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moonarchia

moonarchia

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Lanx said:
case panels w/ screws, what an invention...

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for 30years... really, the best way to enclose a pc case was to have a u shaped piece of heavy steel, not sheet metal, but it was made that way so you can stack your 200lb monitor on top of it
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My MAG 19" CRT weighed like 50 pounds, so yeah.
 
LiquidDeath

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Jesus Christ, look at this death trap. I love how they "rounded" the edges, which just made it sharp, but not pointy.

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Lanx

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LiquidDeath said:
Jesus Christ, look at this death trap. I love how they "rounded" the edges, which just made it sharp, but not pointy.

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oh yea, do you guys remember those oval case holes? it's cuz you can never get the u metal case to line up, so they made that variance so you can screw in the case.

yea in high school i volunteered for the "geek squad", it's basically like a computer club that the science dept head decided we can also get credit for it. a lot of it involved making sure computers just worked, there was like literally hundreds of these

i learned a bit from here as basically free reign computing, like static electricity is real, lulz. i had a computer open and it got hot so i pulled my fleece off and then touched the computer,

bzzzzt
 
Kajiimagi

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moonarchia said:
My MAG 19" CRT weighed like 50 pounds, so yeah.
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I had a Sony 21" trinitron that weighed about as much as my dad's 4-door impala.

FYI gang, Keyworlds.com Windows licenses' work well and are far cheaper than Amazon/Newegg/MS Store. I got a Win-11 Pro license for $15.13
 
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Kajiimagi said:
FYI gang, Keyworlds.com Windows licenses' work well and are far cheaper than Amazon/Newegg/MS Store. I got a Win-11 Pro license for $15.13
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Because those are extremely shady volume license keys.
 
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Intrinsic

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Kajiimagi said:
I had a Sony 21" trinitron that weighed about as much as my dad's 4-door impala.

FYI gang, Keyworlds.com Windows licenses' work well and are far cheaper than Amazon/Newegg/MS Store. I got a Win-11 Pro license for $15.13
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Yeah my high school monitor was a 17” Viewsonic. Can’t find the model now but it looked similar to the PF775, but that was released in 2000 spa free years too late and mine wasn’t “perfect flat,” hence PF. Still, that one was listed at 48.6 lbs and I would put it in the passenger seat of my 1986 Mazda Rx-7 and carry it to friend’s houses for LANs. All 135lbs of me toting up their driveway. Amazing I never broke it. Knew my dad would whip the shit outta me.
 
Borzak

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Had a 21" NEC Multisync monitor and it weighed a shitload, especially since my office at the house was upstairs. It lasted a long time though. I'm sure around 1990 it was probably between $700 and $1,000 or so.

They should make TVs like that again as well, wouldn't be anyone running out with a giant screen under their arm.
 
Lanx

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Borzak said:
Had a 21" NEC Multisync monitor and it weighed a shitload, especially since my office at the house was upstairs. It lasted a long time though. I'm sure around 1990 it was probably between $700 and $1,000 or so.

They should make TVs like that again as well, wouldn't be anyone running out with a giant screen under their arm.
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yea i think past 17in, every inch was an exponental increase in price and weight (cuz the tube had to get longer)
 
Kajiimagi

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This new PC I'm building came with a GPU anti-swag bar. Bottom fans are in the way of the stand so best I could do is get it on the corner of the GPU closest to the motherboard. Will that be enough support or should I look into on of those bars that fit under the GPU similar to this:

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I have a Powercolor red devil 7900 XTX and the cooler on it is huge.
 
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Kajiimagi said:
This new PC I'm building came with a GPU anti-swag bar. Bottom fans are in the way of the stand so best I could do is get it on the corner of the GPU closest to the motherboard. Will that be enough support or should I look into on of those bars that fit under the GPU similar to this:

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I have a Powercolor red devil 7900 XTX and the cooler on it is huge.
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I just have a little adjustable stand that supports the free corner of my GPU. They can be had for $5-10 on Amazon. This is the one I'm using
 
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Is that USB wifi inside the case? Stock cooler. Card still sagging. Hope that isn't yours, lanx.
 
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