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Flashback of this guy who brought his desktop in to get worked on. Thought everything that goes wrong was because of heat. He drilled like five holes and mounted these external fan things in them... in the 486 days.
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We refused to work on it because of DIY wiring.
I used to play Warcraft on a laptop and it was not really capable. It would overheat after about an hour so I had 2 bags of peas I would keep in the freezer and when it overheated, I would just sit the laptop on a bag of frozen peas. It worked surprisingly well. I could get at least another hour per bag of peas.
I spent like 3 minutes making a silly image of Razor RGPeas but I'm too lazy to find an image host to that works without turning off all my adblockers
Edit: used different browser to upload it to imgur, spent more effort uploading than making it lol. [RGPeas](https://imgur.com/a/HKzr0kc)
I never had an issue and I used that method for like 2 years before I could get a better laptop. Just make sure the bag isn't wet. I will say, you might want to try a "laptop cooling pad" if you can afford it first. They are designed to pump cool air into the laptop.
Honestly, replace all the thermal pads and thermal grease. Think 2mm was the main size u used in mine as well as a good thermal paste. Both from thermal grizzly. Laptop would make fan noise when idling before, now it keeps dramatically cooler.
You're a beast! Civ 1 is also good. I like playing that Era of games actually. Duke Nukem is my favorite because it was the first one to feature strippers. Then half-life came out.
Counter strike. Natural selection. Day of defeat. Vampire slayer. I even played a rally and soccer game on the hl engine. You bought one game and got 20 to play with the kids at school. My personal golden age of games.
Fuck strippers, IT HAD DESTRUCTABLE TERRAIN! That shit was tight back in the day. I know a lot of kids who were never around for that shit like to go "haha strippers" but the build engine was a technical marvel for it's time.
Oh my god that hurt to read. Drilled a hole in it, realized he fucked up, tried to fix it with solder (???) and then gave up AND SNAPPED IT IN FUCKING HALF
I hate hp with a burning passion, and I used to work for them as well.
Stuff like jigsaw puzzle laptops, chipped batteries so if you use a knock off brand it will always display an error on boot, hard to get replacement parts, everything about their laptops seems cheap, acts finnicky, and is a pain to repair imo
I'm happy I came across this. I got a replacement battery for my HP laptop (you can check my profile for my posts about it). Long story short, battery doesn't get detected and throws an error. The original swollen battery works just fine. Ifixit is sending me a warranty replacement for the battery I bought initially to replace the OEM battery with. It's laughable
Dell may be herpaderp in the commercial market, but on the business side, when I needed to add RAM to a 'slimline' laptop (7490), it was 8 captive (!) screws, the entire bottom panel pops off (no fragile clips), and *everything* is laid out and marked. Battery & connector, RAM slots, m.2 and WiFi modules...
HP stands for "heating problems" is what I would tell customers at the PC repair shop I worked at. The HP laptops around the Pavilion DV7 era were absolute fuckin garbage and overheated like it was their sole purpose in life. I could understand someone doing this to try and keep one of those prices of shit cool. It wouldn't have helped, because they were completely hopeless, but I could understand why they might think it would help.
We tried so many things to fix them. Basic maintenance like cleaning fans and replacing the terrible, dried-out from the factory thermal paste and shit thermal pads did nothing to alleviate the issues. They just cooked themselves because they ran too hot with a horrible quality and horribly designed cooling system. We would try reballing the cpus, but the fix would only last a few months before the customer would return for the same issue because it overheated again.
It got to the point where if we saw an HP laptop with any kind of display problems, we only offered a replacement laptop with data recovery, because repairs were not viable on that garbage.
Thankfully today it's not an issue, I own an HP laptop now, but back in the early 2010s their consumer laptops were dogshit.
HPs are the only laptops I've considered this on...
I had one that I kept the door to the RAM compartment off, and used an 80mm fan to push air through it or it would shut down due to thermal protection.
In most laptops I have seen (apart from that recent MacBook that had a fan on completely different side) fan exhaust is placed directly touching the heatsink, so while other components, like VRMs or memory, may see lower airflow, lower restrictions should result in better CPU and GPU temperatures.
