How hard is it break tempered glass side panel?? SCIENCE! 

I used to work with raw and toughened glass. Once it's been heat treated, hitting the glass square on you could potentially break your hand before the glass breaks but if you dink it on a corner lightly with a hammer it will shatter into a thousands pieces. Unfortunately for PC enthusiasts, if you're gonna drop it, it's very very likely you'll drop it on a corner :D

Jay: "It feels wrong to throw this" *throws 3080 multiple times..

I'm going to be sad when Jaytober is over. Not least because I love (Phil's I assume) wonderful Halloween intro, but also random fun like this.

In my much younger days I worked at a convenience store where we had some arcade machines and a couple pinballs. There was a guy who always played the Pacman and was reasonably good but when he'd lose, he'd punch the glass. Eventually, he actually managed to break it. We had it replaced by quarter inch plexi with a reinforced frame around the inner side. I was there the first time he played it after that. He eventually lost and punched it extra hard like he was trying to shatter it again. There was zero give or flex in the new panel. The look of shock and cry of pain as he held his very bruised though not broken hand was priceless. He never punched it again.

Jay: how hard is it to break stuff Linus: hold my beer!

The second one actually survived the initial impact, but it bounced and shattered once the corner hit the ground. The inclusion of the slow-mo camera was great, thanks Jay.

If anything else, I just like the random shenanigans Jay, Phil and Nick get into. It's always hilarious.

13:04 Fully pretensioned/tempered glass hould break into small bits & pieces, but there's also annealed/semi-tempered glass, which breaks into bigger shards, closer to float glass. And depending on the tempering process, any forms in between fully and semi-tempered glass.

31 days of Jaytober amuses me. This has to be a TON of hard work. I will support you 100% by winning one of those GPUs.

It doesn't take much: I have a Fractal Meshify, the glass panel exploded when I attached it to the case after installing more cooling. I didn't drop it, I didn't apply any pressure - I literally just put it against the case and *boom*

"This should be an interesting, relaxing, and informative video." Jay doesn't wear enclosed shoes/boots, long pants, or gloves. "Knowing Jay wouldn't post a serious injury video doesn't halt my anxiety much."

I used to work in a solar panel factory, the panels we produced used 1.6m by 1m tempered glass sheets, having one of those pop was scary as hell.

I love how Jay is reluctant to throw that busted 3080, then all of a sudden just yeets it at the panel.

PC Building community: Tempered glass spontaneously breaks without me doing anything In reality: People drop their tempered glass while unscrewing it from the PC case The meme is BS

I had a fish tank that's tempered. A pointy rock fell inside the tank, under water, and blew out the entire side. Tempered glass does well against blunt force, but anything pointy, and you're in for a mess.

3:20 Not only tempered glass, also float glass has the same problem to a similar degree. The problem is not the tempering (hardening/pretensioning), it's due to glass being an ideal elastic material with absolutely zero (or close to zero) plastic deformation capability. And especially point loads cause hugh stress concentrations, leading quite easily to stresses above yield/break limit of the glass.

As someone who works with tempered glass on a regular in the window industry. If you hit the corner it will almost always "spiderweb shatter". It's baked glass no inner layer it's not laminate , you have pieces of triple strength and single check it with calipers and you will find it.

Back in my day we used plexiglass and lexane side panels. Please for the love of god let’s never go back there.

Most people: I wish I could afford a 30 series, but I'm gonna have to settle for a 1650 in this economy Jay: Literally uses a 3080 as a throwing star

My experience building PCs over the years has told me that basically ALL PC components are far more resilient than you would think. Inserting brand-new DRAM into a brand-new Mainboard always requires just a BIT more force than I feel comfortable applying - and it's always perfectly fine.

I enjoyed this video, it does give a little more confidence. However keep in mind glass over time can get stress fractures, if it's already previously stressed it can take very little to break. At the start Jay hit it with a stick and said it doesn't break well that way, it actually breaks very well that way if you pierce it. Still it's good to know they can handle a little more abuse than expected.

10:40 Proof that a thousand dollars cannot break glass, science!!!!

