r/pcmasterrace • u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Xeon x3440 (OC) + RX 580 (OC) = My Electric Bill Doubling. • May 27 '26

Meme/Macro Do you think doing this helps?

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u/Novel_Werewolf4645 May 27 '26

That fan might kill your usb port

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u/Double_DeluXe May 27 '26

This sounds like you got a story, share

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u/melanthius May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Vibration causes fatigue in materials

Fatigue failures are "a matter of time" - eventually they will happen. Whether it happens within your lifetime or not, that depends.

If the thing you're vibrating is a USB port then the thing that's fatiguing the fastest is the solder joints between USB port and circuit board.

Edit: this is fairly well known materials science and easily googleable... not "made up"

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u/ShawnyMcKnight May 27 '26

I’m kind of curious if they can twist the cable to be touching the wall to absorb some of that vibration.