Very Real Tech Pics

My favorite example of this sort of nonsense was an advertising image I saw when I was looking for a digital microscope. Had some very tiny wires to solder and wanted to get a feel for prices.

Behold:

After working in IT since 1999, I can count on my dads lefthand fingers the times I've had to solder a graphics card.

PS: My dad lost his left arm in 1996

When I worked at a computer shop if I thought a power supply was iffy I would plug my backup in outside of the case just like that. Was great for diagnosis.

I would also solder some laptops, dc jacks mostly. But not like that.

If you've never run a computer with a PSU hanging out the side powering your extra hard drives have you even lived?

There was a point around the early 2000s where having a second PSU was a possibility for overclocking. I've still got my modified case with a second PSU in the optical drive bays.

From memory, the Pentium 4 would draw something like 120w, the hard drives would draw a bit more, then the graphics card would, and if you were pushing your limits, you'd have loads of fans and maybe a peltier cooler. Now known to be massively inefficient, we thought they were great at the time.

On top of that, you could only usually get low powered PSUs at the time. 350w and 500w were the norm, and you could get 650w if you were lucky. 800w were seen in magazines, but you'd have to remortgage your parents house to get one.

At least he is not touching the ouchy part of the soldering iron unlick a famos other stock footage

Excellent form, your non-soldering hand must have good contact with the PCB. Then you wave the iron like a wand, and incant "solderus fluxus", pay special attention to your pronunciation, and try not to blink as you envision the tiny components rearranging before you.

I too like to solder a graphics card while holding it in the air. Helps with precision.

Tbf, I once ran a PC with two PSUs at the same time, because I suspected one to overload, but had no 2nd powerfull enough to run the whole system. It kinda worked, bjt the system broke down due to other reasons...

What is he even supposed to be doing? Just melting circuits with a soldering iron like Phoebe's brother?

Seen enough Dawid Does Tech Stuff to know the sign of a good bodge job is a second psu.

Also, yay for holding the soldering iron correctly.

I dont see your point since one of them is just sitting on the bench.

Maybe they just have a 4090

I don't always hold a soldering iron, but when i do... i hold it like a baseball bat.

God damnit who hired swedish chef into the IT department.

And you thought dual cpu's was innovation!

More power equals more fast, everyone knows this.

Dr Strange has really fallen on hard times

I had a PSU blow out in my server once and troubleshooting looked almost exactly like this. Minus the guy with the soldering iron.

Yeah, my two main servers use redundant power supplies, my AI GPU server has no less then five, non-redundant power supplies, and my partner’s and my gaming rigs have two each, one for the damn GPUs and one for the rest of the system.

I have daisy chained two PSUs to power a motherboard with 4 GPUs. Would recommend buying appropriate gear unless you like the smell of melted electrics

The Threadripper rig I'm building has a mainboard with plugs for 2 power supplies.

I have 3 of that exact video card.

I run a server with 2 PSUs. If one craps out, the other can keep things running

To be fair, literally everything in that picture is bizarre or weird.

I see the problem! My dude isn't grounded. Static electricity is a killer!

A powerful picture

I have that exact GPU in my closet.