if ceramic tiles are not present, granite table tops will do just the same. It's impressive how people always manage to find the one spot in their house they should never place their pc on, and they place it right there.
My white trash ass was confused how someone broke their panel on a laminate counter top. Didn’t occur to me that it was actual stone and not a faux counter top.
It's impressive how people always manage to find the one spot in their house they should never place their pc on
Nah, it's the exact opposite of survivorship bias. You simply only see the very small amount of people to whom it happens, so it appears to be a lot more common than it actually is
It's just the inconvenience. Tempered glass is better at resisting impacts and shattering gracefully, but has the con of a guaranteed explosion when touching hard surfaces with the edge. Lots of people have lots of hard surfaces around the house.
I'm genuinely curious what all the people who think they *need* tempered glass on a side panel are doing with their side panels. Are they hitting it with a hammer or something? Because that's where regular glass fails and tempered glass is shines. At least to me, taking the side panel off is an infinitely more frequent occurrence than hitting my side panel hard enough to need it being tempered.
Look at drinking glasses, glass bottles, all things mean to be put on various surface. They're not made of tempered glass. People all over the world put them on marble and granite counters on a daily basis, nothing shatters spontaneously.
If you have children or pets then yeah, go tempered for the safety factor.But I really wish regular glass was an option the customer can choose.
Not that it affects me anyway, since my side panel is made of MDF so there's no shattering risk anyway, i don't go around punching it and if it ever somehow breaks i can replace it with 5€
4.8million subs in PC master rate, if everyone builds a PC every for yours, that's 2.3 new side panels per minute. Factor in messing with PC because why not, 1 broken panel is probably an over estimate, but not by much.
Do not understand how so many people break their glass side panels or desks, been using a glass desk for over 10 years not one single issue with it built hundreds of PCs between my self and for others with glass side panels not one panel broken
Easy, live where ceramic tiles and counter doesn't exist. My house was originally built over 150 years ago and the only place that could break my glass is the bathroom with porcelain sink, toilet, and tub. Everything else in the house are wood or metal.
Closest to breaking a panel for me was when I put my bare foot under it to dampen the fall. It didn't break but I learned that a glass panel hurts when it falls from 2 meters on your foot.
It was a long ass time ago but I think i was putting it on a shelf so my cat won't be able to reach it. She didn't but I managed to bump it hard enough...
Thought it was worth sacrificing my foot so I don't have to clean the shattered panel up.
Instead I had a hard time walking a little while 😅
Wish all non fish tank cases comes with hinged swing open glass window like mine. A lot safer and convenient if you have to open the case for cleaning and minor adjustments.
Yes it's glass so it will break. But risk of breaking is much lesser with this type of cases. Provided you dun break it while removing it when initially building.
Ahh man, this PC case brought back some memories for me. My first ever PC was with this case, it's amazing, too bad I couldn't find it for my new oc, but I got a newer version of it pretty much... What a case tho T_T
Just wondering if this is toughened glass, I cut a corner out of a piece, then touched the edge with a dremmel to smooth it and the entire thing exploded.
I was cleaning my PC the other day and accidentally sat on the glass panel I placed on my chair. Full force sitting down and there's not even a scratch on it. I'm only 145lbs but I feel like that's a solid amount of pressure to resist for a glass barrier, makes me wonder what it takes for all of these shattered rigs.
I pray every time I see a post like this since it's a Corsair case I hope my 1000D doesn't do this the explosion of Tempered glass will take out my office.
Cue all the people victim blaming OP. The fact that you can avoid this does not mean it's not an issue. You should not have to place the entire PC in a cushion of marshmallows in order to remove a fucking side-panel.
I feel for you OP, I avoid tempered glass cases like the plague. Had one and it also shattered. Would be no issue with any other material. Trading robustness for aesthetics never made sense to me.
You get posts like this 10 times per day every single day yet everyone here thinks the issue is the consumer. Absolutely dumbest trend after the RGB trend.
glass sometimes just shatters. I placed my phone down on the bed beside me after using it, only seconds later to hear a pop, and see a crack running down it.
