Has this ever happened to you?
>>720887957Yes, I bought a gigabyte power supply once, never again
I'm not a tranny so i don't have long hair so no.
No but one time I got my dick stuck in the middle of a DVD disc because I got so horny on DeviantArt, I was probably 14.
>>720887957A thunder storm once fried my pc while playing Sims 2 yeah.
>>720887957COD Ghost killed my PS3
>>720887957>fried playing fucking Fall Guys cloneshaking my head to be honest
PSU died while emulating Xenoblade
>>720887957this only happens when you don't do maintenance on your PC
>>720887957Yeah, I have bought ASUS before
>>720887957This only happen to tranime
My power supply exploded once. Before that some smoke came out and it started to smell like fire
That happened to me when I bought a Corsair PSU. Those 80+ ratings mean nothing.
>>720887957borderlands 4 and onirism did this to me
I'm buying a new PC. How do I clean it to avoid this? I read that vacuum cleaner and blow dryer a big no no.
>>720887957All the time. I just hit it over the side and it stops.
>>720892442use an air duster
>>720892442Unless you live in a dusty hole with carpet and animals then that won't happen. If you do then get a dust filter for your intake fans, including the one in the PSU.
>>720887957Unironically yes with the initial batch of 13900k intel processors.Mobo shorted my PSU playing Dark and Darker of all fucking games, and I ended up going for nearly a year and a half on a fucked CPU before finally RMAing it back to intel for a working one.
>>720887957Twice, yeah. Capacitor on the board exploded and caught fire.
>>720888873>his dick fits inside that tiiiny DVD disc holelolLMAO evenNot to mention being retarded enough to fuck a disc
>>720892072>he says while posting on /v/eddit and playing western videogames made by trannies for tranniessybau
>>720891970>maintenance on your PCBitch, maitenance is a MEME.I have a PC for 8 YEARS my dude, NEVER opened it, never cleaned it up. Still works just fine.Same with my previous one from like 2012-2017 never cleaned that either and it just WERKED etc
>>720887957No cause i dont have steaming hot food in my disk player
>>720887957>nip propaganda against the western PC industry
>>720888873
Isnt if funny how we ALWAYS hear about PC exploding, catching fire, dying etc for the dumbest reasons, yet we almost never hear about consoles doing the same?what fuckin gives?? you expect me to believe a much smaller device like a console has better components and airflow than a gigantic damn tower??
>>720893037The red ring of death wants a word with you.
>>720892442Buy this. Way more powerful than compressed air. Just blast your PC with this ever month or so.
>>720893037Consoles are designed from the ground up to play games.
>>720893114Doesn't it produce static?
>>720893114>ever month or so.every decade or so
>>720893037They genuinely were screwed together better, with simpler electronics, and way better power supply bricks until around the xbox 360 generation.You wouldn't get a failing RAM DIMM or HDD on a console because some teenager read on here you could play crysis for $300 worth of used Ebay parts.
>>720893180No. I don't know why, but it's specifically designed to dust electronics. Been using mine for a year now with no issues.
>>720887957On my birthday in 2007 I was having friends round for the night, and at one point I was showing them Portal when the graphics started getting weird, then weirder, then my PC turned itself off and wouldn't turn back on for an hourit turns out my ATI graphics card had decided to cook itself, this also happened about a year later to the replacement ATI GPU I bought.I've been using Nvidia ever since (even though it's been over a decade and I'm sure AMD are better now, but that kind of formative experience lingers in your psyche)
>>720887957Yes, my bulldozer exploded my motherboard's VRM while playing Crystal Chronicles in the lava level
>>720893127and they're still bad at it, curious
I had my computer over at a friend's house like 15 years ago. It started smoking a little so I turned it off. Turned it back on and no problem, no smoke, kept playing. Weird.
>>720887957One of my old PSUs went up in smoke and took most of the hardware with itI've never cheaper out on PSUs after that
>>720893127They're designed from the ground up to be the minimum viable product.
>>720887957Yeah, I thought it was a coal burning power supply though.
>>720893037Clearly you haven't heard about the cockroach infestation which plagues consoles.
