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Building a PC (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 20 hours ago by obladee@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 72 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

There was a glorious time in the 90s when PC building had enough stuff going on and not yet enough safeguards that I could actually put things in wrong and start a small fire.

Those were exciting days. And sometimes expensive.

[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 38 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Magic smooooke

[–] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 14 points 14 hours ago

Those are the gases that made the computer engine run. You let them out and the engine dies.

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago

Any machine can be a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

One time it worked to quickly turn off and pull out the smoking chip (cpu cache extender) flip it 180 degrees and try again. No apparent permanent damage.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

wait, have they finally fixed the "i can plug in my psu wrong" problem? the stress of that at my job was bad enough i don't want to do it on my home computers now i can't afford to replace parts if i bork em

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

If it was possible I surely would have for my last two computers. At least mine came with nubs and corners that enforced one orientation.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 1 points 10 hours ago

If you mix cables, between power supplies, definitely still possible