NZXT PODCAST - #170 - Halloween Special! (PC Horror Stories)

Episode Date: October 27, 2023

On this week's episode of the NZXT Podcast... We have a special Halloween special, going over spooky PC horror stories that YOU submitted to us on Discord! Watch the VOD at twitch.tv/NZXT and join our Discord server to let us know what you think about these sites: discord.gg/NZXT

and welcome to episode 170 of the nzc podcast the official podcast of the nzc community this podcast squared live every friday at 10 a at pacific standard time on the official xc twitch and is available to stream on demand on apple podcast google podcast spotify and soundcloud my name is mike and i am riding solo again i mean is sadly sick so i will be going ahead and uh taking over for today uh hope everyone is having a good day slash start of the weekend uh i am currently in my chowder costume uh ready for Halloween weekend so yeah we started with some Halloween music and uh yeah i know this this thing's pretty sick i'm actually really happy because like it's actually filled so it's like fall over so this is like a perfect chowder costume

Mike are you alive no i'm not i am a zombie right now for Halloween but i just want to say hello everyone uh first of all thank you guys for joining us live and if you guys want, there is a giveaway. There's two giveaways. If you guys want to do the current one, which is for a hoodie, a t-shirt, and a sticker and land your pack, go ahead and go into the chat, do Esclamation point giveaway. And basically, you'll be able to join that giveaway. Stay tuned to the end, because we'll give a little secret code that gives you 500 extra

entries into the giveaway. And I reiterate this all the time, majority of time, like whenever I pull, when they tend to be those that come onto the stream. So that's our way of saying, like, thank you for joining live. Yes, this is the PC horror story stream. I will get into that soon. Also, for the, so like we said, we're doing a PC horror story stream. If you guys want to participate in any other future streams and potentially win a poochie,

this is our little puck plushy called poochie. If you guys want to join and get one of these potentially, go to Discord.g.g. Or do Eskvation Point Discord in the chat. You'll be able to potentially join and win one of these beautiful plushies. This is better to Gucci. It is poochie. Mike, would you rather prefer a bagel or croissant? Crosan for sandwiches, bagel for cream cheese and butter.

Okay, so let's go ahead and get into. to the beauty as is the PC horror stories. There are some really good applications into this. Actually, I'm gonna raise on my camera a little bit. There are some beautiful stories into this. However, I can only choose a couple of them. I chose as many as I could that weren't too long. There were a couple that were long,

but I kinda wanna do a couple of them because they're really good. But we'll go ahead and start in the PC horror stories. These are just random. There's no, like, order of these. Um, and these are submitted by our lovely Discord community. And like I said, go Discord. Dot g slash NZXT.

The picture in the Discord server was very weird. Which picture? Are you talking about the, the, um, profile picture? Well, it's a little gift thingy. So if you want to look into that. All right. Oh, oh, oh. So what that I've been posted?

I don't know. What the heck is that? Okay. all right so let's go into the first little question and remember stay tuned to the end for the secret code from jock the king i was building my brother's pc it was all going well i then powered it on i then smelled smoke turns out the power supply was d oa or dead on arrival and nearly fried his pc this was a recent build with the first gen rising so i was afraid everything was going to go wrong i will never i will now never buy with a i redacted the brand because i don't i don't think we're

we should slander any brands out there, but they decided to never buy that PSU again. And yes, this is actually kind of, we're starting off very simple. There's actually some horror, horror ones throughout this one, I think. But for this one, I don't want to start off as, please invest in a good power supply, please. A lot of people do not do that. And it ends up killing your build. And that is the most horrifying thing, is ending up killing your whole PC. Imagine imagine you're like, you know what?

I'm going to go ahead and just skip out of my power supply, my $1,000 build. I'm just going to skip out of it because I want to upgrade everything else. Instead of spending an extra $50 to $100, you end up frying your extra $900. So please invest in a very, very good power supply. And also, if you guys also have some fun, uh, scary stories, go ahead and wait until a little bit halfway through the end and it will go ahead and add yours into this little slide package but please get a better power supply for koishi i was trying to help a friend build a pc he bought a okay this one's crazy he bought a rogue CPU cooler that did not fit with a CPU motherboard so i don't know

how that works like most cp u should fit the motherboard i believe what's happening is the bracket and the socket did not match so like if you have like a lGA 1700 and you're trying to use like uh another different type that's what he did so his genius idea was to drill through the motherboard and make his own screwhole safe to say he needed to buy another motherboard we did not allow him to buy his computer parts together when we got his parts again that that this one i think is just terrified. Can you imagine drilling through your motherboard

just because it doesn't fit like come on guys. I feel like does anyone here feel like common sense may not be as common anymore? Because like that is ridiculous to think like oh this doesn't fit my motherboard yeah hopefully yeah oh