>>720893114Got a similar one and it's great to clean the PC with. Also handy for cleaning the keyboard and other electronics with hard to reach nooks
>>720892798>he doesn't make waffles in his disk drive and toast in his CD drivecasual
>>720890124It's mining bitcoin while running
>>720887957Yeah, when a wild cat that entered my apartment took a piss on my pc. I didn't notice it at first. I just saw him there and shooed him out. Only after i turned on my pc and saw smoke coming out did i see a puddle of piss behind it
>>720887957imagine fall guys being the game to cook your pc
>>720893687How did a feral cat get in your apartment
>>720893037The thing with PC is you can do whatever you want with it and that means setting it on fire. My PC doesnt even get hot, i have no idea how people do this shit but they have the freedom to do it. I did have a bomberman cartridge literally melt in my n64 though.
>>720887957My gpu overheated from Herdling of all the things. Shit game, don't even pirate.
No. I've been using my GPU without any fans until replacement fans arrive though.
Latex slut
>>720893037>yet we almost never hear about consoles doing the same?where the fuck have you been? pieces of the ps5 were literally melting off, the ps4 could end up sounding like a jet engine, the xbox series would start smoking, xbox 360 had constant red rings of death, dreamcast lasers were dying constantly, psp batteries are exremely prone to bloating and catching fire if not used for a while, the original xbox had horrible capacitors that would brick the console, switch 2 had false-positives bricking the console,
>>720892581I don't know if it's just me but these things (due to temperature/pressure changes) tend to make everything I spray it on wet.
>>720893037My 60gb PS3 overheated playing Metal Gear Rising back in 2014 after around 40 minutes. I guess I should've noticed because the fans were incredibly loud but my 360 by comparison would sometimes be on for hours and be fine so I never noticed. The PS3 was second hand (bought in 2012) so maybe there was tons of dust in it that I never checked or something but I didn't think I had to. I remember sort of fixing it by blowing a hairdryer on it for 20 minutes because I read somewhere the solder gets undone during overheating and sticks two boards together when it cools down, so blowing it with a hairdryer will sort it out. Looking back that's probably bullshit but the hairdryer trick DID fix it for a while before it broke again and I got a new one. My PS4 also overheated but that was due to dust after 6~ years of use, I checked up a video on how to clean the dust out and didn't even take it fully apart but cleaned out so much dust which fixed it. The only two consoles that've ever overheated on me. Every other console I've had has been fine.
>>720892581>buying compressed airBiggest scam. Don't you own an air compressor?
>>720892581Electric fans that do the same are way better.
>>720887957Just overheating? A couple of times here and there.Smoking coming out of the PC? Twice over my gaming life and both times I lost my whole PC.
>>720892442>breathe in >breathe outcomplicated I know
>>720887957>>720888858>completely random baldfag copeKEKyou love to see it
>>720892442You can avoid plenty of dust entirely by keeping your PC elevated (as in on a desk, not on the floor) and building for optimal air circulation.I have a Fractal Torrent with an AIO on the CPU and have had virtually zero dust buildup except on the front fans where the cooler block is.
>>720887957I once overclocked my Radeon 6770 HD too much. I was playing TF2 and the game was behaving very strangely. Enemies and players were teleporting, physics didn't work right, very jittery movement all around.Then I smelled what I thought was burnt electronics, so I immediately pulled the power on my PC, gave it a moment and eventually undid my hyper overclock.>Honorable mentionMy sister came home drunk one day and was tired of my PC being on, so she just ripped the power extension cable from the wall socket.I tried to turn my PC on, didn't work. Changed power sockets, didn't work. Eventually came to the conclusion that the motherboard was toast, so I went and picked up a cheap 40€ motherboard. Set it all up, didn't boot. Shit. Figured the new motherboard was faulty. Traded in the motherboard and got a replacement for free. That one didn't work either. Sudden horror realization: it isn't the motherboard... It has something to do with the power.After recalling what my sister told me, I took my chances and returned the broken motherboard again and got a new one again. The guy there gave me a funny look, but went through with it anyway.After getting home, I fix it all up again and this time I do NOT use the extension cable.PC started up fine.After this happened I never plugged my PC into a power extension cable again, as that power extension cable started frying all sensitive electronics plugged into it. Tossed it away, lesson learned.
>>720892442this should do the job!
>>720887957Yeah, it looked almost like thsi in my psu.
my 8800 got fried though i only noticed after my display got crazy artifacts, no smoke, just melted all around
>>720897117Crysis 1?
