Aren't upper vents dangerous?, like it's easy to drop liquids there.
>>743402238They usually come with magnetic plates to filter dust and liquids, so you'd have to pour a whole cuppa joe onto the fucker to do any real damage.
if you need to ask, never place any liquids above any electronic devices you care about
I have spilled a full glass of water on my PC multiple times (because I'm retarded) and it still works fine
why the fuck do you have liquids above your pcdon't tell me you're sitting on top of it
>>743402238You could, that's why I never place any liquids in any place where they could be tipped over into my PC.
>>743402238just turn the PSU off before the liquid gets into it
>>743402341I spilled water on my 970 once it kept going for 4 months after but eventually died
>>743402238don't use it as a cup holder
>>743402238>see obvious b8 thread>move on>refresh >9 repliesyou niggers need to be shot
>>743402238My PC is 2+ meters away from any drinks I might have on my desk
>>743402484bump
>>743402238Why would you ever place liquids over your PC? Anyway, on topic, I have an NZXT H6 Flow, it didn't come with dust filters so I just bought some DIY ones to set myself. Hopefully with this I can stop cleaning my PC every month or so.
>dont put shit above itok but what if theres a leak in your ceiling or some shit
>>743402484+1
>>743402334>>743402351>>743402383>>743402649>>743402661Imagine you get a coke, you open the can but it got a little shaken up and spilled out over the pc
>>743402238I always tape them. There's no need for upper vents to have iar flow and I'd rather have less risk than more.
>>7434022381. Put your desktop on top of your desk, like the name says.2. Don't have open liquid containers on your desk. Get screw bottles or water bottles with screw lids.
>>743402238Show your setup so I can understand how that's a viable concern.
>>743402873I'm imagining it but I have never carried a can of coke all the way to my PC without opening it
>>743402238The fan on the back of my case stopped working Is this bad? If all the other fans are working won’t the air get pushed out anyway?
>>743403127If you aren't replacing it remove it so said dead fan isn't blocking the exhaust space so much.
>>743402238Surface tension stops liquids from getting through. Try it out yourself by trying to pour water through the mesh. After you've removed it from your PC, obviously.
>>743402238Upper vents are pretty pointless imo, as long as you have airflow from front to back you're set. I keep mine covered too and have had no issues for 10+ years. Helps keep dust out as well.
>>743403127You'll get positive air pressure which will leave more ambient heat inside circulating and raise your cpu/gpu temps.
>>743403127Have you tried swapping out fans to see if its really that specific fan? Could be a bigger problem relating to your motherboard if another fan isn't working from where that fan was plugged in at..
>>743403264>>743403379Ah fuck
>>743402238Liquids is the least of your problems. Tiny debris can still fall from the ceiling. Insects especially would love to get inside PCs, more so if you have a lot of LEDs lights inside them. Don't trust PCfags to know anything about the outside world. Get dust filters/magnetic sheets like the other anon mentioned if you're worried about those holes. Not all PC cases come with them sadly.
>>743403654Positive air pressure is fine/a myth because air will always find some way to escape a computer case.
>>743402942hey... that's my drawing!
>>743402484How do I manually breathe again...?
>>743403726Not air, ambient heat. One time exhaust stopped working and by chance my foot brushed against my pc case and I felt that it was hot. Checked my gpu temp at that moment and it was 110c when it's max was like 90.
>>743402873you shouldn't be drinking cokes either fatty
>>743402873Just put the can on the other side of the desk.
>>743402873>imagine you get a cokeBut I drink water
>>743402942If I buy a usb desk fan and stick it facing down on top of my case where the red rectangle is will that help air flow?
>>743402873Imagine unironically eating or drinking near your pc, your fucking key board must be an ant garm
>>743404206In general where that red fan is should not be used in typical air cooled setups as it just fucks with airflow.
>>743402238Just don't drop liquids thereNever happened to me
>>743404474dude, just reverse gravity lol
>>743404617simply reduce your risk by recognizing dangerous areas to transport liquids and avoiding transporting them near sensitive objects!
>>743402238spilled a glass of water on my PC like 16 years ago like that; I remember a spark and I shut it down quickdon't remember any issues after
>>743402873>drinking coke
>>743402238So place your PC where that can't happen
>>743402238Liquid cooling is way more dangerous but people still going for it
>>743402238in my 30+ years of life i've never spilled a liquid on a computer case much less near iti have spilled half a coke on my keyboard at a lan when i was 14 but still that's $15 and easily replaced (still worked like a charm tho lmao)
>>743402238PC boards are coated with varnish or something similar, nothing should happen if some little water fell inside.Cola could corrode stuff so that should be washed away.