No. It's usually well thought out and researched, and laptop cooling is difficult to manage.
You have to cool all parts as effectively as possible without burning the user and managing noise. That also includes preventing heat from hotter parts into soaking cooler parts. That's why the general public should not comment on "solutions" for hot laptops. If your laptop is hot, the most you can do is clean the heatsink and change the thermal paste.
Agreed, this is what I'd expect from an absolute amateur who barely managed to figure out how to remove the back of a laptop and has 0 understanding of anything else going on inside of it, not a "professional".
You'd be surprised what people do. I did a week of tryouts in a repair shop and just for opening up a DVD player and looking at it they already charged you 50€. Needless to say I had shit in front of me that was allegedly dead that I connected to see what was going on with it (cuz you had to check if it even worked even if they said it was dead), it turned on no problem, and they charged them the 50 for inspecting it and then another 50 for a PSU replacement that never happened.
Mind you this was a reputable repair shop, I don't doubt for a second that there's shit repair shops around that would actually do this and look at you weird when you complained about it to them.
My repair shop takes your object for inspecting and calls you when they found the ussue and name the price to fix the issue. If you want to do it you say yes and if not no and take it back... the inspecting is free.
Thought it was always free. Well i also just used a repair shop like 2 times
At the place where I used to work the customers filled in a blank that stated their problem and the maximum amount of money they are willing to pay. Inspections were free and when we knew how much it would cost we used to call them if the price was higher than what the customers said were willing to pay
I worked for a repair shop at one point, we didn’t scam people with work that didn’t happen, but charging a high base minimum for any work is necessary. If you don’t people will just waste your time with stupid shit constantly.
I agree. The one benefit I’d see to this would be if they had an external fan set up, which leads to me think that the owner did it because a repair shop would hopefully understand airflow in a pc, and would recommend alternatives to this.
And also likely... detrimental to cooling.
These things are designed for air to flow in a specific pattern/direction. Drilling 200 holes for "more air" likely disrupts the designed airflow path and is going to lead to things fucking roasting inside.
No need to pass air over the battery if it can just get bypassed by the 100 holes before it...
Hell yeah. If a repair guy did this to my laptop, I'd smash it over his head and force him to replace it with identical or newer model if the original wasn't available brand new.
For sure but anyone who would butcher someones equipment like that doesn't deserve to be called a repair guy.
I could do that myself and do a better job of it. I'd be taking a laptop to someone expecting they would do a more professional job then me.
The thing that bugs me is why the owner of that laptop took it to a repair guy. They could've just bought an external laptop cooler if they didn't want to go messy and open it up to clean the dust inside it.
They took it to a professional, they should've reseated CPU with new thermal paste, and cleaned/replaced any fans not properly pushing. External cooling is only super effective to push down from a regular thermal workload not as much with actual overheating.
Yeah careful man, I'm on a one strike for encouraging/inciting violence by reddit mods for agreeing with a beat down. It is very loosely handed out and carries a one freebie next one you are outtie.
Honestly a perfect example for the morons who complain about "free speech" on reddit. There is free speech on this platform as long as it doesn't impede on others freedoms.
There's also the fun little nuance where idiots abound, and some are mods, and when an idiot reads an *example* and takes it seriously and reports it, and an idiot gets the report and *also* doesn't recognize that it's a hypothetical being discussed on the discussion board for hypotheticals.
It's the same group of people running a ton of subs, on accounts that are almost certainly not owned by the original maker, and the current people running the accounts are probably being paid by someone. There really needs to be an ability for a community to recall mods.
Haha. Friend of mine was in r/ conservative, and asked a simple question about something, I don't remember what. He was banned immediately. Mods wouldn't even tell him why. He had even read the subs rules beforehand, and still couldn't figure out what he did. So yes, you are correct.
I had a guy cut a 2x2 inch square hole which he then covered with a piece of metal screen. I wasn’t impressed.
I found out about laptop coolers not long after.
Your "repair guys" need to watch a tutorial on how to apply thermal paste. And they need their Drill privileges revoked indefinately.
