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I generally like fractal, their cases have more of a professional, less of a "13 year old minecraft gamer concept of cool" look, which is rare these days. If It was up to me, they could do away fully with the windows. Modern mainboard designs aren't interesting to look at anyways and all you will see is a bunch of heatsinks. It's good that they include cheap fans, as I would not like to pay for better fans I'm gonna replace anyways. (Honestly, if you buy good fans they'll last you ages. If you don't want to spend a lof of money on fancy e.g. noctua fans, buy them used. Nobody wants them but well made fans are usually perfectly fine used.)
 
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geckogoy said:
TBH I have never felt the need to vary case fans
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The biggest practical use case is people doing audio work (no, they can’t and shouldn’t use headphones for that). Otherwise some people are just more sensitive to noise than others.

Also there are some wives who hate the fans because it reminds them their husband is a gaymer.
 
A real PC nigga should only have an Antec 300 or CM690 from 2010.

Anything else is poser ass shit except for old Lian Li.
 
JoseRaulChupacabra said:
A real PC nigga should only have an Antec 300 or CM690 from 2010.

Anything else is poser ass shit except for old Lian Li.
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The Antec 300 isn't even the right color.

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Now that's the correct color. And close to my current case.
 
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Alright, I have a challenge for all y'all. I'm trying to identify a very specific type of washer used in a server rack so I can buy a bunch of them.

So on a standard post, you have a cage nut and a matching screw. Fine for most purposes. But I ordered some sliding rails, which don't work for other reasons, that do something different.

Instead, what you have is a flat head screw similar to this. It goes into a standard nut on the back side. What makes it work is a weird little piece that sits behind the screw in the front. It's a bit bigger than the post hole, and it's basically a washer that allows the screw to sink down into it. This allows you to secure a device to the hole while still having a flush surface on the front. You can't actually screw into it afterward, but if it's 2U or more, you can use the other U(s) with standard cage nuts and screws. It's actually a pretty fucking clever piece of engineering for some no name chinkshit I ordered off Amazon.

The problem is I have never, ever, in my entire life seen a washer that looks remotely like this. I'd describe it as a recessed square washer, but I've tried about a thousand variations of that and found nothing anywhere. It may be truly custom for the company that sells these rails. I'll take a picture if absolutely necessary, but I'm afraid you niggers would somehow dox me by the reflection of my ceiling fan in the metal or some shit.
 
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Lord of the Large Pants said:
Alright, I have a challenge for all y'all. I'm trying to identify a very specific type of washer used in a server rack so I can buy a bunch of them.

So on a standard post, you have a cage nut and a matching screw. Fine for most purposes. But I ordered some sliding rails, which don't work for other reasons, that do something different.

Instead, what you have is a flat head screw similar to this. It goes into a standard nut on the back side. What makes it work is a weird little piece that sits behind the screw in the front. It's a bit bigger than the post hole, and it's basically a washer that allows the screw to sink down into it. This allows you to secure a device to the hole while still having a flush surface on the front. You can't actually screw into it afterward, but if it's 2U or more, you can use the other U(s) with standard cage nuts and screws. It's actually a pretty fucking clever piece of engineering for some no name chinkshit I ordered off Amazon.

The problem is I have never, ever, in my entire life seen a washer that looks remotely like this. I'd describe it as a recessed square washer, but I've tried about a thousand variations of that and found nothing anywhere. It may be truly custom for the company that sells these rails. I'll take a picture if absolutely necessary, but I'm afraid you niggers would somehow dox me by the reflection of my ceiling fan in the metal or some shit.
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Yea, that sounds custom. If McMaster-Carr doesn't have it then it probably doesn't exist.
 
Lord of the Large Pants said:
Alright, I have a challenge for all y'all. I'm trying to identify a very specific type of washer used in a server rack so I can buy a bunch of them.

So on a standard post, you have a cage nut and a matching screw. Fine for most purposes. But I ordered some sliding rails, which don't work for other reasons, that do something different.

Instead, what you have is a flat head screw similar to this. It goes into a standard nut on the back side. What makes it work is a weird little piece that sits behind the screw in the front. It's a bit bigger than the post hole, and it's basically a washer that allows the screw to sink down into it. This allows you to secure a device to the hole while still having a flush surface on the front. You can't actually screw into it afterward, but if it's 2U or more, you can use the other U(s) with standard cage nuts and screws. It's actually a pretty fucking clever piece of engineering for some no name chinkshit I ordered off Amazon.

The problem is I have never, ever, in my entire life seen a washer that looks remotely like this. I'd describe it as a recessed square washer, but I've tried about a thousand variations of that and found nothing anywhere. It may be truly custom for the company that sells these rails. I'll take a picture if absolutely necessary, but I'm afraid you niggers would somehow dox me by the reflection of my ceiling fan in the metal or some shit.
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Those are standard countersunk screws. Do any of the generic countersunk washers not work? Mcmaster does have two variations of countersunk washers but they are expensive. Why not use regular hex bolts and washer or flanged hex bolts?
 
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Those are standard countersunk screws. Do any of the generic countersunk washers not work? Mcmaster does have two variations of countersunk washers but they are expensive. Why not use regular hex bolts and washer or flanged hex bolts?
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So, it's not that the screws won't fit a standard countersunk washer, it's that a standard countersunk washer won't fit flush in the post hole. That's what's so unique about this washer. Same issue with hex bolts and pretty much everything else.

I've been doing some research and this looks close... it's round, and the OD seems too large, but somebody in the reviews specifically mentions using them on rack rails, so I might give them a shot.
 
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Lord of the Large Pants said:
Alright, I have a challenge for all y'all. I'm trying to identify a very specific type of washer used in a server rack so I can buy a bunch of them.

So on a standard post, you have a cage nut and a matching screw. Fine for most purposes. But I ordered some sliding rails, which don't work for other reasons, that do something different.

Instead, what you have is a flat head screw similar to this. It goes into a standard nut on the back side. What makes it work is a weird little piece that sits behind the screw in the front. It's a bit bigger than the post hole, and it's basically a washer that allows the screw to sink down into it. This allows you to secure a device to the hole while still having a flush surface on the front. You can't actually screw into it afterward, but if it's 2U or more, you can use the other U(s) with standard cage nuts and screws. It's actually a pretty fucking clever piece of engineering for some no name chinkshit I ordered off Amazon.

The problem is I have never, ever, in my entire life seen a washer that looks remotely like this. I'd describe it as a recessed square washer, but I've tried about a thousand variations of that and found nothing anywhere. It may be truly custom for the company that sells these rails. I'll take a picture if absolutely necessary, but I'm afraid you niggers would somehow dox me by the reflection of my ceiling fan in the metal or some shit.
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Is it this?

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I can update my main computer before swapping, sure. Was just wondering if I then didn't have to do anything in addition to just swapping them. I'm used to formating whenever I swap CPUs.


Surely it's not that complicated to flash a bios with an incompatible cpu? Isn't it just sort of "can't function optimally without an update", and not "a literal brick"? It's an entirely new build and I'm not gonna... i don't even know how I'd swap into my current tower, flash, and then pull it out again. I read somewhere that sometimes the mobo instructions state you can flash it after installing OS and sometimes before doing so. Must be a common issue.
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Depends on your board. I believe almost all the 500 serries support the X3D booting (There is a specific update for tuned perf on those boards iirc), most of the 400 series as well. Only the 300 you need to flash to boot a 5000 CPU and even my pos x370 didn't need a flash to boot an X3D (but would crash frequently).
 
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