I don't understand why they use glass and not perspex for cases
Or just dont build them on surfaces that can easily break them. Things like tile and granite are going to break them in one single tap, but if you build them on a different surface there's no issue. They're generally pretty durable.
That's not even true. I'm on this sub daily and I'd say 99% of the time there's a tile or granite floor present. I've built many PC's with glass sides and I've never seen one break. That's because I dont build them on surfaces that break them.
It shouldn't be this delicate. My entire house is tile floors or granite counter tops. I have to go out of my way to move a very heavy PC to a matress or something in order to do something as simple as blowing the dust way with an air can.
Any previous PC I could just move the PC wherever, open the side panel and not have to worry about surfaces.
Heck, you could set it in a large fluffy pillow but if it slips and the panel hits the PC it breaks, if you pull on it too hard when removing it, it breaks. Maybe not in your experience but it does break according to the daily experience of 10 different people in this sub that make posts like this every single day (imagine all the people that don't post about it).
Its not delicate. Tempered glass is very durable unless you bounce it off something that is harder than it is. It takes a significant amount of force to break these things if your not dropping them on tiles or granite. Most people have hard wood or some sort of laminate flooring that won't cause any damage to tempered glass. If you only have tiles and granite, you can build it on a wood table or even a plastic fold out table (which is were I build and work on PC's). It's really not a big deal to put your side panel down somewhere where it can't break for you to work on your PC. If this is a big issue for you, don't buy a case with tempered glass. It's that simple. 99% of the broken tempered glass panels are user error. It's super easy to avoid.
Heck, you could set it in a large fluffy pillow but if it slips and the panel hits the PC it breaks, if you pull on it too hard when removing it, it breaks.
I've never seen glass panels break this way. It wouldn't break from slipping and hitting your PC and you shouldn't be pulling hard when removing it.
The physics of tempered glass are misleading. It takes a lot of force to break it in unrealistic scenarios but it takes very little to break it in common scenarios like removing a side panel while the PC is in a counter or floor.
Who cares that it resists blunt force when it breaks with normal handling?
99% of the broken tempered glass panels are user error. It's super easy to avoid.
If someone that doesn't know about this handles the PC in a very normal way like removing the side panel while the very heavy PC is on the floor (be it tile or whatever) then the glass will likely break.
It's user error for not having a dedicated space to work on PCs I guess but it is also extremely easy to break them unless you go out of your way to avoid it like you do.
Also, every single good deal in Costco this month has been a PC with tempered glass so your solution to avoid them is not realistic.
wouldn't break from slipping and hitting your PC
Isn't the steel frame in your PC harder than the glass panel? By your previous logic it definitely should break.
For clarification. It did not slam. I slid the front off and it was refusing to come. jiggled the piece of metal the front was attached to and it exploded. You could hear it crackling for a few minutes after.
If a restart doesn’t work try defragmenting.
Underrated comment
what about it is underrated
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if ceramic tiles are not present, granite table tops will do just the same. It's impressive how people always manage to find the one spot in their house they should never place their pc on, and they place it right there.
My white trash ass was confused how someone broke their panel on a laminate counter top. Didn’t occur to me that it was actual stone and not a faux counter top.
at this point I think those people do it for the bit xD
Its like we have the same brain and living arrangements xD
nature finds a way to
Nah, it's the exact opposite of survivorship bias. You simply only see the very small amount of people to whom it happens, so it appears to be a lot more common than it actually is
Yeah that would make sense. Nobody would make a post about how they didn't break their glass panel today, and how everything went according to plan.
glass can be placed on any surface it just depends on how fast you place it,
-flimsy handling, weak hands, sudden drop from single holding the glass, leging go after just screwing one corner etc .
it would be beter to build uven under a sheet on the same surface but people fear static or even under a mouse pad.
Regular glass, yes, but this is tempered glass. It has its pros and cons, this is a major con.
