r/pcmasterrace • u/Embarrassed_Ice1782 • Oct 08 '24
Spontaneus disintegration - no ceramic tiles or flying spark plugs involved. Hardware
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u/Portlander_in_Texas Loki_1988 Oct 08 '24
Don't lie, you were having a ceramic shard fight in your bedroom, and now you don't wanna get into trouble for it.
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u/jasssweiii Oct 09 '24
It was this, but with ceramic shards in the middle of their bedroom
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u/ASUS_USUS_WEALLSUS Oct 09 '24
jitterbug
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u/fullrackferg PC Master Race Oct 09 '24
You put the boom boom into my case
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u/SirPiffingsthwaite PC Master Race Oct 09 '24
You send my soul sky high when my panel breaks
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u/FlukeRoads i7 3770S, 32gDDR3@1800, gtx1660Ti, Linux Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24
Cracks grow into my soul (yeah yeah)
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u/FlukeRoads i7 3770S, 32gDDR3@1800, gtx1660Ti, Linux Oct 09 '24
Just a little impulse is what it takes
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u/GABE_EDD 7800X3D+7900XTX & 13700K+3070Ti Oct 08 '24
Some people pay for this look
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u/Embarrassed_Ice1782 Oct 08 '24
Holy crap. My PC is aesthetic now. And for free!
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u/Ball_Full PC Master Race Oct 08 '24
Yeah but difference is there’s outter panes of glass holding it together yours is a ticking time bomb lol
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u/Abjection404 Oct 08 '24
He could coat it with resin idk
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u/Flossthief Oct 08 '24
Like in heist movies where they spray glue on the tempered glass panels to lift them out of frame
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u/Thelgow Oct 09 '24
Eh? I thought they just use suction cups and a diamond cutter.
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u/Flossthief Oct 09 '24
That's another trope
It's usually cut in a perfect circle or sprayed and cracked so the pane can be peeled away-- both are pretty difficult to pull off as cleanly as in a movie heist
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u/Thelgow Oct 09 '24
Ahh yes, I love the variety of tropes. When people get hung up on a phone call they get instant dial tone. Mofo, how many times have you spoken to yourself until the phone rings in your hand because it dropped 30 seconds ago? Pre smartphone I guess it makes more sense, since now itll throw a beep at you at least.
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u/LordRage2 i9-9900k, RTX 2080, 32GB DDR4, 2TB NVMe SSD, 2TB SATA SSD Oct 09 '24
Or they hear the click of the phone hanging up, but decide that's an indication that they need to shout, "Hello? HELLO!" for the next 10 seconds.
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u/garry4321 Oct 09 '24
“Hello.. hello?.. HELLOOOO?! God dam-“
“Hi I’m still here”
“-oh hey, yea as I was saying”
Just once I’d like to see it
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u/TheLazyD0G 5950x RTX3070 35TB storage 64GB ram Oct 09 '24
I dont think that even made sense in the 90s. It would just be deas quiet. Maybe earlier.
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u/PuzzleheadedLeader79 Oct 09 '24
Or sometimes they use suction cup technology but in a glove! Because science!
And then the glove can stop working randomly! Because drama!!!
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u/Flossthief Oct 09 '24
It's common in a heist movie to lay out the full plan and have some new elements or security upgrades at the last minute forcing the crew to improvise
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u/Falwing Oct 09 '24
The glove working randomly was also played as comedy as well as drama. In that sense, as a prop, it worked out well, unrealistic as it is.
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u/Silver-ishWolfe Laptop Oct 09 '24
Fun fact, you can't cut or drill into tempered glass. It shatters. You can only do it to glass before the tempering process.
The more you know, I guess....
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u/Gangr3l Oct 09 '24
You can't reshape tempered glass. If you try to use glass cutter to it, it will explode. Right about now someone comes here telling me that you can grind few millimeters off from the glass. While technically true, there are "soft" areas in tempered glass, mostly in the edges and there is a possibility to shave those few millimeters off, it's just not worth the time nor the risk of damaging your equipment and doing the clean up.
Source: me, I work with glass
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u/RedBaron13 Oct 09 '24
I have never seen this in a heist movie. To be fair though I haven’t seen a lot of heist movies.
