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**The Great PC Experiment: A Cautionary Tale**

In this article, we'll delve into the story of an ill-fated PC experiment that showcases the importance of designing a power supply to withstand extreme conditions. Our protagonist, who wishes to remain anonymous, attempted to power a high-end graphics card using laptop RAM and a custom-built PC.

The setup was ambitious, to say the least. The PC was equipped with a Founder's Edition RTX 3080, which is notorious for its high power draw. To compensate, our friend used a custom-built power supply, which they hoped would be able to handle the strain. However, as we'll soon see, this plan wasn't entirely foolproof.

**The Experiment Begins**

With the PC all assembled and powered up, our friend took a deep breath and flipped the switch. The machine roared to life, but not without some ominous warning signs. The CPU, in an effort to compensate for the graphics card's high power draw, started to bottleneck the system. However, this temporary solution only delayed the inevitable.

As the PC continued to run, our friend noticed that it was drawing an excessive amount of power. While this wasn't a deal-breaker at first, it soon became clear that something was amiss. The system struggled to keep up with the demands of the graphics card, and our friend knew they had to act fast.

**Throttling and Underclocking**

In a desperate attempt to prevent the PC from exploding, our friend decided to throttle the graphics card's performance and undervolt its power consumption. However, this solution only delayed the inevitable. The system continued to draw excessive amounts of power, and our friend knew they were running out of time.

Just when it seemed like the PC was going to implode, our friend hit a snag. The power supply failed, leaving the system dead in its tracks. It was a catastrophic failure, one that left our friend stunned and bewildered.

**The Aftermath**

Our friend attempted to salvage what was left of the system by plugging in a different graphics card, but even this proved unsuccessful. The PC refused to turn on, and our friend realized that they had pushed their luck too far. The 3080 Ti, which had been powering the system, was now safe and sound – but the rest of the PC was not.

**The Root Cause of the Failure**

A closer examination of the power supply revealed no obvious damage or issues. It was as if the unit had simply given up, unable to cope with the demands of the graphics card. This raises some disturbing questions about the design and build quality of the power supply.

In conclusion, our friend's experiment serves as a cautionary tale about the importance of designing a power supply that can withstand extreme conditions. While it may seem like a good idea to push the limits of what a PC can handle, the reality is that things can quickly go awry. As we'll see in the next section, there are many takeaways from this experiment that can be applied to building and maintaining high-performance PCs.

**Lessons Learned**

So, what went wrong? In hindsight, our friend should have anticipated some of these issues. After all, power supplies are designed to handle a wide range of workloads, but even the most robust units have their limits. Here are a few key takeaways from this experiment:

* **Power supplies can be overwhelmed**: Even the most powerful power supplies can struggle to keep up with extreme workloads.

* **Design and build quality matter**: A well-designed power supply is essential for maintaining system stability and preventing catastrophic failures.

* **Throttling and undervolting are not foolproof solutions**: While these techniques may help prevent immediate failure, they don't address the underlying issues that led to the problem in the first place.

As we move forward, it's essential to take a more nuanced approach to building and maintaining high-performance PCs. By understanding the limitations of power supplies and designing systems that account for these limitations, we can create PCs that are both powerful and reliable.

**A Word of Caution**

The experiment described in this article serves as a stark reminder of the dangers of pushing the limits of what a PC can handle. While it may seem exciting to try new things and push the boundaries of performance, there's always a risk of catastrophic failure. As with any high-performance system, safety should always be the top priority.

