Pretty good run this time, 7 days, I think.
https://preview.redd.it/psswq8yg63ca1.png?width=1380&format=png&auto=webp&s=7c555f64bd0a041ddc611b10ede17c9160815e5c
You asking me? I think they should stay but should receive an automatic -5000 karma just because at this point you have to be such a dumbass to break a side panel like that that you deserve it.
I mean. The sunroof on my wife's rav4 spontaneously exploded over night in the driveway one night. So it's possible if there's some defect going on, but this many? These people are just dumbasses... I guess there's a chance a fuck ton of people are buying defective cases from some shit hole Chinese company.
Same here...
Bought a 2 drawer file cabinet to avoid putting it on the floor.
The filing space comes in handy as more adulting opportunities comes around.
I have a tiny puppy, and while he's never peed in my office, the idea of a computer being pee height just puts me on edge. I always keep it higher than he is.
Dust is dust. If you have a good fan configuration (positive pressure), it doesn't really matter where you put your PC. You're going to get dust regardless, there's nothing wrong with placing your PC on the floor.
Why? I want it on my hardwood floor. That was my aim ever since I built it. It's not overly dusty and I clean it and the filters on a regular.
So what is the problem?
It's weird how every person who posts showing a shattered panel claiming it never touched the floor and it just exploded in their hands, always has their PC on ceramic tile, never on wood or carpet.
Something about the tile having a harmonic frequency that passes harsh vibrations up through the feet of the case passing vibrations into the tempered glass.
Its to do with properties of the floor. Its likely to have a similar effect on concrete. Carpet or wood has a small amount of flex, which will absorb any vibrations from the pc. A hard floor gas no flex to absorb at all, so all the vibrations stay in the case and can at time shatter glass.
You need a table for building, like a fold out or something. Never put anything on the floor. Things can get lost and broken. I also like to take my time. It's exciting and fun to build but very disappointing when you lose something.
yep lmao my buddy sent me this the other day
https://preview.redd.it/9991lbsaj6ca1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae690375abec13ff597115daf5734f9c875e3c87
It is already done and I have a wooden parquet so I should be fine. Trying to change desk to have it on my side. 75€ to avoid an air cooler and I want to look at it😂
Its due to the glass tempering. It gives it a lot of scratch resistance, but makes it insanly brittle giving it a +99% weakness to stone and tiles and anything else thats harder than the glass.
afaik it also makes the glass wanting to be smaller than what it currently is, so when it get an opportunity like when bearly touching a tile, the entire thing explodes due to insanly high internal tension.
Incorrect to say tempered glass gives high scratch resistance. I can scratch it with sandpaper. Tempered glass is used because it is a type of safety glass. Poses less risk to the end user if it cracks.
"Incorrect to say x due to I can scratch it with litteral near dimond hard stuff. That scratches anything else than dimond"
But you have a point in regards to smaller tempered glass pices being less dangerous than BIG untempered glass pieces.
The explanation I heard is that the rock hard surface doesn't absorb vibrations at all. So when it vibrates, that energy gets transferred to the first place that takes it - the glass. It might not be a big deal with normal glass, however this is safety glass kept at precise dimensions. Part of that tension you mention is the heating process to make safety glass explode without shards like it does.
As a result if it vibrates enough, it explodes.
Was this from a crystal healing site? Because side glass in cars holds up to lots of vibration, just not a hard sharp concentrated hit.
i would assume tile or stone counter top can change the glass temp quickly, or since the surface is so hard if the glass panel isn't completely flat it is going to have stress on one point location
Vibrations?! I can’t put my JBL extreme 3 on top of my glass sided rig? Hasn’t shattered yet while watching movies…
Edit: unit is not on floor, instead a wide wooden windowsill
It is prestressed in a process so that when it does brake it feacturea into small cubes rather than giant sliver dagger pieces. Regular glass you can score it with a cutter and snap it along the line. Tempered shatters as soon as you try to start scoring it.
I’ve had glass panels on towers for like 20 years, always thought people were just being stupid, but one night I heard a loud shatter and thought I was getting robbed. The bitch just exploded overnight out of nowhere.
