The Filthy, Rotten, Nasty, Helpdesk-Nightmare picture clubhouse

[Valantar]

i wish i never posted it, everything turns in to a battle on here look at my wording on my post you will see the word "about" . this thread is about muck in stuff. you guys have far too much time on your hands do something useful like be nice it dont hurt nit picking is for children now i havnt been one for a very longtime and have forgot how to do it .

Hey, don't be so serious - unnecessary nitpicking is always good fun!

 

[xtreemchaos]

me and serious shall never be the twain, im all for fun notice the smiley on the end.

 

[Octopuss]

had a family member give me his old sound kit so ive clamed the old amp from my livingroom for my obsyroom now thought id take the top off and give it a clean good job i did its been about 18 years in service.
the amp.
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the nighmare inside.
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all better.
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this is from the days when we connect everything with wires . we not see the likes of them again just like gas TVs
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But can you overclock it now?

 

[xtreemchaos]

funny thing is id noticed that when using the remote to turn the vol up the knob had stopped turning but since cleaning it now works again .

 

[lexluthermiester]

i wish i never posted it, everything turns in to a battle on here look at my wording on my post you will see the word "about" . this thread is about muck in stuff. you guys have far too much time on your hands do something useful like be nice it dont hurt nit picking is for children now i havnt been one for a very longtime and have forgot how to do it .

It's just some users. Put them on your ignore list and carry on. You'll be good. I enjoyed your pictures and the job you did cleaning that receiver up. That one had a ton of dust in it, but I've seen worse.

 

[biffzinker]

I enjoyed your pictures and the job you did cleaning that receiver up. That one had a ton of dust in it, but I've seen worse.

Me too, I enjoyed looking at the clean up effort in the after photo. Looks as good as brand new. @xtreemchaos

 

[Caring1]

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See that green plastic shroud on the CPU cooler? I really miss those.

I mean, it all works kind of okay these days - hot air gets dumped straight back into the case and we work around that problem by having gargantuan cases with loads of fans and enough airflow but in the good bad old days the air that passed over a heatsink was treated as undesirable and chaperoned out of the case instantly by a shroud.

Actually they routed air from outside to the top down cooler on the CPU, then the heated air had to find it's own way out of the case.
Edit: unless yours had a rear fan to draw the air out and the cooler was passive.

 

[Chrispy_]

Actually they routed air from outside to the top down cooler on the CPU, then the heated air had to find it's own way out of the case.
Edit: unless yours had a rear fan to draw the air out and the cooler was passive.

I'm thinking of the hundreds of Dell Precisions we had - the CPU heatsinks were passive and the shroud sealed the rear exhaust fan (definitely an exhaust) so that the only escape route for case air was via the CPU heatsink or the PSU vents.

They also had partial shrouds for the RAM slots and motherboard VRMs

 

[xtreemchaos]

I enjoyed your pictures and the job you did cleaning that receiver up.

thanks.

I enjoyed looking at the clean up effort in the after photo. Looks as good as brand new

thanks ive plugged it all in and its running good ive now got the one its replaced in the obsyroom, its newer but only by a few years dare i take the top off it?.

 

[Splinterdog]

A slimline that came in today where a hazmat (HEV) suit would have come in handy. I ended up stripping it down completely and replacing the PSU fan as a full replacement is impossible to find.

 

[biffzinker]

Seen this on r/gaming. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/jhd9ty

 

[lexluthermiester]

Seen this on r/gaming. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/jhd9ty

Oh, just repost the image. Make sure you give proper credit;

Courtesy of ChainedGod01( https://www.reddit.com/user/ChainedGod01/ );


Those things don't cool very well(at all) clogged up like that.

 

[micropage7]

Oh, just repost the image. Make sure you give proper credit;

Courtesy of ChainedGod01( https://www.reddit.com/user/ChainedGod01/ );
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Those things don't cool very well(at all) clogged up like that.

at least you know the fan spins pretty well to bring some air to rad

 

[Nuckles56]

Oh, just repost the image. Make sure you give proper credit;

Courtesy of ChainedGod01( https://www.reddit.com/user/ChainedGod01/ );
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Those things don't cool very well(at all) clogged up like that.

The owner clearly has never heard of a: cleaning their PC or house or b: dust filters
I'm amazed that the AIO's fans managed to build up the dust so well

 

[lexluthermiester]

The owner clearly has never heard of a: cleaning their PC or house or b: dust filters
I'm amazed that the AIO's fans managed to build up the dust so well

The thing is, dust is very small and can work it's way into tiny spaces. But a fan is huge in comparison and the motor that drives it is immensely powerful when we compare the scales of the physics involved.

 

[Caring1]

The owner clearly has never heard of a: cleaning their PC or house or b: dust filters
I'm amazed that the AIO's fans managed to build up the dust so well

It might be obvious to most members here, but I'd say the average computer user doesn't use monitoring software for temperatures and even bother what is inside the case as long as it works.
Much like a number of motorists drive a car but have no clue as to how it works or anything more than where the fuel goes in.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It might be obvious to most members here, but I'd say the average computer user doesn't use monitoring software for temperatures and even bother what is inside the case as long as it works.
Much like a number of motorists drive a car but have no clue as to how it works or anything more than where the fuel goes in.

As a general rule, anyone using liquid cooling is going to be above the average, but as we can see, there are exceptions to that rule...

 

[Chomiq]

I think GN Steve explained it the best - enthusiast pc is pretty much an air purifier. It sucks in all the dust and outputs clean air.

 

[Valantar]

As a general rule, anyone using liquid cooling is going to be above the average, but as we can see, there are exceptions to that rule...

AIOs are pretty mainstream these days though.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I think GN Steve explained it the best - enthusiast pc is pretty much an air purifier. It sucks in all the dust and outputs clean air.

That's funny as help, somewhat true as well.

 

[Mussels]

I think GN Steve explained it the best - enthusiast pc is pretty much an air purifier. It sucks in all the dust and outputs clean air.

totally is. i have an air purifier that broke down, so i slapped a pillow case over a square room fan and used that to deal with my allergies while i waited for a new one to arrive - could probably do that to a PC as well, think of all the colour options!

 

[micropage7]

Duhh..

 

[lexluthermiester]

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Duhh..

Yup, standard smokers nastiness...

 

[seth1911]

I had a laptop returned to me after just three weeks of someone using it during COVID lockdown that looked like that. HOW DO THEIR LUNGS LOOK?!

If it will be used in the bed etc. its going on very fast

 

[silentbogo]

I was just digging through some old work photos, and found this pearl.

One of my retarded colleagues, whom I've probably mentioned in this thread already, brought a GPU for "diagnostics". Occasionally he buys random garbage, and always brings it to me in hopes that I won't tell him to "f#$k off with this trash", and maybe even take a look at it. This is one of those cases. He said, seller told him it was working, and then for some reason stopped. "Dude is cool, he's a friend of a friend", he added as an afterthought, probably hoping that it'll make me more enthusiastic about this repair....
I found that reason:

Yes, half of the RAM is just glued onto the PCB with some epoxy. Some idiot probably killed his perfectly working RX570 by attempting a VRAM "reball", which local "experts" after watching 2-3 youtube videos think it's a cure for any VGA-related problem, along with baking GPUs to a crisp in his mom's oven.
RIP, poor RX570.