You clearly don't know my neighbor
Can I just have a hard drive laying around in my PC
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Could stick it in the 5.25" bay?
One of the reasons to build yourself. Shocking behaviour tbh.
I saw a prebuild once where they had hot glued in the usb header to mobo AND even a pci board. Wtf like? Why?
Presumably transit - to stop components becoming dislodged through rough handling.
This use to be really common - i hated working on friend's pre-builds - silicon gunk everywhere. Fortunately, packing of internals on pre-builds for transit is much better with bigger, reputable companies. But, luck of the courier handler still makes it a lottery if your spangly new PC hasn't run the 'whac-a-mole loading/unloading gauntlet'
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I bought a systems worth of parts and a pre-build at the same time once, from the same supplier.
They'd glued everything in place in the pre-build, and sick a sticker on the case so if you just took the side panel off you'd 'invalidate' the warranty.
On the CPU I bought they'd stuck their company's logo stickers to the BOTTOM of it, on the pins. I had to remove it with tweezers and carefully pick off the residue it left behind.
Needless to say, the company no longer exists.
They stuck a sticker to the pins? Wow... In all my years of pc building I've never even heard of something that stupid. Jesus.
I've heard of that open the case to invalidate warranty before - places that want to "repair" in house I guess.
And I guess makes sense with the hot glue. I'm assuming they know of a way to get rid of it and the residue should the pc come back to them.
A pain in the ass for people like us but I guess Doris Boris and Bert wouldn't give 2 ***** even if you pointed it out. Lol
What do they even package pre builds in nowadays? Chuck air pockets inside the case?
A pain in the ass for people like us but I guess Doris Boris and Bert wouldn't give 2 ***** even if you pointed it out. Lol
What do they even package pre builds in nowadays? Chuck air pockets inside the case?
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Yep, pretty ridiculous! It was a Q6600.
Actually, now I think about it they also 'forgot' to put a hard drive in the order which I'd paid for. Took me a lot of angry phone calls, with them swearing blind it was dispatched and calling me a liar before suddenly they 'found it in the warehouse'. Bunch of crooks.
That is one thing I really don't miss with platers. That grind through the chassis was really something. Let alone two or three. Some cases were worse/better than others.
Heavy condensed steel cases seem to suit platers better. Aluminium was hell. The Thermaltake Xaser III really kept those drives fairly quiet.
Heavy condensed steel cases seem to suit platers better. Aluminium was hell. The Thermaltake Xaser III really kept those drives fairly quiet.
Yeah i went from a peasant dell machine which was aluminium and the grind inside was ear piercing. Switched to the Antec Mini P180 and it was barely noticeable anymore especially with their rubber dampers that mount between the drive and the slide. Was night and day! Then i got my first 60gb ssd and i slowly swapped them out... remembered how expensive they were when they first saw light! Eye watering!