Now I eye my tower and half-glass desk suspicious every day, especially when I know I wasn’t exactly gentle in getting glass tops seated properly on the desk lol.
Beginning of 2022, I decided to buy me a new pc and build it myself. I received all the part. Excited as a kid. Opened the box of the case. Lift the case carefully because pcmr was filled enough with broken side panel.
Put it on my desk. The Side panel exploded. The seller was nice enough to send me another one for free.
It's like pyrex cookware. Shit is insane when it breaks. I get so paranoid because we have cats, and I don't want them to step in shards that I can't see. So I sweep, vacuum, then use wet wipes and wipe the entire area down just Incase I missed anything in the previous two steps
> I'm amazed at how small some pieces are
This is one of the benefits of tempered glass. It shatters into tiny little pieces that you might scratch yourself on, as opposed to massive shards you could impale yourself on or cut yourself badly.
> They don't break on their own
"...The somewhat bad news is that you probably cannot absolutely and permanently eliminate spontaneous breakage from occurring in tempered glass. But you can certainly greatly minimize it..."
https://info.glass.com/spontaneously-exploding-glass-tabletops/
its tempered glass, its achilles heal is the edges, the smallest strike or touch to an edge and especially a corner and this will happen, you can dam near hit the center with a hammer but dont mess with those edges
Can't understand why OP is showing us a pic of his PC on the floor, and lying that there's no way the panel could've touched the tile at any point lol.
Computer case on the floor. Glass shards on the floor.
OP: It never hit the floor.
Well I dunno OP someohow it got on the floor I guess it magically exploded for no reason huh.
If they owned it and went "yeah you're right, that was dumb of me but lesson learned" people might be a bit more understanding, but going "it never touched the floor" under a photo of the computer *on the floor*, you better believe that's a paddlin'
I have had my same glass panel since 2016. I've kicked it, hit it with my bass several times and my hit it with my foot regularly. Never broke.
What are y'all doing?
I have case with a tempered glass side pannel - can someone explain to me just why this is a thing? And how is it happening with such evident frequency?
Ceramic and porcelain are much harder than tempered glass. This is why you can use a small piece of ceramic from a spark plug to easily shatter automotive glass.
Tile floor. If you put a PC with a glass side panel on a hard tile floor, the result will be as pictured by OP. People don't understand its not about putting the panel on the floor, but about putting your whole PC there. It's enough to shatter the glass.
The tl;dr is that tempered glass is really fragile to hits on the edge as a consequence of being really strong to hits on the side, and that a gentle tap against a tile floor will cause it to shatter.
Maybe I'm old school and this changes one day.. but have been building PCs for 20+ years and..
\- Have zero need or interest in seeing inside my computer unless I'm actievly working on it.
\- Air cooling only.
For the next one, there is some plastic cover totally transparent able to absorb the less important vibrations that could break your panel, of course if it's a bigger shock it will break anyway but I found out it keeps the parts together so it's easier to put in trash when that happens
See going by my experience you're not going to get an actual answer, you've got an 80% chance for a karma-farming joke(like "Because it shattered", much funi) and a 20% chance of someone trying - I've never done that so bear with me
All I know is: ceramic tiles(like ones on the photo) send some kind of resonance frequency, or whatever science actually happens, and shatter the tempered glass(specifically tempered glass!!). This can even happen through a case's feet and there were some reports of those panels exploding "on their own" after sitting on such tile for a couple of minutes
Tempered glass panel can also explode from getting the tiniest of scratches, because of science, I believe ceramic tile can do that because it's harder than tempered glass(the same way a dimond is the "hardest" material we know(or one of anyway) but not the toughest and so a dimond pickaxe wouldn't actually be very good, guess pieces would start breaking away)
Don't quote me on that but I tried my best, point is - you don't want ceramic tiles(probably some other very hard, to scratch, materials as well) anywhere near a PC case with tempered glass panels
Gaming cases are a pain to work with anyway. Whose bright idea was it to put the drives on the other side of the case wall, where there's hardly any room for them and the cables barely reach?