Neuru just wait there's a story I think later this about someone that left their PC on changing things out i'll get to that later um just fix it yeah because what what's the two things what's the uh uh two things uh if it's stuck use wd40 and if it's broken use duct tape i think that's what it is right for the boss yeah i was playing overwatch ranked with my friends and my pc start over here it fried my CPU because i was using a stock CPU cooler stock CPU coolers are fine but it depends on the CPU itself and cooler um you know if you have like a rise in 9 or like an i9 13900k or something like that yeah you're gonna need a good

cp for that from the social i thought my power supply was dying the other day because there's a horrible high-pitched sound coming for my pc ended up being gained on my mic all the way turned up it was in a feedback loop. I actually had that once. I was having an issue with my mic. This bike right here. I was like, why is no sound coming in? I was going through all the avenues. I was like testing it. It was powering on. Everything was that. I just physically just muted myself at Discord because I swapped the input devices. So it was going through like my PC so it did not work. My first time ever building i bent the pins on my brand new CPU if you guys ever seen like bent bent cp u pins it's actually terrifying to like look at like look at this thing this is terrifying

oh you know you won't be able to see it because i'm not my camera's in it but here i'll move my camera over here oh god oh god look at that can you bend it back i believe there is is a possibility if I'm not correct please let me know but I think there is a chance you can bend the back if it's not terrible but the the chance of you fixing it is basically um yeah there's a point where no return you can't bend them back yeah and you can over bet yeah so basically it's like it's like if you if you're in a very precarious situation where it's like you know you're close to snapping a bone or something like that like if you can move it back

you can but like the chance of you doing that is very very tough so well uh we'll try try not to do that just be very gingerly with your thing yeah and that's basic scenario too because like also you know if it's slightly bent that could ruin

the lifespan on the CPU too so like you just at that point you just may have to accept the L put them in the oven to fix it the hey by the way legally this is a joke because I think I have to legally say it but if you need to fix your

if you're having issues with your RAM or GPU just put it in the microwave heat it up a little bit but it needs time to warp up that happens all the time when I plug in an HGMI monitor and Windows changes to default audio put yeah because I don't put

yeah it just happens like it's just one of those things that just happens so you just kind of like I have the this next one i think is going to scare a couple of you guys so just hold your pants real quick this actually happened in uh josh o one oh one's uh pc recently it did blue screen which is that's that's that's heartbreaking actually for when i first made my friend's pc it actually ran it to a uh blue screen error but it was just because we didn't do the correct ram so it just started it just did not

understand it so it was pretty easy yeah This is, this honestly is probably the most terrifying thing. Actually, actually, some people actually brought in some pictures. And it's actually kind of terrifying to see. There's a couple that dealt with, actually, wait, I think it's the next one. Hold on. Let's see. No, which one had it?

Okay, okay, okay. Got it. It's a couple more down. You'll see some terrifying ones. I didn't include the picture, but it deals with bugs. So if you're a little scared, I'll let you know before we go into it. Okay. Okay.

From Jules, this is our own CS worker. She's awesome. By the way, if you ever have a technical issues and you have jewels, you will legit, you will be in like perfect. Okay, hold on. Let me go ban this dude. Hold on. Ban you because you're a fan.

There you go. I am Chowder. You like my hat? Actually, supposed to have a pink shirt under this, but I didn't want to get dirty before the thing, so I'm just wearing these. The most B-sod I ever had was try to get my RAM to 3200. I'm not even sure why. I mean, I feel like it's just a common thing for RAM becoming a blue screen. It's just so easy.

Luckily, that's the best blue screen you can't have, you know? I got blue screens like three times of old PC. Sometimes it just happens. But this is from Jules. This is from our own CS employee. I've been building a PC since I was about 12 years. old thanks to my uncle teaching me the instant outs of PC hardware one day my mom brought me some decommissioned office PCs from her work and asked me to

make a working PC out of parts for my younger brother to finally have a computer pretty cool this felt pretty easy to me however there was there were rather old PCs use 80 power supplies where he had to wire the power switch directly to the PSU that's old that's old old that's like early 2000s old I forgot this crucial I plugged the PC in expecting the power and got nothing. I then bumped the 12 volt power from power supply, and the next thing I was a bright, glued white spark and smoke with a horrendous arc noise.

