Your PC pets hates

Terminal_Boy · 6 Dec 2020 at 19:08

JasonM said:
The tiny push connectors for power switch, reset switch, HDD and power LED's. These date back to the original IBM PC and they should have been improved by now.

Yup. Damn things should be used for jumpers, not system connectors.

Dave Burton · 6 Dec 2020 at 19:37

When people show me something by TOUCHING THE SCREEN!!! Just frikkin POINT man!!!!

t31os · 6 Dec 2020 at 21:54

lol Dave, but yes.... (i think i have the familiars trained now, but yes).

no_sleep_til · 7 Dec 2020 at 21:20

memory leaks on firefox. granted i'm using an old version, but reading reviews it doesn't seem to have been addressed. i do have a lot of addons which probably aren't helping.

the on/off switch for the PSU being in an awkward & hard to reach place behind my rig.

about the USB upside down issue: a bit of masking tape stuck on the topside is a boon to being able to plug it in the right way

EsaT · 7 Dec 2020 at 21:42

Yeah, that M.2 drive screw is just retarded.

Ridiculous amount of RGB stuffed into everything, while missing basic features.

All black excrement PSU cabling.
Making jump starting PSU and checking voltages using multimeter pain the arse and flat cables bend well only in one plane.

Jim_76 said:
Recent new hate, sata power cables.... I've added 3 SSD's vertically behind the pc side panel and the way sata power cables link through the connectors just sucks!

All black excrement ribbon cabling actually makes densely packed drives more problematic by making cable stiffer in most directions.

Matt72033 · 10 Dec 2020 at 15:32

Cables in General.....Not sure I could go back to Sata drives now.

andrewr2019 · 10 Dec 2020 at 17:47

Matt72033 said:
Cables in General.....Not sure I could go back to Sata drives now.

What about the fun days with IDE cables?

Anything to do with cabling I’m guaranteed to make a mess of anyway.

Matt72033 · 10 Dec 2020 at 20:59

andrewr2019 said:
What about the fun days with IDE cables? Anything to do with cabling I’m guaranteed to make a mess of anyway.

Eurgh.....Thank goodness those days are gone

andrewr2019 · 10 Dec 2020 at 21:10

Matt72033 said:
Eurgh.....Thank goodness those days are gone

I'll happily suffer the fiddly m.2 screws to avoid those days again

Matt72033 · 10 Dec 2020 at 21:13

andrewr2019 said:
I'll happily suffer the fiddly m.2 screws to avoid those days again

I find small screws with a good quality screwdriver, oddly satisfying

Steve.m · 10 Dec 2020 at 21:30

When they don't start.

The_Arbiter · 10 Dec 2020 at 22:05

Everything that's been said, plus when PWM fans can't below 40%

andrewr2019 · 10 Dec 2020 at 22:05

Matt72033 said:
I find small screws with a good quality screwdriver, oddly satisfying

Maybe the screwdrivers I use just aren’t of a high enough quality?

Matt72033 · 11 Dec 2020 at 08:00

andrewr2019 said:
Maybe the screwdrivers I use just aren’t of a high enough quality?

Maybe

adrichardson81 · 11 Dec 2020 at 15:03

High end mobos with diagnostic displays and sata connectors hidden by your gpu. And atx cables...

bonewood · 11 Dec 2020 at 15:16

Agree with an earlier post Display port cable latches can never undo them, and anything RGB but I put that down to my age

andrewr2019 · 12 Dec 2020 at 11:10

bonewood said:
Agree with an earlier post Display port cable latches can never undo them, and anything RGB but I put that down to my age

I’m not a big fan of those lever things on the pcie slots either.

StarShock · 16 Dec 2020 at 13:13

My biggest pet peeve at the moment is some of the stupid numeric naming schemes companies use. Intel and their newest laptops "intel core i7 1165g7" as an example. AMD naming their APUs 2000 and 3000 series when they are just 1000 and 2000 series with graphics bolted on. And Nvidia constantly changing things seemingly at random to mess with people. The last few generations of X60 cards are ridiculous.

960 and 960 ti, perfectly fine, makes sense. Then it changes to 1060 3gb and 1060 6gb, with different GPUs in them because why not!? After that we get the 2060, 2060 super, 1660, 1660 ti 1660 super and then another 2060 with a different GPU in it. And now we have a 3060 ti, which is a cut down 3070 GA104 GPU. Great, thanks NVidia, so easy to keep track of.

pp111 · 16 Dec 2020 at 18:11

HEADRAT said:
Hi All,

Just a bit of fun thread, what are you PC pets hates, I think my top 2 are

1. The tiny jewellery screw used to retain m.2 drives on motherboards, honestly whoever came up with this deserves a punch in the face.

2. I never ever seem to get USB the right way up first time, it seems to be like buttered toast falling butter side down!

what are yours?

HEADRAT

Bahahaha! Couldn't have said it better myself.

3. Amazingly rock solid heat-shrink that's always right where you need to bend a PSU cable.

labbby · 16 Dec 2020 at 18:16

JasonM said:
The tiny push connectors for power switch, reset switch, HDD and power LED's. These date back to the original IBM PC and they should have been improved by now.

some good ones in here but this is the top one for me