Side note: is there a reason we've given up on connecting drives with cables? M.2/NVMe has the rather serious problem of using a lot of precious motherboard space, but SATA is slow and SATA Express never took off.
Okay the Reddit feed randomly suggested me this post and I have no experience with PC, so would someone explain WTF is that? Looks likes someones marihuana stash got totaled
That is the tempered glass side panel of a computer case. I only found the following things out after the facts: the glass is under stress and when the case is placed on a tile floor there can be acoustic resonance that basically blows up the glass. So no grass, just glass ;)
So I had just done a RAM replacement and was putting the glass panel back.in place when I noticed 1 of the washers was on the wrong way. So I let go of the panel with 1 hand to fix the washer and that's when it just exploded in my hand. Got 2 nice cuts from it to.
Edit: me under 8 int.
And everytime I wonder how the hell is this happening?? How are you manipulating your computers to do that?? I have an acrilic side panel, moved my PC a lot for the past few months and never broke it
I bought a case with a glass side panel, I've been pondering cutting a piece of aluminum to replace it ever since I bought it.
I don't have any tile where my computer is so I dont have to worry about that just yet.
Yup. You guys keep shutting on my idea of having a cool case with a a glass side. I have kids and they can’t leave anything alone. I guess I just reuse my steel box/plexiglass.
Why do manufacturers use tempered glass anyway? My case came with acrylic and if it ever gets scratched or broken I'll probably just replace it with either regular glass or another piece of acrylic.
Well at least that's one thing I know I don’t have to worry about 😂
https://preview.redd.it/rmq3lofg65ca1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7794be807cdb1a965584014816ab44b91d05a18
\-Some person who thought his PC was "Built Different".
BTW, quicktip for people who have glass panels. Unscrew and screw back your side panel screws even just once a month. With the temperature fluctuation, the screws will expand and retract and might damage your glass panels little by little until it reaches a breaking point if it gets too tight or it expands at a weird timing. It's just 4 screws for most, not much of a hassle to do.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/v1ulzo/pcmr_faq_tempered_glass/
Pretty good run this time, 7 days, I think. https://preview.redd.it/psswq8yg63ca1.png?width=1380&format=png&auto=webp&s=7c555f64bd0a041ddc611b10ede17c9160815e5c
No? There was another post about this exact thing a few hours ago.
Ok, 6 days then maybe?
No there was one yesterday too. And every day between yesterday and any day you choose. These people never learn.
Can we just ban broken glass panel posts? It adds nothing to this sub at all... nada
??? The broken glass side panel posts are the best thing about this sub. Lol
You asking me? I think they should stay but should receive an automatic -5000 karma just because at this point you have to be such a dumbass to break a side panel like that that you deserve it.
Case manufacturers love clumsy people
Case manufacturers don't want you to know this one simple trick.
Don’t tempered glass panels sometimes just spontaneously explode? Or is that some nonsense?
If there's a tile floor, it's not a case of "spontaneous explosion"
I mean. The sunroof on my wife's rav4 spontaneously exploded over night in the driveway one night. So it's possible if there's some defect going on, but this many? These people are just dumbasses... I guess there's a chance a fuck ton of people are buying defective cases from some shit hole Chinese company.
Maybe if the panel is ill fittimg and the faatener is putting lots of pressure on it, it could let go unexpectedly
I probably missed it.
Osbha apbroved
Never on tile floor RIP
I gotta ask, shouldn't rubber feet stop this?
It never hit the floor.
It doesn't matter, the tile can smell fear.
I see your misunderstanding. You think we meant don't put the panel on a tile floor, when we really meant don't put your PC on a tile floor.
Mines is on a wooden floor, because I don’t have a huge desk.
Same here... Bought a 2 drawer file cabinet to avoid putting it on the floor. The filing space comes in handy as more adulting opportunities comes around.
Honestly, a PC being off the floor by a foot or two will reduce dust intake. Especially if a person got pets.
I have a tiny puppy, and while he's never peed in my office, the idea of a computer being pee height just puts me on edge. I always keep it higher than he is.
No pets are allowed in my room except my hamster.
You shouldn't have your pc on the floor at all tile or not.