Thankfully, this is the only time I fried a PC a good lesson learned. This is how I've learned with a healthy level of fear of electricity. Yes, please, please, please be careful with, if you have to work in your PC, turn the PC off and unplug it, man. Like, I actually, when I first, when I first started working here, we had a guy, I was like some guy was having an issue with, I think he needed to like reseat his like CPU cooler. And he was like, okay, I'm going to open. And I was like, whoa, is your PC off?

And he legit was like, oh, no, it's not off. Why is that not a, why is that not a common thing to turn off the thing? It's like if you have your lamp on and you try to unscrew the light bulb. Like, yeah, it's probably okay. It's probably has enough thing. But like, why would you want to risk that? You know? It's crazy.

Like I said, try to use common sense. If not, as someone else that does. I shocked myself about three ties when I was learning to build computers for work. How did you shock yourself? Did you, were you like testing and the PC was still plugged in? you got you got you got not night you got a you got a hope i'm glad you're safe but you got to be careful man electricity is terrified if you guys ever like seen how like electricity can straight up like murder you in any sort of way like it's just it's it's electricity we use it every single day uh okay so it's this

thing right here that's understandable i thought i was thinking more like modern like you're just plugging in like a power supply i was like how did that happen that makes sense that makes sense that sense. I don't blame you for that. My dad had to do mine when I was making my first PC and I didn't trust myself. Hi, Balin. Okay, let's go out to the next one. So please be careful with electricity. Uh, I did censor this, so I will read this. So this horror story from a mage, Milenberg. Hello, my PC's horror story was something very strange. I was working for myself and someone asked me to repair the PC. It replaced some component and it was a policeman.

Well, first of all, the graphics card was burned. It has some fluid inside the computer. So he probably, like, spilled something in his PC. It happens all the time. I did my job, and I started a computer to check if everything is fine, changing drivers on R. What a surprise. The desktop was full of... I feel like he can't finish that word everywhere.

The wallpaper, the folders on desktop, and also Skype opened by itself. And I saw some picks of random people. I can't you can't imagine my face when he got his computer back and said thank you very much with a big smile on his face all right this one for mage I just grabbed this because I'm just I get it's a PC is a personal computer I get you can do anything you want this is your thing this is your property this is what you own has some decency man it just has a little bit of decency and you know

doing your you know I mean like the wallpaper the wallpaper too no no okay Beppo Wifo's like anime girls that

like that's a whole culture of it but I don't think this is like anime you know anime stuff Like this is not anime wifus. I think this is like actually yeah yeah exactly social say I don't think this is wife Who's zeal I don't what I I I don't know what bets you're making bro, but The that's not a bet you should be making I think it's just this guy's thing

So no I don't think this is something like we should that's not a bet All right. Oh, actually, you know, I'll have to kind of let me lower this. Okay, here it is. From Kyle Ireland. My friend, my friend Ryan and I, uh, bought a PC for, uh, for, from, oh, my friend Ryan bought a PC for a good price. And I gifted to my friend Ryan, I bought a PC for a good price. Sorry, the grammar and this is a little weird. So I think he bought a PC from his friend Ryan from a good price and he gave it to his girlfriend.

However, Ryan spilled juice in it one time and made discovery it was orange juice. His dad had fixed it at one point after spillage, but I do not know what he did. A few years after this incident, I bought the PCA and gave it a deep clean. My nostrils were torture for the smell of old orange juice. I even managed to discolor some anti-bacterial wipes into some orange stinky color. You can find the attached image top right is the final clue. Clean result. Images surrounding it were the deep before the deep cleanse. This pick he will forever be known as orange juice.

The PC was in use by my girl for a year before dining of unknown cause. Motherboards dead. Graphics card lived and sold off cheap to someone that needed it. Rams in the cupboard, cooler went to my dad. So I'm going to go ahead and increase this photo. So this is the clean. This is the final clean version. By the way, fantastic work on the clean one.

Do you guys see this right here? Do you guys see this? This is dust. This is all dust. Look at the thing. It's like Parmesan on the on the cooler. Look at this thing. Oh my God.

This one here is terrifying like all the dust. Yes, we will send you an email if you win. Or actually for the discord one, will obviously eat DM you on discord but for the piece of for the uh uh give away for the sweater the shirt and the sticker sticker lanyards will make sure to uh uh email you you can make a slag out stuff dust buddies but we've got a whole dust ecosystem bro don't real parmesan dude just like look i'm gonna zoom in on this part right here just look at this You get the cable

Please PSA clean out your if you have a PC Clean it out every like at least once a month Maybe once every two if you have a clean place Just give it a quick dusting please You don't need to do anything crazy just literally just No His girlfriend didn't die The PC was the one that died

All right, Ryan, have a good day The PC Was the one that died She was not a she does not have a motherboard A graphics card and sold off cheap to someone I get what you're saying I get it but no it's it's the PC Yeah so please

Played your PCs y'all The next one from Imagine Simping All right I gotta I gotta pull this up Are you guys ready for this? Oh no No I think we can re-bend those back Yes we can probably re-bend these back

Yeah I think these are re-bendable I think uh yeah just a just a little bit of some duct tape You know maybe some elbow grease We got it Yeah this this is this is horrible Whoever said this who's the one of said this Imagine sipping I'm gonna I'm going to ban you.

