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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: I knew all that flashy bling was a bad idea...
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 15:00:11 -0000 (UTC)
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Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote at 12:59 this Tuesday (GMT):
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> There's no real information on how common the problem is, or how long
>> it took before the plastic got scorched or, really, any specifics.
>> Still, it's another reason to not bling out your PC.
>
> Yeah, I my motherboard has power and reset buttons which have LEDs and
> there's the two digit Dr. Debug display too but that's all. It does have
> a total of four pin headers for two different kinds of LED strips stuff
> but I haven't bothered. Apparently there's now some kind of sync thing
> too so you can have all your leds change color in a synchronous
> fashion. Sigh.
>
>> (It's not really related, but modern GPUs are getting burdensomely
>> heavy and large too... so much so that the PCIE slots on motherboards
>> are having problems supporting that weight. There are reports of the
>> slots getting pulled off their traces on the motherboard because of
>> the weight. My GPU came with a little adjustable 'brace' meant to be
>> placed between GPU and chassis to help hold the massive thing up.
>
> I put in a GPU brace recently. I think I read the drooping of the GPU
> board itself isn't healty in the long run either. Haven't had PCIe
> sockets pulled off yet or breakage in any GPU though, the current one is
> the first where I've put in a brace.


What's Dr. Debug?
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