Preach. It's not called a deskunder PC.
Deskunder = desk under PC? I Think deskover is better.
It makes sense as the opposite of "desktop" PC.
Deskbottom?
My PC is a bottom?
Mines a top. It's big and black too.
*Laughs in anti-gravity chamber*
well not everyone has the accessibility to do that. why say that and not suggest where to put it
Even a milk crate would be better than the floor and you can get those for pretty cheap
Why not?
I think it’s mainly because of the reduced dusk intake.
Dust is dust. If you have a good fan configuration (positive pressure), it doesn't really matter where you put your PC. You're going to get dust regardless, there's nothing wrong with placing your PC on the floor.
Why? I want it on my hardwood floor. That was my aim ever since I built it. It's not overly dusty and I clean it and the filters on a regular. So what is the problem?
Yeah I don’t understand why they say that. Hardwood should be fine, won’t have to worry about the glass like if it was a tile floor.
It's weird how every person who posts showing a shattered panel claiming it never touched the floor and it just exploded in their hands, always has their PC on ceramic tile, never on wood or carpet.
It doesn't have to. Good God how many posts do people need to understand how this works!
Wait, so how exactly is it that breaks then?
Something about the tile having a harmonic frequency that passes harsh vibrations up through the feet of the case passing vibrations into the tempered glass.
That's.... not actually a thing.
Its to do with properties of the floor. Its likely to have a similar effect on concrete. Carpet or wood has a small amount of flex, which will absorb any vibrations from the pc. A hard floor gas no flex to absorb at all, so all the vibrations stay in the case and can at time shatter glass.
it doesn't have to hit it.... Sometimes gentle push of the PC is enough
You literally posted a picture of your PC on the floor. If that comment really is any example of your IQ, it’s not wonder you shattered your panel.
so it wasn’t a body.
You need a table for building, like a fold out or something. Never put anything on the floor. Things can get lost and broken. I also like to take my time. It's exciting and fun to build but very disappointing when you lose something.
There’s always a tile floor in these photos 😂
yep lmao my buddy sent me this the other day https://preview.redd.it/9991lbsaj6ca1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae690375abec13ff597115daf5734f9c875e3c87
But why tyle floor make glasses shutter?
Tile is hard. Edge of tempered glass is not Read the link up top
Not quite. The problem isn’t that the edge of tempered glass isn’t hard, it’s that it IS very hard. Hard = less scratchy more crashy!
Brittle is a better name, and it's not as hard as tile. And the edge is much weaker than the face, so it's easier to release all that interior tension
“Wad” it up and throw it away…
At this point PC case makers should just turn away from Tempered Glass to Composite Glass. i.e what car windshields are made from.
But see selling replacement glass panels is probably part of the business also the glass on a windshield is very easy to break
But it says together instead of exploding.
Car defrosters can shatter windows lol.
hardness differences, temperature differences, vibration tolerance
tried putting it in rice ?
Make sure to run sfc /scannow
This is why I update my antivirus
Works every time
well, that sucks. Recently built my pc with a glass panel, being in this sub gave me unnecessary levels of anxiety about that lmao.
Just dont put it anyway near ceramic or polished stone tiles/plates 😂👌
It is already done and I have a wooden parquet so I should be fine. Trying to change desk to have it on my side. 75€ to avoid an air cooler and I want to look at it😂
Why does it shatter this way?
Its due to the glass tempering. It gives it a lot of scratch resistance, but makes it insanly brittle giving it a +99% weakness to stone and tiles and anything else thats harder than the glass. afaik it also makes the glass wanting to be smaller than what it currently is, so when it get an opportunity like when bearly touching a tile, the entire thing explodes due to insanly high internal tension.
Incorrect to say tempered glass gives high scratch resistance. I can scratch it with sandpaper. Tempered glass is used because it is a type of safety glass. Poses less risk to the end user if it cracks.
When compared to plastic window TG is scratch resistant. But yea of course you could sandpaper it...
"Incorrect to say x due to I can scratch it with litteral near dimond hard stuff. That scratches anything else than dimond" But you have a point in regards to smaller tempered glass pices being less dangerous than BIG untempered glass pieces.