Look it. Oh. Honestly, I hate to admit it. It's kind of satisfying. It's a little satisfying. You know, it's like a, it's like breaking, you know, like a, you know, like those rage rooms where people break stuff. It's, it's kind of, it's kind of, you know,

kind of nice. It's satisfied But watchy Makes my ribs hurt Yeah I mean If the CPU felt something It would also be hurting too

Did they like super heat the CPU or something I have no idea I don't Some people will just have like dead CPUs That is like dude the crazy We used to do that with like Pretty much like old old cases Like once that even like the trash

People don't even want to come pick up We would just like go ahead and break them Because like if they're not even doing I don't want what we're going to do about it so that is terrifying okay this is amnesia the bunker if you guys haven't played amnesia

amnesia is such a great game but from m z panic uh so i was recently playing amnesia the bunker for review that's really cool they were playing that for review by the way in that game you're exploring the dark dirty halls of a war war war one bunker while also trying to avoid a creature that lurks

in the walls and the ceiling there's a safe room you can go to between your there's a safe room you can go to between journeys in the darkness. I thought I had found another. It's a room full of lockers that you can find. They have to find the passcodes to in order to obtain their contents. The room's doors leading to the hallways are able to be locked from the inside,

seem to protect whoever is inside while the creature is freely roaming. Seemingly, while... What I failed to remember was how I had originally gained access to the room, through a ventilation shaft that was accessible from the hallway. I started to hear a telltale sound of the creature's imminent arrival inside a hideout in this room. The lights are all off, it's dark, and I'm safe. Until I see the cloud dust forming in the direction of that ventilation shaft, and the silhouette of the creature as it suddenly emerged. I was on FaceTime with my sister at the time.

The scream of horror that escaped me sent her into hysterical laughter. The creature killed me. I turned off the game, nope. I couldn't stop shaking for an hour. I legit cried. Scariest gaming moment ever. Has anyone here, does anyone here play horror games? Because, like, I rarely play horror games, but I played two.

I played Outlast and then the second Outlast. And I've never screamed so hard in my entire life. Yeah, exactly. It's, it's real. I never play Horrigues. I was only playing because my friends wanted to play. So don't get me wrong. I never play horror.

games at all because I'm just I'm terrified but there is what if you guys ever have a chance you don't have to go super far into it there's a part in Outlast one you're finally getting into the place it's like a lit room and you're opening a door if you guys get to that one point just watch that jump scare that I think I'm not joking I think a little bit of P game out at that point because that actually was the most terrifying thing. I'm only playing horror games and Roblox. The only horrible thing was the horrible textures. Robox horror games are fun, though.

That's fun, those are fun, though. That's fun, that's fun. That's what, like, fun horror. Like, amnesia or Outlasts or, like, these games, that's just, they're just, that's just scary. I don't do that stuff. That's a no-go for me. From Danka, 0-2.

One day I was playing Fortnite as usual, my mom left, and I cleaned up my, a bit, my setup a clean i clean my setup a bit but i heard something i go check and there's nothing i go and play a bit more my dog started barking so i go to check him and nothing was or anything was bad then i see something then i run to my room i close the door when i see the door open it opens again or when i see the door it opens again and there is no one okay this one i don't think is real i don't know if this is like a real thing or just like an actual thing however i am going to preference if you have a pet your your home alone or something like that and your pet starts being a little creepy or like starts barking starts getting like a

little antsy something's there because they're able to the catch up on something that you don't realize something's there get ready because uh i had a um my sister's dog when he was here uh when i used to live back home in California with my parents he would sometimes come over and hang out with me uh he at one time at night it was just me my mom and nalu the dog and naloo started like growling at like a random part of my room like a random corner and i'm like i check it nothing's there i'm like what's going on you know it's not even dark or anything like that it's like it's like 2 p.m he just starts growling just at this one corner to room and i'm like what's going on you know it's not even darker anything like that's like it's like 2 p. He just starts growling just at this one cornered a room and i immediately like got up opened the door he immediately like bolted out i

walked out the room and i just kind of stayed out there for like an hour came back in he was fine dogs are amazing for stuff like that my cat would plot my murder if i was late for lunchtime well that's your fault man that's your fault that's not that's not the cat's fault that's your fault for DAPD, you know. That's definitely, I think, have some sort of like sense that they can see. I mean, they have like crazy smell, crazy sight, crazy hearing. They have the ability to do something like that. From Aaron Fye, when I had to do this because one, it was NNCC1, but this is terrifying.

