• Wierd hard drive bay in prebuilt PC
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[QUOTE=Aetna;52425245]I watched the video and right away thought, "Clearly this person has never taken apart an older Dell."[/QUOTE] I have tyvm. I just happened to be working on that Lenovo. [editline]2nd July 2017[/editline] The Dell is next video.
New video! [media]https://youtu.be/wk07hE2lIY0[/media] I hate these things. [editline]12th July 2017[/editline] [media]https://youtu.be/k1eZgV_x9ng[/media] Clarifications to the Clamshell Dell episode, before anyone eviscerates me.
[QUOTE=portalcrazy;52420896]i swear i thought this was that thread where the guy kept ejaculating in that one part of his computer[/QUOTE] I immediately thought of that. For anyone who doesn't know, he kept a cumsock in his drive bay because it was a "genius hiding spot". Well, it was so genius that he thought he didn't have to ever clean the fucking sock so he had this crusted over cumsock that was cooking inside a hot PC case for like a year. He posted pictures and it was fucking disgusting. Looked like tar in a sock.
[QUOTE=Kylel999;52462507]I immediately thought of that. For anyone who doesn't know, he kept a cumsock in his drive bay because it was a "genius hiding spot". Well, it was so genius that he thought he didn't have to ever clean the fucking sock so he had this crusted over cumsock that was cooking inside a hot PC case for like a year. He posted pictures and it was fucking disgusting. Looked like tar in a sock.[/QUOTE] wasn't he pretending to be somebody else as an attempt to smear them? "[URL="http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1121736"]enjoy[/URL]" (obviously nsfw and nsfl)
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;52461599]New video! [media]https://youtu.be/wk07hE2lIY0[/media] I hate these things. [editline]12th July 2017[/editline] [media]https://youtu.be/k1eZgV_x9ng[/media] Clarifications to the Clamshell Dell episode, before anyone eviscerates me.[/QUOTE]heyyy i have one of those in the house atm! fixed it a while back, the case wasn't actually that bad to work in
As cool as some of the designs I've run into are, I can't help but feel extremely annoyed by them because it just makes a lot of things difficult by making things proprietary. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've had to deal with customers getting pissy with me because I, for a non-understandable reason, do not keep dozens of a proprietary Dell power supply in stock for their one computer that handles the entirety of their business and it's not working because the original one finally bit the dust.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;52462899]As cool as some of the designs I've run into are, I can't help but feel extremely annoyed by them because it just makes a lot of things difficult by making things proprietary. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've had to deal with customers getting pissy with me because I, for a non-understandable reason, do not keep dozens of a proprietary Dell power supply in stock for their one computer that handles the entirety of their business and it's not working because the original one finally bit the dust.[/QUOTE] Worst thing is when the panel that contains the power button/LED's, and USB ports is destroyed. 99% of the time its proprietary, and parts are way over inflated in price or nearly impossible to find. But without hacking something together, the entire PC is useless. Those Lenovo 10B6's with the terrible HDD design I mentioned, have a nasty habit of the power button popping out of place, making it not work. If you don't take it apart just right, retaining clip with open up the button and will explode into a bunch of contacts, lever, and spring an eigth the size of your pinkie nail. You can reassemble them using a paper clip, but it sucks ass. Also I can't find any place to replace them. So there are a few parts PCs without power buttons.
I've got a Dell Dimension 4500 and it uses the clamshell design as well. Can I just say that the front USB placement on those cases is the worst I've ever seen. Not only are they behind a flip up door but they are pointed down at the floor so god help you if your case is on the floor. You gotta crouch down just to put anything in them.
[QUOTE=Demache;52463123]Worst thing is when the panel that contains the power button/LED's, and USB ports is destroyed. 99% of the time its proprietary, and parts are way over inflated in price or nearly impossible to find. But without hacking something together, the entire PC is useless. Those Lenovo 10B6's with the terrible HDD design I mentioned, have a nasty habit of the power button popping out of place, making it not work. If you don't take it apart just right, retaining clip with open up the button and will explode into a bunch of contacts, lever, and spring an eigth the size of your pinkie nail. You can reassemble them using a paper clip, but it sucks ass. Also I can't find any place to replace them. So there are a few parts PCs without power buttons.[/QUOTE] Honestly I've had a number of computers come in with this exact problem and I've not been able to find official parts. On a number of them customers have taken my cheap rig option of "let me just wire up the power switch pins on the front panel header to a switch that I glue to the outside of the case and solder wires to". If it works, it works, and I've found a majority of people would rather have something that works regardless of how pretty it is. Especially the types that are still running stuff with these computers. The other option would be migrating their entire system to another computer but this is never a seamless transition and stuff almost always breaks or doesn't work right afterwards. Honestly I'd rather spend a few minutes jury rigging a janky power button and make $25 than go through all that other crap and have a very specific system with very specific programs to support afterwards because "i touched it last".
[QUOTE=krosos8;52462594]wasn't he pretending to be somebody else as an attempt to smear them? "[URL="http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1121736"]enjoy[/URL]" (obviously nsfw and nsfl)[/QUOTE] Sadly all the photos are gone, my morbid curiosity got the best of me.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eoeuw9_c4wc[/media] New episode! I bought a new computer so that means a new episode! Hooray!
[QUOTE=ultradude25;52420511]If you like funky cases, get your hands on a Dell Optiplex GX270 SD. The whole case splits into two on a hinge on the front, with the drives and a separate front IO circuit board on the top half, and the mobo and long thin power supply on the bottom. [t]http://i.imgur.com/B0WADVa.jpg[/t] I unfortunately only took the one picture of it (and after I had already removed the neat PCI expansion board that goes over the power supply), but it was quite [i]interesting[/i] to work with. I found a video that shows the inside in a bit more detail:[/QUOTE] fun fact: the team lead for that case was actually Satan.
Holy shit that air channel design is amazing
[QUOTE=Lollipoopdeck;52770518]Holy shit that air channel design is amazing[/QUOTE] Seriously. I was blown away by it. (No pun intended). My last job had several IBM workstations and while they were competent airflow-wise, they were nowhere near as beautifully clean as this box.
Man Dell workstations are entirely different from their old personal models, I remember trying to help a friend fix his old one like ten years ago and absolutely nothing about it was easy to modify, I remember the PSU specifically had this weird green cover thing that made it nearly impossible to replace. Great videos, that workstation looks extremely well set-up and easy to manage compared to most that I've seen.
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