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Post by Blue_Mike on Dec 4, 2021 3:31:52 GMT
After the initial build and some subsequent upgrades, my PC ended up costing several grand.
Today, I was too mean to pay £4.50 for a mounting frame to convert a 3.5" hard drive bay into two 2.5" SSD bays, and ended up sticking a new SSD to the case with little slivers of a Command strip I cut up with a scissors.
It actually worked a treat.
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Post by dfunked on Dec 4, 2021 8:44:58 GMT
Yeah, even regular old cheap adhesive velcro strips are good for SSDs. Command strips would be perfect for the job now that you mention it.
I've made vibration killing strips for the drive trays in a Synology NAS out of the fluffy side of velcro strips before. Still annoyingly noisy after that though.
A pretty common fix, but I've used a bit of kapton tape to cover the first three pins on shucked drives due to the 3.3v pin nonsense.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Dec 4, 2021 9:51:48 GMT
I have a 3 slot gpu that sags so much that I’ve had to support it using lego scaffolding that came with the apollo rocket.
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Post by malek86 on Dec 4, 2021 10:44:31 GMT
After around one year of use, my PSU fan started making a rattling noise. Must be the ball bearing. Thought about sending it back, but turned out EVGA wants you to pay for international shipping to the USA for that. Then I noticed that the rattling only starts when the PSU stands horizontal. So this is what my PC looks like now. photos.app.goo.gl/exRc1knTsL2YUjQX9By the way, notice that I have a case window, and not a single RGB led inside. This must be considered a crime in several countries, I'm sure. |
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Post by Tomo on Dec 4, 2021 11:47:43 GMT
After around one year of use, my PSU fan started making a rattling noise. Must be the ball bearing. Thought about sending it back, but turned out EVGA wants you to pay for international shipping to the USA for that. Then I noticed that the rattling only starts when the PSU stands horizontal. So this is what my PC looks like now. photos.app.goo.gl/exRc1knTsL2YUjQX9By the way, notice that I have a case window, and not a single RGB led inside. This must be considered a crime in several countries, I'm sure. Dayum |
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Post by Sarfrin on Dec 5, 2021 1:16:04 GMT
After around one year of use, my PSU fan started making a rattling noise. Must be the ball bearing. Thought about sending it back, but turned out EVGA wants you to pay for international shipping to the USA for that. Then I noticed that the rattling only starts when the PSU stands horizontal. So this is what my PC looks like now. photos.app.goo.gl/exRc1knTsL2YUjQX9By the way, notice that I have a case window, and not a single RGB led inside. This must be considered a crime in several countries, I'm sure. Dayum IKR? I don't know enough about electronics to say "You're going to burn your house down." but it kind of looks like that to me. |
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Post by malek86 on Dec 5, 2021 7:23:08 GMT
You say that, but I can't think of anything that could happen (within a reasonable degree of chance: of course my PSU could always spontaneously combust or something). Worst case scenario is that I accidentally kick it and the PSU breaks (would have to be pretty flimsy for that but still), forcing me to buy a new one and solving the problem entirely.
And I have no pets, so I don't have to worry about cats being cats.
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Post by SpiralScratch on Dec 5, 2021 11:10:47 GMT
I have a 3 slot gpu that sags so much that I’ve had to support it using lego scaffolding that came with the apollo rocket. C'mon you can't tease this and not post a (thread-winning) photo |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Dec 5, 2021 11:42:20 GMT
I have a 3 slot gpu that sags so much that I’ve had to support it using lego scaffolding that came with the apollo rocket. C'mon you can't tease this and not post a (thread-winning) photo Sure. Although I do want to say this is not the gpu I wanted, but it was the first one that was available in nov 2020.  |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Dec 5, 2021 13:28:49 GMT
On one of my old, cheap, pre-built PCs, the plastic bracket that held the heat sink and fan to my AMD CPU fractured and the heat sink literally fell off.
I realised that if I just placed the tower on its side I could just rest the heat sink back on the CPU and it worked well enough to keep playing World of Warcraft.
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Post by SpiralScratch on Dec 5, 2021 14:45:38 GMT
C'mon you can't tease this and not post a (thread-winning) photo Sure. Although I do want to say this is not the gpu I wanted, but it was the first one that was available in nov 2020. Tidy little fix, looks like it was made for the job. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Dec 5, 2021 17:02:47 GMT
The tab of the Command strip that I left poking out from beneath the SSD is about the size of my thumbnail, beneath the GPU. It's really not that intrusive, and there has been zero noise of any kind. Pretty happy with it. Ideally, I would have liked to have mounted it next to the other drives on the other side of the case, behind the motherboard, but the power cable wouldn't stretch to it.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 7, 2022 12:12:42 GMT
I did something foolish. When I replaced my air cooler with an AIO, I accidentally forgot to hook up the fans on it properly. Only one of the two has been actually turning for the last six months.