OOPS I dropped my cum jar and all my moldy cum got in the upper vent of my PC.
>>743410692Haha stinky! Because the internal parts are warm and the fans will blow your warm cum jelly around
>>743402873Why are you sitting on your PC?
>>743410968>above desk PC>coke opening height is below top of PC no problem>below desk PC>coke will hit desk no problemHe must be.
>>743402873>oh god it's everywhere
>>743403876>>743404204>>743407447It’s yummy. Do you not allow yourself any meaningless pleasure in your life? Stop taking yourselves so seriously
>>743402873Do you keep your computer on the fucking floor or something?
>>743402238Uuuuh, don't?
>>743409859>all the beautiful Power Mac G5s killed by primitive 2006 OEM water cooling. Between that and all the leaky PRAM batteries Apple really knew how to force you onto newer hardware back in the day.
I realized this thread is for the genuine zero iq retards with their case on the floor, if i spill my soda it spills off the table and into the floor
>>743402873fat fuck
>>743402238That’s exactly what I fucking did yesterday and now I have to take my tower to a pc repair store to see if I fried the mobo or just the PSU. I had to get all fancy and get myself a Stella Artois glass I saw at goodwill, feel like one of those bougie new yorkers and have a sooo on my lone day off, and of fucking course I spilled it onto the vent. My computer shut off but when I tried restarting it it blinked a few times, so I hard shut it off, let it sit a little, and used a dry bath towel to soak up any residue on the mobo(looked like it hardly got on it), but now it won’t even power on any morePray for me, bros
mine is completely under my deskliquid would pour off my desk and miss the PC
>>743402238I have a external disc drive sitting there on top collecting the dust
>>743402327>attaching magnets to your pcenjoy losing all your data
>>743402661Water will still find its way in.
>>743402238Upper vents are overrated. What more important is under vents+ fans to pull cool airs in for your GPU.
>>743402238Aren't anuses dangerous like I could shove my cock up yours.
>>743402873It wouldn't shoot up.
>>743402434my 970 also died recently, or it's the motherboard. didn't care to check though i miss that old frankenstein machine
I don't understand why some of you think this is unlikely. This summer, for example, your little cousin might come to visit and squirt you with a water gun, and some of that water might end up there.
>>743402873Just open it over your fat gunt instead of the PC.It's what I do.
>>743403257Thanks anon, I removed the mesh to test it and the many open cinema cups of coke I had balanced on top of my computer on standby immediately got knocked over.
>>743402238Why are you putting your opened can of Monster up there in the first place?
I haven't spilled anything into my personal computer in its 5 year lifespan but last week I knocked over a beer and it very nearly went down into the computer...
>have literally never spilled anything into my PCtry not being fucking retarded
>>743411334>Canned cokes with corn syrup instead of sugarNasty shit. I cant even finish half a 12oz can. Have to hunt down glass bottled imported coke to get sugar
>>743412987its over, you should not have turned it back on until it was completely dry at the very least. Perhaps even wiping it down with some rubbing alcohol using a qtip
Don't you have cats? because I have one that doesn't stop pissing everywhere and my worst fear is she pissing on the pc.
>>743424131throw that fucking piece of shit outside? Why are you just letting it piss all over you house. Cat piss is like one of the worst things you can deal with. LAst cat that pissed in my house i took it outside and punted it several feet in the air as it screeched like a bitch and ran off, never to be seen again
>>743424326brown coded post
>>743402873Yeah, it's possible- if you live like a complete fucking slob.
how much of a clumsy retard do you have to be to get liquid in the upper vent?
>>743402238That and all the other scenarios described in this thread can be prevented by relocating your desktop PC to the TOP of your DESK
>>743424348Cat piss covered hands moved by a toxoplasmosis controlled brain typed this post
>>743402238Stop pissing in the drawers
>putting liquids on top of electronicsconsider suicide
>>743409859>he didnt switch to diphasic dielectric coolantCasuals i swear....
>>743402873You're supposed to open the can over your desk, not over your PC. Are you actually this dumb?
