Core i7 Build Epic Fail

Have a friend that boots a new Pc without Cpu cooler. Does it intentionally because of the faulty thermal diode and Cpu thermal shut down not working in the past. I also Shyt myself when I saw him do that. But he does have a point. I pay for a WORKING product. and it does state that X Cpu does have thermal protection and thermal shutdown capabilities.

We do punish out Computers quite a bit and have yet to encounter failure because of it.
 
hahaha... FITNESS... LIFE... BEEFCAAAAAKE!!!!!
 
Also, if your only intention was to POST it, why were you waving the windows install CD?
 
DarkSpectre said:
[video=youtube;P_451c-_Lc0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_451c-_Lc0[/video]

Hahaha :D It took him so long to realize what caused his newly built monster rig to break down.
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Oh my word.. This is seriously cringe worthy
 
Another thing to always check... the voltage input selector on the power supply. In all my years I never checked, until one day... bang - brand new 850W PSU in its glory!
 
SirFooK'nG said:
Another thing to always check... the voltage input selector on the power supply. In all my years I never checked, until one day... bang - brand new 850W PSU in its glory!
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I learned this the hard way.
Flipped the voltage switch on an old psu by mistake while the psu was running, poof.
 
Electric said:
I learned this the hard way.
Flipped the voltage switch on an old psu by mistake while the psu was running, poof.
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Im about to build a new pc! LOL please inform me of what a voltage switch is??
 
DarkSpectre said:
[video=youtube;P_451c-_Lc0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_451c-_Lc0[/video]

Hahaha :D It took him so long to realize what caused his newly built monster rig to break down.
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I could see from the beginning that this guy wanted to take the mickey out of noob builders. He has the H100i box sitting on the table. Maybe he thought that making a silly video to gain attention towards his channel would be a good idea.

I booted boards with the CPU and RAM in without the cooler on when I was working in retail. Sure, the manual doesn't say you should do it, but I was only looking for a post screen anyway. I had a spare Celeron 430 and 2GB DDR3 for testing LGA775 boards and this was a lot easier than putting on a CPU cooler all the time.

If the chip ever dies you chuck it away and get a new one. In fact, it is quite possible to run a single-core Ivy Bridge-E Celeron CPU without a cooler, underclocked and undervolted, for large amounts of time. It won't let you do much, but it's not completely useless either.

I wouldn't do it with a PC that I already knew had overheating issues (one Pentium 4 641 reached a high of 101 degrees in seconds in the BIOS) but for new hardware it's not dangerous anymore.

TJ99 said:
Remember this guy is a modern "gamer", all they know is playing Call of Doody 17 and Need for Speed 29 on pre-built PC's, he doesn't even know a CPU needs a fan, that it comes shipped with FFS.
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Rickster said:
In his follow up video he explains why he didnt put on the cooler, he also says the I7 3930k doesnt come with a stock cooler. Is that true?
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Yep, it's true. Intel's HEDT products no longer come shipped with boxed coolers. Why they do this exactly is something I've never worked out. A lot of people would just buy a i7-4930K for the extra cores and PCI-E lanes, so using a stock cooler with it isn't the worst practice in the world.

I remember this confusing a lot of people at the beginning of the Sandy Bridge-E launch as well. Many people thought it would be just like Nehalem and come with that unbelievably monstrous stock cooler. That's still the case today with anyone new to the HEDT platforms and buys their hardware for the first time online. Unless they ask a knowledgeable salesperson/friend/forum member, there's nothing to beep and tell them they need a stock cooler with the chip.

Intel assumes that enthusiasts buying these things will just use their own cooling which is a fair assumption, but I don't think it's one they should keep making now. Yeah, they can make less stock coolers now, but that can't really be saving them that much in the BOM when these are essentially binned Xeon chips that still make a profit anyway.

joncoh101 said:
Im about to build a new pc! LOL please inform me of what a voltage switch is??
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Some PSUs don't have a universal voltage switch and allow you to manually select it to operate on 115V or 230v (or something like that) circuits. Don't ever flip that switch while the PSU is still on and definitely don't leave it on 115v mode and plug it in.
 
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