THE B̸̮̓E̴͉͌S̴̻̋T̵͚̓ OF r/HARDWAREGORE

Lexi | im LITERALLY SNEEZING: 00:00:00
Lexi | Chips with dips: 00:16:28
Lexi | lick the forbidden sugar: 00:31:13
Lexi | ULTIMATE BRUH MOMENT - 54:14
Lexi | it fries my laptop - 1:07:42

[CainXVII]

I have had such bad anxiety for the last days and this is literally perfect. No drama, no stakes, just Lexi going "oh, look, broken" and me going "yep, glad that's not my phone". I love it.

[HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

2:27 NEVER apologize for the HUGE number of stories you have to tell Lexi...

That is one of the BIG reasons we come here to watch your videos!

As always, MORE PLEASE!!!

😄😁😆😅😂🤣

[theimaginatrix]

Fun fact! Lexi reading tech-related subreddits is the _whole entire reason_ I'm subscribed to EmKay.

Also I think I saw all these in their original separate video forms because this shit absolutely _fascinates_ me and Lexi is _Lexcellent._

[garynevills]

I'm sorry to say this, but almost 90 minutes of Lexi doing r/Hardwaregore is like a dream come true, and this subreddit, along with r/Softwaregore and r/Techgore, is always some of Lexi's finest work, because she knows from whence she speaks.

[pepurouni]

ah yes one hour listening to lexi in pain

[ladykoiwolfe]

I normally avoid the "best of" or "all of" videos, but I just knew this was going to be all Lexi and had to come. Pure serotonin.

[ethandoessomestuff...]

7:30 the liquid crystal in the liquid crystal display is being displaced, which is what is causing the black spots on broken apple devices.

[Hitei]

1. The guy who photoshopped YanSim onto the screen of the burning computer was a genius

2. Caddicarus's streaming setup is indeed cursed

[electabuzzboss]

As a Wii u owner, the first image causes me both physical and mental damage.

[nalinea]

24:00 this reminds me of the time a fellow phycisist asked our accelerator lab to blast a high-energy electron beam straight into his old disk hard drive to destroy it. I was a beam operator, so I got to move the beam to make sure we got everything. I tried to write "fried" on it, but that thing's really damn hard to aim so it just looked like jagged squiggles. The hard drive was thoroughly wiped though, and it only took a week for it to not be dangerously radioactive anymore!

[thechurchofnorm]

I'm the one who did the "Passive cooled i9" using the block of copper. yes, it did work. in fact, I had run a benchmarking program for about 3 minutes and the temps were fine. I had been given this glorious in my vocational school during my 2nd year and it was my teachers rig that I somehow got permission to experiment with. the copper block actually came from one of two industrial computers (one block for each) designed to simulate the human body for use in a medical class across the hall that had been moved and they didn't need them, and we ended up disassembling them. Thought that it was funny and decided to try cooling the CPU with it, then discovered it actually worked and ended up posting to reddit. I'm glad I did.

[nickkohlmann]

This has honestly become my favourite Emkay subreddit. As someone who for the love of gods doesn't know as much about their computer and is too lazy to really get into it but takes random interest in a lot of things as long as they only mildly actually benefit me, this is perfect. Thank you Lexi.

[silver_studiosStArZ]

Oh my heart hurts for Lexi. She didn’t need all this pain 😢

[ghostdog]

36:24 my neighbor who worked in storage once described it as flying a 747 at cruising speed 4 inches from the runway with the gear up

[anatolklops]

55:00 I love Lexi's voice when she sees "spicy pillows". It's the perfect mix of fear and going insane.

[HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

1:55 I don't see the problem with that...

As you heat the solder, you also heat the claw, so as you're replacing the chip, you're simultaneously cooking lunch...

WIN-WIN...

😄😁😆😅😂🤣

[CPURianaElmori]

13:32 damn, ayano is such a yandere that she made the PC spontaneously combust

[nlox]

An hour of lexi screaming and making unintelligible noises? Bet! She's perfect for this sub

[archengelic]

I love Lexi, she's my favorite narrator :)

[EmilyJackCO]

(I know this might get lost, but from the new girl!) Hi Lexi - the array at 27:40 just ate my soul. For context - I have worked on computers since 1982, yes, I was 9. My first storage device was LITERALLY a cassette tape, and I have been doing storage and data protection ever since. It's quite scary. For the first 12 years of my career, I built networks and data centers. BUT... In October 2003, San Diego was hit with a huge firestorm that burned all the way to the beach. Except our office was in that path. this was literally our DR plan. We didn't have true cabinet arrays yet, so we schlepped all disks, bays, and critical servers into regular contract bags and into the back of pickup trucks to protect our data. And yes, all tapes too. Uh, coming back from that was a nightmare, and got me started in full disaster recovery engineering. But just 6 months later, because they didn't pay the bills, we got hit with the Witty Worm virus, overwriting the first 8 sectors of every disk it could touch, taking out our whole data center FOR REAL. I spent three days on the phone with Veritas walking me through Solaris, an old DLT tape library, an i500, and our sanity. But we were open for business on Monday. DR Prep and Recovery has been my bag for 20 years and it has only grown more and more relevant. Also - I have anecdotal evidence that an IBM Shark Array will INDEED stop bullets, thanks to a compadre in India caught in that terror attack in 2010.