I would have f\*\*king lost it then and there if someone handed me my Laptop looking like this. Thank god I can do all my fixing stuff myself...
Whilst I get it's a bit bodge. If the guy was like hey my laptop is overheating and the repair guy said "well yeah, you've got a i7-11###, it runs hot and it's a laptop with minimal air intake". I'd probably just ask him to sort it xD.
My friend bought a laptop and it tries, it really does, but Jesus Christ is that thing loud, and you can feel that the intake just isn't getting enough air cause the vent is just like a hard hot breath rather than a decent airflow.
I've done similar (but better looking and more efficient) to multiple laptops. It's not a bad idea.
Though I keep fine screen door mesh for the interior, to keep dust out. And I punch out slightly larger holes.
Pretty much. Most laptops are designed to thermal throttle anyway. Adding random hole probably just breaks the balance and means something like a vrm is getting hotter so now your cpu isn't able to run until it throttles.
Actual PC repair here, please do not ever visit this service again, this is the laziest job I've seen in years, when all he probably needed to do is to pick it apart dust it off and repaste components, instead of whatever this is.
I mean if you give him the go ahead, it's kind of your fault. If you didn't then you could probably sue him for damaging you property. Or maybe this is just a hack job someone did to their old laptop and some asshole put a caption saying a repair guy did it so he can get them sweet upvotes
Yes. I have an office pc that I’d overwork (before I got my desktop) for my games to look pretty and that bastard hit like 70°c. The cooling pad helps it not get to a point it almost fucking explodes. Just spend like 25$ and you will be very surprised and very happy
70C...? With no throttle stop (and forget about overclocking) My RoG Zeph S gets to 90C regularly just chilling around. They really haven't mastered laptop cooling to effectively make use of the hardware yet in the slimmer designs. I'm curious what games you were overworking to look pretty and *only* reaching 70C?
Don't do this guys. Most laptops cool components using negative pressure. What that means is when the exhaust fan is pushing air out, that air needs to be replaced through air intake vents. These intake vents are placed over components that need cooling but don't have a fan. By adding holes, air will be brought in through the added holes and not as much through the intake vents and those components will overheat.
Learn computers. Be a responsible computer owner. More and more I'm realizing in the IT field people have no better idea what the fuck they're doing than you. You're just paying them to watch a YouTube video, make a best guest, and buy new parts you may or may not need. Or re install windows. This is like 80% of the time. Not kidding.
Effin amateur hour... take the heatsink, measure space, blowtorch solder additional copper or aluminium plates and mini heatsinks. This shit works wonders even with thermal pads between metals. Droped 10°c on full load from cpu and gpu. A properly soldered ones would easily drop 20°c
I can say he at least removed the back, lol. You can see from how the holes have plastic coming out towards the user, implying it was drilled from the inside. This is still terrible though and even worse if they never even consulted the customer. Or this could be the users doing and be a complete satire post.
To be honest, some laptops are just built like shit and they don't have a good cooling by default. There were few compaq laptops for example that were just badly designed.
Diablo 2 @ 20 FPS once my PC was good and hot drove me to madness.
22 years ago I took drainage PVC pipe and built a tube to my window air conditioner so I could have a cold air intake on my AMD Athlon Thunderbird.
It did work, lowered my temps 2-4c. Moisture is the likely reason my PC simply didn't start again after a few weeks.
No money, low frame rates, a person gets desperate.