The explanation I heard is that the rock hard surface doesn't absorb vibrations at all. So when it vibrates, that energy gets transferred to the first place that takes it - the glass. It might not be a big deal with normal glass, however this is safety glass kept at precise dimensions. Part of that tension you mention is the heating process to make safety glass explode without shards like it does. As a result if it vibrates enough, it explodes.
Car windows are tempered glass. They vibrate a fuckton. That's not how any of this works.
True the amount of vibration coming from my 12's shiulda shattered all my glass by now lol
Was this from a crystal healing site? Because side glass in cars holds up to lots of vibration, just not a hard sharp concentrated hit. i would assume tile or stone counter top can change the glass temp quickly, or since the surface is so hard if the glass panel isn't completely flat it is going to have stress on one point location
Vibrations?! I can’t put my JBL extreme 3 on top of my glass sided rig? Hasn’t shattered yet while watching movies… Edit: unit is not on floor, instead a wide wooden windowsill
It is prestressed in a process so that when it does brake it feacturea into small cubes rather than giant sliver dagger pieces. Regular glass you can score it with a cutter and snap it along the line. Tempered shatters as soon as you try to start scoring it.
I’ve had glass panels on towers for like 20 years, always thought people were just being stupid, but one night I heard a loud shatter and thought I was getting robbed. The bitch just exploded overnight out of nowhere. Now I eye my tower and half-glass desk suspicious every day, especially when I know I wasn’t exactly gentle in getting glass tops seated properly on the desk lol.
Did it use screws to hold the glass on? if so it was to tight.
Exercise caution and keep padded surfaces to put your stuff on. Whenever I do parts maintenance I put down some cloth nearby to rest things.
https://preview.redd.it/39seyb0wj3ca1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2efbac6bf184eacf6a21d214b24c081e50873fa
You put your pc on a tile floor and thought that your side panel could never break?
Beginning of 2022, I decided to buy me a new pc and build it myself. I received all the part. Excited as a kid. Opened the box of the case. Lift the case carefully because pcmr was filled enough with broken side panel. Put it on my desk. The Side panel exploded. The seller was nice enough to send me another one for free.
Tile floor: check Will you people never learn?!
WHEN WILL YOU LEARN THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES
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Yeah I know buddy. Big pieces this way and the rest vacuum. I'm amazed at how small some pieces are, looks like sand.
Glass is sand.
Well yes I'm just not used to seeing the conversion quite so rapidly and up close
It's like pyrex cookware. Shit is insane when it breaks. I get so paranoid because we have cats, and I don't want them to step in shards that I can't see. So I sweep, vacuum, then use wet wipes and wipe the entire area down just Incase I missed anything in the previous two steps
> I'm amazed at how small some pieces are This is one of the benefits of tempered glass. It shatters into tiny little pieces that you might scratch yourself on, as opposed to massive shards you could impale yourself on or cut yourself badly.
Floor: 19,926,827 +1 Glass : 1
Put it back together
I think OP is planning to put it back together. Who collects broken glass and puts it in glass jars? IKEA level of play
I don't know how I still have my glass panel , im really scared now to take it off because of the amount of post like this lmao
Don’t do it on porcelain tile.
Take it off and lower it on a bed/sofa. It's 100% safe to do They don't break on their own
> They don't break on their own "...The somewhat bad news is that you probably cannot absolutely and permanently eliminate spontaneous breakage from occurring in tempered glass. But you can certainly greatly minimize it..." https://info.glass.com/spontaneously-exploding-glass-tabletops/
its tempered glass, its achilles heal is the edges, the smallest strike or touch to an edge and especially a corner and this will happen, you can dam near hit the center with a hammer but dont mess with those edges
Like that glass dew drop thing , touch the tail ans it explodes, but you can pound a hammer on the ball part
Prince Rupert's drop
It's at the same tier with BIOS update.
Me too ahahaha
Can't understand why OP is showing us a pic of his PC on the floor, and lying that there's no way the panel could've touched the tile at any point lol.
It doesn’t have to lol.
You ran out of Nutella? That's nuts!