>>720887957My PC from 2004 through 2007 had a 2.4ghz Pentium 4 and a Geforce 6600 GT whose cooler was gradually starting to fail as it aged. Whenever I played a game that put load on it, I'd have to periodically open up the PC, reach inside and prod the fan back to life.Past 2006 the GPU was also obsolete and couldn't really play most games at acceptable framerates, but I still tried. So in late 2007 I installed Crysis, set all the settings on low and started the game. Momentarily forgot about the fan issue, didn't make it inside the case in time. The game fried the GPU in like 10 seconds flat. Logs had recorded a peak core temperature of 121C, and I got to witness a little trail of smoke when fumbling for the fan.But for those 10 seconds the game at least ran at a buttery smooth 26fps. Mass Effect at the lowest possible settings had only managed 10-15fps, so props to Crytek. Eventually replaced the desktop with an E8400 and a Radeon HD4870. Such a gigantic step up in gaming performance.
>>720899165Literally me down to the initial specs. Although my 6600GT was faulty and I had to replace it with another one. Couldn't run anything except for Red Faction and Serious Sam for some reason. Probably had something to do with the shaders or some shit like that. 6600GT eventually started artifacting after a couple of Crysis sessions as well and ultimately just died one day.
>>720899165>Whenever I played a game that put load on it, I'd have to periodically open up the PC, reach inside and prod the fan back to life.Lmao, I was the same although fast forward to 2014 instead. (Pic related)I remember getting this GPU in 2013 for like £60 which was a lot of money for me at the time being a poorfag but it was honestly fantastic for all the shit I used to play (pre-2010 stuff) until mid-2015 where I would continuously bluescreen and couldn't figure out why. Opened up speccy one day and saw this and looked inside to see the fan not spinning, curiously I spun it myself and brought it back to life which fixed the problem completely until the fan literally fell off in 2016
>>720888779my 750W seasonic has been churning every day since 2015. it survived multiple pc builds. i'm gonna be sad when i finally upgrade from my 3080 and i have to get one of those 3.0 psu's
>>720893037consoles fail after a few years because of shoddy manufacturing hidden underneath warranty voiding garbage from the era of the 2000s when unfunctional plastic garbage was flowing out of china. my PS3 just died. never had anything on PC die. all the reddit posts about exploding PCs are 100% drooling retards seating their cables improperly or other nefarious means.
i unironically use this to dust off my pc, btw this shit works great to clean debris off your garage or walkway shit is so fun to use
>>720887957Yes, some years back when Apple was still using PowerPC, before the switch to Intel I was attemptint to install MacOS / Unix with the Mac UI on my PC. One of the differences back then if I recall correctly was that one CPU used big endian and the other used little endian, so the CPU controller I isntalled was the contrary to what my CPU does, my poor Pentium 4 3.0GHz couldn't take it, it even melted the mobo a little.For my next build I added a custom liquid cooling system for the cpu and GPU, it worked great to handle the overclockings I was doing back then.
>>720893563This is random, but it's also good at blowing up balloons and bouncy castles.
>>720892442As the other anons said, an air blower does the trick, and wipe the excess and outside with a microfiber towel. Remember that it's important to block your fans from spinning while using the air blower, otherwise you run the risk of damaging your motherboard. Also remember not to forget to dust the PSU, it's easy to forget since that's a component that tends not to be visible at plain sight.Do it once a month and you will be fine.
>>720887957once about 23 years ago when an asus motherboard fried on me when i was playing wow
>>720901025I've got an ego one because I also have theri string trimmer and a chain saw. very handyI don't use it to clean my pc though, I have a smaller electric blower for that
>buy a specific tool to do a task i maybe perform yearlyevery time i do this i use it once, maybe twice, and then it no longer works. $2 for a pack of compressed air cans every year is cheaper than buying a pump every couple years. and i fucking hate that my lived experiences have brought me to this conclusion. i want to live in the world that other people seem to.
>>720887957All the time on my Radeon 4870>105 degrees because random Eve online patch doesn't cap framerate in hangar>110 degrees because exhaust fan broke>100 degrees mining .50 bitcoin in 3 hours I miss it though it was a beast for its time.
>>7208879572 months ago, I heard a pop, the computer turned off and there was a burning smell for a little while. I bought a new mobo and everything is fine so far
>>720905136while i love my weed whacker, holy fuck that company can be a pile of shit>place i work at offered to be a dealer of ego products>get deals and such sorted out and sell a trickle of their equipment>any time we have to order something it's a shitshow, the one i ordered never showed up>so 3 months after it's scheduled delivery and after 2 months of complaining they sent me a better one for no extra cost, too bad summer was over already>ego gets into big name stores and they are all undercutting us and ego will not do anything for us to make it better>they then claim we're not selling enough to keep our dealer status and offer to buy back stock at like 60% of what we paidsmall businesses are being strangled to death
>>720892757>Same with my previous one from like 2012-2017If that one just WERKED why did you get a new one?