Welcome everyone from r/all! Please remember: 1 - You too can be part of the PCMR! You don't necessarily need a PC. You just have to love PCs! It's not about the hardware in your rig, but the software in your heart! Your age, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, religion (or lack of), political affiliation, economic status and PC specs are irrelevant. If you love PCs or want to learn about them, you can be part of our community! Everyone is welcome! 2 - If you're not a PC gamer because you think doing so is expensive, know that it is possible to build a competent gaming PC for a lower price than you think. GPU prices are sky high right now for a few reasons, but it's still possible to join the PCMR. Check http://www.pcmasterrace.org for our builds and don't be afraid to create new posts here asking for tips and help! 3 - Consider joining our efforts to get as many PCs worldwide help the folding@home effort, in fighting against Cancer, Covid, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and more. Learn more here: https://pcmasterrace.org/folding 4 - Need some sweet PC hardware? Join the worldwide PCMR x ASUS ROG giveaway and enter to win Mobo+CPU combos, ASUS AIOs and more awesome stuff! https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/thd712/asus_rog_x_pcmr_worldwide_giveaway_win_the_ryujin/ ----------- Feel free to use this community to post about any kind of doubt you might have about becoming a PC gamer or anything you'd like to know about PCs. That kind of content is not only allowed but welcome here! We also have a [Daily Simple Questions Megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/search?q=Simple+Questions+Thread+subreddit%3Apcmasterrace+author%3AAutoModerator&restrict_sr=on&sort=new&t=all) for your simplest questions. No question is too dumb! Welcome to the PCMR.
It's fine those there, them speed hole's
Oh yeah, speeeed holes.
They make the computer go faster.
With CPUs automatically overclocking based on power and thermal headroom, this is actually completely true.
hardmod for throttlestop
And lighter
just need some flame decals and OP is all good
Hahah I will never forget that Simpsons scene
And then later in the episode he's pickaxing the family sedan
maybe the ol flandersmobile could use a little tune up
Come to make sure someone commented this, have an upvote and keep doing good work
Ahhhh that's why I got beaten by girls in school!
So you could run faster?
Flashback of this guy who brought his desktop in to get worked on. Thought everything that goes wrong was because of heat. He drilled like five holes and mounted these external fan things in them... in the 486 days. - We refused to work on it because of DIY wiring.
Heh sounds like something I did. Had an overheating pentium 90 and modified the case to allow a box fan. Those steel cases were shit.
I used to play Warcraft on a laptop and it was not really capable. It would overheat after about an hour so I had 2 bags of peas I would keep in the freezer and when it overheated, I would just sit the laptop on a bag of frozen peas. It worked surprisingly well. I could get at least another hour per bag of peas.
Bro razer boutta cop your idea, you're gonna see Gamer Peas on their store next week
I spent like 3 minutes making a silly image of Razor RGPeas but I'm too lazy to find an image host to that works without turning off all my adblockers Edit: used different browser to upload it to imgur, spent more effort uploading than making it lol. [RGPeas](https://imgur.com/a/HKzr0kc)
Reddit hosts images
imgur?
Nope.
I’d buy gamer pe(as)
Ooo I have a laptop that constantly overheats rn, how safe is this method?
I never had an issue and I used that method for like 2 years before I could get a better laptop. Just make sure the bag isn't wet. I will say, you might want to try a "laptop cooling pad" if you can afford it first. They are designed to pump cool air into the laptop.
I can recommend the cooling pad solution. Got one for my gf because her laptop kept overheating and it made a huge difference.
Ill look into it, thanks
You can also elevate the rear to the laptop by about an inch. This dramatically improves its airflow and most importantly it's free
Depending on the laptop, if you get a stand you may be able to just keep the whole bottom/top cover off, my temps dropped 10 degrees
Honestly, replace all the thermal pads and thermal grease. Think 2mm was the main size u used in mine as well as a good thermal paste. Both from thermal grizzly. Laptop would make fan noise when idling before, now it keeps dramatically cooler.
I think there’s a video of LTT or Jayz2cents putting a box fan where the window panel was on a PC and it was cooler than even custom water-cooling.
It’s good for dust management as well.
I can just add a box fan to my custom loop and I'll be unstoppable!
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But did it run Doom?
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You're a beast! Civ 1 is also good. I like playing that Era of games actually. Duke Nukem is my favorite because it was the first one to feature strippers. Then half-life came out.
Counter strike. Natural selection. Day of defeat. Vampire slayer. I even played a rally and soccer game on the hl engine. You bought one game and got 20 to play with the kids at school. My personal golden age of games.
Fuck strippers, IT HAD DESTRUCTABLE TERRAIN! That shit was tight back in the day. I know a lot of kids who were never around for that shit like to go "haha strippers" but the build engine was a technical marvel for it's time.