I'm really glad you did this test. Puts a lot of mind goblins to rest for a lot of people. I'm more and more a solid side panel person, so I'm just here for glass shattering

Jay just casually throwing a RX 3080 lmaoo

I've heard that ceramic tile floors are the worst for glass side panels, that literally just placing it on tile could break it due to how the tile has no impact absorbance. Even less than concrete apparently. I'd love to see you test it with tile!

"Some of the air is making it out of the holes" - Story of my life

When I was an EMT in the 80's, we used those spring loaded center punches to break tempered glass (car side windows.) The pinpoint strike is all you needed.

I am now a lot less worried about shattering my first side panel now. Thank you for this educational video I think this will help a lot of people with anxiety about tempered glass side panel’s 😁👍

Jay doing the Mythbuster thingy except with much, MUCH less safety features

Ye gods! Tempered glass explosions! LOL This reminds me soooo much of the time I moved my fish tank (fortunately a small one for a betta) made of tempered glass. The tank had gone years seemingly indestructible. Then one day I moved apartments. Same complex. Just moved from a one bedroom to a three bedroom apartment, across the parking lot. Fish tank in the trunk of the car. And halfway there, BOOM!!! It just exploded. For seemingly no reason. Flat ground. Nothing up against it. Nothing impacting it but the trunk carpet. It just ... exploded. Fortunately my betta wasn't inside at the time! But yeah ... tempered glass. There's a reason I prefer acrylic whenever possible now. LOL

I broke my TT Core G21 by tilting the glass into the side of the case so I could screw it. Dropping and smacking it against objects did nothing but having the holes lined up correctly did it. One of the manufacturers need to do a collaboration with Corning for Gorilla Glass or provide replacement parts.

This video here is why I am really against tempered glass or anything glass for a side panel (and yes I do have one case with a glass side panel mainly because of the functionality of the case itself). When you changing out parts in the case trying to find a place to put the side panel safely this is why accidents like this can be dangerous to avoid. This is why I am fully supportive of using Acrylic side panels, which are so much more resilient and much less prone to accidents but yes I know that scratching it doesn't make it look great and cannot be easily be fixed compared to tempered, which can be cleaned up more on that side of things. I seriously think PC Case Manufactures need to go back to Acrylic side panels (and develop them further to fix scratching) or I wonder if some form of Acrylic/tempered glass hybrid could be made so it makes the side panel stronger to prevent breakage like this with pure tempered. Or is it not possible to combined both types?

customers break side panels just by dropping half an inch on the table vertically as they unscrew them

i once dropped my tempered glass prior to assembling my unit (around waist height), and it dropped on the thumb of my foot... the tempered glass survived (was lucky it landed on the side, not on the corner) but my nail on my foot didn''t, took a whole 2-3 months for my nail to recover...

I can confirm a double pane tempered glass window, 6 foot x 6 foot, can stop a bullet. Both panes shatter but all of the bullets momentum is gone and the bullet falls with the shattered glass. Yes, we used to have a stupid kid in the neighborhood.

That was very amusing. I throughly enjoyed Jay's brand of science.

Rofl. Hey Jay, take a small piece of porcelain and toss it against the glass. 😉

I see so many posts on reddit about broken panels as well but i've used it for a long time and never broken any either. Experimental videos like this are fun!

Thank you for doing the unspeakable things we can´t do, this is and watering the GPUs like a daisy Pot has been actually very educational in how much can take to kill them, thank you madman

literally no one, jay throwing a 3080 card at tempered glass for science

Jay’s wife: soo your wearing shorts n flip flops today… whatcha doing today Jay: Not sure I figure it out. (Later that day) Jay: today we are breaking glass…

Woe Jay. You really needed Applied Science's recent video on viewing stress with polarized film and a monotone light (sodium, single color led, etc). It would have been really cool to see after each drop, inspecting the glass with a camera and film to see if we could see any accumulated stress. I always took for granted heavily tensioned materials to either have enough energy to stay together or enough to explode with no real in-between like sheet metal where there's a lot of in-between before it bends too far. Polarized films would help see what each element of abuse did and how much if any.

tempered glass is serious shit, when our bathroom was being remodelled the contractor broke the tempered glass shower screen while he was installing it. it sounded like a gun went off and he had to dig shards of glass out of the ceiling... and his hands, arms, and legs

“The difference between science and messing around is writing it down” -Adam Savage

Temp glass not actually scratch resistant but better than glass Until Drops New pc panel on floor bye bye $ vs My old clear acrylic pc window looking good

I was setting up a pre-built a few years ago on a hard topped table. Took off the side panel to remove the shipping packaging from inside the tower and the glass panel slipped out of my hands from the screw height straight down onto the table. Immediately shattered, only saving grace was I hadn't pealed the protective plastic off yet which ended up holding the pieces in place. Used part of the cardboard shipping box as a side panel for about 4 years until I recently switched it to a new case

10:45 Jay has surpassed even Linus! Throwing RTX 3080 to break glass!