>>743402484oh no this could have been a steam charts, some literally who twitter opinion or yet another thinly veiled coomer thread celebrating gachas as savior of the video games despite being just another form of cancer
The heat of the fan pushes the liquids away
>>743402238you place your case on the ground to collect as much dust as possible?
>use nvidia>water evaporates before reaching any solid part
>>743426951If liquids on electronics is so bad, why did PCs used to come with a cup holder?
>>743413138>using hdds in current yearunless it's in a nas you're a retard
>>743402942i have a similar setup, but the red fan pushes air up
>>743402873They didn't like this one boss
>>743409859some people just like to buy a new pc every year
>>743427229You shouldn't use the red fan at all - in your case it is pulling the cold air the front intakes are pushing out before said air reaches the cpu cooler.
I just have the top fans set to exhaust so any liquid that gets close is blown away by the air pressure before it hits the electronics. Simple physics really.
>>743427023>other bad threads exist so its okay for me to make a bad threadThinking like this is exactly why thread quality is so low, because every shitter like you thinks its okay to shit up the place because someone else does too
>>743427547This desu red fans make your pc hotter. Green fans are energy efficient but if you care about cooling you should really have blue fans.
>>743413138>>743427189/v/ IQ at its best
>>743427130Don't do this; it makes mustard gas!
>>743427721
>>743427829They tried to warn us about RGB
>>743427696why is this thread bad? Anons actually discuss fans and water-cooling. If anything this belongs on /g/ and not /v/.
>>743427983It isn't an nvidia vs AMD brand wars thread so /g/ doesn't want to know.
>was always told you should occasionally clean your computers, and have have personally seen people’s computers or laptops die from too much dust>when reminded of this, always think to myself “huh, guess i should pop my case open and give my stuff a clean”>never do>as in i have maybe used a air canister half assed on a old laptop when i was a kid>only pop open a case now and then if i need to troubleshoot hardware which is also quite rare>for context, i’m not exactly a clean freak>only really hoover when my place gets to the point looks like an actual crack den lmao (but then i do deep clean, in fairness)>also a fairly clumsy motherfucker, but so far really only half-killed a laptop keyboard with spilled drink, motherboard itself was fine so i coped with an external keyboard until i got a new laptop>have taken work laptops and personal laptops in rucksacks and gotten stuck in heavy rain>fucker’s are fine to this day>other than that when i’ve spilled coke/beer/water on a controller or mouse or keyboard it’s been fine, and have otherwise never gotten an actual computer wet since>know people who look at a computer wrong and it fucking explodes or some shitand i have had about 10 laptops and about 5 desktops in my life at 30. not all brand new or top of the line, mind you. so i’ve had a good amount and some i’ve had for over 5 years at a time. still fine after daily use. it’s a running gag at this point. i could probably drop my computer out a window and it would be just fine
>>743402873I bet you leave your cheetos bag next to your pillow, fatso
They solved the airflow conundrum before most of /v/ was born but everyone forgot about this simple solution
>>743402873imagine getting diabetes (which ofcourse is unrelated, its just genetic right)
>>743420516THIS SUMMER (BADUM DUMM)ANON GETS SQUIRTED ON… BUT NOT IN THE WAY YOU’RE THINKING!IN CINEMAS AUGUST 2027
>>743420516>This summer, for example, your little cousin might come to visit and squirt you with a water gun, and some of that water might end up there.
>>743428301The problem is ATX. BTX kinda sorta maybe had a crack at it but really ATX needs to go as fundamentally its layout is based around computing trends of the 80's and is at least 25 years out of date given the way things have gone.
>>743410968imagine wasting money on a chair when you can use your PC as a stool
>>743427130Cup=/=Cup full of liquid
I think some of you live in a basement or something, there are a thousand ways liquid can get into a computer. Your dog might come in after a rainy day and shake itself off in your room.
>>743402661Imagine if your car decides to go up there and pee? What then?
>>743428773yeah, that’s where the ash trays went. duhh. we was smoking mad cigarettes in the 90s and 2000s
>>743428720>self heating seatmost gamers are behind on this tech
>>743429036>not isolating yourself from your family and pets by violently hissing at anyone every time when they enter your gaming sanctum without permission
>>743429036not only i've had upper vent open, i in fact didnt have a side wall (since it interrupts the air flow from the gpu in my case) for the last 8 years and never once had any issues, since im not a goofy clumsy idiot i guess
>>743402238Yeah man if you drop liquid into holes, it will spill through. So like, don't do that lol.Also just get a fractal torrent.