I'm genuinely curious: what do you think are the cons of tempered glass (i suppose over normal glass) for a pc case?
I state it again, im not trying make fun of you or else, im just curious and you look like you know what you're talking about.
Sorry for bad English, have a good one
It's just the inconvenience. Tempered glass is better at resisting impacts and shattering gracefully, but has the con of a guaranteed explosion when touching hard surfaces with the edge. Lots of people have lots of hard surfaces around the house.
I'm genuinely curious what all the people who think they *need* tempered glass on a side panel are doing with their side panels. Are they hitting it with a hammer or something? Because that's where regular glass fails and tempered glass is shines. At least to me, taking the side panel off is an infinitely more frequent occurrence than hitting my side panel hard enough to need it being tempered.
Look at drinking glasses, glass bottles, all things mean to be put on various surface. They're not made of tempered glass. People all over the world put them on marble and granite counters on a daily basis, nothing shatters spontaneously.
If you have children or pets then yeah, go tempered for the safety factor.But I really wish regular glass was an option the customer can choose.
Not that it affects me anyway, since my side panel is made of MDF so there's no shattering risk anyway, i don't go around punching it and if it ever somehow breaks i can replace it with 5€
Wow, thanks a lot for the detailed reply!!
I wish you a great year
Weak hands sounds like an amazing insult for some reason.
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Best thing ever
It will never change to 1 🤣
It should just say hours at this point.
*minutes knowing us lmao
4.8million subs in PC master rate, if everyone builds a PC every for yours, that's 2.3 new side panels per minute. Factor in messing with PC because why not, 1 broken panel is probably an over estimate, but not by much.
So the meme will never go past 26 seconds since last broken panel?
You mean it will never change to I since that's a O not a 0.
https://www.dafont.com/ashby.font
Ahahahahah makes sense
Wrong picture again. This meme has been around for so long now there's no reason to get it wrong lol
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Okay, fine, here's the wide one. You happy now?
how many pcs you got bruh
https://www.dafont.com/ashby.font
Does this imply a font change for only one character on the meme? The rest of the letters aren’t in this font.
You cannot rule that out. 🤷♂️
Do not understand how so many people break their glass side panels or desks, been using a glass desk for over 10 years not one single issue with it built hundreds of PCs between my self and for others with glass side panels not one panel broken
You’re probably smart enough not to mix tempered glass and ceramic tiles.
To be fair it looks like the OP got counter-topped by granite or some other stone or stone like substance much like tile in hardness.
End result unsurprisingly the same, rocks and glass do not play well together.
Those who compute in stone houses shouldn't throw glass!
Also all of pcmasterrace's comps vs yours.
[ ] no doubt
[x] doubt
I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.
Yeah but the second you do i bet you you’ll post it on PCMR
and the cycle goes on
I took my tempered glass PC on the bus and still managed to not break it.
Yea I'm using a second hand glass desk downstairs, and I've put stone coasters on it, my case sits on it. More of a tank. It's also thick.
Was the same till one shattered in my arms while just placing it carefully onto the case. Sometimes the shatter chooses you.
Easy, live where ceramic tiles and counter doesn't exist. My house was originally built over 150 years ago and the only place that could break my glass is the bathroom with porcelain sink, toilet, and tub. Everything else in the house are wood or metal.
Closest to breaking a panel for me was when I put my bare foot under it to dampen the fall. It didn't break but I learned that a glass panel hurts when it falls from 2 meters on your foot.
2 meters (thats 6 1/2 feet)? Were you holding it over your head, or are you just really tall?
They set it on their cats climbing tower to keep it off the tile floor
It was a long ass time ago but I think i was putting it on a shelf so my cat won't be able to reach it. She didn't but I managed to bump it hard enough... Thought it was worth sacrificing my foot so I don't have to clean the shattered panel up. Instead I had a hard time walking a little while 😅
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Wait till you learn they are tempered and dont break easily when not on tile floors
Yeah... Easy to think about after the accident 😅
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*looks at counter*
*glares*
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Wish all non fish tank cases comes with hinged swing open glass window like mine. A lot safer and convenient if you have to open the case for cleaning and minor adjustments.