>>720897117This happened to me too in like 2005Only noticed red artifacts appearing and when I checked the temps they were above 100c
>>720905354i had a CRT monitor do that to me in the 00's>playing Theme Park>hear a "popzzrrt">screen goes grayscale and zooms into the bottom right quarter of the screen>last thing i see is a happy park guest flash a thumbs up before the screen goes black and smoke erupts from the rear of the monitori was a preteen and thought new monitors were cripplingly expensive and i panicked but we got a cheap decent one the next week
>>720905531WERKING does not include magically upgrading itself to keep up with the times, cumbreath
>>720901025Same. No paved roads where I am so the sandy loam tracks into the house no matter what. I take my pc to the backyard and just let the leaf blower rip.
>>720906020what does she know
>>720889359A thunderstorm was playing Sims 2 ??
>>720906551yeah that's when they made it illegal to look at a screen while being a weather pattern a while back
>>720887957my old power supply cable to gpu fried, got new cable and used other psu ports
>>720887957Had my screen go rainbow pattern on me into a hard crash and then the fragrant smell of burned electronics. Turns out my GPU blew a resistor and it was something the warranty covered, and they weren't selling my card anymore so they upgrade it for free.No smoke though.
>>720887957Yes, I live in Houston so my computer constantly overheats. It's really gay
>>720888858Bro, you don't have any hair on your dome at ALL kek.
>>720887957www
>>720887957when I was younger I tried to do the whole PC maintenance meme faithfully until I got a bit of thermal paste on the motherboard and it shorted out the circuit as a result.
>>720906020Who is Sandy Loam?
>>720887957Kinda yes?Wiring got stuck with the propeller. My PC went overheat so fast.
>>720887957Nope, my first ever laptop gave me noticeable "tan" on thighs that took decade to fade, but it never crashed on me.
>>720887957this used to happen from time to time back in the day with MOLEX plugs since you could connect them the wrong way.Fun times when an Optic drive or Hard drive would burn because of it.
>>720887957my evga bronze PSU died in February after like 7 years of service. I think the warning was the loud whirring fans I heard, but I thought they were the chasis fans and not the PSU one.
>>720895820this is one of the best methods, only thing that sucks is that it takes quite a while to clean everything, and you have to take the machine outside if you want for the dust to go all over your room.Also you can use a vacuum just fine, all the people saying it is dangerous are because they WERE dangerous on those old 386 machines, modern shit are much more durable.
>>720887957never had a PC catch on fire, but>playing Hotwheels Velocity X onna family PC>hear the most horrific grinding/crunching noise from the PC tower>game crashes>call dad upstairs>open disk drive>somehow the disk came loose while spinning and got completely obliterated into fine plastic shards>had to help him pick out all the pieces>never finished all the challenges for the game
>>720888779>retarded contractors working on the powerlines short some cables>all the lights in my house start flickering>PSU does some whirring noises and I can see sparks>unplug everything>check it afterwards and it just worksseasonic PSUs are just too good, worth every penny10year warranty too
>>720906551Sims 2 was THAT good!Gaming industry nowadays suck so much not even a mild breeze wants to play vidya anymore...
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>>720887957Once, a very long time ago, when prebuilt cream colored PC towers were still in vogue. I think I was trying to play Ragnarok.I heard a pop, the PC shut off, and I caught a faint whiff of smoke. No doubt the cheap as fuck PSU that came with it.
>>720888873man imagine the blood
>>720892581can this clean my gamer gunk?
>>720893037>cast fire in SRPG>console melts
>>720893525>Cockroach infestationsi dunno if this is just a meme or something, but literally HOW??maybe in 3rd world countries, or shitty ass neighborhoods? i literally havent seen a single cockroach in like.. 20-22 YEARS. Not in North america anyway
>>720912697i hear the new ones arent that great. the 3.x models. is that true?
>>720913881lemme guess... Disgaea D2? I heard that game specifically absolutely destroyed PS3s lolInterestingly enough , it also uses a LOT of power and very demanding with lower framerates on RPCS3..
