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Hi Dr. Nick!
This isn’t building a PC, this is plugging one in.
This is the fastest part after the careful compatibility checks, purchases, opening of packages, attaching heat sink with thermal paste, and screwing in components.
And to the average person, there’s no difference regardless of how right you are.
My coworkers think I like building computers because I tinker with so much stuff, but no that doesn’t seem super exciting to me anymore. I have mini PC with a laptop CPU and GPU in it. I like it quiet, small and power efficient. It is feeling long in the tooth these days but I haven’t seen something with enough of an upgrade to be worth it.
Recently picked up a used office PC to throw a GPU into. Mostly because ram is so expensive and it cost less than buying ram itself but also because I’m lazy and don’t really care about PC building.
Quiet and mini PC seems an oxymoron to me. Those annoying laptop fans are anything but quiet.
I’ve hacked at mine and Jerry rigged a big fan on the case in the laptop fan’s place. Now that’s a quiet mini PC
Its a minisforum hx90g. Its got a pretty beefy cooler and two decently big fans. I never hear it under my desk or on the TV stand.
There’s a balance.
If you have a “big” PC with tons of case fans and no ducting (so all the hot air just circulates around inside), it’s going to be noisy, no matter how fancy your case fans are GPU are. There are just too many fans, and most of them are trying to get the inside of the case reasonably close to ambient temps.
If you have a mini PC with a laptop fan, it’s just too small, so it has to spin very fast.
The “sweet spot” is SFF builds that duct everything, and throttle the parts. If you have 1 heatsink fan and your GPU sucking in ambient air, and you undervolt them, they’re near silent.
I-Is this secretly a joke about guys not putting it in the right hole? 🤔
It goes in the USB hole
“That’ll be $6000, please.”
The round peg goes in the…that’s right! It goes in the square hole
Yes!
https://youtu.be/baY3SaIhfl0
One of my favourite videos.You mean the ethernet shaped hole?
Maybe back in 2015…. Have you not seen the beasts they have these days? You could let a cat roam inside it.
It’s not the difficulty that gets you it’s the crippling anxiety.
$1500 green thing go in $400 green hole…
Yeah, that’s a different story entirely. I built a high-end gaming rig like a year ago and ended up just paying a local shop to put most of it together. They were very reasonably priced.
I need Sr. Grafo to come to the fediverse. I really miss his comics
Then lose your mind trying to get it to post because you never configured the bios to be compatible with a certain part.
Or your ram is loose even though you are SURE you heard the click… Wait that wasn’t the mobo cracking…right?
Oh, installing RAM is the part I hate the most precisely because the mobo always flexes in a way that looks like trouble.
I never had any issues, but I still find it scary, even more than placing the CPU.
Everything is easy until it isn’t.
I built my family’s, and my extended families, computers until the early 2010s, I’ll never do it again. Building the computer was fun and easy, being on the hook for tech support is time draining and soul crushing.
“Sorry Grandma, that cheapest possible 5400 rpm spinning drive is ten years old, you never backed it up, I’m really not the one to ask if you can get the pictures back. Okay we will try getting it to work as an external drive. Okay here we go, show me the folder you keep your pictures in. No this isn’t your desktop, (sign) we don’t need your hard drive to access your cable company provided email, yes the lemonade is wonderful (it’s bitter). Yes Aunt Martha’s cat is adorable.”
Children think about your future weekends. It’s great being a hero, but with great heroics comes endless responsibilities. There’s ways less entertaining than sex to lose all your free time to helpless family incoherent babbling.
That is why you ask for compensation if you have to leave your house.
Either they haul the thing all the way to your place, even leave it as necessary. Or they pay a sum of at least 20€.
That way they at least try to fix it themselves in order to not have all the hassle.
yes the lemonade is wonderful (it’s bitter). Yes Aunt Martha’s cat is adorable.
90% of dealing with family while doing tech support is dealing with family.
Somehow, in the middle of doing whatever I’ve been asked over to do, I’m juggling a book of old family photos and three plates of snacks and every animal in the house and my mom is still upset with me because I’m not giving her enough attention.
I remember the case LED display for the clock speed, you had to set each segment of the LEDs to be on or off depending on the TURBO button. There was something like 25 or so tightly packed .100" headers that had to be jumpered just right and the information came on a tiny 1x2 inch “manual” that looked like a 30th generation photocopy…
for as simple as most of it is…the amount of times I’ve missed a cable or two is embarrassing, or just the damn switch on the PSU itself
seeing others apply thermal paste and place CPU chips is a firm reminder that not everybody should be reproducing, then there’s cable management…
Cable management is easy, just hide everything