When I first had to install my NXT Z73AO, I did not stress test my CPU in order to make the thermal paste easy to remove. to remove from my stock cooler. So after I unscrewed my cooler, I ripped the cooler with the CPU on the stock cooler. The locking mechanism for the CPU was still lock, but thankfully I somehow didn't bend my pins. I don't, I can't even imagine.

Can you imagine just taking your CPU out and the CPU is stuck? Like instead of like the CPU CPU cool it coming off like this the actual CPU comes off ripping it from the thing that's that's not right man like that's oh god yeah it's not thermal growth it's that thermal paste it's thermal glue yes like I I physically don't I've never seen thermal paste get so stuck because thermal PACE isn't supposed to be that. Like even, even old thermal paste can't get that. Yeah, I didn't, I just, I just, you know, just, I've never had that issue. I've taken out CPU coolers. Gosh, lots of times, 20, 30, 40 times maybe.

I've changed out a lot of coolers. For friends, for me, for family. Oh, I installed my cooler wrong first too, but I downloaded an update manual. It was just mounted above the CPU. It wasn't connected. Oh, so you literally. like there was there space in between the CPU and the cooler so it was literally like this oh god well luckily i luckily cpues are really good at just like oh god luckily cpues are good at just

shutting off and PCs are to avoid further damaging it so good job at least you realize some people don't realize that from alabaster le king um okay this is it this is it this is the one that i did not include the thing. I managed a repository of a thousand plus laptops in a higher education institution. We gave these laptops out to students to use for a semester, so they didn't need to purchase their own. I did that for a little bit too. In my time, I saw a bit of everything. I've had laptops get lost in France, the UK, Turkey, and the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Laptops return filled with roaches, maggots, ants, and even one with a little snail in it. Laptose Laptops return with over 60% of the chassis missing,

I could publish a book of short stories detailing the events surrounding some of these laptops and the excuses students gave. Okay. You can confirm the social? Like, I get people are, I mean, college kids, I get it. They are not the cleanliest people. I get it. But, like, for a semester or, like, a semester or, like, a year.

year how they love to break our iPads too okay iPads I get but like a snail a physical snail in your that blows my mind like that absolutely like is bonkers to me having a snail in laptop let me see is there is there is such a thing no i just see i just see i just see snails with laptops like still on laptops. Can you imagine this in your thing bro? Can you imagine this this thing in your computer? Like I get people aren't the cleanliest they are going through things they don't have time to think but please please try to clean or keep your keep your thing honestly if you if you If your laptop is having that, that means your room is like that.

So try to do some sort of cleaning. I get you're going, if you're going through stuff, I get it. I've had a black widow live inside my case. First thing I said was it's his PC now. How at that point, I understand. You just got to burn the PC. That's it. You know what?

Burn the house down along with it. That, that, you're not getting that PC back. That's terrifying. Like, ugh, having something like, like that in your case is terrifying oh okay so i'll i'll do this after okay from ben the great drivers when i built on pc i couldn't connect an internet since i didn't have wi-fi drivers and salt so in order to install wi-fi 11 wi-fi was required so i had to ask reddit which led me to hold a certain keys to bypass it then when windows was installed i tried to download the drivers

but i couldn't go online i had to get back on my friend's pc install wi-fi drivers to a flash drive which finally let me use Wi-Fi. Now I have Ethernet, so luckily I don't need Wi-Fi anymore. Also, I attached a picture of my setup to show off my amazing, awesome, great NZXC-H-510I. Just wanted to show off. I love the thing. But if anyone here knows when you can't connect to your God-Dang Wi-Fi, when you can't connect to Wi-Fi trying to make a PC, it is the most fresh.

frustrating thing in the world because you're literally you have it done it's literally done and all you need to do is just connect it to a Wi-Fi download it done and you can start using it but I never understood the process of doing this because it just could not connect the Wi-Fi it's it boggles my mind that like PCs were like that before um hey doing that with some older PCs no ether L Wi-Fi driver's yeah exactly so yeah no chip if you don't have an ability to go plug into an Ethernet like come on man like oh I used to be a technician for a certain fruit themed technology company I was fixing a Macbook that wouldn't power in when I opened the bottom I found a four inch long centipede inside dead it was so large its liquid damage the computer

P and W what that's absolutely disgusting how did a Send a P, get into a MacBook. Like, I have a MacBook. How did they even get in there? Okay, if you have photos, send it to me on Instagram. I will pull it up. Yeah. I will warn people if it's bad to look away if you get a little thing.

