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It's scary building computers, you never know when you'll accidently fuck something up. Then again, that's half the fun in itself ;p I've been building computers since the early 90's, made a pretty good killing off of it in the area I'm at (let's just say these people are not the brightest leds in the array). The worst mistake I ever did while building computers:
On around my tenth computer system I built, they had just started to introduce larger heatsinks with fans on top (I think this particular system was a AMD K6-2 or K6-3). Well the heatsink was touching one of the capacitors... and since I have been completely self-taught using electronics and computers, I didn't know that was a bad thing ;p Turned on the computer, instantly smelled burning resin. Ram had burnt out, CPU was fried, motherboard and video card was dead. Only two things really recoverable were the hard drive and power supply. At the time this was a top of the line computer system that I had just fried >_<
Now days nothing like that is scary, only thing that really scares me is building water-cooled pc's. Don't get me wrong, they are fucking fantastic and they get rid of heat like nothing else (well other than peltier cooling) and are nearly silent... but water and electronics just don't mix god damn it! I'm constantly afraid that one day, one of them is going to spring a leak, killing everything inside instantly. Oh well, I guess statistically I have a better chance of getting laid (lmao, yeah right) than that happening, but it still bugs the shit out of me.
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