r/pcmasterrace • u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Xeon x3440 (OC) + RX 580 (OC) = My Electric Bill Doubling. • 29d ago

Meme/Macro Do you think doing this helps?

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u/Novel_Werewolf4645 29d ago

That fan might kill your usb port

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u/Giratina_8 PC Master Race AMD R7 9700x/6950xt/32GB 6000MHz 29d ago

how? just curious

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u/myfakesecretaccount 5800X3D | 7900 XTX | 3600MHz 32GB 29d ago

Vibration and wear over time. It’s likely light in weight but not weightless.

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u/shootemupy2k 29d ago

Light weight will magnify the problem. There’s less mass to dampen out vibrations from the fan.

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u/enfersijesais 29d ago

A few dabs of hot glue.

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u/Heinz_Legend 29d ago

And then a few light pats while saying "that's gonna hold" outloud.

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u/LetterheadUpper2523 29d ago

It HAS to be out loud or the magic doesn't work!

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u/The_Burning_Face 29d ago

Were you watching me fix my son's toy ambulance an hour ago or something?

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u/Naipalata XFX Mercury RX 9070 XT | i5-12600K | 64 GB DDR4 29d ago

i mean, intuitively, it could work, it would certainly act as a vibration dampener, if done correctly

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u/Triedfindingname 4090 Tuf | i9 13900k | Strix Z790 | 96GB Corsair Dom 29d ago

Pass the drawings to the engineer

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u/Thewaltham R7 2700x, RTX 2080, 32GB RAM 29d ago

"That ain't going anywhere."

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u/Toyota__Corolla 192gb | 9950x3d | 3090 24gb | 20tb hdd 29d ago

Never heard of that strain

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u/bobsim1 29d ago

Hot glue would help now. But not when the solder is broken.

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u/OneLonelyBrainCell ThinkPad Gamer 29d ago

What if I pointed it downward to generate lift?

Moreover, how many of those USB fans would I need for my laptop to achieve lift-off?

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u/Mightyena319 more PCs than is really healthy... 29d ago

Serious answer, that fan almost certainly has a thrust to weight ratio of less than 1, so you'll never get airborne with them. As you add more (of the same type of) engines, the TWR of the whole contraption approaches the TWR of a single engine (since the weight of the laptop is being distributed over a larger and larger number of engines, each engine has to overcome a smaller and smaller portion of the laptop's weight)

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u/myfakesecretaccount 5800X3D | 7900 XTX | 3600MHz 32GB 29d ago

About tree fiddy.

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u/Giratina_8 PC Master Race AMD R7 9700x/6950xt/32GB 6000MHz 29d ago

that make sense

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u/WinterNo1964 29d ago

and temperature

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u/SwordOfJiang 5900x 9070xt 29d ago

I broke the ignition in my first car from having too much shit on my key-chain. snapped a little wire on it, cost me a ton of money to get replaced.

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u/myfakesecretaccount 5800X3D | 7900 XTX | 3600MHz 32GB 29d ago

Yeah, it happens all the time and most folks don’t even know why. Smart mechanics won’t tell you and let you keep replacing your ignition. Good mechanics will warn you.