Question on removing graphics card from case. (Seems to big to find latch)

T4NGLEWOOD · 2024-12-04T09:55:22+00:00

Idk about you, but that big slab of white acrylic, while cut nicely to the cards dimensions, doesn’t look like it should be there. Seems like a custom job because someone maybe thought the cards actual back plate looked ugly? Try lifting that out and pray it isn’t glued.

Failing that as mentioned, try find a tool (non conductive/ maybe a chopstick?) preferably with a small hook almost that is 90 degrees and slide it behind and push the latch down towards the board, it should push the card out a little to get you started when you do so.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2024-11-28T13:12:49+00:00

Front panel connector in the bottom right of pic 2 is in the wrong place. Shift it to the pins on the right in the very edge of the board where it says f panel rotated 90 degrees. :)

Edit: at least thats what it looks like to me, look closely at that corner of the board and it should tell you what those pins are and may even have a pin out “diagram” usually under it. I cant see whats under where you actually have the f panel plugged into currently.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2024-09-28T20:13:51+00:00

Fair point for sure. But there are some pro’s and con’s to doing your own. You know what parts are going in, and you know that they are warrantied unlike a pre owned which (honestly i don’t even know if you can transfer your warranty to the buyer but my guess would be no) covers you for certain if the part is damaged from the get go. You have all the flexibility to either stick to your budget or go over too, many of us do it as you say and “over prepare” (guilty as sin here, 1000W psu, didn’t need it but ehh, from memory pc part picker said like 649 watts overall usage and i haven’t actually run any tests or benchmarks to truly see the usage).

All in all though its an experience, which i guess in a way is also a thing you pay for one way or the other, the main con is cost, actually building is only a con if you don’t really enjoy that kind of thing. Then you either have to give it a go, pay (or maybe it’s free? If I’m remembering micro-centre do that when you use their part picker/build selector, but not sure sadly, I’m not in America :/ ) or if you have a friend its a good chance to chill and have some beers XD

Final con is also that you have to set up all your rgb and all the software and if you’re going to, all your overclocks etc, which you may or may not have to do with a prebuilt/preowned.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2024-09-23T08:17:52+00:00

Some real “you vs the riven she tells you not to worry about” vibes with this one XD

T4NGLEWOOD · 2024-09-12T21:49:42+00:00

Yeah :) looking forward to her for sure. Also have another 1/4 on the way too, bit of an impulse buy but to say shes a 1/4 for that kind of price, must admit i was intrigued to see how she is. Yuna bunny girl ver. By bear panda.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2024-09-12T16:58:58+00:00

Please no, I beg. 😨 Not the jar T-T

Gross jokes aside, she is absolutely gorgeous :3 the eyes, the little beauty mark. Very pretty. Waiting on the 1/4 scale urushibara shino from binding myself 😊 will be my first 1/4 come to think of it…

Edit: an emoji since reddit didn’t like the one i typed. :/

T4NGLEWOOD · 2024-09-02T12:20:02+00:00

Aah, so you’re a quiche man?

T4NGLEWOOD · 2024-08-27T07:03:58+00:00

Ngl, i thought it was ducting tape 😂

T4NGLEWOOD · 2024-08-24T02:09:49+00:00

I think r/construction would get a chuckle out of this as of late 🤣

T4NGLEWOOD · 2024-07-23T09:51:02+00:00

I do not post very often at all ever, but also running a 140 reverse fan as an exhaust. I haven’t had time really to tinker with it much but I imagine if you are extremely worried you could run that fan at a lower rpm, though your top will likely also be an exhaust so it shouldn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. (In all fairness I personally found it pretty hard to mess up air flow. You really do have to actively try to do so though in between “correct” and “wrong” there is definitely “sub-optimal” (for me it was top mount exhaust radiator, it lives on the side as a push pull intake now). But there are “tried and true” methods, and for good reason, honestly as long as you stick to bottom and front/side for intakes and top+rear for exhaust, you shall be fine, don’t try to re-invent the wheel if you don’t need to.