Not very hard when it goes through the mail system 💀👀

Even though it's broken, that 3080 being used as a throwing star hurt to watch :P

Jay there's a little more complexity to tempered glass, you impact it with something, the tension shifts in the glass slowly compromising the atomic structure of it. so as you drop it over and over again, the glass basically becomes more and more unstable till it just breaks from it's own internal tension

My side panel broke yesterday when I was taking it off to swap out a PSU, bumped the bottom right corner of it and shattered. Probably wasn't a good idea to have it on a tempered glass table. Any other surface probably would have been fine.

We once cleared out a big cellar bar and found a old CRT we then tried to break by throwing a hammer at it. Those things could take quite a beating and i cant even remember how many throws it took until it imploded. ... quite impressive !

I think the worst part about tempered glass, is IF you do drop it, i feel like it could be a time bomb at some point depending on how bad the drop was. I just imagine sleeping in the middle of the night and then it just explodes because of an air pressure change in the room

The "safety" comes in the form of the edging of the break being generally blunt. That Phantex ....that was like Steve cutting open a heat pipe to find the maker lied about it LMAO

There are two easy ways. Take it to the post office and ship it to yourself or hire a moving company to drive it around the block.

Jay: I'm not a pitcher. Me: So you're a catcher, then?

the only difference between Science and having fun... is writing it down (or vlogging it i guess) :D

Jay: “Tempered glass is pretty strong” Me: “ Yep, I watched Squid Games”

Steel panels are just fine by me.

8:50 It's fascinating that the glass shattered mid-air after bouncing off the concrete. Like it absorbed the impact energy and then the vibrations took a while to hit a weaker spot or accumulate in one place to break the surface. Amazing.

I hate that every case has it now. Especially white ones. I would love to get white fractal torrent without glass panel.

No one: Litterly NO ONE: Jay: throws 3080 at a glass panel.

As a PhD in materials science, I am cringing at the scientific accuracy of this video 😆

I love this. I had a heavy ass dining table like 110lbs was just the glass alone. So I wrapped it in two thick blankets and then hit the corner with a hammer it and it sharted perfectly. Made it easier to carry from basement to recycling lol

I would never have expected the hammer to just bounce off it!

Dimitri: makes a community post about how he broke a tempered glass panel for the first time in a while Jay: well, better pay tribute to the statistical gods.

The third glass you introduced looks alot like the lian li mesh 2 tempered side glass, just in "CASE" you were wondering Jay.

Jay throwing the 3080 made me feel pain Ive never felt before

It was amusing seeing your kankles flail around with the foam home made boots!

Him: Tempered glass is really strong 5 mins later* Glass broke in an inch drop* Also him: Science!

i did this once my pc was under my desk and i kicked it by accident and the glass broke and my foot hit the gpu and snapped the connected to the mother board. let this be a lesson never put your pc on the floor

You can see broken tempered glass side panel on pcmr everyday. Its the hard tile floors breaking them.

Where can I get those shoes??

He can throw shit on it but when i unscrew it, it shatters. Tempered glass likes u alot

IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHAT IS UP WITH REDDIT LIKE EVERY DAY SOMETIMES MULTIPLE A DAY SHATTERING XD

That tempered glass is almost under as much tension as the GPU market.

I just had so much anxiety watching this cuz I thought glass would cut his leg omg next time please wear jeans

I'm gonna miss Jaytober when it's over. Jaytember??

tempered glass is made to break into chunks, vs regular glass which breaks into shards. that's why tempered glass is used for automobiles. ;)

what a waste, some starving child could have eaten those tempered panels.

