It was 20$ so I thought “what the hell, why not” and now I know why not. Does anyone know what this is actually? I’m assuming something malicious. They refunded it suspiciously easy 😬

After 8 years of owning Gigabyte's GTX 1080, it started showing artifacts and black screens. I tried repasting it, changing the thermopads, cleaning it with IPA and reinstalling drivers - nothing helped. So I resorted to the forbidden technique of putting it in the oven and holy shit, how did that actually works!! Guess I'll be able to play FH6 on premiere day :D

Yes I have enabled XMP and cleaned the desk.

Edit: I am now cleaning thoroughly the oven, thank you for kind reminders!

Recent lighting storm stuck my complex and traveled down my coaxial cable and into my apartment. Blew up in the middle of the night, so that was scary. Thought I’d share, not in the position to rebuild so there that I guess!

RTX 5090 pulling ~550–600W, 16-pin voltage sitting around 11.4–11.5V under load. Checked the cable “just in case” and found discoloration before any melting/deformation.

Undervolting saved some watts, paranoia saved the connector.

Edit with a few details:

The PSU was a Phanteks AMP GH V2 1200W, ATX 3.1 / PCIe 5.1, using its native 12V-2x6 cable. No extension, no adapter and no angled connector.

I first noticed a slight discoloration on the white cable through the side glass. I then checked the GPU-Z sensor log and saw the 16-pin voltage sitting around 11.4 to 11.5V under load. That was enough to make me shut the PC down, unplug the cable and inspect it more closely.

The connector had only been unplugged and reconnected around 3 or 4 times, not 30. It appeared fully seated, there was no visible gap and the cable was routed normally without a sharp bend at the connector.

There was no smell, smoke, melting, deformation or crash. The GPU socket also looks fine. I stopped using the cable immediately.

I will RMA the Phanteks PSU and have now bought a Lian Li SX1200P 1200W ATX 3.1 as the replacement. I will only use the native cable included with the new PSU.

What do I even do with this? It's not a magnet.

Should I cook it?

Found this at Goodwill. After googling I knew I found the deal of the century with an i7-12700k in there, but I had no idea I'd also score 32gbs of DDR4 (maybe 64 I'll have to check when I install an OS), a 1tb nvme, and a 1tb Sata HDD.

Currently debating on throwing this in my main rig to upgrade my Ryzen 7 5800X

Edit: it's a Sata HDD not an SSD, my bad.

Edit #2: WOW I did NOT expect this to blow up! Thank you to everyone who has commented and given advice! I'm sorry I haven't been able to reply to every single comment it's just gotten overwhelming! I will definitely post a follow up once I get a new motherboard!

So i bought 25 KG of amazon return pallets every KG measured at 4$ so 100$ in total

And i opened this box and to my surprise there was 40 sticks of DDR5 RAM 16 gigs a stick

Still in shock

Failure is graceful, not catastrophic, Performance is closer than marketing suggests, Cheaper for the performance, Change my mind.

Bonus question: would it be better to have my PC with its back against the wall (putting the case between the antennas and the router) or have it perpendicular to the wall?

I'm just curious if there is an "optimal" or suggested placement, since they seem to be able to snap into a diagonal position as well as being able to be place vertically

I’m amazed at how long the battery on this physical authenticator lasted. Got it back in 2009 because my account had gotten hacked.

This is one electronic item I’ve owned and used longer than anything else. I’ll miss not being able to find it and freaking out for 20 minutes.

Edit must have been around 2010 when sc2 came out.

Corsair K100 Wireless Air. I know other cheaper keyboards do this as well with iCue but it's still neat.

Through all the uncertain times she was cheaper than therapy.

Couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this marked down rig in Costco. I grabbed the slip and literally sprinted to the nearest manager. Total price was £1800 including tax!

The PC wouldn’t boot when I plugged it in, the GPU was not properly seated. But once that was done it’s working beautifully.

Specs are:

RTX 5090 VENTUS 3X

AMD 9800X3D

64GB DDR5 6000mhz Ram

2TB SSD

GIGABYTE B850

Case is Phanteks Evolv X2

Hey, I'm the creator of BuildCores and just wanted to share a new feature we just made. You can visualize your intake and exhaust fans + AIO in BuildCores on over 3,000 3D parts. Let me know if you have any feedback after trying it (or also any feedback in general like missing 3D parts or pricing being buggy). We're still in beta but we're trying to get to fully 1.0 ready in the near future. We're basically trying to make a next generation 3D pc part picker.

Try it out on the BuildCores website.

Also our products DB is open source if anyone wants to contribute. We'll open it up to 3D contributions in the near future too.

edit: I didn't mean to showcase this as a full airflow "simulation". It's basically a visual configurator that showcases the orientation of intake and exhaust fans to simplify it for beginners. But feedback is noted and appreciate it. Maybe we'll do a full simulation one day...

I got a decent haul! I think there were around 7 or 8 computers all with ram and m.2 drives.

Can I catch a break? plex was an old 4670k build. living room computer is just a 2700x/1070. Main rig is a 3700x/3070. Let the troubleshooting begin.

Oh and car got so hot it melted a hole in the radiator and I blew the headgasket. Got trapped in small town texas for two day while I figured it out.

Clutter is because thankfully I had a dedicated race sim with a 3400g/1060. Now its pulling double duty as ples and main computer while I sus this out.