Yeah, send it to me. Yeah, send it. DM us. I want to see this because this sounds horrendous. I can't believe you have pictures of this. Okay. Hold on, guys. I'm pulling up the,

I'm pulling up the thing. Oh, I'm sorry, PNW, I didn't even respond to you on Instagram about that. Yeah, I'll,

I'll get your, I'll get your info after. Um, oh, hold on, I have to, okay, you know what,

I'll throw, because it's saying I have to use my, my, my, uh, thing, hold on.

Oh, my God. Okay. All right, y'all, I'm going to show PNW just sent me the photo.

I will show it on, oh, you know what I can do? I'm just gonna take photos of it and I'm gonna send it to myself on Slack and then I'll do it like this. Hold on, hold on, okay. I gotta show this y'all because this is, that's terrifying, bro. Okay, here we go.

Saying to myself right now. Okay, here we go. Are you guys ready? Okay, so from P.S. So if you guys do not want to see a centipede, please look away. Huge. Free snack. No.

I bet that thing got cooked too. Oh my God. Yeah. Sorry, Baleed. Apparently from PNW, this is a centipede in a MacBook. How did this thing? Definitely the most shocking thing I've ever come across working on PNW. How did this thing even?

I don't I don't even understand how this centipede was able to even get inside of a MacBook Like did it get through like what are like the USB ports or something like that would that? Exactly how does this big bug get into a laptop like I physically can't even I don't I can't think of a way for them to even get inside this oh my god this thing's huge too oh yeah oh a couple more millimeters it's gonna get mulched in the fan so you'll be breathing it in the vent on the back of the under display oh oh I get it now the vents on like the like oh oh god oh god so MacBook vents oh it got into here that's absolutely nasty you ruined my day PnW thank you but awesome story that was that was I was I

if we even had pictures of it too bro what the okay okay well that's gonna be that's gonna be I'm clipped I'm that's gonna be my that's gonna be the uh clip for the uh Instagram and thing I'll pay I'll make sure to tag you PNW for that that's awful all right from Murlock Maiden I once want a free complete a free computer at Neuru that's one buggy that's one buggy MacBook. Good job on debugging it. I hate you, man. I hate you. From Merlock made it. I once wanted a free computer at Bliss God. It was amazing, beautiful study. I brought it home to a matcher, a glass case. My dog was so excited. He jumped up, slapped his posse into

the side panels, smashed a glass all over my desk, and my heart. It was terrified. I think everyone here has had at least one shattered glassy spirits either with a cup or with your PC i think every still a good boy oh i mean hey honestly it's the pc's fault for not handling it the dogs the dog's innocent no there the dog's innocent there's there's nothing you can do it's still still good boy oh this next one i think you guys are hold your horses this is terrifying I can't even, I can't even, like, look at this. Like, I don't, I don't even understand half of these wires. How did it get to this point?

Just your average course here. MSG, if this was done on purpose, this person is cruel because they would have to, why would you do, there is no way they would do this on purpose. Because like, you would do this on purpose, then you have to redo it again. That just sounds awful. Why would you do this, man? Ugh, I can't even imagine. Oh, this is a great one.

This is a great one. One painful evening, with the soft hum of my brand new PC filled a room, I easily set out to explore the inner workings of this technological marvel. I don't know if this is AI or not, so we'll see. I saw a couple that were AI, so I caught a few. With great care, I moved to screws from the side panel, and started to slide away from the frame. But my excitement got the better, me, my hands trembled,

and with an inadvertent slip, I dropped the panel, crashed before shattering into a thousand pieces. My heart sank, I couldn't believe my clumsiness. I inspected the damage, feeling the worse. Remarkly, the PC itself remained unscathed, but the shattered pieces of the side panel were beyond repair. I said relief at least my new PC was okay.

Though my PC was fine, as I thought, I was left with a dilemma. The broken charts needed to be disposed of accordingly. Some glass fragments made their way into the interior of the PC. in the PSU. For a brief moment, the PC continued to function normally. A few days later, the PC started making straight noise. The fan inside began to whirl and crank

an ominousine to something was amiss. Then the PC started to power down the Amina Dark, figurative, and literally. The panic set in as it arose the Glassragons from the Shattered Side Paddle was somehow in the PSU. I actually had a... We had a case about that.