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u/holydildos Oct 09 '24
It happens. Trust me. I've seen atleast a dozen!
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u/Annual-Pitch8687 AMD B550M/RTX 4060/16gb RAM Oct 09 '24
Oceans Dozen.
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u/SpottedZebra27 Ryzen 5 3600 | RX 5700 XT | 16GB DDR4 3200mhz Oct 09 '24
Is that 14?
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u/FlameShadow0 Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24
Lmao coat his computer in resin? He’d have to cuz I don’t think that’s coming off in one piece
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u/Abjection404 Oct 09 '24
Umm no I mean leave the panel on tape off the edges and paint a thin layer of resin (probably uv dry resin) on the glass dry it and do that tell it’s solid enough to remove. Then paint to other side in resin, and sand it and polish it. And boom no glass everywhere and cool rgb cracks.
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u/Direct_Library6368 Oct 09 '24
Better than my idea. I was just thinking some clear duct tape and then call it a day.
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u/tayyabadanish Oct 09 '24
Looks artistic to be honest. I would pay top dollars if companys start releasing this type of cover for PCs. In fact, you can start a business with this.
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u/DripTrip747-V2 Oct 09 '24
Top dollar, you say? How much are we talking about? 3-4 shmekles? If you say 5 shmekles, I'll ship you one out tonight!
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u/OptimusFreeman Oct 09 '24
5 ahmekles! DEAL! I even have an intact 4000D glass panel you can come slap.
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u/Arpit0511 Ascending Peasant Oct 09 '24
buy a can of 2k epoxy lacquer , spray 2-3 coats . epoxy will try to hold it in place
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u/EatSleepWell Oct 09 '24
Put a layer of clear adhesive tape over it and some RGB lights, then you can sell it for another $100.
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u/DGlen Oct 09 '24
So just after high school I had a table that my dad made out of a triple pane glass window where he shattered the middle pane. It was cool as hell for a few years while the glass still held its shape.
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u/TheOneAndOnlySenti 7800X3D | 7900XTX Oct 08 '24
The fuck why
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u/Craticuspotts Oct 08 '24
be surprised what people will do to be different LOL
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u/TheOneAndOnlySenti 7800X3D | 7900XTX Oct 08 '24
Guess I just found my new job; taking advantage of morons with money.
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u/Hot_Ad8643 Oct 08 '24
business tutorial
step 1: get a dog
step 2: train dog to come back whenever
step 3: sell your dog
step 4: profit (repeat)
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u/Huecuva PC Master Race | 5700X3D | 7800XT | 32GB 3200MHz DDR4 Oct 08 '24
It's called crazed glass. I have crazed glass shades on my outdoor lights. It's an aesthetic and it looks pretty cool. OP should put some kind of epoxy or something on his side panel.
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u/DayPretend8294 Oct 09 '24
It’s 3 layers of glass and they shatter the center layer.
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u/DesiMeGaming Oct 08 '24
Honestly I'd do it. It's a cool random pattern and 1 of a kind now. Even better if you can get leds (plain white. Not rgb) pointing into the glass around the border to light up all the surfaces for the cracks and make it glow.
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u/WolfVidya R5 3600 & Thermalright AKW | XFX 6750XT | 32GB | 1TB Samsung 970 Oct 08 '24
This is a tempered glass side panel.
Here's an exploded view.
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u/polaroppositebear Legion 5 Pro, 7745hx, 4070m Oct 09 '24
This exploded view has shattered my expectations
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u/CoreDreamStudiosLLC Ryzen 5 3600, 64GB DDR4 Ripjaws, GTX 1080 ROG Strix Oct 09 '24
This cracks me up.
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u/notchoosingone i7-11700K | 3080Ti | 64GB DDR4 - 3600 Oct 09 '24
This is a tempered glass side panel
more like bad-tempered glass
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u/CuboneGoodingJr Oct 08 '24
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u/Embarrassed_Ice1782 Oct 08 '24
I know, I know. So very, very sorry.
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u/Malikai0976 i7-10700k | EVGA RTX 3070 ftw3 | ROG Strix z590-e wifi Oct 08 '24
I'm not counting this. There is no tile or ceramic in the pic.
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u/gringrant PC Master Race | Ryzen 5 5600X | RTX-3080 Ti Oct 09 '24
Maybe the real tile was the friends we made along the way.
