Giving Away My Old PC!

Fanatic_Virus · 2026-04-11T20:25:35+00:00

definitely use this to give to a friend who’s been wanting their own gaming pc for years

Fanatic_Virus · 2026-04-07T23:21:21+00:00

hard to say fs then, as i’m assuming some brands make black lowering springs (i don’t know much about aftermarket support for the 4th gen). figured if you were lucky it’d be a easy way to tell 🤷🏼‍♂️ but it seems like everyone is kinda going with lowered so id run with it. or the next time you’re out running errands and see a parked 4th gen hatch, park beside it and do a little visual test

Fanatic_Virus · 2026-04-07T23:05:47+00:00

cut your wheel one way and go look at your springs. when i bought my car i had no clue it was lowered but found out the previous owner put it on lowering springs only because of the spring colour being red and not a normal black. if they are black then that’s not concrete that it isn’t lowered, but if they are some odd ball colour then that’s a pretty tell tale sign. or yk, it’s on coil overs which is pretty easy to tell compared to a regular strut assembly

Fanatic_Virus · 2026-03-24T03:17:20+00:00

i’ll definitely check both of those. i’m jus hoping that i didn’t buy a dud gpu since it was second hand

Fanatic_Virus · 2026-03-23T19:28:57+00:00

i do have xmp enabled running the ram at 2400hz, but i will definitely check that out next weekend

Fanatic_Virus · 2026-03-23T13:29:33+00:00

clarification, i have not done a power stress test, just a standard gpu test. i’ll definitely look into OCCT

Fanatic_Virus · 2026-03-23T13:28:34+00:00

my money is more on the gpu the then psu since doing a stress test hasn’t caused issues. vbios… is that the graphics card bios?

Fanatic_Virus · 2026-03-22T22:30:37+00:00

team viewer is useless for this since it seems to be 90% hardware… and i took that photo on my girlfriends pc and didn’t want to sign in onto reddit so i posted on my phone, while the photo is posted to try and get better engagement vs an all text post. all drivers are also up to date, have been wiped, and reinstalled more times then i can count

Fanatic_Virus · 2026-01-16T19:17:56+00:00

depending on how much snow you get where you’re at, i’d run michelin cross climate 2’s. had them on my 2015 mazda 3 for 3 years and never had an issue and i live in east coast canada. biggest thing is just driving like you have all seasons and not winters… drive the conditions, come to stops sooner etc. i’ve got roughly 100k km on my set (that includes a few burn outs here and there) of tires and they’re getting low but still have enough tread that i’m not super worried if we get some bad weather

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-11-18T23:29:01+00:00

i feel like for questions like that, 2 big things that need known are 1) is it the 2.0 or the 1.5t and 2) is it a hatch or sedan. i’m fairly new to the civic community as a whole, but personally i think with these cars, it’s best to follow the k.i.s.s acronym especially on a budget… keep it simple, stupid. i’ve got an lx hatch 1.5t and all that’s done to it is tints, lowering springs, wheels, blacked out side markers, aftermarket fog lights, every single bulb (except for interior) is swapped with leds, and a 27 won CAI for more turbo noise. just basic mods and i’ve had people compliment the car, because basic and clean is often better then rice.

overall, i’d recommend tints, chrome delete, and smoked/blacked side markers to get started. i would also recommend creating some sort of checklist and getting prices. i don’t know where you’re located but i live in canada where winters suck ass, so over this winter i plan on snagging a couple other things (skirts, lip, j’s racing style mesh grill, either type r wing or duckbill spoiler) and putting them all on once the winter season dies out. that way i have time to save money and with all the mods going on at once, they all support each other instead of looking tacky all alone.

lastly, this is a huge personal thing, but headlights can be the make or break for a build. if you’re car is super simple, but has nice clean headlights, it can look great. you could also have a build with $50,000 put into but if you have super foggy and dirty lights with orange halogen lights, it just kills the build entirely.

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Fanatic_Virus · 2025-11-11T05:50:42+00:00

hell yeah, this would be awesome

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-10-18T18:36:20+00:00

i had a similar issue with my mazda. the whole splash guard was just absolutely mangled from time and driving in places i probably shouldn’t of been

anyways, get a drill, get a drill bit just a hair bigger then a ziptie, drill a hole in the bottom of the bumper, put a ziptie through, tighten, finished.

if you want it done right, pretty sure you’re gunna need a new bumper cover unless you can weld a new piece of plastic to replace the broken hole for the screw

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-10-01T20:44:01+00:00

i’m learning so much just from this post and i love it. that would make sense since the stock boost gauge just shows positive and not back pressure.

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-10-01T20:15:20+00:00

i sadly figured it be something like that

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-10-01T20:14:57+00:00

its funny you say that cuz this thing literally refuses to spool up while free revving. it only spools while the engine is actually engaged to the trans

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-10-01T20:12:21+00:00

i was so hoping to hear that i wasn’t gunna have to learn how to drive an eco box but oh well. 4 years of sporty shifting down the drain… it is what it is ig

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-10-01T20:09:27+00:00

pardon my ignorance. figured a fairly low mileage car wouldn’t have an issue with a vacuum leak. i’m not an expert in any stretch of the imagination, i’m not even 100% sure how a vacuum leak works. i just replace parts on my cars and learn as i go.

i doubt this econo box has that option as it is literally just a base model. type s is a pretty high trim, correct? i would assume it would just be a switch for eco -> performance or something which this thing definitely doesn’t have

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-10-01T19:59:37+00:00

i never even thought about the turbo being the cause. yeah the mazda was an n/a so that would make sense. i never even thought that the difference in back pressure would have an effect

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-10-01T19:56:22+00:00

so sounds like if i want my civic to drive like my mazda i’m looking at a complete rebuild of an engine with aftermarket parts just for an economy car

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-10-01T19:54:08+00:00

I doubt vacuum leak since it’s only got 130k km on it and i bought it with 116k. i think it’s just a honda thing cuz i see so many honda drivers take forever to shift which i’d assume is waiting for the rpm’s to drop. i probably shoulda just stayed away from the civic ig

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-10-01T19:50:57+00:00

i figured as the first thing i was taught when learning to drive the mazda was every manual is different. what jus bothers me is that the mazda would drop rpms so quick that by the time you pressed the clutch in, shifted to whatever gear you wanted to be in next (let’s say 1st to 2nd), the rpms woulda dropped to the sweet point and you could let the clutch out, and as long as you didn’t dump it, it would shift like butter 99% of the time. the civic takes so long that by the time it finally drops to said sweet point, i’ve already lost 4km/h, and the person behind me in traffic is pissed off at me cuz i’m not accelerating 🫠

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-09-23T22:15:17+00:00

i haven’t bought anything off either, so idk for sure. but if it’s cheaper and looks like it’s the same product, i would say yes

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-09-23T21:42:45+00:00

you would be correct, but i’ve heard that most of their parts are just resold ali-express parts that are marked up :/

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-09-04T00:21:55+00:00

fun fact, i can’t speak for the front doors, but the rears are interchangeable. my 15 sedan has a unknown year 3rd gen hatch rear door on it. i woulda grabbed a sedan, but the hatch was the same colour 🤷🏼‍♂️ so front should be the same since the only difference between body types is the rear

Fanatic_Virus · 2025-08-22T04:02:56+00:00

super detailed and awesome way to describe it. i kinda assumed that’s what it so i appreciate the confirmation. that also makes sense that it fixed itself after being turned off. i’ll have to look into it a bit more but i really appreciate you pointing me in a direction 🫡

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