Seeing as I have to go back in to put in a new fan header splitter and get it working properly, I am going to take the opportunity to rotate the actual cooler 90 degrees, because the way I'd done it with the pipes above the cooler has led to air bubbles and a rattling noise which apparently can be corrected by turning it upside down and putting at full blast for a while to clear said bubbles. |
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Post by deebs on Jun 7, 2022 14:42:36 GMT
I didn't bother building my last 2 PCs. Can't be bolloxed with the faff anymore.
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Post by dominalien on Jun 7, 2022 14:45:56 GMT
I like putting the 3 things you need for a PC together, though I've been living without a case for a long while now. Makes for a much quicker build.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jun 7, 2022 15:12:39 GMT
There’s always at least one surprise when you build a pc, it doesn’t matter how much you’ve researched or watched reviews.
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Post by dominalien on Jun 7, 2022 15:20:04 GMT
Hmm, I'm trying to think what that might have been when I was putting together my current one (beginning of 2020 I think).
Maybe that I didn't expect to appreciate so much not having to faff about with SATA drives any more? I loves me some sweet, sweet NVMe.
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Post by dfunked on Jun 7, 2022 16:46:45 GMT
M.2 is fantastic, until you lose the piddly little screw or the spacer...
My typical mistake is not connecting the 12V power.
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Post by minimatt on Jun 7, 2022 17:31:07 GMT
M.2 is fantastic, until you lose the piddly little screw or the spacer... My typical mistake is not connecting the 12V power. yup, mine is held in with duct tape - I talked with then hardware editor, now big boss editor @ RPS about this in a thread yonks back and she was a big proponent of just letting them dangle freely in the breeze sans screw |
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Post by dominalien on Jun 7, 2022 17:45:06 GMT
Yeah, I've done that and it works. Until it doesn't because you bumped the case.
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Post by KD on Jun 7, 2022 17:53:14 GMT
I needed one screw so bought 50, should hopefully be misplaced when I need them.
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Post by Quasi on Jun 10, 2022 0:04:57 GMT
My PC came with a bunch of RGB fans and not only did I not disable the lights, I've come to think of them as "tasteful".
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 12, 2022 15:09:21 GMT
I am a happy boy today. My baby is all fixed, running quieter and cooler than ever. No more rattle from the AIO, all fans behaving as they should.
And check this out - 2 entire seconds saved!
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Post by dfunked on Jul 9, 2022 16:51:12 GMT
Well I think I win this thread... Almost too embarrassed to admit to this fuckup that's been sitting under my nose for a year and a half.
Rebuilt my pc today and when I took the GPU out I noticed the "PEEL PROTECTIVE FILM OFF BEFORE USE" on the back of it for the first time. I've taken the bloody thing out a couple of times before today too.
Guess that explains why the fans have been so noisy/temps so high and I haven't been able to find a comfortable undervolt. Yeesh!
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Post by Sarfrin on Jul 10, 2022 1:06:53 GMT
But now you can look forward to the glorious low temperature future. Good timing for a heatwave.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jul 10, 2022 7:18:52 GMT
I had great succes replacing the greasy thermal pads on my gigabyte card. I was mining for a bit and my memory was flirting with 100°C, got that down to 80°C. I had some leftover pads so stuck those between the pcb and the backplate. Backplates are kind of dumb, they are there for rigidity, but in terms of cooling they make things worse. Well, unless you have a 3090 with memory on the back that is.
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Post by malek86 on Jul 10, 2022 9:28:36 GMT
Can't wait to replace my reference RX 480, it served me well enough in the past six years (especially through the pricing mess), but the cooling system was always shit and it only got worse with age. No amount of repasting helped. The only solution is to massively increase the fan speed at high temps (the default fan curve was low to the point of uselessness), but with that small fan it's noisier than a PS4 Pro, especially in the summer.
At this point I'm waiting for RDNA3 though. Depending on the price, I'll see whether to pick one of those, or use the hype to buy some RDNA2 on clearance.
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Post by deebs on Jul 15, 2022 19:33:39 GMT
I don't think there is anything more terrifying than updating your BIOS.
Heart in throat all the way. I had to do a BIOS chip hot swap once between two PCs - never again.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 31, 2024 14:04:52 GMT
I may have forgotten to do a cleaning for quite a while.
The dust. THE DUST. |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Aug 31, 2024 14:58:14 GMT
Had a bit of a scare this week, I was trying to plug a usb-c cable in the back of my pc by just blindly trying the different ports, when suddenly all the LEDs went out. Turns out usb-c fits nicely in a regular usb port. For a minute I thought I blew up my motherboard, or worse.
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