In the next section, we'll explore some alternative approaches to building high-performance PCs that prioritize safety and reliability over raw power. Whether you're an enthusiast or a seasoned builder, these tips can help ensure your PC runs smoothly and efficiently for years to come.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eni'm really excited about today's video because i bought via craigslist knife battling this  insane looking msi gaming prebuilt and today we're gonna do some heinous things to itnow just by looking at the box you can see that this is not your common garden gaming  pre-built i mean look at it it's got little ears although considering that it's an msi  prebuilt it's probably gonna have at least one trouser whoopsie over the course of this videoit does it does have a smell uh you know when you were a little kid and you'd like  go to someone else's house that smelled very distinctly different to yours it  kind of is that vibe it just smells like someone else's house which is interestingoh yes there we go that is best pc evernow i'm quite conflicted by the looks of this thing because the adult in me is going that's  pretty garish but the child in me is like it looks like a gundam's head what more could you want in  a pc although in terms of build quality it does do that the front i o is pretty standard we've  got a couple of square usb ports and a type c port on the front some front audio headers  and then we want some and cool which i haven't seen in a while a front hdmi port for vr  nice now if we have a look at the side you can see that the layout of this case is actually  quite interesting we have the graphics card panel here which has a bit of mesh and then  plastic for some reason i guess plastic covered ventilation looks more gondomy i don't know and  in the base of the system we have a surprisingly losery looking power supply which does not bode  well for what's coming later in this video and then around the back we have what looks like a  standard msi motherboard which is good and you can see that it's kind of behind the graphics card so  this is laid out kind of like a dan case on the inside aside from the power supply placement in  the base but with that let's open up this very war-scarred gundam and have a look at the insides  now this is a gtx 1070 which means this isn't the newest pre-built as you can probably tell by  the condition of it but it's still a very solid graphics card and this is a really nice version  i like that they have some mesh behind the bit of perspex you know they got to think about airflow  in these situations in the top of the case we have the mandatory gpu illuminating rgb  if you have a look under the graphics card it looks like there's some real  interesting stuff going on inside optimus prime's head so let's dig a bit deeperno way is that an empty single laptop ram slot on the back of the motherboard okay now we really  need to get that graphics card out to see what's going on on the other side of this motherboardyeah there we go whoa no way what is this thing so on the back of the graphics card we have this  blower style fan that is used for cooling the cpu down here so this i think is an i7 7700  that we have under there which is a quad-core cpu with these two heat pipes that run up into here  and then this fan blows heat out the back of the case that is not a whole lot of cooling  solution if i'm honest and then right next to that we have the absolute holy grail of  pre-built ram configurations a single 8 gig stick of laptop memory hell yeah msi hell yeah  okay so i just spent the last three hours screwing to get this base loose but hopefully we  have access to the power supply now let's see it comes off it's an fsp unit and it's it's 450 watts  uh this is not gonna go well but before we do anything heinous to it  let's fire it up and see what kind of temperatures we get from this weird laptop desktop hybridnow that is the unfortunate problem with buying a used prebuilt is you can't see what kind of  venereal disease it's loaded down with out of the box because this seems like  it's a user windows reinstall here is our 7700 and our 8 gigs of laptop ram running at  2400 megahertz let's have a look at the gaming performancestarting off that gtx 1070 is only sitting at about 40 percent utilization  uh now the cpu is higher than that it's about 63 utilization which means say it with me kids  we have a bottleneck going on and we can only guess what it is right now granted there's not  much power draw going on but those temperatures are really surprising that's actually pretty  impressive now in all fairness considering the cpu utilization which briefly jumped to 90  uh the ram configuration may not be the only problem we have here but we'll test that a bit  later with that let's try a more demanding game and see how it how it handles thatokay so with battlefield 5 at 1080p high settings that cpu is working a lot harder  than the graphics card that's interesting uh i wonder how much oh okay nevermind  i wonder how much of that is due to the memory configuration i'm not sure how much of an effect  a single channel laptop ram configuration has on a desktop systems performance so i'll drop  a full kit in in a second but first i think we should try a another gamewow the power draw on that cpu is very low considering the hundred percent utilization uh now  it isn't a k variant of the cpu so unfortunately we can't overclock it above four gigahertz  but considering that we're creeping up to about 70 degrees celsius there's not a massive amount  of headroom left in the cooling solution okay so