Sometimes the Antec 1200 is a disaster. This person bought the parts themselves, but couldn't build a system methodically. So he brought all he had purchased back, and paid a high price for us to un-fuck his work and get it right as rain.
I remember when everyone was buying those Socket 370/A 1U coolers and mounting them on graphics cards, back in like 2003. The classy people drilled holes in the heatsink to match their graphics card's mounting holes and then bolted it down, incompetent teens like me just used thermal epoxy.
>Nah. It wasn't your blood... How did you end up handling it? Gloves + alcohol, or did you toss it as bio-hazard? >Although my hands did get cut up. Old cases were fucking death traps.
>It wasn't your blood... >How did you end up handling it? Gloves + alcohol, or did you toss it as bio-hazard? Well when we opened cases, we never started touching anything. We would have a good look at everything and writing all visible faults down. Luckily with that we saw the blood easily. Told the customer we refuse to work on it. We still charged him a $120 fee to look at his PC.
>another cocksucker who thinks he doesn't need hose clamps I thought every single guide and tutorial had in big print "USE FUCKING HOSE CLAMPS". and yet people still don't.
fuck, is that a heatercore with some pipes welded onto it? I haven't seen someone do that since the 90s. Before they started selling purpose-built rads everyone just went to the junkyard and got a heater core from a 1976 Chrysler or something. Looks like he built his own block, too.
Those are actually ductless and ductless mini-split systems, but the question remains: y tho
Jeremiah Phillips
That's some lovely cable management right here.
Jackson Adams
Pretty much what one would do during the olden days. Whatever radiator you could find for cheap, hoses, any pump that can run from 12V. Can't think of many old watercooling setups that looks as "professional" as current ones.
Andrew Mitchell
It gets hot in there with all them computers going.
Luis Lee
Not OP, but (years ago) I worked for three months in a computer shop doing some practices.
I've seen some weird stuff, like oil inside the optical disc drive, or generic 300€ computers with PSU demanding graphic cards (pic related). Also lots of hentai, some college students (girls) bringing their brand new Vaio laptop because "something went wrong", etc. I also had to deal with the lack of professionality of our boss, and another employee (a relative of the boss) telling that "we found thousand of virus in your computer" to somebody that knew nothing about computers. For fuck's sake, there was a trojan and thousands of cookies...
I had a coworker that was a bit like that. Complete moron too, would put computers through lengthy diagnosis and parts replacement, only for the customer to wonder why this wasn't covered under warranty when they came to pick up their computers (it was, and i'm not going to break our countrys laws and lie about it so he can charge someone 100 dollars). All that time wasted for a quick buck, ended up with a lot of proprietary parts that only fit one single device since he's too stupid to buy the correct part, or ordered parts that never solved the real issue. The boss loved him due to his bs sales numbers and always asked me to be more like him.
It is a shame that people who know their shit is considered overqualified for support positions.
Carson King
What a nice thread, user :)
I think the period 2003-2011 or so was so much fun hw wise.
So many wierd and interesting new tech in every new socket/chipset, so good looking flashy coolers and boards. And you could overclock fucking everything. You really could feel every upgrade in performance.