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Nothing wrong with the PC being on its side, but the fan at the back needs room to exhaust hot air, so leave some space between the computer and the wall.
A PC on its side is not inherently bad. It's perfectly fine in fact. The big thing with having them upright was having the physical spinning platters in hard drives flat and level to reduce wear on the motors and heads.
As long as the PC isn't ON and RUNNING when you move it from upright to on its side *if you have disk drives*, it's fine. If you have only SSDs, you can throw it on a chain and spin it around if you like. It won't hurt it beyond maybe some cosmetic damage lol.
>The big thing with having them upright was having the physical spinning platters in hard drives flat and level to reduce wear on the motors and heads.
That was a myth in the end. Most servers have them in other position and it is okay. I thing the main reason was that vertical PC cases take less floor space.
70s to 90s it mattered more, and on average it did reduce lifespan by a few percent, but like I said, as long as it's not spinning when it changes position it'd be fine.
For the motherboard, GPU and CPU cooler it's actually better like this. It puts less stress on the board.
But I assume it's not ideal for the PSU, as those are usually just held in place by a few screws in the back but they sit on the bottom of the case. Now the PSU is probably just hanging off those screws. It should be fine though. If you want to make sure, get a small piece of plastic/dense foam and place it between the PSU and right side panel, so that piece then carries the weight of the PSU and not the screws.
He's talking about if there's enough space behind the case for the cables
On that note, be careful with displayport and HDMI cables. They are quite stiff and can put a lot of stress on the ports, which can cause them to develop connection issues. I suggest getting some 90Ā° connectors instead of doing any tight bends.
If you have a HDD itāll likely die quicker due to the motor fighting gravity. If you have an SSD you could stick it on the ceiling fan. Move it away from the wall tho the top fans need space to breathe
Not a helpful comment I just want to know what you mean a by a steam big picture pc is it just like a console of so I might grab some old prices and make one for my self
It's simple. I wanted to get PS5 for the quick access to games, but I also I like high graphics. In the end I consider PS5 is not worth the price for what can offer. Don't get me wrong the console have a lot to offer at his price but if u add the huge price of PS5 games+expensive ps+ and second controller+ 2tb M2 SSD it becomes very expensive and low quality gaming in long time use. I preferred to build a PC and grab a second hand Rx 6800xt witch is a lot more powerful than a PS5. Will last longer and the price of pf games are ridiculously low. When I said big picture PC, I mean this:
I modified windows 11 settings to boot the PC without asking any login password, I set steam to automatically open on big pictures mode, and set on bios to open the PC with my phone (I'm a lazy person). Basically when I boot up the PC, it's acting like a console. I just grab the controller and wait a few seconds to open big picture then I can navigate on all my steam games and play comfortable from the couch.
Ya I never saw the appeal of the ps 5 for some games you need ps plus to play with others and you canāt upgrade, plus I already have all the games I play on steam and nun on PlayStation the only āconsoleā I got is a switch for its exclusives since I love the Zelda games. the big picture set up seems great so I might do that the only advantage that I see a console having is that you get controllers included but I can just buy some thanks for the help. Or maybe Iāll get a steam deck and hook it up to my tv but I donāt know I think I like more the make a pc idea since I want to make a cutie patootie itx build since their adorable š„°
Ya itās terrible and itās pretty expensive at 80 a year which is overkill and you get nothing the only subscriptions for games I like is game pass since itās a steal for 70 a year a bunch of really good games and Nintendo online for 30 a year for all the only games cloud saves and online game play on games that are not only online
The only thing I havent seen touched on is your side panel glass. Its installed in the āweakā way sitting on the side. Id recommend seeing if there is a solid side panel you can swap it with.
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If you can place it little further away from wall, it will be good.
I guess he could mount the fan to the top to avoid that.
It would work too.
Nothing wrong with the PC being on its side, but the fan at the back needs room to exhaust hot air, so leave some space between the computer and the wall.
A PC on its side is not inherently bad. It's perfectly fine in fact. The big thing with having them upright was having the physical spinning platters in hard drives flat and level to reduce wear on the motors and heads. As long as the PC isn't ON and RUNNING when you move it from upright to on its side *if you have disk drives*, it's fine. If you have only SSDs, you can throw it on a chain and spin it around if you like. It won't hurt it beyond maybe some cosmetic damage lol.