Something I called in and was like, Hey, I broke my side panel, accidentally slammed into it. I was like, okay, make sure to clean it. He said, yeah, I did. And then I was like, yeah, can you just send me a picture of it, blah, blah, blah. He sent me a picture of it. And I saw there's a physical glass shard in his GPU. Like I saw a reflection from the flash.

And I went, yo, you didn't clean this out correctly. Do not turn on your PC. And he goes, oh, and he like spent like a day cleaning it. Fun fact, temper glass is conductive. Good to know. Thank you, Jules. Thank you. Good to know.

So please be careful. Please be careful, y'all. Oh, my God. Ugh. Can you imagine touching glass in your PSU? And that's shocking. Ugh, I can't imagine that. From Scarface,

Mvros, Omar Vros, Scarface. I actually had the best PC horror story. My PC couldn't handle the new games that were coming out and wanted to upgrade, wanted to make an upgrade on the PC because I couldn't afford a new one. So I ordered some new rampant and SSD.

Two days later before the Composur arrived. I opened the PCC if the RAM was going to fit and me not knowing enough about PCs while it was powered on but close. I removed the old RAM to take a look. Then one hour later when I tried to run it on, I got a black screen and infinite loop of restarts. That's how I lost my old $700 PC and did it gave for a year until I bought a new one. Thank you. See, I remember I told you guys earlier that I had a story of uh someone that left their PC on to change stuff off you think it's common sense but apparently it's just it just slits people's minds turn off your PC guys turn off your PC for anything anything please like come on please please turn your PC off before you do

anything okay we got a couple more left one two of them I'm really excited to show you guys so well first turn off switch off power button a few times to be safe exactly unplug so turn it off unplug switch off just to be a thousand percent safe because you never know if all else fails at least unplug at least unplug it oh that that just scares me jules i think this one uh will freak you out a little bit this isn't even a blue screen y'all this is a red screen of death This is a red screen of death. This is terrifying. What air code is that?

Stop, O.A. 07F? Yeah, exactly. I've never seen a red screen. This is a message from hell. Yes, it is. Yeah, I think, I think, you know, unplugging it, back in, like, router, it should be fine. Putting in a rice should work, too. I don't think I've ever seen.

a red screen before i've seen blues i've seen one green i've never seen a red screen of death before rsods were usually part of beta builds of windows rather than blue screen as oh so this is like an old old one well thank you jules green was like windows eight yeah that this one just terrified because i'm like i've never seen a red screen at death i mean i mean i know i had like an xbox red ring of death i never had a i never had a uh uh pc rent screened at s going off the look at the screen it's probably windows xp or vista i get social don't even worry about it probably that's terrifying though i think a blue screen at s is like oh i got a blue screen at's with rents like it's like uh from park it's fine i have two pc horror stories the first one is when i was helping to build

my friends gay pc and i'd dropped his brand new RTCX 3090 and it broke. I'm still in debt from that accident. The second horror story is I was playing with the Wii without the wrist strap around the wrist and the Wii moat flew out in my hand and broke my parents brand new TV. I break a lot of things.

Okay. I know the beam of the Wii strap. No, it is a thing. I did that before too. Luckily, I didn't break the TV, but I slammed it into the wall underneath it. This man needs a peripheral sponsored by Nerve.

Yeah. A lot of people broke TVs with We Remote. Let's just see. We Remote broke TV. Let's just see. We Remote's hitting TVs compilation.

Oh no. And the Christmas tree is still here. Oh no. The kid. Don't do it. Don't do it, kid. Oh.

Yeah. This was, you know, like now you can get like a 65-inch TV for like a couple hundred bucks this PC was probably like seven six seven eight hundred dollars oh my god so apparently this is a thing i knew it was a thing i just didn't realize how much it was damn all all got four more four more stories left it all started the day my pc was delivered i got home from work

excited for the ups to pull into my driveway as the delivery driver walked towards me with my nzc player too i held my hands out for the handoff as if a foreshadowed of something more sinister to come it slipped out of my hands for a second if he quickly was able to regain his grass on the newly purchased computer i grabbed my pc and i headed up to the room to unbox thinking the worst was over once i got out of the box i quickly rushed to plug it in ready to play that's what the horace said it i plugged in every cable carefully removed a prep text i packaged around the gp u sat down and to enjoy my new purchase i clicked the power button nothing a faint flicker of light from the internal rgv was all my new purchase could grant me i was too terrified. Shaky was fear. I clicked the power on and on again. Sure that I missed something.