I bet they'd still find a way to break it
Yes it's glass so it will break. But risk of breaking is much lesser with this type of cases. Provided you dun break it while removing it when initially building.
Never put a window panel pc case on tile.
Never put a tile on a pc case window panel ...
Always let tile walk on you, never walk on tile.
Never tile, Windows PC
I just installed some new hardware and was nervous about putting my panel on the carpet because of this sub and all the pics I've seen lol.
Carpet is like a cloud compared to tile/stone lol
my steak is too juicy, my lobster is too buttery, my cpu is too pasty, my side panel is -oh fu
lol 😂 granite counter +1
Another day, another PC builder busting their glass panel on a stone surface.
When will they learn ?
Have you tried reseating your ram?
Yikesss... rookie mistake but we all learn somehow.
"somehow" The key-word.
Yeah, by having an ounce of common sense
Yep. But some are like "sense.exe not responding. Do you want to close the program or wait?"
X pattern, not a glob in the middle. You’re just asking for it.
Why can't we go back to simple steel side panels?
Have you considered putting it in rice?
Glass on glass crime
Womp womp
Nah Blud, you obv lost power during the bios update
That’s one way to try to lower temps
You are supposed do use the paste to put the glass back together.
C4 is not thermal paste...
Ah yes the big hole ventilation mod, seems popular these days
Lesson 1 I get from this subreddit is: do not use cases with glass
Ill tempered glass again
/dr.evil
Next time refrain yourself from buying anything with a "Pro" tag.
Working on the floor is much safer than working on your marble countertop.
Unless said floor is made up of ceramic tiles, which'll yield the same results.
Yeah this is why you always get a reputable brand of thermal paste.
Pads. He should've use pads.
Absolutely. All totally avoidable.
Probably the ventilation power of the stock cpu cooler that blasted the panel. /s
Happens also when you hit too much FPS...
Ahh man, this PC case brought back some memories for me. My first ever PC was with this case, it's amazing, too bad I couldn't find it for my new oc, but I got a newer version of it pretty much... What a case tho T_T
Not enough. Keep going.
Oh look. Tiles.
Again.
Just disable the WiFi
If it is a 1v1 always bet on ceramic floor
Restart the case glass breaks timer 😂
Dude thermite and thermal paste are not the same thing.
Fatality
Oh no, that’s the case that I have
Did this a few weeks ago, contacted support and they sent me a new panel, which had a different design.
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Temper, temper(ed glass).
I see it all the time here but am still amazed setting it on something like this can shatter the glass. The feet, they do noooooothing!
And not enough O's
Welp time to buy those over priced retro case then lmao...
Congrats on the new airflow installation
I have the same case... Minus the broken bits.
No its a misconception that this is cause by “too much”. Its actually caused by “not enough.”
What do you mean you're getting a switch?
The computer isn't ruined, your glass cabinet is!
Just wondering if this is toughened glass, I cut a corner out of a piece, then touched the edge with a dremmel to smooth it and the entire thing exploded.
Not using it again, it's unsafe.
Congratulations, you learned how tempered glass works. 🙄
It's badly tempered for sure
How do people manage to do this
Don’t get a Switch. Get a Hyte X50 air case.
When you use so much thermal paste that you un-temper the glass.
People need to learn about surface tension.
have you tried soaking it in rice yet?
r/brokensidepanels
The panel should be screwed in at the corners, not shattered like that
Put it in rice
Fuck that was the Thermite Paste 🤦♂️
I was cleaning my PC the other day and accidentally sat on the glass panel I placed on my chair. Full force sitting down and there's not even a scratch on it. I'm only 145lbs but I feel like that's a solid amount of pressure to resist for a glass barrier, makes me wonder what it takes for all of these shattered rigs.
If you use an iphone then you know they were not lying about liquid glass (ass).
