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real men folded IDE, Floppy and SCSI cables though
When your old computer becomes your server a case with a lot of 3.5" slots is your friend, you just buy as many and as large disks you're comfortable resilvering with when they die and there is your new server. bonus points for pcie cache and faster nic(s), and as much ram as you can address.
I like to have overengineered cooling for when the air conditioning is broken and pandemic-era parts shortages yield window units for an indeterminate amount of time to keep mold from destroying your house. I also like to play videogames outside sometimes. I learned this with one of the nvidia something go that had the class action lawsuit over it's awfulness when my laptop couldn't run bioshock at 1080p in 2007 until it was 40 degrees outside and I played outside.
I've done stupid things in the past because I didn't know better. My first PC was a Compaq Presario and every time I reinstalled Windows 95 I flashed the bios without knowing why, but I did it anyway. Then one day I just unplugged the PC while it was flashing and to the repair center it went. When I built my true first PC I bought a Pentium II 266 and didn't put a heatsink on it and it died. Luckily the place I bought it allowed me to exchange it. My older PC's didn't really need them so I thought that was the same for the Pentium II. I was mainly self taught and just meandered my way around. It's not like there's webpages and YouTube videos on how to build a PC back then.
One of my earlier builds, I didn't use thermal paste with the CPU fan. It ran OK until I did anything intensive, lol. I had to talk to another guy I worked with to figure out what I had done wrong as there weren't any other resources at the time. I'm pretty sure what was even before hardforum.
At least the Verge guy didn't install the CPU backwards, or bent the case to fit the GPU.
Can't blame you really ,some Pentium II's didn't even have a heatsink. I had a Compaq Deskpro back in the day with a Pentium II with no heatsink and it worked fine.
The trouble with Steve is that he crows too much about how rigorously scientific their hardware testing is, and then shoots from the hip and makes proclamations without doing any actual testing. He's really bad about this with his case reviews, and their testing of "thermals," is theoretically the centerpiece, and the thing he claims no one else does better. He's also really bad about it when they do teardowns of components like graphics cards, where he'll make these proclamations about how terrible some facet of the design is, based mainly on his opinion at the moment.
My first PC was a Compaq Presario with a Pentium @90Mhz. I had added so much to that thing to make it better. Pentium MMX overdrive that I think ran at 150Mhz but could do 166 if it wasn't for the limitation of the PC. A Voodoo Rush graphics card that I loved no matter how many people said I shouldn't. A Maxtor hard drive that actually held like a Gig or more storage, which at the time was amazing. A CD burner that replaced the original regular CD drive, plus a 33.6K modem to replace the aging 14.4K that came with it. I think I also put in a SoundBlaster AWE64. This was my family's PC but I made it my own. I did screw up along the way but I learned. I remember calling the Compaq technical support line and actually have a very long conversation where the technician took the time to teach me. You just don't get that today. If someone did that today they would be fired.
It shows.
That would be tar, not nicotine. ;-)
A case is just a box that holds the PC. A lot of reviews just have a test bench where the motherboard is mounted externally because a case doesn't matter. I've modded a case because a 120mm radiator wouldn't fit, so I bent the case with a hammer. It's just case modding done poorly. The thing is it all worked and doesn't have any good reason for it not to work. Missing or incorrect screws does nothing but make the thing look ugly and problematic for transportation. I wouldn't want that person working on my PC but I wouldn't say that he has no business working on a PC because his standards don't match my own. Mechanics do a lot of shit like this that you're not even aware of. Ever seen a car where the carpet was cut for no good reason? Chances are a mechanic cut it to get access to wires, probably because for the O2 sensor. I saw a mechanic cut a grove into the cars body to get to a motor mount because he couldn't be bothered to remove the wiper assembly. If this were my car I'd freak out and tell them to replace and repair the damage they've done. The reality is people won't see the hole cause they almost never open the hood, and won't notice the cut carpet because they rarely clean their car. Even if they did they wouldn't know how that happened. If I close the computer case and hand the PC to you, chances are the end user won't open it up and check my work. It's all about standards and if you have high standards then you wouldn't have done the work like this to begin with.
I did upgrade to R4 later and it made life easier. My current P600s is on another level of flexibility though and cable management was a non issue (and air actually flows now).
And it was fun to watch the IT guru cringe when he saw a bent IDE or SCSI cable. Too worried about stress on cable.real men folded IDE, Floppy and SCSI cables though
I used to bend them when making 90 degree turns. The 80 pin IDE ribbons were stiff enough as well as the 68pin UW ribbons and as long as it wasn't bent back and forth it never was an issue.
Betcha you would've cringe with my PC mod back in the day if you saw it.
I used to cut and round my IDEs, every 8 wires, then I saw rounded cables.
I did the same thing with my 8 bit gear, so very long ago. Lids off, fans on was a summer reality.
Yeah my first sff system ran like that. Never could get it to handle the lid on.
Homie, back in 97 most looked like this. Come to a LAN party between 97-2004 and most looked like this.
