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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm 99% sure this is a shitpost.

You'd have to be significantly less intelligent than a raccoon, to not notice the little levers on the sides of the RAM sticks.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm 99% sure this is a shitpost.

Unlike other 4chan greentexts

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Everyone talks about the levers on RAM sticks, but why the FUCK is nobody talking about levers on PCI-E sticks? I thought those didn't exist and did the same thing as OP.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

those can actually get hidden by big ass GPUs. And be pretty hard to release.

[–] AllHailTheSheep 7 points 2 years ago

luckily they aren't necessary, I've had many people come into my shop after breaking the pcie clips and I just make sure it's screwed in firmly and they're good to go. they are a bitch tho

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

That's the thing, at one point they didn't exist. I almost ripped one out of my motherboard when I first got one with a latch.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Clearly fake. Those slots were desoldered from a board, and DIMMs placed in them for the lulz.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How you know mr “I solder stuff”?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If you've ever seen an idiot actually rip surface-mounted components off a PCB, you'll know. They tend to take pads and traces with them, and it's not pretty.

Now, the OOP anon could have ripped those off and scraped off the remnants, but it's unlikely they would do that for the sake of the photo if they were genuinely stupid enough to pull out the connector.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Ah, thank you. Lol to downvotes I got for asking. Didn’t think my silly name calling could be genuinely taken as condescending, but I was actually asking so thanks

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Those fuckers look pretty clean to me, good job

[–] KeyFranchise 30 points 2 years ago

That's some prime pc support gore...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It took me longer than I care to admit to find the problem

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only ever bought prebuilts, I’m guessing something was left behind on the motherboard?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

When they removed the sticks of RAM they also removed the slots the RAM goes into.

Edit: like removing the light bulb socket to change a light bulb.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jesus, I thought the clips were part of the ram. Thank you.

[–] wheeldawg 3 points 2 years ago

Apparently so did anon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This actually doesn't look that bad. I know it's not good but you don't need new ram (even if it is 4gb of ram). You only need a new motherboard which is probably an old one because you wouldn't pair a bad CPU with a good motherboard and it has to be a bad CPU since no good CPU will run with 4gb of ram. The motherboard for this probably costs under $30.

Edit: just realized it's 1337mhz ram so the motherboard has to be at least 5-10 years old.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

more like 15-20 years old

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Well it's clean lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

That
Poor
Dumb
Bastard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

jesus christ this comm sucks. just nothing but slurs and unfunny stories.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

Someone just discovered greentexts

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Well it's basically just 4chan's greatest hits. 4chan is held together with slurs and unfunny stories

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yes. Welcome