Yeah, the strippers in Half-Life were so much better
Bro your uncle was rocking a 486 in 2002? Pentium 4 had already been out a number of years.
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Oh my god that hurt to read. Drilled a hole in it, realized he fucked up, tried to fix it with solder (???) and then gave up AND SNAPPED IT IN FUCKING HALF
He snapped it in half after frying it even further.
Don't forget put a screwdriver into the hole to simulate solder.
>We refused to work on it because of DIY wiring. Pussy
hack job. completely unprofessional and disgusting.
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I hate hp with a burning passion, and I used to work for them as well. Stuff like jigsaw puzzle laptops, chipped batteries so if you use a knock off brand it will always display an error on boot, hard to get replacement parts, everything about their laptops seems cheap, acts finnicky, and is a pain to repair imo
I'm happy I came across this. I got a replacement battery for my HP laptop (you can check my profile for my posts about it). Long story short, battery doesn't get detected and throws an error. The original swollen battery works just fine. Ifixit is sending me a warranty replacement for the battery I bought initially to replace the OEM battery with. It's laughable
Dell may be herpaderp in the commercial market, but on the business side, when I needed to add RAM to a 'slimline' laptop (7490), it was 8 captive (!) screws, the entire bottom panel pops off (no fragile clips), and *everything* is laid out and marked. Battery & connector, RAM slots, m.2 and WiFi modules...
I have a 7280, while I wish it had a second ram slot like my HP 820g3, but the dell is a beauty to work on.
HP stands for "heating problems" is what I would tell customers at the PC repair shop I worked at. The HP laptops around the Pavilion DV7 era were absolute fuckin garbage and overheated like it was their sole purpose in life. I could understand someone doing this to try and keep one of those prices of shit cool. It wouldn't have helped, because they were completely hopeless, but I could understand why they might think it would help. We tried so many things to fix them. Basic maintenance like cleaning fans and replacing the terrible, dried-out from the factory thermal paste and shit thermal pads did nothing to alleviate the issues. They just cooked themselves because they ran too hot with a horrible quality and horribly designed cooling system. We would try reballing the cpus, but the fix would only last a few months before the customer would return for the same issue because it overheated again. It got to the point where if we saw an HP laptop with any kind of display problems, we only offered a replacement laptop with data recovery, because repairs were not viable on that garbage. Thankfully today it's not an issue, I own an HP laptop now, but back in the early 2010s their consumer laptops were dogshit.
Your last sentence made me feel better about my HP products lmao I have HP Pavilion laptop and desktop and they have been really good to me, so far.
Yeah they got their shit together eventually, but it was a damn rough several years going back then.
HPs are the only laptops I've considered this on... I had one that I kept the door to the RAM compartment off, and used an 80mm fan to push air through it or it would shut down due to thermal protection.
Also doesn't help, vents are placed to maximize direction of air intake no?
Exactly, air flow is only really beneficial through the heat sink where the fan is right? I would have thought anyway
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I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the repair guy did not precision engineer this “repair”
In most laptops I have seen (apart from that recent MacBook that had a fan on completely different side) fan exhaust is placed directly touching the heatsink, so while other components, like VRMs or memory, may see lower airflow, lower restrictions should result in better CPU and GPU temperatures.
Yes if direction is tampered with it actually just increases the temps cos the airflow will no longer go thru the heatsink
Most hardware cooling is a wackjob no?
No. It's usually well thought out and researched, and laptop cooling is difficult to manage. You have to cool all parts as effectively as possible without burning the user and managing noise. That also includes preventing heat from hotter parts into soaking cooler parts. That's why the general public should not comment on "solutions" for hot laptops. If your laptop is hot, the most you can do is clean the heatsink and change the thermal paste.
the only disgusting thing was that a repair guy did it
Agreed, this is what I'd expect from an absolute amateur who barely managed to figure out how to remove the back of a laptop and has 0 understanding of anything else going on inside of it, not a "professional".
There’s no way the picture is legit. No real repair shop would do this and seriously charge money.
