• @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    I had a PSU blow out in my server once and troubleshooting looked almost exactly like this. Minus the guy with the soldering iron.

  • @[email protected]
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    142 years ago

    At least he is not touching the ouchy part of the soldering iron unlick a famos other stock footage

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      Is that a Radeon 9500? 9300 maybe? Cooler and board colour looks exactly like the 9800 but the board is smaller.

  • Ignisnex
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    22 years ago

    I see the problem! My dude isn’t grounded. Static electricity is a killer!

  • fox2263
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    92 years ago

    I too like to solder a graphics card while holding it in the air. Helps with precision.

  • slazer2au
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    82 years ago

    Seen enough Dawid Does Tech Stuff to know the sign of a good bodge job is a second psu.

    Also, yay for holding the soldering iron correctly.

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    My favorite example of this sort of nonsense was an advertising image I saw when I was looking for a digital microscope. Had some very tiny wires to solder and wanted to get a feel for prices.

    Behold:

  • @[email protected]
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    Tbf, I once ran a PC with two PSUs at the same time, because I suspected one to overload, but had no 2nd powerfull enough to run the whole system. It kinda worked, bjt the system broke down due to other reasons…

    • wootz
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      I bought a Cooler Master Stacker 810 back in 07 almost exclusively because it could fit two PSUs. All the cool kids over at XtremeSystems were doing so teenage me thought I should as well.

      I never got around to needing another PSU, but I did learn to jump start an ATX PSU, and I still have the case.

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    After working in IT since 1999, I can count on my dads lefthand fingers the times I’ve had to solder a graphics card.

    PS: My dad lost his left arm in 1996

    • @[email protected]
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      72 years ago

      He’s not using the soldering iron per se, he’s threatening to use it. “Nice memory chip you got there, shame if something happened to it.”

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      My dad lost his left arm in 1996

      If you manage to find it, you could still probably use it for counting. Just make sure to use a Clorox wipe on it first.

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      I’ve done it twice actually… But I come from an embedded engineering background.

      Replaced some dead caps on an expensive GPU once and the other time it was a laptop where some of the GPU memory had broken(? IDK really how it happened, it was my boss’s personal machine, so few questions were asked) the connections.

      In the latter case we desoldered all the tantalum caps and put the motherboard in our reflow oven. Then resoldered the tantalums. The fear being that tantalums wouldn’t survive the oven we used for prototypes in the RD department I was in at the time (I count this as IT, as the admin was also an RD developer).

      Both times it worked.

      With that said, I don’t think that I’ve even seen a soldering station in an IT department since the mid 00s.

        • @[email protected]
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          Nope, threw it in the air and soldered it without ANY support before it hit the table - old western gunman style!

          Smh, there’s a whole genre in electronics humor about stock photos. At least this model didn’t hold on to the hot end of the iron.

          • @[email protected]
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            My only question is if they are aiming to make their photos accurate and just have no idea or if they are deliberately going for believable to non-tech people but ridiculous to anyone who knows something about what’s going on.

            • @[email protected]
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              In favor of doing it deliberately wrong is that trying to do it right, and failing, would be more embarrassing.

              Yes, you are a jackass, but you’re clearly trying to be one, so good job!

              I mean, nobody has said anything about ESD or ventilation. There’s no fume hood or equivalent nor any ESD protection. If the model had actually attempted to solder correctly, then people in the know would have attacked the picture for more substantial reasons, than the apparent ridiculousness.

              And what do you want to be associated with your products? People who are clearly just modeling, or people who are giving false impressions about the product? The latter is a legal liability TBH, so better to go the first route.

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      There’s a few tricks you can do in overclocking where you replace shunt resistors. It bypasses power limit protections by making the board think it’s drawing less power than it is.

      That and replacing dead caps is about the only reason to touch a soldering iron to a GPU.

      • @[email protected]
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        Only time I manually overclocket a PC was with a leaded pencil in the good ole days of AMD Thunderbird