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.
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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
What a bunch of assholes.
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.
Fuckin pricks turning the goddamn cpus 45° so no cooler would ever fit.. grrr
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Reminds me of when I made a pc as a media center for my roommates out of old spare pc parts and the box that their xbox360 came in.
Had to turn it on by using a paper clip to short the right two pins, lol.
to short the right two pins
That's the core principle of how switches work. You have done everything right.
Legit badass. "Hotwire the PC so we can watch a movie!"
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I don't know why but this has me rolling. Genuinely had to catch my breath.
Happy to know my redneck engineering made you laugh! It was either that or a custom water loop.
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Literally thinking outside the box.
"Think outside the box."
This is the dude I'd turn down any 1v1 Starcraft matches against at the lan party.
Why even bother putting the side cover back on? I left mine open for years.
maybe pet hair? dust? maybe they get laid?
You're talking about three different things, right? ... right?
hey if you can sexually satisfy dust and cat hair, you should consider starting an onlyfans. while the human brain often confuses sneezing for orgasms, it's only partial credit.
They're a pc gamer, they sure as shit ain't getting laid.
Put energy into women, or put energy into Helldivers.
I've been through enough trauma to know that Helldivers is way healthier
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I have enough money for an angle grinder and a new used graphics card. But not a fancy new case.
With prebuilds like this a lot of times you can't just change the case without also changing the motherboard. Also they could have an angle grinder just laying around. They may even have done it on purpose for the lulz.
I actually just upgraded my Dell Optiplex 990 SFF to a new full ATX case and had to get a new motherboard. Dell does some funky stuff to their motherboard to get it to fit into their custom cases. For instance the CPU cooler clipped into the case through the motherboard This was one of the ways the motherboard was secured into the case. The other mount points were entirely non-standard so no other case would fit. I did consider making some modifications to the case with a hacksaw before deciding to just get a new case and motherboard. The new Motherboard was pretty cheap because I was using a 4th-gen intel i3. Not great specs but good enough for a homebrew NAS.
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The hole in the side is a speed-hole. It makes the computer go faster.
How did you get a picture of my PC!?
I joke...I at least 3d printed a cover for the card lol
That PLA is melting as we speak.
Pet-G brah, only the good stuff
It was such a good deal bro I had to buy it! 😂
If you’re on a budget and it works…
I know a guy who spent hundreds of extra dollars on his build to make sure everything was white. I think maybe I prefer this?
PSU popping noises and smoke...
although a joke, usually oem psus are fairly high efficiency, just low wattage. however the image uses a gpu without a 6/8/12 pin connector, so its highly unlikely the up to 75W load would kill the system when the psus are usually rated for 200, and the cpu usually only uses 1/4 of that
I did this a number of years back with a GTX 750ti... because that was the last good card that ran without a dedicated power supply connection.
Even if you rigged a power connector, it's be damn hard trying to keep a modern card stable with the 250w-325w power supply in the Optiplix
I kind of think more designs should be like that. Let the GPU breathe cold air from outside the case.
There were a lot of experiments with wind tunnels and such back in the day. In the end, the difference wasn't significant enough to justify the R&D.
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I admit to doing stuff like this to Dells and no-name cases. 😂 It's usually to fit a more common standard PSU though. One time, I put the power supply in the 5 1/4" bay and flipped the rear fans.
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