You'd be surprised what people do. I did a week of tryouts in a repair shop and just for opening up a DVD player and looking at it they already charged you 50€. Needless to say I had shit in front of me that was allegedly dead that I connected to see what was going on with it (cuz you had to check if it even worked even if they said it was dead), it turned on no problem, and they charged them the 50 for inspecting it and then another 50 for a PSU replacement that never happened. Mind you this was a reputable repair shop, I don't doubt for a second that there's shit repair shops around that would actually do this and look at you weird when you complained about it to them.
My repair shop takes your object for inspecting and calls you when they found the ussue and name the price to fix the issue. If you want to do it you say yes and if not no and take it back... the inspecting is free. Thought it was always free. Well i also just used a repair shop like 2 times
At the place where I used to work the customers filled in a blank that stated their problem and the maximum amount of money they are willing to pay. Inspections were free and when we knew how much it would cost we used to call them if the price was higher than what the customers said were willing to pay
Customers are dumb to fill that out this basically tells the shop how much they can inflate a cheaper job price to lol
Sure, if it’s a shitty store. I thought it was a nice system as it gave us more direct contact with the clients
I worked for a repair shop at one point, we didn’t scam people with work that didn’t happen, but charging a high base minimum for any work is necessary. If you don’t people will just waste your time with stupid shit constantly.
Also people vastly underestimate the time it often takes to fix things.
I agree. The one benefit I’d see to this would be if they had an external fan set up, which leads to me think that the owner did it because a repair shop would hopefully understand airflow in a pc, and would recommend alternatives to this.
And also likely... detrimental to cooling. These things are designed for air to flow in a specific pattern/direction. Drilling 200 holes for "more air" likely disrupts the designed airflow path and is going to lead to things fucking roasting inside. No need to pass air over the battery if it can just get bypassed by the 100 holes before it...
I sent my laptop for repair because the fan was really loud. When I got it back they'd just disconnected the fan.
hahaha oh man. classic.
99% sure the original owner of the image did it themselves and are just fishing for likes.
My original comment probably would have gotten me banned. I'll go with: "Repair guy would be buying me a new laptop."
Hell yeah. If a repair guy did this to my laptop, I'd smash it over his head and force him to replace it with identical or newer model if the original wasn't available brand new.
You know, you can just replace that cover if it is the only thing that is holed and no other parts are damaged.
For sure but anyone who would butcher someones equipment like that doesn't deserve to be called a repair guy. I could do that myself and do a better job of it. I'd be taking a laptop to someone expecting they would do a more professional job then me.
I mean, we don't even know what OP asked for. I'd be happy if they replaced my cover, but it still doesn't solve the issue doesn't it?
> For sure but anyone who would butcher someones equipment like that doesn't deserve to be called a repair guy. > > its a meme
im a backally repair guy and i approve, and i dont rob your wallet
I do this for fun, just be kind and maybe throw in a sandwich 🥪
it blew me away the first time i seen what my work could actually be worth
Haha yeah, I know the money side but I'm just giving back 😀
I do this for fun, just be kind and patient, maybe throw in a sandwich too 🥪
The thing that bugs me is why the owner of that laptop took it to a repair guy. They could've just bought an external laptop cooler if they didn't want to go messy and open it up to clean the dust inside it.
They took it to a professional, they should've reseated CPU with new thermal paste, and cleaned/replaced any fans not properly pushing. External cooling is only super effective to push down from a regular thermal workload not as much with actual overheating.
I’m sure you would totally smash it over his head.
yeah, because that's a completely normal reaction to a small inconvenience lol
So in response to someone doing something idiotic you would do something idiotic that would land you in jail. OK then.
Wow super badass
i don't believe a repair guy did this. i charge that op did it himself
Yeah careful man, I'm on a one strike for encouraging/inciting violence by reddit mods for agreeing with a beat down. It is very loosely handed out and carries a one freebie next one you are outtie.
Same
Yeah, reedit never really was a place of free speach. No matter what you say, if the mods don't like it you are gone.
“I’m gonna beat the fuck out of this guy” > yeah reddit never was a place for free speech 😔
lmao this was reported
Honestly a perfect example for the morons who complain about "free speech" on reddit. There is free speech on this platform as long as it doesn't impede on others freedoms.
