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:
And then there is this classic
I immediately thought of this one.
The best flux is your skin
At least her eye protection has the proper tint.
The stethoscope!! 2real4me
I wonder why they wanted to highlight X, h, D, o, o, and P in particular,
I bet the advertiser doesn’t know English (probably a Chinese manufacturer) and thought the end of every word is the unit (like for x and p)
Lazy graphic designer at 4pm of a Friday that doesn’t speak a single lick of English vibe.
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
I’ve done it twice actually… But I come from an embedded engineering background.
Replaced some dead caps on an expensive GPU once and the other time it was a laptop where some of the GPU memory had broken(? IDK really how it happened, it was my boss’s personal machine, so few questions were asked) the connections.
In the latter case we desoldered all the tantalum caps and put the motherboard in our reflow oven. Then resoldered the tantalums. The fear being that tantalums wouldn’t survive the oven we used for prototypes in the RD department I was in at the time (I count this as IT, as the admin was also an RD developer).
Both times it worked.
With that said, I don’t think that I’ve even seen a soldering station in an IT department since the mid 00s.
Yeah, but did you solder it midair like this boss?
Nope, threw it in the air and soldered it without ANY support before it hit the table - old western gunman style!
Smh, there’s a whole genre in electronics humor about stock photos. At least this model didn’t hold on to the hot end of the iron.
My only question is if they are aiming to make their photos accurate and just have no idea or if they are deliberately going for believable to non-tech people but ridiculous to anyone who knows something about what’s going on.
He’s not using the soldering iron per se, he’s threatening to use it. “Nice memory chip you got there, shame if something happened to it.”
My dad lost his left arm in 1996
If you manage to find it, you could still probably use it for counting. Just make sure to use a Clorox wipe on it first.
How many times did you do it on the wrong side though?
If you’ve never run a computer with a PSU hanging out the side powering your extra hard drives have you even lived?
I’ve used an extra PSU to power a graphics card. Things weren’t properly compatible, so I had to improvise a bit.
When you start the computer, you also need to use a paper clip to start the second PSU, because otherwise the graphics card will scream in terror until you give it the power it demands. It was probably the most ghetto style computer I’ve ever had.
Maybe they just have a 4090
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…
I bought a Cooler Master Stacker 810 back in 07 almost exclusively because it could fit two PSUs. All the cool kids over at XtremeSystems were doing so teenage me thought I should as well.
I never got around to needing another PSU, but I did learn to jump start an ATX PSU, and I still have the case.
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.
The pros point with a cold iron, and solder with their eyes by intensely staring at it (pictured)
An expert can reflow a board with nothing but a heated stare
I dont see your point since one of them is just sitting on the bench.
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.
Ah yes, just let me get out the soldering iron and touch it to this GPU I’m holding…
The Threadripper rig I’m building has a mainboard with plugs for 2 power supplies.
Dual redundant? Or does it actually need that much power?
Doesn’t need it, the CPU is only 350W TDP for the 96 core variant, but a rig like that tends to also be loaded with 2-4 GPUs for compute workloads and a fuckton of ECC memory, which tends to use (far) more power than standard dimms.
I’m installing a (1+1 redundant) 1200W PSU for now, as I initially will only have a single GPU and a single DIMM per memory channel to do the platform validation.
In your typical gaming setup, you could perfectly use a single PSU, even an 850W one would probably do just fine as there’s no games that’ll 100% all the cores anyway and threadripper cores are ludicrously well optimized for power, especially compared to anything Intel offers in the desktop, workstation or server market.
I run a server with 2 PSUs. If one craps out, the other can keep things running
I have that exact GPU in my closet.
Is that a Radeon 9500? 9300 maybe? Cooler and board colour looks exactly like the 9800 but the board is smaller.
At least he is not touching the ouchy part of the soldering iron unlick a famos other stock footage
I had a PSU blow out in my server once and troubleshooting looked almost exactly like this. Minus the guy with the soldering iron.
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 annunciation, and try not to blink as you envision the tiny components rearranging before you.
