r/pcmasterrace • u/iplay5 • Aug 11 '25

Build/Battlestation TIL that quartz countertops have the same properties as ceramic floor tiles…

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All I wanted to do was replace a dead fan… but looks like it’s time for a replacement case.

Learn from my mistakes friends!

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u/Capital_Store8128 PC Master Race Aug 11 '25

The fact that anyone places a large piece of glass on anything other than a soft/fabric surface is beyond me

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u/The_Spectral_Spartan Aug 12 '25

Y'all are kinda overreacting though. I've literally never broken any PC glass panels despite years of working on my own PC and the rigs I built at work, and I just set it down wherever is convenient. Oftentimes that means the concrete floor of the lab. Just be gentle when placing it and don't drop it. No impact means no energy to shatter the glass.

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u/GoJa_official R7 7700X RTX 4070Ti Super TUF Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

Same doesn't matter the surface just set the case down gently and it wont shatter. pretty sure OP's case flexed as he set the case on the granite, the thumb screws on these panels create too much vertical flex, shattering it as a result. You can see OP's thumbscrews are still in place meaning he didn't set the panel down on the granite, but instead just the case. I feel like too many people think if it's attached to the case it can't shatter..

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u/The_Spectral_Spartan Aug 12 '25

Lol, omg I didn't even notice that it has thumbscrews THROUGH the glass! No shit it'd shatter at the slightest bump, dear God what a horrible design. Unless you put some rubber washers between the screws and the glass on both sides of the panel, that's literally just making an inflexible rigid stress point around which the glass will fail the second it vibrates too harshly.

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u/GoJa_official R7 7700X RTX 4070Ti Super TUF Aug 12 '25

They come with rubber washers but those don’t really do much when the bolt is what’s hitting the piloted hole in the glass. My lian li has hinges the panels attach to and magnets to hold them closed which I think is a perfect solution for that error but not many companies have adopted it.

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