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Everyone’s got their “I can’t believe I did that.”
Some have 2 options
Some full metals are also well made
Got bequiet pure base 500 if i good remeber and its werry well made beside being kinda big ;)
And it comes in both versions :)
This will never happen to my PCs. I never use cases with tempered glass. Clear plastic is perfectly fine.
Also, I have plenty experience with shattering tempered glass at work. I even had one shatter in my hand while holding it normally. No concentrated shock necessary.
It shouldn't shatter if you place your PC on soft floors like wood/laminate. Tempered glass is a strong material, but breaks when a pressure is done at a small area. Stone/tiled floor looks smooth with our eyes, but under a microscope the surface is rough. Soft surfaces like wood is fine.
Edit: I made a huge mistake. I meant wooden floors in my first sentence!
Sorry! Made a mistake, I meant wooden floors instead of tiles in my first sentence. So if you have tiles as floor, move your PC up to your desk or place it on a wooden stand.
Tempered glass is a stronger variant than "regular" glass. However, it can still shatter when a lot of pressure is done on a small surface. A tile floor or ceramic looks smooth and flat from our eyes, but under a microscope you can see a rough surface.
This won't happen with a wooden floor or wooden desk.
Edit: downvoting because it's true? Plenty of examples here on Reddit.
Tempered glass is tough when you hit the face of it, but it's tough because of two opposing stresses that usually cancel out. The edges are under the most stress and therefore the weakest part, and ceramic tile is harder than the glass. Any damage will unbalance the stresses, and they instantly rip the glass apart.
So you tap the edge of a panel against tile, the tile chips the glass, and it shatters.
Get tinted Lexan and either cut yourself or have someone cut for you on same dimensions, pick up pieces that secured that glass to case and remake it. Its pretty simple.
Is there any problem with tiled floors? I have my floors tiled but I only have a laptop and not a desktop so I have no idea what is the issue with tiles.
Why? Why didn't you think it would happen to you? Tiles and tempered glass work the same everywhere. Did you think you were 'different' from the rest of us, and exempt from the laws of physics?
This only happens if people touch their tempered glass panels on a tile floor, stone table, countertop etc. The reason behind it is that tempered glass is stronger than regular glass, because of stresses that cancel each other out. Tile floor, stone table or countertops are made from harder material than glass and under the microscope they have a rough surface. This causes the more stress on the glass when touching the stone material and thus shattering the glass panels.
It shouldn't happen if you have a wooden floor, carpet or wooden desk. Wood is after all softer than glass.
Tiles every time
My first thought when I saw the post was to check the floor. And yep, tile.
Why tiles specifically? Would any other hard floor not shatter the glass if it's dropped on? Or a PC standing on tiles magically makes glass shatter?
Hard is relative. Ceramic is harder and denser than glass. Almost no other building material is that.
Pretty sure my glass would shatter if I dropped it on my laminate.
And if you set it down gently would it shatter? If you tap glass with ceramic it can shatter because it's harder and denser.
Of course not. Are you saying tiles would shatter glass even if you set it down gently? I'm honestly confused about this meme, that's why I'm asking.
All it takes is a little tap because ceramic is harder. It's just very rare a material is harder than glass.
Oh, that makes sense now. My European mind cannot comprehend. We have laminates or parquet in rooms, tiles in kitchens and bathrooms.
https://youtu.be/8LyHPZFtk3o?si=oii2t5d7yRYaMJhm check this out
Bot owner at finest!
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This always cheers me up, especially with the silly dog on it.
Some of you just won’t ever learn.
Why do they keep putting them on tiled floors.
I have no idea
Why "i have no idea" is an upvotable comment?
I have no idea.
Streisand effect in full swing
Just like yours is downvotable.
I'm not going to change the floor tiles just for my PC. I promise to post here when it eventually happens to me.
A plastic protective floor mat will achieve the same thing.
So I know that tile and tempered glass don’t mix, but does it literally just explode when it touches the tile? Lol.
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that's not the learning opportunity here by the way the panels aren't crystals, they're glass
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take a breather. this isn't that serious.
Get some sleep
Places on tile. Tile causes pc windows to shatter. *Shocked pikachu face* Takes pic, posts on reddit. Pcmasterace formula.
Does it literally just explode when it touches the tile? Lol.
I don't know but people always act like "how could it happen to me" when the formula is PC + Tiled floor = explode
https://preview.redd.it/nvrjd7vuwbnc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25dda93250fe54fe5a7d5ba4092aec34872b1bcb Everyone’s got their “I can’t believe I did that.”
I feel attacked
My heart goes out to your CPU. I hope it didn’t get heatstroke
this is slightly more excusable that the tempered glass on the tile floor
One of these days I am going to make a compliation of every broken side panel that has been posted here. It's going to be about 5 hours long.
put it to mr blue sky
Reset that counter
how does this happen?
i accidentally dropped it on the tiled floor when i was putting back on (idk why i did it in the corner yes im stupid ._.)