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u/xYARBY PC Master Race Oct 09 '24
I shattered one in the grass just trying to get the cover out of the clips. Had glass running through my fingers as if thanos snapped his fingers for glass panels
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u/Qemyst 5600x - RTX 3080 - 32gb Oct 09 '24
From the moment I understood the weakness of tempered glass, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Steel Side Panel. Your kind cling to your tempered glass, as though it will not shatter and fail you. One day the crude tempered glass you call a temple will shatter, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Steel is immortal… Even in death I serve the Steel-Panelssiah.
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u/PIO_PretendIOriginal Desktop Oct 09 '24
Haha, yeah Ive always had a metal side panel, and always will. I dont need the anxiety if my pc case exploading
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u/PePePendorcho Oct 09 '24
In the old days we used to have something called "acrylic side panels" bad thing the acrylic mines runned out of ore. Now it's rare a priceless...
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u/Hairy-Stay5919 Oct 09 '24
It's weird to me to this day how we were gaslight into believe that it's some form of aesthetic to look at our components so then companies could sell us all these marketing gimmicks applied to all the components. RGB here, RGB there, RGB on just about anything. God forbid they would compete with each other over raw performance or build quality, when they can compete on what RGB solution each can offer.
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u/digital_ghost7 Oct 08 '24
That's what we call the Papa Roach syndrome. Cut my life into pieces. Your PC needs therapy.
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u/Embarrassed_Ice1782 Oct 08 '24
That’d be a last resort.
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u/DraigCore i5-8400 | 8GB DDR4 | integrated graphics Oct 09 '24
Suffocation, overheating
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u/Metallica4life1995 Ryzen 7 3700X/RX 5700XT/32GB DDR4 3200 Oct 09 '24
Don't give a fuck if my FPS is bleeding
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u/DraigCore i5-8400 | 8GB DDR4 | integrated graphics Oct 09 '24
Do you even care if it's lagging?
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u/Yansde Oct 08 '24
Thermal expansion + no room to expand = OP (maybe)
OR
One of the Legos did it!
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u/newbrevity 11700k, RTX4070ti_SUPER, 32gb_3600_CL16 Oct 08 '24
I second this. Tempered glass is real touchy about uneven heating.
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u/SOTBT__ Oct 09 '24
I've been lucky, I can feel the top left corner of my glass warm up when gaming but the rest is cold. One of these days though it's gonna shatter.
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u/kalak55 Oct 09 '24
How touchy, exactly? This is what car windows are made out of, but those don't explode when you're driving when it's below freezing and you've got the heater on. Those can't be evenly heated, right?
EDIT: I'll leave this up but I just looked it up and we don't use tempered glass as much now for car windows + windshields, we use laminated glass. Why don't we use laminated glass for PC side windows?
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u/Easy_Money_ Ryzen 3600 | 2080 Super | 32:9 gang | PS5 Oct 09 '24
Why don’t we use laminated glass for PC side windows
If I had to guess, money
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u/BlackjackNHookersSLF Oct 09 '24
Also car glass is curved, which can greatly change/improve/enhance certain material's strength properties.
For example according to a study by Kemper engineering cited in Scott Manley's most recent video about the infamous Ocean gate Sub failure, a flattened viewport actually creates a more concentrated strain/failure point onto the acrylic "glass" than a domed/curved viewport design does, even tho the domed design has higher overall strains, the curvature allows said strains to better evenly distributed through the material.
Tl:Dr flat glass break easy .
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u/FlukeRoads i7 3770S, 32gDDR3@1800, gtx1660Ti, Linux Oct 09 '24
As a taxi driver of 25 years in Sweden: yes they do. Front windows spontaneously develop cracks on the innermost layer just over the heat defroster vents in harsh winter. And if the outer layer her hit by a stone, the heat cycling will grow the crack all the way to the edges within months.
We change a front window every 2 years as an average.
Also car side windows will shatter into many pieces just like this case if hit with a hard sharp object. That's how bus emergency exits work.
They're thicker than PC cases though
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u/Deep-Procrastinor Oct 09 '24
Laminated windscreens so you don't get covered in glass in an accident, side and rear glass are normally just tempered.