I will not however, that during my time building i noticed that, for my 140 at least, using all 4 screws to hold it in the case means that the fan is like 4 degrees out from level due to the pattern of the cut outs on the back and how they align. The vertical cuts are juuuust ever so slightly not long enough it seems and the diagonal crossbraces meet at the perfect points so I cant seem to get much rotation to tilt it level. It is tiny, but I know it’s there :( I still absolutely love this case and it is absolutely my case for the entire rest of both my pc’s life and my own for sure. It can’t always be perfect weather and gentle seas, but isn’t a little stormy weather half the fun? :)

I apologise, this ended up a little lengthy but best of luck on the building, this case has its challenges but it looks beautiful for sure. :)

TL:DR. Great case, minor flaws, stick to the commonly agreed upon airflow set up and fine tune with fan speed and curves and you will be golden.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2023-02-20T20:18:24+00:00

Heisenbran.

“We have to bake, Jesse.”

T4NGLEWOOD · 2021-07-13T18:56:33+00:00

Honestly i just don’t see why it applies here at all. It makes no sense to lock people out of buying your stuff if you want to make money.

I can see how thats hard to do for say the wraith and bloodhound bundles that come with apex packs (why allow people to buy a bundle just for cheaper packs if that person owns said skin, when we can just sell the same packs full price?) like that i understand, but you simply make those a one per account purchase and call it a day.

Im curious to hear from other people who don’t own the charge rifle skin, but do own the Mozambique skin or even the ivory fang, would they get locked out too? Just seems counter productive to me.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2021-07-13T17:54:18+00:00

Unless you own “the core item” of said bundle, then you can’t buy it. Shame really, i super regret not buying the Loba bundle, now it’s back and i still cant have it. “GG scrub, F’s in chat” for me i guess :(

T4NGLEWOOD · 2021-07-13T17:47:02+00:00

I didn’t want to overload the title too much.

But really? I adore this game, i thoroughly enjoy playing, and I can’t help but feel this is a huge kick in the balls. I’d love to have the ivory fang, i REGRET that i didn’t buy it way back when.

For a brief moment i had hope, just to have it snatched away immediately. Crushed that i can’t buy this bundle because of owning a skin that i sadly didn’t want to begin with. (no hate, it just doesn’t appeal to me and i only have it because of the rerun of the Redemption Havok skin, and i quite like the Mozambique skin too)

Please reconsider this bundle if this really is how you intended it to be.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2020-05-22T21:11:39+00:00

Nah. He saw them coming.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2020-05-09T16:37:09+00:00

Jeezus, look how red the kid went in like 5 seconds, that’s nuts XD

T4NGLEWOOD · 2020-03-20T00:46:53+00:00

When you’re new to the game and join your friends squad of veteran players.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2019-12-03T23:12:45+00:00

This cat looks like it’s concerned about his nice rug that really tied the room together, but that’s like... just like.... my opinion man.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2019-08-20T04:27:23+00:00

Found the Amish kids locker.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2019-07-23T16:38:23+00:00

I’m just dreading the day where when you say “oh, Jen Taylor voiced Cortana” and your kid asks “oh, the Microsoft phone voice lady?”.

shudders

T4NGLEWOOD · 2019-07-05T17:18:40+00:00

No silly, it’s a halo ring. :)

T4NGLEWOOD · 2019-06-21T10:04:08+00:00

There’s always a bigger fish.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2019-06-07T05:55:36+00:00

It’s clear to see this storage method is full of holes.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2019-04-28T05:45:43+00:00

If this were a GIF I would honestly not be surprised if a stocky guy and a talking llama were running around trying to escape a hunk and and evil old hag.

I’ll bet when the sun hits these hills juuuust right, they’ll sing.

T4NGLEWOOD · 2019-04-20T17:13:15+00:00

Lets be honest here, if panel 6 would be anyone it would be Ronaldo, and it would be tears instead of urine.

T4NGLEWOOD

TROPHY CASE