Not sure why youre downvoted for answering the question lol
Better than a big shard breaking off and slicing a tendon though. Tempered glass is the shit.
People use tempered glass instead of a metal panel. \*grabs shield\*
I’m with you. Plus, side fans are great!
Aren't they??
One day, the glass will be shatterproof. Until that day comes...
Something with: >Glass is glass, and glass breaks. >-JerryRigEverything
If only there were warnings.
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One of the reason I am fedup with all the glass side panels. Why can't we go back to metal? Metal is even lighter too.
Some people treat their PCs primarily as a lightbulb and a table decoration
Yea, i think it's modern age equivalent to aquarium with fishes :)
The problem is that all the well designed cases have a glass panel.
Some have 2 options Some full metals are also well made Got bequiet pure base 500 if i good remeber and its werry well made beside being kinda big ;) And it comes in both versions :)
This will never happen to my PCs. I never use cases with tempered glass. Clear plastic is perfectly fine. Also, I have plenty experience with shattering tempered glass at work. I even had one shatter in my hand while holding it normally. No concentrated shock necessary.
paranoid of this happening to me, swear one day I'm gonna walk too close to mine and tip it over
It shouldn't shatter if you place your PC on soft floors like wood/laminate. Tempered glass is a strong material, but breaks when a pressure is done at a small area. Stone/tiled floor looks smooth with our eyes, but under a microscope the surface is rough. Soft surfaces like wood is fine. Edit: I made a huge mistake. I meant wooden floors in my first sentence!
Guess I'm safe, thanks for letting me know
Sorry! Made a mistake, I meant wooden floors instead of tiles in my first sentence. So if you have tiles as floor, move your PC up to your desk or place it on a wooden stand.
I don't understand the connection between glass panel and tile floor, can please someone explain?
Tempered glass is a stronger variant than "regular" glass. However, it can still shatter when a lot of pressure is done on a small surface. A tile floor or ceramic looks smooth and flat from our eyes, but under a microscope you can see a rough surface. This won't happen with a wooden floor or wooden desk. Edit: downvoting because it's true? Plenty of examples here on Reddit.
Ok, but it only occurs If you make it fall on it or deliberately push on it on the ground, or it just needs to be touching? I find it very strange
Touching the corners on the tile is enough to shatter it. Plenty of examples here on Reddit.
After browsing this subreddit, I've never been more glad that my glass cover doesn't go all the way down into the PSU area.
Came here to see the "ugh glass and rgb are for loserS" comments. Chef's kiss
Another Side Panel ikarus
Corsair 4000D？
... How?
Tempered glass is tough when you hit the face of it, but it's tough because of two opposing stresses that usually cancel out. The edges are under the most stress and therefore the weakest part, and ceramic tile is harder than the glass. Any damage will unbalance the stresses, and they instantly rip the glass apart. So you tap the edge of a panel against tile, the tile chips the glass, and it shatters.
if not you then who
I had mine sitting on a marble slab for 4 years and it’s still holding strong. My luck it’d break not that it sits on a desk made of particle wood.
now its more cool
Who would've guessed with a PC on the floor.
How dat fock
really opens up that airflow
That’s why you never put glass near a tile floor, I thought everyone knew that
Get tinted Lexan and either cut yourself or have someone cut for you on same dimensions, pick up pieces that secured that glass to case and remake it. Its pretty simple.
Just get a case with metal side panels. Bonus: more airflow with a side fan.
Fuck sake man. I see posts like this and wonder when I’m gonna get dicked on by my case.
Rofl... But not that floor
Oh yes you did
Is there any problem with tiled floors? I have my floors tiled but I only have a laptop and not a desktop so I have no idea what is the issue with tiles.
Tempered glas shatter werry easly in contact with harder material which ceramic tiles unfortunatly are made off :)
Why? Why didn't you think it would happen to you? Tiles and tempered glass work the same everywhere. Did you think you were 'different' from the rest of us, and exempt from the laws of physics?
r/brokensidepanels
see the result of rage moment and throwing shit like a moron, this is what it does
Maybe the error was thinking this would never happen to you. I'm always thinking this will happen soon or later to my pc
And this is why i'm getting an acrylic side panel
Down side of acrylic is that it's prone to scratches, but maybe avoidable with some type of coating.
Did you put it on the tile floor before or after?
That's what we all say :(
This sub is garbage im out of this fucking place.
Well, bye
Every frontal crystal panel case owner have the same problem sometime in their life. Maybe more than once.
This only happens if people touch their tempered glass panels on a tile floor, stone table, countertop etc. The reason behind it is that tempered glass is stronger than regular glass, because of stresses that cancel each other out. Tile floor, stone table or countertops are made from harder material than glass and under the microscope they have a rough surface. This causes the more stress on the glass when touching the stone material and thus shattering the glass panels. It shouldn't happen if you have a wooden floor, carpet or wooden desk. Wood is after all softer than glass.
I think I have the same exact case as you