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submitted 3 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/hmmm

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[–] johannesvanderwhales 62 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I actually did need to take a hacksaw to a Dell case when the PSU died, because they used a proprietary form factor. It was just removing some of the back panel and it worked fine.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Once upon a time I think they also had custom pinouts on the ATX connector, so just replacing your PSU with a standard one would fry your mobo

[–] Anticorp 23 points 3 months ago

What a bunch of assholes.

[–] HeyJoe 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They did, I was about to say the same thing! I had to buy an adapter to make it work right. This was like mid to late 2000's. I work in IT for a company and didn't want to spend money on a new PC yet so I snagged one from work that was no longer used. It got the job done, but yeah it was crazy to see what they did to make it so you couldn't swap or change some things inside.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Fuckin pricks turning the goddamn cpus 45° so no cooler would ever fit.. grrr

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeeeep. I did this. Very disheartening after spending the time with a Dremel to modify the back panel enough for it to fit.