i've been running the game for about half  an hour and temperatures are fine uh the cpu has topped out at about 73 degrees celsius  and the gpu is in the mid-60s honestly all things considered i was expecting a hell of a lot worse  uh but having said that let's play around with the ram configuration and then try and make it explodenow in order to see how much the single stick of laptop ram is kneecapping the  performance of this system i'm gonna drop in this dual channel kit that runs at  3200 megahertz it's double the ram and it runs faster so let's see what a difference it makes  it's really annoying that you have to remove the graphics card just to change  out the ram under there oh lift it out like thatnow this is the ram that it comes with is standard it's a single eight gig stick running at 2400  megahertz so hopefully the slightly less stupid memory configuration will help out a little bit  uh i guess this is why they used laptop ram on this motherboard because  spacing is a problem i get it use laptop ram to compensate for your terrible layout  i'm really curious to see what that's going to do because this does seem suspiciously  like one of those thermal management via ram kneecapping situations oh this gpu mounting is  really terrible is that is that in this it doesn't it's stuck on come on cause it's okay there we go  i think we're making yes okay there we go i think it's in that is the most oem pre-built reassembly  process ever wow that's made a big difference so this person has been running this system for years  with a single enking's thing of laptop ram in it and it really makes me wonder how many people  are currently running single channel laptop ram configurations in desktop gaming prebuilt that  is a that is a sad thought granted we do have more than 10 degrees higher temperatures on the cpu now  because of the ram upgrade so again i was kind of right with the whole thermal management situation  well i guess the last thing left to do is see if we can make this pc explodewhat i've decided to do was drop the most powerful graphics card i have that'll fit in this case  which is an rtx ti now for those of you with functioning short term memory you'll remember  that this pc only has a 450 watt power supply in it that we can't upgrade and  considering that trying to power an rtx 3080 ti with a 450 watt power supply is  a little bit like trying to power a tesla with a double a battery it may not go very well but  i'm hoping that the cpu in here will bottleneck the graphics card enough  that it won't want to draw enough power to just explode the pc so let's see if that  works otherwise we'll have to under clock and undervolt the graphics card uh but basically  we're going to find a way for this to work so let's drop that in there and see how it goeswow this case is pretty much the worst case condition you can run a founder's edition  rtx 3080 in because this fan on the back is gonna be squished right up against that sothat may not go very well but again i'm counting on this just laptop ram powered 7700  to keep this graphics card in check enough that nothing explodeswhoa that is nearest makes no difference flush with the back of the case i am  i'm so sorry big guy okay well let's hope this goes okaynow taking it one step at a time uh let's see if it startsthat's a good start hey we've booted into windows with it  it's drawing a lot of power but we're okay for the time beingah there it goes no there it goes  uh we're definitely gonna have to uh throttle it it's actually not  turning back on maybe the power supply trip let's see no it didn't that's concerningum going by the smell down herei i actually think we killed the power supply so the most important thing here  is that the graphics card's fine so let me quickly plug it into a system and see if it's okayokay i i really hope this still works so let's flip that on and thenthat is a fan and we've got a signal out yay uh so the graphics card's fine that's good uh  now we need to go see what happened to the pc now i've put the 1070 back in the system and  maybe it works with this let's see oh it's not firing up with the 1070 in it either oh no i  killed it it's the 3080 ti was too much for it and the power supply just committed horror carry itit just died oh no at least the 3080 ti is fine that's that's  the main thing um but let's let's open up the base and have a look at the power supply it  smells like pc death down here i'm not gonna lie i can i can really smell the pc death take this off  yeah it's dead uh i killed it fsp you clearly didn't design the power supply in a way that  it'll protect itself because it didn't although this was definitely extreme negligence on my part  and you know me shifting blame but still i feel like it shouldn't just have died like that  but on that note let's quickly open it up and very carefully have a look inside  now it is very dense so it's difficult to have a close look in all of the nooks  and crannies in here but i actually don't see any obvious damage in here  uh then again i don't really know what i'm looking for it was a very anticlimactic  power supply death there wasn't even a pop or anything it just switched off but it's  definitely dead i did also try and power it up without a graphics card in it or anything and  there's there's no power going from this into the system like something catastrophic happened and uh  with that i don't really know what else to say other than i am a pc murderer i guess and i am  extremely glad that 3080 ti is fine uh so yeah thank you for watching if you enjoyed the 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