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Printing off select pages from the online manual because I’m old skool. It’s just so much easier to find connectors on a diagram, because they squeeze acronyms with teeny tiny writing on a black board that sucks all light out of the case and my eyes can’t cope with that. Also they totally don’t tell you in the quick start which are the preferred memory slots which isn’t always a given

Found a tiny blob of thermal paste on the surface of the motherboard, wondering if this supposedly new motherboard with a missing manual is actually used. No other wings of wear though so perhaps it was just from a QA test

I’d like to kick the person who invented PCIE card latches square in the family jewels. Incredibly dumb design - “I know, I’ll put the thing you need to press to remove a card directly underneath it! I’m a genius! GPUs won’t get constantly bigger to make this harder every time!”

New board luckily has a lever extension but this is such a hack for a stupid POS design.

This rant brought to you by cutting my fingers to shreds trying to get a spudger down there to press a stick latch. Ended up popping the latch off entirely in the end, screw that junk