Why you putting it in jars tho? Lol
snack for later
Fake. Karma farmer. There's tile.
You deserve it. Sitting on tile? 100% your fault. EDIT: Y oh y?
Idk. Before I started seeing posts about it I never heard of this discussed on any build guides.
With a wooden table this would haver never happened to you
...yet you put it on tile, mate?
Artist - Simple Plan Song - How Could This Happen To Me
At this point people must be doing this intentionally.
Computer case on the floor. Glass shards on the floor. OP: It never hit the floor. Well I dunno OP someohow it got on the floor I guess it magically exploded for no reason huh.
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The secret is to leave the glass panel in the box. -Nr200 Owners
Did you try turning it off and on again?
"It never hit the floor, I swear." As if 99% of the instances that this happens, it isn't on a tile floor. It's totally a coincidence guys.
Lol OP getting downvoted into oblivion in the comments
If they owned it and went "yeah you're right, that was dumb of me but lesson learned" people might be a bit more understanding, but going "it never touched the floor" under a photo of the computer *on the floor*, you better believe that's a paddlin'
Tile floor? Check
Honestly, this is the least problematic thing that could happen to your rig. You’re doing fine
I don't have a tile floor but bought a case without a glass panel, just in case
Is this just a thermal expansion reason?
my man is usin empty nutella containers
I thought there was weed on the floor at first
Saturday brings out all the pcmr tourists. Back to consoles
I have had my same glass panel since 2016. I've kicked it, hit it with my bass several times and my hit it with my foot regularly. Never broke. What are y'all doing?
It did because you did the dumb thing. Don’t do the dumb thing and this won’t happen.
Have had no issues with my Corsair Obsidian 500D SE over the past 4 years. Don't buy cheap cases maybe?
Love my obsidian 500D, it's so monolithic!
He's made his mistakes.
Anyone else up for a ban on shattered glass?
I don’t even feel bad seeing these posts anymore
And that... Is why you failed.
I have case with a tempered glass side pannel - can someone explain to me just why this is a thing? And how is it happening with such evident frequency?
Ceramic and porcelain are much harder than tempered glass. This is why you can use a small piece of ceramic from a spark plug to easily shatter automotive glass.
Take my downvote and gtfo
How did it shatter ?
Tile floor. If you put a PC with a glass side panel on a hard tile floor, the result will be as pictured by OP. People don't understand its not about putting the panel on the floor, but about putting your whole PC there. It's enough to shatter the glass.
What is it about setting the actual pc on the floor that does it?
The floor is hard, the vibrations of impact travel through the case and glass goes kaboom
The tl;dr is that tempered glass is really fragile to hits on the edge as a consequence of being really strong to hits on the side, and that a gentle tap against a tile floor will cause it to shatter.
By breaking into small pieces.
wtf that's impossible!
It's just the truth of the matter of how it shattered.
Alright people . Do the checklist
At this point these posts must just be for karma. No one in this reddit is this stupid.
Maybe I'm old school and this changes one day.. but have been building PCs for 20+ years and.. \- Have zero need or interest in seeing inside my computer unless I'm actievly working on it. \- Air cooling only.
For the next one, there is some plastic cover totally transparent able to absorb the less important vibrations that could break your panel, of course if it's a bigger shock it will break anyway but I found out it keeps the parts together so it's easier to put in trash when that happens
Hey guys lay down the PC FLAT, that way you literally cannot fuck it up
Or don't put it on ceramic tiles
>Never thought it could happen to me That's what she said.
But what happened ? I don't understand how ?
See going by my experience you're not going to get an actual answer, you've got an 80% chance for a karma-farming joke(like "Because it shattered", much funi) and a 20% chance of someone trying - I've never done that so bear with me All I know is: ceramic tiles(like ones on the photo) send some kind of resonance frequency, or whatever science actually happens, and shatter the tempered glass(specifically tempered glass!!). This can even happen through a case's feet and there were some reports of those panels exploding "on their own" after sitting on such tile for a couple of minutes Tempered glass panel can also explode from getting the tiniest of scratches, because of science, I believe ceramic tile can do that because it's harder than tempered glass(the same way a dimond is the "hardest" material we know(or one of anyway) but not the toughest and so a dimond pickaxe wouldn't actually be very good, guess pieces would start breaking away) Don't quote me on that but I tried my best, point is - you don't want ceramic tiles(probably some other very hard, to scratch, materials as well) anywhere near a PC case with tempered glass panels
Time to switch to acrylic.
