Most programmers I know wouldn’t understand what they’re looking at here.
This is sysadmin humor maybe?
Yep. This is hardware related. To be fair, many programmers I know are also into self-building and more hardware-related stuff, but that’s something I personally just don’t know my way around well (instead I like more theoretical computer science more). So I genuinely don’t know the problem here, and I think that’s fine.
You get no shade from me. My only beef is with programmers who act like they are experts in all things computer when they aren’t.
BTW, the issue in the picture is that the CPU cooler is attached to the wall of the case instead of the CPU. It shuts down because modern hardware will usually turn itself off when it overheats to mitigate the risk of permanent damage.
Some old cpus would actually go up in smoke if you ran them without cooler: https://youtu.be/Xf0VuRG7MN4
Wisdom is knowing what you don’t know.
It’s the irq jumpers for the mca expansion card right?
Do you want the spoiler
Not really, but thank you. I was just throwing in some ancient sysadmin humour.
Writing code but never seen the thing the code runs inside of…
I guess they are not very curious.
I’m sure there are great screenwriters who don’t know the first thing about cameras or projectors. They can still write good screenplays.
a better analogy would be people who write software for the cameras. screenwriters are closer to software testers
I used to work as an intern in a PC repair shop and we had a guy come in saying his new self build computer doesn’t work. Turns out he cut a huge part off the mainboard so it fits into the case.
That’s significantly worse. Assembling a PC without knowing what a cooler is for is bad enough, but to actually cut pieces off complex electronic components, I don’t know what kind of state of mind you have to be in for that.
The kind of state that would have me refund his money and tell him I’m baffled and can’t figure it out.
what kind of state of mind you have to be in for that
Probably crazy enough to demand that the PC repair shop has to bear all the costs he caused by his genius idea.
“but I didn’t need those extra PCIE slots!”
It works/worked on some GPUs though.
Probably only very specific ones in very specific areas
My Frankenstein in an ikea drawer probably works better than that customers Frankenstein and mine doesn’t even have all needed power supplied
Must keep the fan cool!
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… as opposed to those ones that consume heat from the environment when they run.
I asked chatgpt to put my CPU into heat consuming mode and it then suggested I mine BTC to equal out the thermodynamics. I’m still trying to figure out where the BTC is, but it’s nice to go green
I love that they had the heatsink and fan, they just didnt know where it went and actually mounted it to the case. It wasnt just that they didnt have one.
I’m sort of surprised it fit on the 120mm fan slot. Maybe they just forced screws through the grill though.
Oh shit I noticed the exposed CPU but totally missed that part.
It legitimately took me a second for my brain to un-break itself when I looked at the photo. First thinking…something’s not right here…and not for even a moment thinking it would be something as stupid as putting the heat-sink on the case fan… Then the realisation that yes…it really is something that stupid.
In the old days, before laptops, we used to call the case and everything in it the CPU. You had your monitor, keyboard, mouse, maybe printer, maybe modem, and they would all plug into the “CPU.” Yes, we knew there was also a chip inside called that but we didn’t get all pedantic about it.
With that in mind: Place the CPU fan on the heat sink… That’s exactly what they did.
That “we” isn’t global. Some called it “the CPU”, some called it “the hard drive”, some made fun of those two groups for not knowing what they were talking about.
Oh, yes, I forgot it was also the hard drive! Now that I think about it, I’m not sure the proper name. Today I’d just call it the tower, but I’m not sure what the square ones that sat with the monitor on top would be called.
I think those are where the name “desktop” comes from, though that term now refers to other computer things.
I refer to them as “tower”, “case” (which is technically just the shell and frame, but can include the contents), “computer”, or “machine”.
tower is fine, but I think what you mean is the desktop PC. and the little square ones are the mini PCs
And then came the iMac, and all the phone calls from Mac users trying use a PC and only hitting the monitor power button…
I must be stupid then because I’ve legitimately had that idea to put a fan on the radiator looking thing to maximize the precision of the cooling. Cooling the thing that gets hot
As in, the CPU fan right on the heat sink? Yeah, that’s a pretty standard setup. I’ve got it on mine. The CPU came with that cooler combo.
The key is to actually put that cooler on the CPU, not the chassis.
Ah I see. That IS a DUH moment
omfg, i caught the cpu was missing the heat sink, but completely spaced it being on the back exhaust.
They’re just too advanced for us, they already have “wireless” cooling technology.
As someone who has worked in an IT repair facility, this image hurts my soul.
Stop trolling. No one knows why without a full diagnostic.
Ah a mainboard with a dust protection-layer.
Eons ago, I had a guy bring me a non functioning Compaq desktop and say, “Wull the fan was makin’ a lotta racket so I greased it.”
What he actually meant was, “I sprayed the entire motherboard with WD-40 because I don’t know shit about computers OR lubricants.”
I gave it a bath in electronics cleaner and it actually fired right up after that.
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When you use ChatGPT for building instructions…
Tell them to switch to water cooling. You will get an even more awesome picture.
Wireless cooler
