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[nrg]

Find a nice little MicroATX case for it! Some cases (eg NR200, TU150) designed for Mini ITX can fit it as well, depending on the board.

[BobOgden]

At least you get a spare ceiling fan with the ginormous case

[p_mouse]

Many many years ago I worked for a computer repair shop. So often we just had to take the cpu out, put other cpu in, booting fine. Take new cpu out again and put old cpu back in again. Also booting fine. After all these years this phenomenon still doesn't make sense to me.

[tmmtmm]

often the bios settings become corrupt (usually due to flat CR2032 battery). Changing cpu/ram configuration can coax it into loading default bios settings which results in a successful boot.

[gudenau]

The PSU "hiccup" is not the PSU but the computer rebooting. :-P

[userC]

It looks like bootlooping was the issue to begin with, rather than the power supply.

[martinnyolt]

Motherboards often power cycle when there are CPU and, especially, RAM issues. They briefly shut down the PSU (PS_EN line) and restart. Putting RAM back in can make the motherboard retrain the RAM. Or the CPU is dead. My point: probably not a PSU hiccup.

[kevincozens]

You could take the fans out of the case before you toss the case back in to the dumpster. Just toss them in to your parts bins for possible use down the road.

[dhpbear]

0:20 - Three fans in one view! It IS fan-tastic! :)

[tweed]

With fans that large, alter the flow to have some case cooling ports to be high inflow and wack a sheet of toilet tissue over it as a room micro filter. Saves having to 3D print one like 'BigClive'..🤔🤭👍😂

[ianlockwood]

Time to build a massive new raspberry pi array PC in this massive case Dave

[TrevorsBench]

I've been using a i5-3570K as my daily driver now for 9 years and still good for everyday stuff. Still good enough for Uncle Bob

[brendanfarthing]

Bryan from Tech Yes City would be drooling non-stop if he had access to that dumpster :D

[antoineroquentin]

just read it in the news today, a janitor got arrested for "stealing" stuff from his employers dumpster that would have gotten thrown away otherwise

[stevenspmd]

The curse of the "Davy Jones" storage locker .. all it just works, eeeek! lol

[DavidPlass]

"What did I do? Nothing, except replace the CPU and RAM and..."

[jeffm]

The motherboard can cause the PSU to cycle while the board itself is trying to clear a fault. This doesn't indicate a short or overcurrent condition most of the time. I've experienced countless machines experience this symptom. Sometimes it's as simple as reseat something or clear the CMOS. Sounds like it just had loose RAM. I've sadly owned hundreds of PC's due to various jobs I've held and would just fix them up and give them away. Also been an over clocker since the 8088. I run PC's with full custom water loops now. My daily driver is a 3950X with 2080ti. Yep, getting old.

[jdlives]

Nothing makes me happier than getting a tossed unit puttin a Ubuntu on it and having a powerful machine that will last years

[CraigPannell]

dirty ram, explains the boot looping, i get this all the time when customers come in saying it's not posting.

[chris-tal]

These hiccup-type intermittent failures are getting interesting to me. Our office Proxmox VE dev server went through the same thing after a restart. The real interesting is that it was a 4th gen build too. At the first time reseating things here and there were enough. A few months later the same happened and reseating parts didn't work at all. If I remember correctly it just froze up while runnink 24/7 and didn't even throw a kernel panic. So it has to be a hw related issue. Checked all voltages coming from the PSU and VRMs on the PCB. They all looked OK. Didn't want to waste more time on it so it went to the bin.