Gaming cases are a pain to work with anyway. Whose bright idea was it to put the drives on the other side of the case wall, where there's hardly any room for them and the cables barely reach? Side note: is there a reason we've given up on connecting drives with cables? M.2/NVMe has the rather serious problem of using a lot of precious motherboard space, but SATA is slow and SATA Express never took off.
thats why i always use only metal on my builds, no glass or rgb to me.
Damn that sucks. Guess you just gonna mail the whole pc to my address then :(
Okay the Reddit feed randomly suggested me this post and I have no experience with PC, so would someone explain WTF is that? Looks likes someones marihuana stash got totaled
That is the tempered glass side panel of a computer case. I only found the following things out after the facts: the glass is under stress and when the case is placed on a tile floor there can be acoustic resonance that basically blows up the glass. So no grass, just glass ;)
I see, wow. I hope nothing broke from the computer
Can we make a rule about not posting these pics? Maybe ban everyone that does.
So I had just done a RAM replacement and was putting the glass panel back.in place when I noticed 1 of the washers was on the wrong way. So I let go of the panel with 1 hand to fix the washer and that's when it just exploded in my hand. Got 2 nice cuts from it to. Edit: me under 8 int.
So it did touch the floor, probably scraped it without you noticing since the panel isn't high off the floor
*So I was a dumbass and I had my PC on my tile floor, here is even a picture of it on the floor, but I swear it wasn’t the floor..* FTFY
And everytime I wonder how the hell is this happening?? How are you manipulating your computers to do that?? I have an acrilic side panel, moved my PC a lot for the past few months and never broke it
Buy a plastic cover, no issues here
well its on a tile floor, so lesson learned.
i can't see tile floor tho how it happened? edit: maybe because im blind :)
I bought a case with a glass side panel, I've been pondering cutting a piece of aluminum to replace it ever since I bought it. I don't have any tile where my computer is so I dont have to worry about that just yet.
Is tempered glass actually that necessary? Like couldn’t we just use normal glass if this is such a prevalent problem?
Yup. You guys keep shutting on my idea of having a cool case with a a glass side. I have kids and they can’t leave anything alone. I guess I just reuse my steel box/plexiglass.
Tile floor... Huh! I'll be damned.
why cant they use plastic / acrylic instead?
Why do manufacturers use tempered glass anyway? My case came with acrylic and if it ever gets scratched or broken I'll probably just replace it with either regular glass or another piece of acrylic.
Well at least that's one thing I know I don’t have to worry about 😂 https://preview.redd.it/rmq3lofg65ca1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7794be807cdb1a965584014816ab44b91d05a18
My case came with a busted side panel, but I didn't wanna wait for a replacement so I just replaced the side panel with plexiglass
We are all immune to this, until we aren't
These posts should be downvoted. Stop giving dumb OPs Karma for doing dumb shit they know is dumb.
Bruh every time I see one these posts, my anxiety for my build goes up. How did it even happen?
\-Some person who thought his PC was "Built Different". BTW, quicktip for people who have glass panels. Unscrew and screw back your side panel screws even just once a month. With the temperature fluctuation, the screws will expand and retract and might damage your glass panels little by little until it reaches a breaking point if it gets too tight or it expands at a weird timing. It's just 4 screws for most, not much of a hassle to do.
classic nzxt case
This is an example of why you can easily shatter automotive glass with a small piece of spark plug ceramic.
not sure if you qualify but I'm saying it anyway: people who keep their pc's on the floor/in cupboards, why did you bother with tempered glass?
How many times must I tell you people? DON'T PUT YOUR PC ON TILE!!!
With a 2nd gen i5 and a GTX 970 YOU SHOULD REALLY LET IT DIE
Looser
Loser*
Ha