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[–] [email protected] 70 points 11 months ago (9 children)

A couple days ago I was swapping out my GPU. As I was carefully removing the glass side cover, it basically exploded in my hands. I don’t even know how.

There’s glass all over the room and I’m bleeding from the little shards that hit my hands and arms. Every time I think I got all the glass I find another piece. I finally get it all, replace the GPU and fire up the PC.

I hear crunching sounds that seem like they’re coming from the fans on the front. I shut down so I can vacuum out the remaining shards. As I’m taking off the glass front cover, that shit slips out of my fingers and fucking shatters on the floor.

I couldn’t do anything but laugh at that point. I cleaned up again and decided I’m not going anywhere today because it’s one of those fucking days.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is why i dont have any interest in glass side panels.

I dont even like clear side panels, but if i have it i'll take acrylic.. sure, it supposedly scratches easier, but wtf are you doing to get it scratched in the first place? probably the same kinda stuff that breaks tempered glass, lol.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Same here. Call me old-fashioned, but the only part of my computer I have any interest in looking at is whatever is being rendered on the monitor.

I don't need any LEDs in my PC because the case is a black metal box with no side panels. Any time/effort/money spent on making a PC "look cool" is time/effort/money that should have been spent making it perform better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have LEDs in my computer against my will, because the heatsink and motherboard both came with them and to get ones that didnt would have cost more.

My GPU used to have them too, but I recently upgraded to a new one that doesnt, which is fan-fucking-tastic in my opinion.

Looks like the floor of a abattoir after a unicorn butchering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At least the high quality parts have RGB controls that let you turn them off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

sure, if you use windows and download their proprietary ~~spyware~~ control panel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

some can be controlled by open source, like my case leds

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Your BIOS/UEFI might have some settings to turn off lights, if they can't be controlled through ways of RGB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

red leds wont make your computer go faster, overclocking is blue leds wont make it cooler, tuning fan curves and undervolting is

and so on

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I like the lights but I agree with you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

And even jf you do want to have a clear side, plastic is the better/safer choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes they only really get scratches when mishandled. They're lighter and they don't break.

I still have a lot of older cases with the acrylic (called plexiglass over here) and they're fine. I'm not planning on buying anything new, but when I do I din't want anything with a glass panel.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Yep, one of those days 😂... you feel like "I better start laughing cuz crying ain't gonna help" 😂.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I had the same thing happen to me but I was luckier. When I was 15-16, my parents had a big ass glass shower door sitting around so they asked me and my cousin to bring it downstairs so we could sell it. As we were trying to move it so we could pick it up, the thing exploded into a million shards flying everywhere on the floor. My cousin and I were basically unharmed but the floor was littered with tiny tiny glass shards that was a pain in the ass to clean up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Had that happen to my case a few months back and haven't bothered to replace it. Tempered glass is super strong on the face of it, but if you get the slightest scratch on the edges the internal stresses in the glass will literally blow it up. I know it will mar, but I'd rather have an acrylic window any day of the week, or better yet, a sleek solid side panel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It seems these things happen more often with glass side panels. I don't how how or why, but it's not just you and most likely it's not your fault.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I don’t even know how.

Do you perhaps have a stone tile floor?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Man I'm so glad my glass side panel has a steel frame around it. At work I've had to repair a couple PCs like that and man they make me so anxious. It's best to bite the bullet, unplug everything and lay the PC on it's side.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Glass can do that with internal or external stress. One of the reasons I absolutely hate it as a material.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why have glass panels? That's just asking for trouble.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
  1. super helpful comment.

  2. OP doesn't have them anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It’s silly but I like color changing LED lights.