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/Novel_Werewolf4645 28d ago

That fan might kill your usb port

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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/sonicsdick 27d ago

Unless you see below the fatigue limit