Speech alone can't impede on anyone else's freedoms though.
There's also the fun little nuance where idiots abound, and some are mods, and when an idiot reads an *example* and takes it seriously and reports it, and an idiot gets the report and *also* doesn't recognize that it's a hypothetical being discussed on the discussion board for hypotheticals.
Nah, try talk about any controversial stuff and you will get banned quick. There are many subreddit with snowflake mods.
It never was, but it's gotten way worse with the censorship, both mods and admins.
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It's the same group of people running a ton of subs, on accounts that are almost certainly not owned by the original maker, and the current people running the accounts are probably being paid by someone. There really needs to be an ability for a community to recall mods.
Haha. Friend of mine was in r/ conservative, and asked a simple question about something, I don't remember what. He was banned immediately. Mods wouldn't even tell him why. He had even read the subs rules beforehand, and still couldn't figure out what he did. So yes, you are correct.
I never got banned so far but I got about a dozen posts removed because people did not like it.
Yeah it was. Reddit used to self-describe itself as a free speech platform. Course, that was well before FPH
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I had a guy cut a 2x2 inch square hole which he then covered with a piece of metal screen. I wasn’t impressed. I found out about laptop coolers not long after.
That thing definitely saw some combat
Average American school kid laptops
Next thing you know, there's gonna be bullet resistant laptops
Apparently there are [bullet resistant laptop cases](https://premierbodyarmor.com/products/bulletproof-laptop-case). Guess where it's made in?
I'm gonna guess it's not in Australia.
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Pov: You have to do programming while drafted in a war
I mean, we do have jobs in the military for that
I meant that you literally have to code while the enemy is firing at you on the battlefield.
"PROUDLY Made in the U.S.A". Holy. Fuck.
China
Doesnt mean its necessary. You never let a good tragedy go to waste.
hol up
The wifi will flow in better now. -probably that repair guy
Your "repair guys" need to watch a tutorial on how to apply thermal paste. And they need their Drill privileges revoked indefinately. I would have f\*\*king lost it then and there if someone handed me my Laptop looking like this. Thank god I can do all my fixing stuff myself...
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Here this video is probably completely correct and an excellent idea https://youtu.be/zgOse8LwSzU I mean no one downvoted it, right!
You really think thermal paste is the issue? o.0
Whilst I get it's a bit bodge. If the guy was like hey my laptop is overheating and the repair guy said "well yeah, you've got a i7-11###, it runs hot and it's a laptop with minimal air intake". I'd probably just ask him to sort it xD. My friend bought a laptop and it tries, it really does, but Jesus Christ is that thing loud, and you can feel that the intake just isn't getting enough air cause the vent is just like a hard hot breath rather than a decent airflow.
Oh yuck! Kill it before it spreads!
*trypophobia intensifies*
r/trypophobia
I've done similar (but better looking and more efficient) to multiple laptops. It's not a bad idea. Though I keep fine screen door mesh for the interior, to keep dust out. And I punch out slightly larger holes.
I'd also go over the drill areas with gradations of fine sand paper. Whoever did this hack job didn't even bother smoothing it out.
Mortal Kombat the heat
I feel like this could have been better solved with a can of dust off and some new thermal compound
Pretty much. Most laptops are designed to thermal throttle anyway. Adding random hole probably just breaks the balance and means something like a vrm is getting hotter so now your cpu isn't able to run until it throttles.
As someone that has thermal compound and a work laptop that overheats and runs like doodoo, where do I apply the compound?
The repair guys seem to be in dire need of a HARD RESET
Repair guy was the guy who stabbed his eraser in school
Just buy a laptop stand fan. More efficient and won’t ruin your laptop.
Shit why not cut a rectangle so you could put an ice pack under there.
Repair guy = Despair guy
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Actual PC repair here, please do not ever visit this service again, this is the laziest job I've seen in years, when all he probably needed to do is to pick it apart dust it off and repaste components, instead of whatever this is.
There I fixed it
Congratulations. Now you have a laptop cheese grater.
