When a user opens their new gaming PC and sees the CPU, they feel uneasy. However, they also know why their PC is overheating.
What is wrong with this new gaming PC? Overheating components of a PC can have various causes. But when Reddit user biggunbangstik first looked at the CPU of their new water-cooled PC, they were shocked. They posted their discovery in the subreddit Pcmasterrace
along with some photos of a cable that was literally jammed in a clamp.
Cable in the Clamp
What exactly did they discover? During the assembly of the PC, someone made a fatal mistake. A cable belonging to the water cooling ended up between the cooling block and the CPU. Greased with thermal paste, it was pressed there by the block held in place with clamps against the processor – and the cooling was of course in shambles, as biggunbangstik humorously commented:
I paid for water cooling, not for an oven.
Where did they get the computer from? According to statements they made in a comment under their initial post, they bought the system themselves from a mother
, as they wrote, on a trading platform. She had tried to get the computer to work, but after unpacking it, quickly gave up. Instead of returning it to have the manufacturer of the complete PC fix the problem, she resold it. She avoided the hassle associated with international shipping. The package would have had to go from Canada back to the United States (via Reddit).
Is the PC running now? Yes, biggunbangstik has overcome the cooling catastrophe and is now using the system without problems (via Reddit). The cable even survived its oven misery.
Speaking of overheating: When a user opened their constantly running-too-hot GPU, they also had a surprising discovery. But at least it was clear afterwards why their graphics card had such problems dissipating excess heat: New GPU for nearly 2,000 euros overheats for weeks: Buyer opens it up and finds that something important is missing