No it was your lack of fans
I pray every time I see a post like this since it's a Corsair case I hope my 1000D doesn't do this the explosion of Tempered glass will take out my office.
Sorry this happened to you but at least you cracked me up. Damn I'm laughing hard.
Why do people still keep buying glass side panel PC cases? This always inevitably happens🤦♂️
I always find it interesting how there’s people who don’t care about cable management, yet they get cases with glass side panels.
(edit: This isn’t very bad or anything, it’s fine from a practical standpoint. But it’s not very aesthetically pleasing either)
It is shedding its skin. A new one will grow back soon.
Cue all the people victim blaming OP. The fact that you can avoid this does not mean it's not an issue. You should not have to place the entire PC in a cushion of marshmallows in order to remove a fucking side-panel.
I feel for you OP, I avoid tempered glass cases like the plague. Had one and it also shattered. Would be no issue with any other material. Trading robustness for aesthetics never made sense to me.
You get posts like this 10 times per day every single day yet everyone here thinks the issue is the consumer. Absolutely dumbest trend after the RGB trend.
I genuinely don’t understand how people do this
glass sometimes just shatters. I placed my phone down on the bed beside me after using it, only seconds later to hear a pop, and see a crack running down it.
I don't understand why they use glass and not perspex for cases
I think people need to stop buying these
Or just dont build them on surfaces that can easily break them. Things like tile and granite are going to break them in one single tap, but if you build them on a different surface there's no issue. They're generally pretty durable.
I've seen them break on every surface on this sub.
That's not even true. I'm on this sub daily and I'd say 99% of the time there's a tile or granite floor present. I've built many PC's with glass sides and I've never seen one break. That's because I dont build them on surfaces that break them.
It shouldn't be this delicate. My entire house is tile floors or granite counter tops. I have to go out of my way to move a very heavy PC to a matress or something in order to do something as simple as blowing the dust way with an air can.
Any previous PC I could just move the PC wherever, open the side panel and not have to worry about surfaces.
Heck, you could set it in a large fluffy pillow but if it slips and the panel hits the PC it breaks, if you pull on it too hard when removing it, it breaks. Maybe not in your experience but it does break according to the daily experience of 10 different people in this sub that make posts like this every single day (imagine all the people that don't post about it).
Its not delicate. Tempered glass is very durable unless you bounce it off something that is harder than it is. It takes a significant amount of force to break these things if your not dropping them on tiles or granite. Most people have hard wood or some sort of laminate flooring that won't cause any damage to tempered glass. If you only have tiles and granite, you can build it on a wood table or even a plastic fold out table (which is were I build and work on PC's). It's really not a big deal to put your side panel down somewhere where it can't break for you to work on your PC. If this is a big issue for you, don't buy a case with tempered glass. It's that simple. 99% of the broken tempered glass panels are user error. It's super easy to avoid.
I've never seen glass panels break this way. It wouldn't break from slipping and hitting your PC and you shouldn't be pulling hard when removing it.
The physics of tempered glass are misleading. It takes a lot of force to break it in unrealistic scenarios but it takes very little to break it in common scenarios like removing a side panel while the PC is in a counter or floor.
Who cares that it resists blunt force when it breaks with normal handling?
If someone that doesn't know about this handles the PC in a very normal way like removing the side panel while the very heavy PC is on the floor (be it tile or whatever) then the glass will likely break.
It's user error for not having a dedicated space to work on PCs I guess but it is also extremely easy to break them unless you go out of your way to avoid it like you do.
Also, every single good deal in Costco this month has been a PC with tempered glass so your solution to avoid them is not realistic.
Isn't the steel frame in your PC harder than the glass panel? By your previous logic it definitely should break.
r/usdefaultism that's simply not true.
The problem is that most cases have at least one glass panel these days.
Linus!! !!
For clarification. It did not slam. I slid the front off and it was refusing to come. jiggled the piece of metal the front was attached to and it exploded. You could hear it crackling for a few minutes after.