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PC upgrade woes
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The absolute irony that I’m pretty certain this image was generated by AI. 🙄
Definitely is.
cpu fan is all wonky, and the heatsink plates are horizontal when the fan is oriented to blow vertically. the connector in the bottom edge is also fucky. the more you look at it, the weirder it gets...
That's on par with regular stock photography.
What's that smell? Are you cooking chicken?
The initial smell is more like burning hair.
Depends on the temperature setting
Smells like bacon when you rest your arm on a hot weld.
But yeah soldering burns usually smell like hair, though I’ve never burned myself for very long that way.
I hate installing CPU.
At least he isn't wearing a lab coat
Hm I've had motherboards that only tab open from one side, but I haven't seen memory slots positioned so far away from the CPU socket. Maybe on a server board.
Yea, that mobo arrangement is the biggest red flag. That is a ridiculous layout I've never seen even on server mobos, and the details just get worse.
Or taken from stock photos. These don’t make any sense pretty often either
I believe stock images are an easy way to build a portfolio for photographers and artists while maybe making a few dollars so they're meant to look "aesthetic" with lowest effort possible.
their pinkies look weird. same w/ capacitors
Left side of the 24 pin power connector. Definitely AI, which is ironic.
The PCIe slots, too
Any particular reason you feel that way? I'm not seeing any telltale signs that most AI generated photos have. Not saying you're wrong, just wondering what you're seeing that I don't.
The most obvious one to me is the missing notch in the RAM slot. And this is more vague, but AI struggles with complex perspective in images like this and the whole proportions are just a bit ‘wavy’? ‘Wonky’? Not sure what it is, but things just don’t quite line up sharply like they do on a real motherboard.
I missed the notch. Good point. I did go back and looked closer after my post and the weird hard cutoff on the focus on the heatsink is giving weird vibes too. If it were just focus I'd expect a smoother transition. I can't fully discount that the lack of pixels is to blame, but the notch definitely is missing. As someone else pointed out, the ram position is odd too in relation to the mobo.
Thinking about it, the power connector is in a weird spot too. Never seen one in that orientation. Usually it's vertical towards the edge of the board.
I definitely spent more time looking for malformed shapes and details then I did component position. But at the same time, I think of that stock photo of a lady pretending to solder, but she's holding the iron by the hot part. It would be weird to not use a real mobo for a stock photo though.
Not the same person, but look at the CPU cooler placement..
On real motherboards the CPU is right next to the RAM. At least I don't know any exception to the rule.
Good eyes. From experience I think if they were oriented the other way it would be more accurate. Never had a mobo where they are parallel to the PCIe slots.
The original creator decided they had to create the demand that wasn’t there!
It's like dick wagging in all of our faces.