspect it was due to my tile floor. On previous occasions, I'd placed it on the tile floor (carfully), and I suspect repeated, light taps, against the floor may have created micro fractures.
If dealing with tempered glass again, I'd definitely only place it down on a towel or some other cushioning.
The shop was understanding, I've seen on their facebook page that they'd had multiple tempered glass desks randomly explode, but there is no warranty for the glass. They made me up a regular glass replacement that I will collect today.
I think I'd rather acrylic, but regular glass should be fine so long as I am careful around it. My case is elevated off the side of the desk as well so there shouldn't be too much risk of future impacts, but I may move it further out of the way just as a precaution.

 

[biffzinker]

I had a glass table top computer desk once. Any guesses what happened to the tempered glass? The CRT monitor, and printer didn't handle the sudden drop so well.

 

[hat]

Imagine being a rage gamer with a glass desk... o_0

 

[R-T-B]

It happens. Ask my old LG monitor about what happened to it's face... glad it wasn't glass:

R-T-B

www.techpowerup.com

 

[biffzinker]

glad it wasn't glass:

But there was glass involved, otherwise it wouldn't of broke.

 

[micropage7]

Actually this is normal for old hardware, just thin layer of dust but need to get cleaned
Just need paint brush, warm water and some soap for the heatsink and it will be pretty good to go

 

[biffzinker]

Actually this is normal for old hardware, just thin layer of dust but need to get cleaned
Just need paint brush, warm water and some soap for the heatsink and it will be pretty good to go

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What? Your not going to give it a deep clean like @Robert B does?

 

[micropage7]

What? Your not going to give it a deep clean like @Robert B does?

Hahaa not like that, Just removing the dirt, some dust and repaste it. But im lazy taking some pics. since i have a plan to run it but for now it back to the box

 

[R-T-B]

But there was glass involved, otherwise it wouldn't of broke.

More like plastic film on most tft panels.

 

[Valantar]

More like plastic film on most tft panels.

But a glass substrate, as with nearly all LCDs. That's why they form such interesting patterns when they break.

 

[E-Bear]

Hi guys Bit of a background then some pics

I had been chatting to a friend at work about possible upgrades for their PC, suggested a graphics card and said you might possibly need a new PSU. They grabbed the card and then found that the current PSU was working ok for the moment with the 'new' card.
A few weeks had gone by and they'd said they'd noticed some noises from the PSU so I suggested the same PSU again and it got ordered in. I said bring in the tower and I can get the PSU installed and your SSD setup as they'd ordered one of those as well..
Well I was somewhat in shock when they brought in the PSU.. I thought'd it wouldn't quite be like this....

Before....

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I didn't think I had ever seen such a mess of a rig (and I thought mine was bad but) still, I hope a definite improvement

The first few pictures, more so with the temp in the bios, I noticed that the CPU cooler had been slightly bent and both fans where stopping from spinning. So glad I tested it before I took anything out of the case... I think in the after pics, there's a definite improvement on the temps
From what I think I'm correct in saying is that the 'screws' that hold the CPU cooler on to the motherboard they have been rounded off and I could not take off the CPU cooler to get some new paste on there so it's still running the same old stuff.. That said, with a near 15C drop in idle temp in the bios, I'm not really so worried.
The GPU was also tested as that was not long installed into the system, but with not voltage tweaking and such on the card running Heaven 4 for about 15 minutes, I couldn't see temps over 75C. Not bad I didn't think for a stock RX 580 Strix. It was all stock and automatic when it came to the fan profile. I was having a slight mess about with undervolting the card but as I was at work, I didn't spend very long doing it sadly.

My first time with the board and CPU combo, Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H and a Intel i5 4690k. I was able to get a CPU overclock sorted out by setting the vcore to fixed to about 1.15v. I was able to push the CPU with this voltage up to 4.50Ghz which seemed to work perfectly as you can see from the snipped screen shot in CB 15 I didn't have long with the system, but it seemed to be perfectly stable through CB 15 and 20 and with temps not hitting 60C under load, I'm rather pleased They had 16Gb of Crucial 1600Mhz DDR3, which was cas 11. Nothing bad or over the top brilliant, but the capacity was there so that was the main thing as I think the PC before had about 4Gb or possibly 8Gb in..

We installed Windows 10 on to a new SSD, CrucialBX 480 Gb, seems fairly decent and compared to the 1Tb Seagate SSHD, it's a load faster.

When I got it into work this morning, the person was amazed and very pleased with it I hope there's a good enough difference and that it passes the TPU test

When i get customers who bring me this stuff but refuses to expense for the compressed air cans I just use the garden hose or the bath tub . Make it dry with a fan at full speed for 24 to 36 hours andf there it is .

Back when you tried to fill every bay with something

Reminds me of an old porn movier with lot of hairs and filthy gunk.

 

[R-T-B]

But a glass substrate, as with nearly all LCDs. That's why they form such interesting patterns when they break.

I suppose that makes sense. Must be incredibly thin though given the behavior.

 

[Valantar]

I suppose that makes sense. Must be incredibly thin though given the behavior.

Yeah, given that it's only there for the liquid crystals to... adhere to? Sit on? Something, I guess they would want it as thin as possible. (Glass substrates (or rather not using them) were also the first major hurdle to flexible displays IIRC.)

 

[micropage7]

Hard to understand how come someone typing using that keyboard from monday to friday

 

[E-Bear]

Hard to understand how come someone typing using that keyboard from monday to friday
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It's like my old car...it won't scratch the paint if it's covered in layers of dirt and dust.

 

[PLAfiller]

Hard to understand how come someone typing using that keyboard from monday to friday

Doesn't look that bad to me

 

[lexluthermiester]

Hard to understand how come someone typing using that keyboard from monday to friday
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I've seen much, much worse!

 

[Athlonite]

Hard to understand how come someone typing using that keyboard from monday to friday
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That aint nuffin actually that quite clean compared to some I've seen

 

[biffzinker]

Hard to understand how come someone typing using that keyboard from monday to friday
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That's mild dust build up. You should see the keyboards where I work, they'll leave you.

I always wipe, and sanitize before I touch one.

 

[Chomiq]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1215341064401252352

RIP

 

[biffzinker]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1215341064401252352

RIP

I wonder how many times that has happened since the move back to solder?

 

[phill]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1215341064401252352

RIP

Ouch... Did they use the wrong glue?? ....

 

[lexluthermiester]

Ouch... Did they use the wrong glue?? ....

That's exactly what I was thinking.

 

[HUSKIE]

Limited edition

 

[biffzinker]

Ouch... Did they use the wrong glue?? ....

Someone in a Twitter reply suggested applying heat to soften the Indium solder before removing the heatspreader.