>>743402942What is the solution? Just get rid of the red fan?
>>743402873>Imagine you get a cokeSorry I'm not 500 pounds
>>743402238The amount of PCs lost to rain and snow alone is unfathomable.
What the heck is going on in /v/ with all this “coke” stuff? Are you going to tell me that nobody here drinks any kind of soda?
>>743402873just have your drinks on the opposite hand side of your setup from your pc box, retard
>>743409859I like how the stickers on ram are peeling because they've probably been getting cooked
My gf always has a glass of wine on the desk just over my computer and she knows it stresses me the fuck out and she gets upset when I chide her about it. Might have sex later but actually be angry sex.
>>743429689green tea without sugarim not a mutt with a generational grudge against the brits or something
>>743429425Yes.
>>743402238This is why you put your PC ON the desk, not under. But even back when I had it under the desk me and everyone else I know always placed the PC as close to the wall and away from the chair as possible, I really don't know how the fuck can you manage to spill your drink on the PC and this is coming from a retard that killed countless keyboards from spilling drinks on them
>>743402942idgi
>>743424326Why would you throw it outside when you can just euthanize it?
>>743429480oooh- I'll take a water water
>>743409859yeah i just got a new pc and i went full fan no liquid its retarded to get this shit, its loud but there is no way im having liquid near parts that cost over 2k
>>743429425almost. the real trick is get rid of the red air. green air is good, red air is bad
>>743424131One of my mother's dogs pissed on the back of my little brother's PC, killed the PSU and a couple other components. He usually keeps the door to his room closed but my mother went in there and left the door open, and one of the many mutts just had to piss on it. I'm glad I live by myself now because those dogs made it impossible to leave anything on the floor for more than 10 minutes.
>>743412987i laughed way too hard at this. that sucks man
>>743402238I leave that shit completely opened. I find that my PC overheats when playing graphic intense games if I have it closed. Sometimes I just put a cold can of soda on top of it to help it cool. And it does work.
>>743428773You need the liquid to keep the clanker in fear and obedience.https://youtu.be/Iv_XaPp-XIY?si=QS5Q2khon-9QOGHu
The PC lives under your fucking desk, you can't spill anything on it. As for dust, only retards care about this. A couple of degrees will not make any difference, the only real issue you will face with a rig is that after 10 years or so the thermal paste might dry out, which will cause throttling.
>>743432407>under desk>not on top
>>743432532>cat knocks it over onto the floor
>>743432724>building such a flimsy PC small animal can knock it over
>>743432724>places it parallel to the wallnow what
>>743432532My desk space is at a fucking premium. Why would I waste it by putting my PC on the top? I could maybe place it behind my monitor, but then it'd be a complete pain in the dick to move my monitor every time I needed to access it.
>>743432787Sir, your airflow?
>>743432407don't you have to change the thermal paste every two years at least?
>>743402238>Floor tower problems.Works on my desk.
>>743432779>small animal
>>743432831As opposed to crawling under your desk to access it?
>>743432836>removes the case wall
>>743432935>cat plays with the wiring and gets fucking fried
>>743402238Why should liquids be anywhere near your computer? Don't tell me you're one of those disgusting slobs who eats and drinks there? If you do then you have this kind of thing coming. Eat in the kitchen or the dinner room
>>743432861Two years is the minimum time you have to change it and not neccessary under normal conditions. Just run a stress test every so often and if the thermals start to look suspicious, consider repasting. Personally I have changes CPUs and coolers often enought that I haven't had the need to change paste for it drying up yet (outside of one second hand GPU)
>>743433013>PC removes your pest problem for freeWin-win
>>743433031>just buy another table goy
>>743433013or turns in to pikachu
>>743432913Yeah, that's way less work than moving my monitor. I just slide my chair away.
>>743433031>just waste an entire room just for eating goy
>>743433031the freedumb to eat in your room > the prison idea of eating at the mess mitchen
>>743433172>catachu rubs against your leg and electrocutes you
>>743433035>Personally I have changes CPUs and coolers often enought that I haven't had the need to change paste for it drying up yetsame here but considering the current prices I might start needing to do this, changing the CPU paste is easy enough but the GPU's can get a little tricky
