Anon cleans the mobo

3 years ago by ancoraunamoka to c/greentext

thedoginthewok 87 points 3 years ago

I'm 99% sure this is a shitpost.

You'd have to be significantly less intelligent than a raccoon, to not notice the little levers on the sides of the RAM sticks.

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Chadus_Maximus 26 points 3 years ago

Everyone talks about the levers on RAM sticks, but why the FUCK is nobody talking about levers on PCI-E sticks? I thought those didn't exist and did the same thing as OP.

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TonyTonyChopper 33 points 3 years ago

those can actually get hidden by big ass GPUs. And be pretty hard to release.

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AllHailTheSheep 7 points 3 years ago

luckily they aren't necessary, I've had many people come into my shop after breaking the pcie clips and I just make sure it's screwed in firmly and they're good to go. they are a bitch tho

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TheBat 1 point 3 years ago

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alphapuggle 13 points 3 years ago

That's the thing, at one point they didn't exist. I almost ripped one out of my motherboard when I first got one with a latch.

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dot20 2 points 3 years ago

I did rip one out of my motherboard. But they're purely mechanical so it's not actually a big deal (and the mobo was broken anyway).

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starman 25 points 3 years ago

I'm 99% sure this is a shitpost.

Unlike other 4chan greentexts

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flubba86 62 points 3 years ago

Clearly fake. Those slots were desoldered from a board, and DIMMs placed in them for the lulz.

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Pinklink 6 points 3 years ago

How you know mr “I solder stuff”?

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pivot_root 17 points 3 years ago

If you've ever seen an idiot actually rip surface-mounted components off a PCB, you'll know. They tend to take pads and traces with them, and it's not pretty.

Now, the OOP anon could have ripped those off and scraped off the remnants, but it's unlikely they would do that for the sake of the photo if they were genuinely stupid enough to pull out the connector.

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Pinklink 6 points 3 years ago

Ah, thank you. Lol to downvotes I got for asking. Didn’t think my silly name calling could be genuinely taken as condescending, but I was actually asking so thanks

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angel 33 points 3 years ago

Those fuckers look pretty clean to me, good job

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KeyFranchise 31 points 3 years ago

That's some prime pc support gore...

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EdibleFriend 17 points 3 years ago

It took me longer than I care to admit to find the problem

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gullible 6 points 3 years ago

Only ever bought prebuilts, I’m guessing something was left behind on the motherboard?

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grysbok 17 points 3 years ago

When they removed the sticks of RAM they also removed the slots the RAM goes into.

Edit: like removing the light bulb socket to change a light bulb.

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gullible 3 points 3 years ago

Jesus, I thought the clips were part of the ram. Thank you.

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wheeldawg 2 points 3 years ago

Apparently so did anon.

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EvokerKing 7 points 3 years ago

This actually doesn't look that bad. I know it's not good but you don't need new ram (even if it is 4gb of ram). You only need a new motherboard which is probably an old one because you wouldn't pair a bad CPU with a good motherboard and it has to be a bad CPU since no good CPU will run with 4gb of ram. The motherboard for this probably costs under $30.

Edit: just realized it's 1337mhz ram so the motherboard has to be at least 5-10 years old.

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TonyTonyChopper 4 points 3 years ago

more like 15-20 years old

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Draegur 5 points 3 years ago

That
Poor
Dumb
Bastard.

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Oha 3 points 3 years ago