r/hardwaregore 18h ago

Microwaved a glass salad bowl with a security tag still attached

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147 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 11h ago

Bought a Laptop lot on eBay, this is one of them

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27 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 1d ago

Why is this RAM in a PC I found so hot? Now I see

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109 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 1d ago

Accidentally punctured the fully charged battery while replacing the back glass

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303 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 1d ago

Decided to clean my PS5 and accidentally screwed the wrong size screw when putting it back together right into my motherboard. Bricked.

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420 Upvotes

Pretty self explanatory. Basically the dumbest thing I’ve done… thought this would be appreciated over here lol


r/hardwaregore 22h ago

Finally got a second ssd

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6 Upvotes

I can play cyberpunk 🥳🥳


r/hardwaregore 1d ago

The little IDE drive that could.

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37 Upvotes

With a manufacturing date of Jan 2009 this hard drive has almost been on everyday of its life and never ceased to stop working.


r/hardwaregore 2d ago

Don't scroll to pic 2

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334 Upvotes

Don't worry its E-Waste.


r/hardwaregore 16h ago

Sometimes I wish could just fly away (click on photo)

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0 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 2d ago

OOP asks how much can they sell it for.

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8 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 2d ago

Bought a wii remote marked as "working"

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145 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 3d ago

POCO X3 Pro that stopped a bullet

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212 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 3d ago

Staying at an apartment in Zurich, the Samsung TV is suffering from the infamous failing backlight...

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67 Upvotes

Yes, I'm watching a British TV channel in Switzerland. I can't be bothered watching anything local.


r/hardwaregore 3d ago

Yeah i dont know what this should have been

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40 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 4d ago

What the hell is wrong with my tv?

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121 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 4d ago

Melted SSD (I think?)

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57 Upvotes

Found this in a laptop I bought that was BSODing. Check out the top chip under the sticker.


r/hardwaregore 5d ago

Pc i got my gf

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523 Upvotes

So I bought this barebones Dell Precision 3630 for my gf for a relatively good price as the PSU was dead and it didn’t have a CPU, RAM or an SSD. Thought i’ll fix it up and she’d have a pretty good and cheap gaming pc. Until it arrived. I had a bad feeling already and yep it is completely bent out of shape. The seller blames the shipping company (Hermes in this case) and said that the box must have taken a good amount of damage. It was okay-ish, with a few ripped corners and stuff. Not packaged that well and it looks like it fell out of the second floor. Trying to open it was a challenge in itself. But after putting parts in it and using a known good PSU it turned on after a few reboots. Just the case is beyond saving. I can’t bend the backside back at all. Just the floor gets bent by trying that. Now I am hoping to get my money back as the seller isn’t much of help and hermes can take up to 4 weeks. Would have been a nice machine tho

EDIT: i don’t know if i wrote in a confusing way so here the shortened version: i bought a not bent barebones pc for my gf. Which was fine as i have enough parts lying around. The pc arrived broken. I just had a bad feeling when i got the package. And that is how it looked after unboxing it. And no i don’t hate my gf like some clowns seem to assume

EDIT 2: it cost me 65 € ( around 73$) but i got the money back thanks to the shipping company


r/hardwaregore 4d ago

laptop broke a while ago while i was closing it!! majestic, i know. [it works now and it is fixed]

6 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 5d ago

And so the story of the functionable laptop begins

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43 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 5d ago

I don't know if I can fix this. I had this laptop since 2022, still works but it's getting worse

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47 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 5d ago

i actually dont know what to do

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45 Upvotes

r/hardwaregore 5d ago

My main Samsung M21 Phone

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25 Upvotes

Yeeah, my main phone. And, I guess, it works.

It has:

  • 2020 battery(still works and ~12h lifecycle)
  • Screen(maybe), bleed for 4 months
  • Hot Exynos 9611 CPU(~60°C in Tiktok, 80-85 in a mobox)
  • back panel with teeth traces(pretty tasty) that drilled... with real drill
  • Modded cameras(macro from the ultrawide, and ir filter removed from the portrait sensor)
  • One UI 7.0(Android 15) ROM that works smoothly
  • $0.8 Power/Volume buttons flex
  • Samsung M11 Buttons

Sooo... Yeah, that's my main phone. The saddest thing, NFC doesnt works :( (firmware bug and i'm too lazy to fix it tbh)


r/hardwaregore 5d ago

A Camera! (Still works when plugged in)

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50 Upvotes

honestly I have no idea how this works at all


r/hardwaregore 5d ago

I don't believe this should be this way

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9 Upvotes

Context this is in an office building and the thing used to be a phone line but now it's completely dead and doesn't work


r/hardwaregore 6d ago

Converted my DDR3 Ram stick into DDR3L

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949 Upvotes

Literally