I went online and started to look up why my PC may not work from videos, Reddit post, Oda horror of my PC parts, arriving broken and having to be refunded slash sent back. My worst fears were being realized as it stared blankly into the countless stories

of others who experienced similar tragedies. I put my phone down to accept, put my phone down and accepted some mind fate. Was one strata of hope remaining in me i look in the back to pc to find the power switch was turned off i quickly switch it on and press the power button again to find it worked by terror and torment has ended see this one i'm not 100% sure because the rjb shouldn't be on if the rjb shouldn't turn on if your power thing is this is why i think i don't know i feel like this could happen

but for for those here i think this is a fake story i think right feeling this may be a little bit of fake story because it shouldn't have turned on if the power if the power switch was off i'm a little suspicious of it a little suspicious of it i promise it did explain explain no i mean if it worked i'm glad it worked i didn't think they would turn on it was all plugged in Oh, you know what? You know, actually, that actually kind of makes sense. You just plug it in. Oh.

Wait, did all the RGB turn on or was it just? Oh, you do? Okay. Send it to me, foggy. Well, I'll, I'll, I'll make a video about this. Because, like, I was like, I didn't think that's possible. But I trust you. I trust you.

That's terrifying, though. I actually had that before. I had a delivery driver coming in. and he like so like so let's imagine this was the box and here's the floor so instead of like lightly

even though the fragile thing had here's the floor he went like that and went oh luckily it was fine the parts were fine it was just like it says fragile on it man just the CPI thing

okay that makes a lot more sense I'll believe you foggy I'll believe you From DMSG. I built a PC many years ago. At the time I had a redacted, because I don't want to throw any shade. Power supply installed. Sparks and Smoke were already coming from the power supply during startup.

Since then, I've only built my PC with NCC components. That was my horror story. Yeah, I had a couple power supplies that had to happen to me, that, like, spark. One of them was my fault. The other two, no. That was just because the Power's Alive was just bad. Really, really bad. I never used their brand ever again, but luckily, I don't have to do this.

We know this is you, Mike, raising that SEC brand wears. No, I mean, I'll show you. They sent it. I'll show you. I, I, on my life, making sure to, you know, this is sent in from DMSG. So, I had something similar happen. It was after I turned a PC off and switched. it off some power left in PC that flicker the lights quickly okay okay I believe you all right for

the final final story this one literally I I legit was dumbfounded when I saw this woke up one more to my chat chilling in my PC L.O well what a little guy where's the cooler that was actually something I noticed as well there's no cooler in this I think they're just starting to build it. Yeah, I think, I think what happened is the back panels off. So the cat came in through here and then popped out through the PSU shroud.

That's what I think happens. I think they're still building the PC. So there was like a leftover thing. And then the cat just went, Duk. Cute cat though. Very cute cat. It's a very cute cat.

Yeah, I'm also a little worried that the cat didn't lick this. Sounds like the cat is all right. Sounds like a cat, all right. Oh, love to be helpful. That is also a possibility, A99, but I like to think that people wouldn't do it. I like to have a little bit of doubts or not doubt. I like to live a little bit in ignorance, you know, and I like to just think that the cat decided just be a silly little guy.

I think the Fergus case more, I mean, I did a video about that, about, uh, Cats being on top of PCs Let me see if I have it Oh here it is Look at this guy Look at this little guy Just chilling on top of an H9 Just chilling

The heat probably feels really good on him It would be more terrifying if they didn't have a cat Yes, that would be terrified probably They'd like the warmth One of our partners that we have, let me see, like if, what is it, it's a Loki cat. What's, what's her name again? Shoot, I'm so sorry. I completely forgot her name.

But one of our Twitch, one of our N6T partners has a cat named Loki. Um, I can't remember. Oh, headshot shake. There you go. That's a headshot shit. Duh, duh, duh, duh. Sorry, completely forgot. I had a brain fart.

Let me see I have a picture of... Here's Loki. Look at him. He does the... Most of the time, he just chills on top of the case. Here he is. Just chilling on top of the case. Look at him.

Loki's such a cutie. Look at him. Just a cute little guy. Okay, Foggy. I trust you. I trust you. I love, honestly, cats on top of PCs is probably like my favorite thing in the world.

It's just so cute. you now the oh hold on zio i'll go ahead and uh get the uh things for you guys so that is the end of the stream but let me go ahead and get you guys the secret code but first i'm going to go ahead and get into some announcements uh we just launched our creator pc uh PC series uh where we have the creator one and creator one prime pc these PCs are made for the creator you know so anyone that's into 3d rendering video ed simulation, scientific computations. Take a look at NZC.com, take a look into that.

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