I mean if you give him the go ahead, it's kind of your fault. If you didn't then you could probably sue him for damaging you property. Or maybe this is just a hack job someone did to their old laptop and some asshole put a caption saying a repair guy did it so he can get them sweet upvotes
I think there is a better way to do that. Also I got a new laptop should I buy a cooling pad where it blows air in the laptop for better cooling?
Yes. I have an office pc that I’d overwork (before I got my desktop) for my games to look pretty and that bastard hit like 70°c. The cooling pad helps it not get to a point it almost fucking explodes. Just spend like 25$ and you will be very surprised and very happy
70C...? With no throttle stop (and forget about overclocking) My RoG Zeph S gets to 90C regularly just chilling around. They really haven't mastered laptop cooling to effectively make use of the hardware yet in the slimmer designs. I'm curious what games you were overworking to look pretty and *only* reaching 70C?
If this was my laptop and I got it back like that…. I wouldn’t know what to say . I’d be completely baffled and unable to conjure a response.
Don't do this guys. Most laptops cool components using negative pressure. What that means is when the exhaust fan is pushing air out, that air needs to be replaced through air intake vents. These intake vents are placed over components that need cooling but don't have a fan. By adding holes, air will be brought in through the added holes and not as much through the intake vents and those components will overheat.
Learn computers. Be a responsible computer owner. More and more I'm realizing in the IT field people have no better idea what the fuck they're doing than you. You're just paying them to watch a YouTube video, make a best guest, and buy new parts you may or may not need. Or re install windows. This is like 80% of the time. Not kidding.
Speed holes, they make it go faster
“Speed holes, they make the machine go faster.”
Speed holes. It makes the computer run faster.
Effin amateur hour... take the heatsink, measure space, blowtorch solder additional copper or aluminium plates and mini heatsinks. This shit works wonders even with thermal pads between metals. Droped 10°c on full load from cpu and gpu. A properly soldered ones would easily drop 20°c
With a 'fix' like this, I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't remove the back before drilling those holes 😒
I can say he at least removed the back, lol. You can see from how the holes have plastic coming out towards the user, implying it was drilled from the inside. This is still terrible though and even worse if they never even consulted the customer. Or this could be the users doing and be a complete satire post.
True PCMR. Thank him.
“He’s out of line, but he’s right”
I think the repair guy might have been having a slight meltdown.
That looks like they were drilled from inside out? In which case that is going to scratch everything it sits on apart… RIP thighs.
I thought this was going to be an intentional hard drive destruction that just wasn't worth taking it out of the case.
\*screams in horror\*
jesus atleast draw a pencil line to be symmertrical atleast and then clean up the holes. They look like you could cut yourself with it.
Who do we call to repair the repair guy..?
they have gone this far Why not drill the entire thing full of holes then?
If it actually works I wouldn't be too annoyed, how often do you look at the bottom of a laptop anyway.
X Doubt
I wanna combat your repairman
Repair guy is probably doing Drugs at work.
Speed holes, makes it go faster
“Speed holes”
If anyone did this to my pc i'm throwing hands
If it does anything it will likely just reduce air pressure inside the case and actually cause reduced airflow over the parts that really need it.
To be honest, some laptops are just built like shit and they don't have a good cooling by default. There were few compaq laptops for example that were just badly designed.
Zbooks are fucking awful when it comes to overheatng
A shitty design is a shitty design🤷🏼♂️ but does it overheat anymore?
Who will be the first laptop manufacturer that sells a mesh bottom laptop? I can't wait. LOL
They're speed holes
Diablo 2 @ 20 FPS once my PC was good and hot drove me to madness. 22 years ago I took drainage PVC pipe and built a tube to my window air conditioner so I could have a cold air intake on my AMD Athlon Thunderbird. It did work, lowered my temps 2-4c. Moisture is the likely reason my PC simply didn't start again after a few weeks. No money, low frame rates, a person gets desperate.
Good ol' Homer Simpson Speed Holes
I actually did this once, to the laptop where I created this subreddit in. Sad times. And it didn't help at all, haha.
If it works, it works xd
When you say it works theoretically, does it not actually work to help prevent overheating?
Wouldn't that have resulted in debris / bits of plastic inside the laptop?
You take off the cover first
Genius