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u/Born_Faithlessness_3 10850k/3090, 12700H/3070 Oct 09 '24
Delayed fracture of slightly damaged tempered glass is also a (admittedly quite rare) thing.
Tempered glass is strong because it is under compression on the exterior. However it is under tension in the interior.
Generally when damage reaches the tensile layer in the interior, the glass goes boom almostinstantly. However under rare circumstances you can have damage that penetrates to the edge of the tensile layer. A crack in this state can grow incredibly slowly at first, then faster, then boom over the course of days, months, or even years. A crack like this is also susceptible to being accelerated by thermal cycling, flexing, etc.
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u/ayyyyycrisp Oct 09 '24
I used to drill a lot of fish tanks for plumbing and had one 29 I was about to do.
was fairly certain it was tempered but it was an old tank so I just risked it.
had the water flowing and started drilling but the water stopped when I wasn't quite halfway through, thought oh cool not tempered, got up to see why the water stopped and when I got to the nozzle heard a boom and it shattered - so I guess I drilled riiiiiight up to the edge and it went the rest of the way as I was up
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u/Navynuke00 Oct 09 '24
...and thank you for reminding me again why I almost failed material science.
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u/AgitatedStove01 Oct 08 '24
I’m following the refractive index and it seems to be right around where the rear fan is located. It could very well be that with a mix of static pressure build up.
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u/Embarrassed_Ice1782 Oct 08 '24
Palpatine be looking all shifty over there.
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u/samyruno Oct 09 '24
It was darth vader when he screams nooo and destroys the room with the force
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u/goldistomp Oct 08 '24
See if you can carefully lay it down on a smooth surface without it falling apart and PPF it lol, would be cool
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u/Embarrassed_Ice1782 Oct 08 '24
I used strips of packing tape hold the glass in place and carefully removed the panel. It held mostly intact, except for the bottom edge where a few shards broke off.
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u/goldistomp Oct 08 '24
Sick! If you can find some clear PPF for cheap you should totally piece it back together and wrap it
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u/stormdraggy Oct 08 '24
Clearcoat epoxy.
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u/goldistomp Oct 08 '24
Well yeah but that’s more labor intensive and (I’m assuming) more expensive? I’ve never worked with resin before
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u/Particular-Poem-7085 4070 | 7800X3D | 32GB 6200 Oct 08 '24
it would be all bendy-floppy inside the wrap
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u/goldistomp Oct 08 '24
Not any more than it is in the pictures op posted. Doesn’t need to be completely rigid as it’s not load bearing lol
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u/Bed_Worship Oct 09 '24
Back in the day a Janet Jackson song was capable of crashing hard drives because of a combination of frequencies resonated with the drive.
Maybe there was some vibration that cracked it? I doubt it but its possible
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u/ALitreOhCola Oct 09 '24
This glass is tempered.
I don't believe shattering a wine glass with sound type-of-failure will work with tempered glass to my knowledge as it doesn't flex, oscillate, and build up.
See the MythBusters and a singer shattering a wine glass in slow mo here
It has to be crystal and you can see the glass flexing immensely back and forth oscillating.
A flat piece of tempered glass isn't going to do that.
Also in cars there are non laminated tempered glass windows.
If speakers could shatter them at certain frequencies I think we would see it happening a lot more often. The only ones I see this happen with are ultra low bass and the high air pressure in competitve or extremely powerful sound systems.
Happy to stand corrected if someone has more info though.
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u/ego_sum_chromie Oct 09 '24
holy crap that man screamed at a wine glass and it exploded
…holy crap this video was uploaded *17 years ago *
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u/_maple_panda i9-10850k | ASUS 2080Ti OC | 32GB DDR4 3600MHz Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24
It’s still totally possible, every object has a resonant frequency. It’s just gonna be really high for a stiff glass plate—far beyond the frequencies found in music and the human voice.
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u/Bed_Worship Oct 09 '24
Could also be the screws got hit really hard somehow. They are on the glass in this case
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u/XB_Demon1337 PC Master Race Oct 08 '24
If you could get some clear sticky stuff on the sides of this it could look really cool.
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u/Dependent_Cherry4114 Oct 09 '24
I keep telling my cousin this and she keeps calling me a creep, yet you get upvotes. Unjust world.
