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TheRaptorJesus said:
Also reports that someone else on the msi forums had the issue. Gamers Nexus are buying the parts for full retail price; can't wait for the video. Glad I went with the 7800x3d.
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Last time it was ASUS mobos fucking up with the X3D chips, maybe it's MSI this time?
No, someone just got niggerlicious with putting the fucking thing in the socket I guess.
 
Pascal's Wagie said:
Last time it was ASUS mobos fucking up with the X3D chips, maybe it's MSI this time?
No, someone just got niggerlicious with putting the fucking thing in the socket I guess.
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edit: I have actually used duct tape in a similar way. It was an emergency.
 
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Why do people think washing motherboards is the most cursed thing in the world?

You just need to dry it very well. I remember the 8 bit guy (of course it had to be him) doing that once. I'm not saying you should do that at all, but in extreme cases, it's not going to destroy the fucking board. it's just water.
 
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Why do people think washing motherboards is the most cursed thing in the world?

You just need to dry it very well. I remember the 8 bit guy (of course it had to be him) doing that once. I'm not saying you should do that at all, but in extreme cases, it's not going to destroy the fucking board. it's just water.
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Electricity is basically magic to most humans. It exists beyond the concrete mechanical paradigm of physics our monkey brains evolved to deal with. Long ago they learned that "electricity + water = bad" and never went beyond that in their understanding.
 
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Raging Capybara said:
Why do people think washing motherboards is the most cursed thing in the world?

You just need to dry it very well. I remember the 8 bit guy (of course it had to be him) doing that once. I'm not saying you should do that at all, but in extreme cases, it's not going to destroy the fucking board. it's just water.
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You gotta dry it super well and make sure no fluid gets trapped anywhere. I destroyed a very nice dual socket motherboard when draining my first open loop because some liquid got on the motherboard. I wiped it all off, triple checked and then powered it on without realizing a small amount of fluid was under the NVMe SSD and ended up trashing a mystery chip required for the board to POST.

It's too bad it wasn't an AMD system or I might've been able to fool Steve into paying full price for my fuckup.
 
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Oh goddamn it, now I have my folks saying that I'm better off buying a prebuilt PC over building my own. The only difference between them and my friend is where they're suggesting I buy it from, my folks are suggesting Costco or Best Buy and to wait for Black Friday sales (the latter of which I was already planning on doing).
 
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Oh goddamn it, now I have my folks saying that I'm better off buying a prebuilt PC over building my own. The only difference between them and my friend is where they're suggesting I buy it from, my folks are suggesting Costco or Best Buy and to wait for Black Friday sales (the latter of which I was already planning on doing).
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Black Friday has been a scam the past few years. It used to be they were supper shitty versions of the same product, but now they just jack the p[rice up a week or two before the sale and pretend it's a big discount when it's just the original price.

If you're getting a prebuilt then just order it directly from the manufacturer. they sometimes have real sales, like this Legion with a 4070 Super and Ryzen 7700 for $1350
 
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Oh goddamn it, now I have my folks saying that I'm better off buying a prebuilt PC over building my own. The only difference between them and my friend is where they're suggesting I buy it from, my folks are suggesting Costco or Best Buy and to wait for Black Friday sales (the latter of which I was already planning on doing).
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Clearance or refurbished prebuilts can be virtually unbeatable, although potentially hard or impossible to upgrade. Nothing to do with Black Friday though, and more luck-based.
 
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Oh goddamn it, now I have my folks saying that I'm better off buying a prebuilt PC over building my own. The only difference between them and my friend is where they're suggesting I buy it from, my folks are suggesting Costco or Best Buy and to wait for Black Friday sales (the latter of which I was already planning on doing).
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You can often find prebuilts on clearance towards the end of a GPU generation as they try to get rid of stock. I got a 4080/13700KF system for like $1900 from Lenovo like a month before Nvidia formally announced the end of the 4080's production.

Now the major downside is that the OEM mobos in the prebuilts are often not very good.
 
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I'll give you even one more, water is a very poor conductor and you could run your computer submerged in it. The thing with water is that it's an universal solvent. It's these impurities (e.g. salt) that dissolve easily in water, add ions and make it conductive enough to make that a bad idea. Honestly just look up water. It's weird as hell.

Industrial setting. PCBs were sometimes gross as hell. Had a dishwasher at work just for PCBs. Lowest setting and they came out looking factory new (Not sure I'd use a dishwasher I put my cutlery in though, depending on how your dishwasher works you might recycle that tasty flux-containing PCB water all over your nice plates next wash). Mildly soaped water can work wonders on flux, too (but dishwasher soap can be kinda corrosive) and there are even special soaps. Mainly just need to be mindful of places that could trap water, like the modulators in C64s in the post linked above me, not even in them but also below them. Think capillary action. Ideally you remove such parts first. I washed many a retro system like this privately, too. When you're done you can also spray the wet parts with IPA, they'll dry quicker. (IPA = miscible, lower boiling point, higher vapor pressure. Just don't smoke while spraying)

With the smoked CPU I wonder... you know how easy it would be for a company like intel to "grassroot" something like this? Even if it's debunked later, the damage is done. Just thinking out loud and not saying that happened here.
 
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TheRaptorJesus said:
Lets be real here, retards would end up using detergent and rinse aid in the dishwasher and fuck everything up. They can't even install a cpu that only fits in 1 way.
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People used to use their turbo autism and OCD to write assembly language programs under brutal conditions.

Now they use it to paw and mechanically scrub vintage motherboards like they are no smarter than a raccoon.
 
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jeff7989 said:
This video is making me mad. How fucking stupid do you have to be? Normies will think "AMD BAD" because of clickbait.
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all my friends built full on amd pc the last 3 years. it wont matter
more people will fuck up their system watching videos of dudes washing out their shit with water
 
God I hate HUB, they are so smug. I still prefer seeking out benchmarks that are as close as possible to what I have. 1080p low with 4090s benches are a dime a dozen. Lemme know how my 3080 at 1440p will fare. Even if you are unlikley to gain frames, maybe you'd gain consistency.
 
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God I hate HUB, they are so smug. I still prefer seeking out benchmarks that are as close as possible to what I have. 1080p low with 4090s benches are a dime a dozen. Lemme know how my 3080 at 1440p will fare. Even if you are unlikley to gain frames, maybe you'd gain consistency.
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I hate their faggy soytube muzak intro and I hate how they turn every minor disagreement in the comment section into a ten video series.
 
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