Considering that Phantex panel didn't break as expected, do we need to start doing tempered glass tests on case reviews to make sure the glass is properly tempered? I also feel that panels that take screws straight through them are questionable, because the screws could be putting pressure on the holes, which are edges, which is where the panel is weakest and most susceptible to failing.

Use the metal piece with the shards in the rebel build

"I'm going to protect my feet from potential glass shards!" *is wearing shorts* Jay -_-

If you want it to be incredibly strong, just laminate it both sides with a proper laminator. You'll barely notice the difference, but it will become increadibly hard to break. The windows in sky scrapers are laminated tempered glass and can survive a direct brick throw at it or collision with a bird at 60mph.

Your missing "to" from your title.

Is just did it a Brundle reference 😂

Me after 10 years n still using my CM Storm Trooper (only upgrade hardware),realized i'm still NOT remove the plastic frm windowed panel.... 🤦‍♂ P/S BTW,my windowed panel x glass ya.... 😂

The results were really more impressive than I thought!

Lol watching this one year later after an unfortunate accident with my case last night. Man I hope Corsair covers it under warranty...

I pulled the tower (witch judging by the sticker on the aio back was a MSi build but had been gutted of almost everything) for that first glass panel from the scrap and did a build in it (yea, I'm not rich). I could have used that glass panel as one of the two panels had been broke but lucky the one needed for the front side was on the back side. I looked this tower up at the time I found it (1 and a half years ago) and it was going for like $300 from China though Newegg so getting it free but all be it in the shape it was in was kind of sweet. It now houses a MSi X470 MB, Ryzen 7 3700X (cooled by the stock air cooler), MSi Armor MK2 Radeon RX580, 16gb of Corsair Ram set at 3200MHz, a Corsair RM750x psu, Samsung 970 EVO M.2 (500GB), Samsung 870 EVO SSD (1TB) and 5 140mm fans. Like I said I'm not rich and it was my first build.

I hate this kind of videos, these glasses could have been used by someone who accidentally broke his/hers. This is not Science, this is being ungrateful. You value nothing when your privileges you everything...

Daaaammmmnnnnn!!!! THEY ARE THROWING AROUND 3080 MOBOS NOW!!! 😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😶😶😶😶

That third piece of glass is from the LianLi Lancool2! Bought it and modded it after you guys showcased it! Maybe if I actually catch a JayWhatDoYouThink you'll see... Also I got super excited when I saw SCIENCE in the thumbnail

i broke one yesterday, it just felt like 10 cm vertically (ceramic floor), i was trying to put it back on the pc, it exploded and I cut my hand-feet... no kidding, 70-60 percent got cotained couse i leave the old plastic film... guess i could`ve lost my eyes it it was for that. I even feel like an small taste of blood in my mouth... terrifying

i like the slow mo videos wow i would never do that with my tempered glass panels on my cases no way at all😀😉😥😮😯😲😨🤯😦😧😱. but good on you for explaining it jayson and team especially you jayson 😉🙂😀😁

fixed - How hard is it *TO* break tempered glass side panels?? SCIENCE! - good to see... I have nothing but Fractal Design Meshify, R6 and R7's here and always wondered how strong the tempered glass is. :)

Nice Video. Science for the win. 🤣 (yeah I know it was dead but:) I guess tomorrow in one of the those very "special" newspapers there will be a headline like "famous youtuber wastes rare 3080 GPU for glass stress tests" 🤣🤣🤣😂

I use plain tinted glass to modify my case about 8 years ago. 6mm think, yes it is not safety glass but at the timke my glass guy said the 80-90c GPU which is very close could be a hazard to the tempered glass. And bonding it to metal which changes shape with heat they said normal glass would flex more. 8 year on still going good but non of my system goes above 50c not even the GTX1070 or i7 4790K thanks to water loops.

Needed to do this to my shitty Inwin 301 case, side panel latch no longer works and won't budge so there's only one way left. Never buy things from them again, poorly designed and untrustworthy junk. Next PC case I'm getting I'll be smashing all of its tempered glass first before doing anything else

I've seen sledge hammers hit panel face on without breaking, but crack it on that edge? SHATTER. SO MUCH tension in that glass. I've also seen it spontaneously explode...shower glass has been known to "explode" sometimes even years after it was installed.