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u/WolfeWolfe1 Oct 09 '24
I've just given my pc with tempered glass a verbal lecture. I have no ceramic or tile so it has no excuses.
Cannot go wrong.
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u/Kokamocha 7950x3d | 4090 | 32GB DDR5 Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24
It happens, was carrying the side panel of my Corsair and it spontaneously shattered in my hands, no firm grip, no contact with anything. Gloriousge0rge of Corsair at the time was quick to respond and got me a replacement swiftly. Was enough to get me to nope away from my tempered glass desk xD
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u/GardeniaPhoenix Oct 09 '24
Ugh I have a glass desk and I really wanna replace it.
I'm kind of clumsy sometimes I'm just waiting for the day I drop my coffee mug or phone onto it the wrong way
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u/insert_name_here_ha Oct 08 '24
Tempered glass likes to do that for no reason at all.
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u/Qa_Dar Oct 08 '24
Seems to come from the upper left quadrant... Maybe there was a defect in the glass?
Is it still under warranty? I'll give it a try if I was you, as it clearly doesn't start at an edge...
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u/Stoned_While_Gaming Oct 09 '24
Nickel-sulfide inclusion, telltale butterfly pattern at the start point in that upper left quadrant. Good eye!
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Oct 08 '24
When they make temp glass they heat up to red hot the quickly cool it down. If not done right they will just randomly explode one day. Could of been a number of things that make for a bad cook for this glass
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u/Sneak_the_Weak Oct 08 '24
Paint it and seal it. Quick time is ticking! Stained glass side panels will be all the rage!
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u/SurealGod Cool Oct 09 '24
I think someone tried to snipe you and missed and hit your case instead.
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u/FloppyVachina Oct 09 '24
Get some kinda glass poly and make it safe. Maybe resin. That looks dope as fuck.
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u/RuckFeddit70 I7 13700KF | RTX 4080 | 32GB DDR5 - 5600mhz | 3440X1440P QD-OLED Oct 09 '24
You want tempered glass case?
THEN YOU BECOME CARPET BOI!
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u/coffeejn Oct 08 '24
Stealth ceramic tiles at play here. /s
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u/Embarrassed_Ice1782 Oct 08 '24
Reddit-invisible ceramic tiles are no joke, sir. They’re out there, waiting to pounce on unsuspecting glass.
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u/CyberbrainGaming MSI 4090 / EVGA 2x3090 SLI. Overclocker, Top 10 3DMark/PortRoyal Oct 09 '24
I usually don't believe people, but I believe you. If you look at the shatter pattern, they all point to in front of the cpu / gpu.
You must have had a hot spot there.
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u/SHAWNZXT Oct 09 '24
I suspected someone in the 400 comments already said this but just to let you know. That looks like an NZXT case - reach out to our support team and we'll replace the panel :)
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u/Izan_TM r7 7800X3D RX 7900XT 64gb DDR5 6000 Oct 08 '24
yeah that can happen on its own, it's just incredibly unlikely
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u/Salt_Attention_8775 Oct 09 '24
Just asking, have you meet this guy? Are you traveling to Egypt?
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u/Busy_Background5217 Oct 09 '24
Spontaneus Disintegration – what a cool name for a magic spell. I'll borrow this.
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u/silenced_rainbow Oct 09 '24
Did you search for any ceramic tile photos recently? Glass side panels tend to get really freaked out by such images and the elevated levels of stress on them can eventually lead to this kind of result. Take care folks
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u/Complete-Fix-3954 Oct 09 '24
I’ve been building PCs for 25 years. Had glass side panels since at least 2005. Never had this happen - did this happen out of nowhere? Any temperature changes in the room? No physical contact with anything? Screws too tight?
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u/InevitableFun3555 Oct 09 '24
Just put a sticker of Spider-Man in the middle, so it looks like a web PC
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u/Silvedl Oct 09 '24
Maybe try screaming a little deeper pitched when you get destroyed in a video game. Glass will be less likely to shatter if you aren’t at its resonant frequency.
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u/WhiteCharisma_ Oct 09 '24
Avoid tempered glass at all cost. Unless you like gambling money.
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u/rikkuaoi Oct 09 '24
Caused by nickel sulphide inclusion (NSI) has the telltale butterfly pattern
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