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[The Verge] How we built a $2000 custom gaming PC (Horribly)
- Thread starter RadioactiveLobster
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What is he talking about? The RAM sticks are still in the wrong slots at the end of the video. You may have changed it afterwards, but this is what you're presenting to your audience.
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That's a PC made for cooking. You drop eggs inside, play some game for 10 minutes, and done, you have perfectly soft boiled eggs.
I think he means after the video. Here is a picture with the RTX 2080 inside it:
Hard to tell, but it's still not really an improvement.
If only I could point my GPU exhasut inwards. I bet I could cook some very good steak. :P
I've been building systems for over 15 years now. I have never watched someone fuck up a build as much as that guy did. And it's on a massive channel like The Verge, not some little kid who just started their channel. That's insane. Remove the video and if you still want to have the "tutorial' up there, reshoot it.
I tried doing the X method once but ended up overdoing it. Pea method seems like the most surefire way of getting solid coverage. Though I'm gonna go for that thermal strip thing for my next build.
Plus the pressure that you get when you fasten the cooler in place is much greater than this dude pushing down a piece of plastic, so you'll get excellent coverage with just a pea.
No reason to spread anything out manually. Just put a small dab in the middle and you're done. Anything else is waaaaaay overcomplicating it for no reason.
lol If you're that precise with your thermal paste application you're probably not watching any of these instructional videos :P
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Wanting people who don't know better to not short out their mobos due to conductive thermal paste potentially spilling out on the sides due to an awful instructional video posted on one of the largest tech publications out there is elitist? No, my friend. Laughing about it and hoping people do just that would be elitist. Exposing the low quality of this video and putting out a PSA to warn people not to follow it is the literal opposite.
It is not worth it. The only thing this thread has shown is that anyone that feels the video is bad is an elitist jerk and everyone else thinks its fine.
Why did nobody ever think of that before?! 2 birds with one stone.
Unless you tightly pack the whole side with cable it's not going to matter. There has been many comparisons done on the subject already. It's negligible.
There'a a reason I buy a nice custom build pc these days a I am clumsy idiot when building PC's , I don't mind upgrading GPU or Ram. My old pc is playing up which I have given to my mum/nephew but getting them to buy a new base unit is painful even they use it daily.
When I used thermal paste it was always arctic silver, which is conductive.
From what I understand, it's good to be a bit generous with non conductive paste for GPUs because the full gpu dye needs to be cooled, while a normal cpu has a integrated heat spreader so its actual dye is much smaller. A GPU is also fixed to the pcb so there are no spaces under it for the paste to run off to like a cpu socket. Overflowing paste on a cpu could be a problem to clean unlike a gpu.
From what I understand, it's good to be a bit generous with non conductive paste for GPUs because the full gpu dye needs to be cooled, while a normal cpu has a integrated heat spreader so its actual dye is much smaller. A GPU is also fixed to the pcb so there are no spaces under it for the paste to run off to like a cpu socket. Overflowing paste on a cpu could be a problem to clean unlike a gpu.
Honestly building a computer doesn't have to be that scary. Again, check out this JayzTwoCents video where he intentionally does everything wrong (and still puts together a better build than the Verge).
How is criticizing a tutorial video filled with faults in any way elitist?
Elitist would be criticizing that they didn't use water cooling or overclock the cpu and gpu. Asking to put ram in the correct spots and not put too much thermal paste is just asking for the bare minimum.
I think pointing out factually incorrect information is not elitist it's informative. If you're just starting out trying to build a PC, you should know that certain things were not done correctly. That's not elitist.
Why bother? Have any of this thread's drive-by shitposters returned to substantiate their arguments?
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If there's anything to take away from all this it's that even if you manhandle your parts and do insanely stupid things like put the fan mounting screws the whole way through your CPU radiator, your PC will very likely still boot and run without issues. Obviously you shouldn't do these things but it shows how simple and painless PC building is these days.
Ok, good on The Verge. Hope they come back with a better researched video. Fuck anyone who turned this into any form of harassment campaign, if that happened (I don't follow social media aside from what is posted on Era.)
Plus the pressure that you get when you fasten the cooler in place is much greater than this dude pushing down a piece of plastic, so you'll get excellent coverage with just a pea.
what happens if you put too much thermal paste and it spills over the edge?
Holy hell, I'm surprised that PC managed to POST.
The amount of mistakes made were horrendous!
This has nothing to do with elitism. It's all about serious mistakes being made, lack of informed oversight and the potential for viewers to fry their system.
The amount of mistakes made were horrendous!
This has nothing to do with elitism. It's all about serious mistakes being made, lack of informed oversight and the potential for viewers to fry their system.
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Nice to see it finally got pulled down. Took'em way too long to do it though.
There was nothing "minor" about the factual errors and misleading information but at this point, no sense arguing further about it.
There was nothing "minor" about the factual errors and misleading information but at this point, no sense arguing further about it.
I saw the original Verge video last week and honestly thought it was a parody video, wasn't really clear on what it was parodying but just thought "huh thats kinda funny but weird".
Its really bizarre the Verge approved and posted it though, they seem to have always been pretty decent on tech coverage during CES but I guess maybe PC building is a blind spot.
Its really bizarre the Verge approved and posted it though, they seem to have always been pretty decent on tech coverage during CES but I guess maybe PC building is a blind spot.
Nothing, unless the paste is electrically conductive. You only need a pea size drop in the middle. The paste is only there to fill the air gap between the cooler and CPU. Adding a ton of paste will just get squeezed out the side and make a mess on the motherboard.
Are you serious? Quite the reachRacist comments? Targeted harassment campaign?
I feel like a number of people in here openly enabled this, too. Do better?
Not populating the motherboard before dropping it into the case, they're lucky this thing works, easily could have bent the wrong CPU socket pin and it would have been game over.
Shit like this should be a straight ban unless you quote the people and bring forth an actual argument.
Gormless af.
Racist comments? Targeted harassment campaign?
I feel like a number of people in here openly enabled this, too. Do better?
Who in here openly enabled that? None of the comments in this thread were racist or hate based.
From: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Thermal-Paste-Application-Techniques-170/
Basically, it makes virtually no difference. The variation is small enough that it may well just be random chance.
Amusingly, drawing a smiley face was among the "better" results.
Racist comments? Targeted harassment campaign?
I feel like a number of people in here openly enabled this, too. Do better?
didn't really see that from this thread. mind quoting those offenders?
I did say "openly," huh. I meant to say "accidentally." My bad on that but I do stand by the sentiment that people here wishing them grief over the video should've been a little more cognizant of what we all knew was going to happen.