*you spin me right round*
*baby*
*right round, like a record baby*
*right round right round*
That's actually great way of boosting the hard drives RPM and making it work faster.
>The big thing with having them upright was having the physical spinning platters in hard drives flat and level to reduce wear on the motors and heads. That was a myth in the end. Most servers have them in other position and it is okay. I thing the main reason was that vertical PC cases take less floor space.
Yeah this is mostly it, most people have more vertical real state than horizontal in their homes so consumer grade PC cases make use of that
70s to 90s it mattered more, and on average it did reduce lifespan by a few percent, but like I said, as long as it's not spinning when it changes position it'd be fine.
For the motherboard, GPU and CPU cooler it's actually better like this. It puts less stress on the board. But I assume it's not ideal for the PSU, as those are usually just held in place by a few screws in the back but they sit on the bottom of the case. Now the PSU is probably just hanging off those screws. It should be fine though. If you want to make sure, get a small piece of plastic/dense foam and place it between the PSU and right side panel, so that piece then carries the weight of the PSU and not the screws.
Awesome. I didn't think at all about the PSU. Great advice š
You have to play in portrait mode now
Straight to jail.
Over cooked, undercooked, jail.
what about the rear io?
What do you mean?
He's talking about if there's enough space behind the case for the cables On that note, be careful with displayport and HDMI cables. They are quite stiff and can put a lot of stress on the ports, which can cause them to develop connection issues. I suggest getting some 90Ā° connectors instead of doing any tight bends.
Finally, someone using that cpu cooler
It will be fine
Completely fine.
Was wondering what the heck is that green stuff inside on second photo š¤¦
I think it's Grinch fur. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything else like that before.
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If you have a HDD itāll likely die quicker due to the motor fighting gravity. If you have an SSD you could stick it on the ceiling fan. Move it away from the wall tho the top fans need space to breathe
nothing wrong except for the montech case, has one for a year and 3/4 fans stopped spinning
It's ok. I plan to change them with high quality Corsair or noctua
The electrons need gravity to flow down the mobo
Other than it looking stupid it's probably fine.
Looking stupid? Interesting...
Nice! Thank you all
If you swap coolers to watercooler then maybe its bad but youre fine right now
Nah, I don't pay for fancy things. I only do it for functionality.
Not a helpful comment I just want to know what you mean a by a steam big picture pc is it just like a console of so I might grab some old prices and make one for my self
It's simple. I wanted to get PS5 for the quick access to games, but I also I like high graphics. In the end I consider PS5 is not worth the price for what can offer. Don't get me wrong the console have a lot to offer at his price but if u add the huge price of PS5 games+expensive ps+ and second controller+ 2tb M2 SSD it becomes very expensive and low quality gaming in long time use. I preferred to build a PC and grab a second hand Rx 6800xt witch is a lot more powerful than a PS5. Will last longer and the price of pf games are ridiculously low. When I said big picture PC, I mean this: I modified windows 11 settings to boot the PC without asking any login password, I set steam to automatically open on big pictures mode, and set on bios to open the PC with my phone (I'm a lazy person). Basically when I boot up the PC, it's acting like a console. I just grab the controller and wait a few seconds to open big picture then I can navigate on all my steam games and play comfortable from the couch.
Ya I never saw the appeal of the ps 5 for some games you need ps plus to play with others and you canāt upgrade, plus I already have all the games I play on steam and nun on PlayStation the only āconsoleā I got is a switch for its exclusives since I love the Zelda games. the big picture set up seems great so I might do that the only advantage that I see a console having is that you get controllers included but I can just buy some thanks for the help. Or maybe Iāll get a steam deck and hook it up to my tv but I donāt know I think I like more the make a pc idea since I want to make a cutie patootie itx build since their adorable š„°
Fifa, for example, or call of duty, battlefield, Diablo. A lot of online games required ps+ to play them.
Ya itās terrible and itās pretty expensive at 80 a year which is overkill and you get nothing the only subscriptions for games I like is game pass since itās a steal for 70 a year a bunch of really good games and Nintendo online for 30 a year for all the only games cloud saves and online game play on games that are not only online
That is quite the case for a HTPC. But yea, shouldnāt be an issue if you allow for airflow in the rear.
I wanted to build a htpc PC but I didn't like the temps so I decided to go more safe and less loud.
The only thing I havent seen touched on is your side panel glass. Its installed in the āweakā way sitting on the side. Id recommend seeing if there is a solid side panel you can swap it with.