The Filthy, Rotten, Nasty, Helpdesk-Nightmare picture clubhouse

[de.das.dude]

That's a regular notebook keyboard.

or a keyboard at work which doesnt have fixed seats, i.e come and sit where ever. They get nasty.

 

[pavle]

some people shouldn't have nice stuff

It's not about that. Grime; it builds up on any keyboard upon much use, no matter how much you wash your hands.

 

[Frick]

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some people shouldn't have nice stuff

That's one of the most normal keyboards I've ever seen. I was briefly at MS tech support and was jumping between desks. One day I sat down by a keyboard that was more or less covered in what looked like dandruff and several keys stuck lightly to the bottom when pressed and came up with a "schlopp" sound. @de.das.dude

 

[Octopuss]

I guess I've seen some shit.
I wouldn't have any problems eating from that keyboard.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I guess I've seen some shit.
I wouldn't have any problems eating from that keyboard.

Eww!

 

[Octopuss]

I mean it's hardly gross at all. Compared to the average photo in the tread

 

[lexluthermiester]

I mean it's hardly gross at all. Compared to the average photo in the tread

Comparatively? Ok, granted. But EAT off it? Hell no! Get outta here with that..

 

[Octopuss]

You have to immunize yourself somehow haha.

 

[Jetster]

Humans are gross

 

[silentbogo]

Nasty in a different way.
Here's what an MXM GPU looks like after "repasting".
It's an M2000M from an old gaming laptop. Started to shut down randomly during gaming. At first I thought it was a power supply issue, but ended up disassembling and inspecting it from the inside when the new 200W power brick arrived. All 4 corners are chipped. Dunno how that's even possible, but here it is

 

[LabRat 891]

Nasty in a different way.
Here's what an MXM GPU looks like after "repasting".
It's an M2000M from an old gaming laptop. Started to shut down randomly during gaming. At first I thought it was a power supply issue, but ended up disassembling and inspecting it from the inside when the new 200W power brick arrived. All 4 corners are chipped. Dunno how that's even possible, but here it is
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Reminds me...
First 'chipped chip' (that still nominally worked) I saw was a Gigabyte 7950GT.
No idea if it was Gb or the prev. owner that chipped the corner, but it did still 'work' (Unrelated: the VGA port's DAC was especially poor quality)

 

[lexluthermiester]

Nasty in a different way.
Here's what an MXM GPU looks like after "repasting".
It's an M2000M from an old gaming laptop. Started to shut down randomly during gaming. At first I thought it was a power supply issue, but ended up disassembling and inspecting it from the inside when the new 200W power brick arrived. All 4 corners are chipped. Dunno how that's even possible, but here it is
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This was very common back in the Socket A & Socket 370 days. People just didn't(and still don't) know how to be careful.

 

[Frick]

This was very common back in the Socket A & Socket 370 days. People just didn't(and still don't) know how to be careful.

I wouldn't say very common. IRL I've seen it exactly once (guy in the LAN group), across all the tech forums I've been part of over the years this might be the first time I've actually seen a photo of it. Heard of it? So rare I genuinely don't know.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I wouldn't say very common.

I saw it frequently. Been a system builder since the 8086 days. It's one of my passions and joys. Bare-dies in consumer desktop systems were a horror-show. It's why they didn't last long in the market place and IHS's were brought back(along with a few other reasons).
EDIT for clarity.

 

[silentbogo]

I wouldn't say very common. IRL I've seen it exactly once (guy in the LAN group), across all the tech forums I've been part of over the years this might be the first time I've actually seen a photo of it. Heard of it? So rare I genuinely don't know.

It just depends on location. I'm pretty sure all across the Eastern Europe there is a number of Socket A CPU/motherboard graveyards
The most popular and the most affordable HSF for this platform at least as far as I remember was Titan D5TB, and the latch on it was so stiff, you had to put it on with a big-ass flathead screwdriver.
I've chipped a couple myself, seen lots of cracked dies on CPUs and unplanned through-holes in motherboards on client computers back in a day. All because of that one infamous cooler.