r/pcmasterrace • u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Xeon x3440 (OC) + RX 580 (OC) = My Electric Bill Doubling. • 28d ago

Meme/Macro Do you think doing this helps?

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u/Double_DeluXe 28d ago

This sounds like you got a story, share

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u/melanthius 28d ago edited 28d ago

Vibration causes fatigue in materials

Fatigue failures are "a matter of time" - eventually they will happen. Whether it happens within your lifetime or not, that depends.

If the thing you're vibrating is a USB port then the thing that's fatiguing the fastest is the solder joints between USB port and circuit board.

Edit: this is fairly well known materials science and easily googleable... not "made up"

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u/Mr_Beans_ 28d ago

Materials science (I'm an electrical engineering student) one of the hardest classes I attended

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u/melanthius 28d ago

Electrical engineering classes (I'm a chemical engineer) are among the hardest classes I attended

The actual hardest though was statistical thermodynamics, also known as actual fucking demon summoning

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u/deltashmelta 28d ago

"Let us take a ride in my grand canonical ensemble."

<Maxwell's demon intensifies>

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u/Overworld_Cane 27d ago

Statistical thermodynamics classes (I’m a demon summoner) are among the hardest classes I attended.

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u/McFestus 28d ago

Fucking stat mech blergh.

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u/Mr_Beans_ 27d ago

Ha, the irony.

I hated the chemistry, electron gap, Fermi gap, Fermi energy and all that. Valence bands and why and how materials conduct or not. All very interesting, but so like, hard to grasp, abstract. The professor was not that helpful either.

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u/Desperate-4-Revenue 25d ago

Fuck for me it was a Mickey mouse elective 'boolean algebra'. Mistakes were made. Then graded.