>"technology enthusiasts" get freaked out when their CPU idles over 40c and do placebo cable management
meanwhile half your local businesses have windows XP machines running 24/7 with clogged fans and malware eating 40% cpu for the last decade
"technology enthusiasts" get freaked out when their CPU idles over 40c and do placebo cable management
>being this mad
Cable management made a considerable difference back in the day when those PCs had those giant grey ribbon cables.
I doubt it very much.
Airflow in a case is mainly pressure driven. Obstacles that are not near intake/exhaust don't really matter.
>meanwhile half your local businesses have windows XP machines running 24/7 with clogged fans and malware eating 40% cpu for the last decade
Business users are also tolerant enough that thin clients are entirely feasible.
Anyone using it privately will have standards that require grain-free display and lag-free input, as well as a lack of glitches such as having your windows jump around when you are dragging them in a Citrix session.
none of those things happen just because your CPU is idling at 68c dummy.
It's pretty binary. Shit works fine or shit's broke and bluescreens.
Nowadays it will throttle.
Throttling only kicks in at like 100c and doesn't cause any of those effects either.
What is fan noise? and how do you keep it down where it does not drive you insane?
you achieve lower temps with more fan noise retard
>become infected with Jow Forums brain worms
>I'm a big strong man who uses BUSINESS GRADE HARDWARE ONLY, distain for plebs.bmp
>buys 2004 ThinkPad on purpose
the joke is that business hardware is invariably mass-produced garbage, built to a price point and bulk-sourced from the vendor who took the procurement guy to the nicest strip joint
like dummies who assume 'military spec' is a ringing endorsement and a guarantee of quality. its not.
Ambient noise at workplace is louder than tiny fans.
>Throttling only kicks in at like 100c
A little before user. 100c will give you thermal shutdown. Unless you're running an Incel i9-9900k in which case that temp is ok for normal operations
>A little before
Do you literally not know what the word "like" means? It differs a bit from processor to processor. Also ryzen t-junction is 95, which is "like 100c"
>tfw pc is full of dust and I'm still gaming on the motherfucker
I don't understand why people don't clean out the dust. I love doing it. Now that I have a case with that foam on the intake it stays a little warmer but the dust never even makes it inside, and I just blow the foam thing with compressed air from the inside out every couple months.p
>business hardware is invariably mass-produced garbage
this is wrong. You're right that business/military grade does not guarantee quality, but there's also a much higher quality (and price) ceiling with that hardware.
It's just that you're paying five times the price for RAM-sticks that are waterproof down to 50ft. Which is just dumb for a normal consumer.
I miss the day that gpu card only use single slot.
If you don't care and it works fine, why bother?
Dust also dampens the sound of the PC.
I leave my PC running 24/7 now I may pull the rig out and dust it every 6 months because that fucking HD7970 I just put it outputs heat like I've never seen before even as it's clean right now.
Same user, I'm still looking to buy another XFX HD7750 like it to keep as a spare low power card because it can game decently and sips power.
>there's also a much higher quality (and price) ceiling with that hardware
there really, really isn't. because if you're buying BUSINESS GRADE HARDWARE as an actual business through a tender/procurement process, you're also purchasing n years of support/parts/warranty etc on top of that. the money to be made in BUSINESS GRADE HARDWARE isn't in quality materials, it's in the 'value-added services' because nobody wants to spend money on stuff.
source: manager was one of those I AINT PAYING THAT MUCH BAH GAWD windbags so we've all seen the frigging invoices.
your limited experience is not all that there is. Visit a sawmill and look at their floor computers for example.
I remember when I had my optiplex has a gaming rig and I would let it succ a bunch of dust/cat hair and it didn't skip a beat, also the case was fucking amazingly sturdy, thing was fuckin industrial.
Business grade hardware and software vendors generally have an SLA to uphold. The devices aren't indestructible, but very sturdy and easily replaceable and/or serviceable.
We had one of our gen6 X1 Carbons go blank after about a month of use. A tech came to our office the next day free of charge, replaced the mobo, ran some tests and the laptop was good to go again.
Really miss this thing actually.
>Business grade hardware and software vendors generally have an SLA to uphold
yes, user, but a home user making the same purchase isn't going to have the same sla. all your anecdote tells me is that you have a juicy business SLA setup, which is great, but doesn't reflect the underlying quality of the product.
I said the product isn't indestructible. They are easily serviceable and replaceable so the effect to the business is minimal. Usually the manufacturer specifies the expected lifetime of their products too, so you have an idea when it's time to move to a new device. The serviceability can be an essential quality for prosumers who wish to repair their laptops themselves. Changing a PSU or hard drive to enterprise server is literally a 5 second job and the thing doesn't even need to be turned off. Have you ever opened consumer grade laptops? They are generally mobo in an abs sandwhich and it's quite common problem for cables to be plugged off because the cheap frame is able to bend too much. Would you like to test bending your mobo while it's is running? Enterprise grade laptops usually don't have this problem.
Some businesses have gone the other way and buy hundreds and hundreds of cheap chromebooks so they can always hand their end users a new one when the thing borks.
>Have you ever opened consumer grade laptops?
Considering the dude thinks he's an expert on hardware configs because his boss showed him a bunch of invoices, I'm guessing no.
I use an 120vac leafblower that'll blow cats off the back of couches with 9001mph winds to blow the dust out of my computer and such.
It's all around an extremely enjoyable experience for some reason.
Also good for cleaning keyboards but it'll pop keys off if I'm not careful, and goodluck finding them once they break the sound barrier
You can come to my house and remove all the dust if you want
>leafblower
Alpha as fuck, I'm gonna get a datavac electric duster because this canned air shit isn't cutting it for my card and PC.
be careful that you don't over-rev the fans though.
Also for complete dust removal rinsing it off is the best option. Just make sure it's completely dry before you put it back in.
You could just use cleaning spray made for electronics
Yeah I just hold the fans when I'm blowing, don't need water cause i'm not going for brand new condish, just want the fluffy crap out.
If you want to completely flush out a graphics card you need the volume of a tap or showerhead. Nevermind water is free and won't ruin your towels.
you rinse your electronics in tap water?
I know most of it is conformally coated but that's just asking for corrosion
Hardly any consumer electronics is conformally coated m8. That doesn't matter though, since unplugged electronics don't corrode faster than anything else you wash with tap water. As long as you dry it it's fine.
>took my computer to my brother's shop
>blasted out the interior with their compressor
>went home
>computer no longer functioned