r/Hardwaregore | i'm LITERALLY SNEEZING 

Clearly Lexi does own an airfryer.

lexi: *sees photos of anything computer related that is bad* also lexi: make it funny... it's painful but make it funny...

i love how everyone else just starts laughing instantly but lexi is like " well first off im glad you're safe" and that's why she's my favorite narrator

7:59 it's called screen bleed and it's when the casing of an LCD screen breaks and the liquid inside goes into the inside of the screen and oxidizes, it turns black in air and tends to spread over time

I love watching Lexi go through this and softwaregore because she understands more than the average person why it's so horrifying and does her best to explain why it makes her cringe

Lexi is the only one smart and knowledgeable enough to do any of the tech related subreddits

Making Lexi looking at software gore is literally torture for her lol

watching lexi go through hardware gore, software gore, and tech support gore extend my technalogigal knowledge to extreme extents

0:07 as someone who still regularly plays their Wii U, this hurts me on a personal level. I still make sure to dust my consoles regularly to make sure dust and shit doesn't collect in the vents

The Rorschach effect on screens is because they use LCDs or liquid-crystal displays, once the screen breaks they stop reacting to signals and emitting light, this is why the black clumps all look liquid

my favourite part of this video was actually a randomly placed ad lexi went “what?” and a woman who sounded uncannily similar to her went “do you take care of your pits?” which threw me off so bad i nearly choked on my pasta

As a bit of a tech nerd, I just clicked to feed my masochism. You did not disappoint. I think that rorschach test effect on iPads is a result of an LCD display getting damaged. And at 13:27 isn't that what happens when you take out your computer's RAM while it's running? I swear, that looks just like a picture taken of a computer screen after having the RAM taken out while active, which is a physical representation of your computer screaming in agony while you rip out part of its brain while it's still awake.

Meeting all the emkay narrators is on my bucket list

I love when Lexi narrates the software and hardware stuff, I learn something new everytime

"It can also be caused by cold weather." ... I'm fucking dying rn 💀💀

Lexi needs to do more wholesome subreddits, if this software/hardware gore keeps up she’s gonna have a literal heart attack

how Lexi goes from making a joke to actual "oh no" worry for the technology is just... *chef kiss*

"Did you hold your phone in front of Tiger Woods? Did Chuck Norris click OK?" killed me.

13:52 That's actually meant to criticize the developer of the game called Yandere Simulator. He's being criticized because of some 2020 drama and the bad framerate the game had in debug builds lol.

Always love more Lexi analysing various computer issues.

Anytime Lexi makes a video, I know I’m getting some pro advice about how to build a computer. Not sure if I’ll ever make use of it though.

lexi has to be my favorite emkay narrator she just gives me good vibes lol

10:50 "They're supposed to be straight... they are not" Hey look it's me :)

The first picture just made me sneeze hysterically.

5:54 “Those look like bullet holes” well you see, that tends to happen when something is shot

I feel like if Lexi were to explain to me how to code I could finally get past doing PEMDAS and >>>print(Hello world) in Python, there's just something about the way she explains things that makes them seem really fun!

*if you listen really hard you can hear her internal screaming*

0:34 What happened to the RAM is the owner opened 3 Chrome tabs

This is basically just Lexi nerd raging.....I love it

These videos are really helping me distract myself while I recover from surgery, thanks Emkay :)

3:58 You don't have an Amazon link to that screwdriver by any chance? It looks good.

The combination of anger and sadness Lexi displays with almost each post really tells how knowledgeable and passionate she is about tech stuff. Having her build a new PC for me would be my only reason to ever go to New York.

I would love to hear Lexi cover a different sub but at the same time her love of IT and ability to keep us entertained even if we have no idea what we're looking at is truly fascinating

For clarification, at 14:57, Mrekk is the name of the number one player in a rhythm game called osu! The pen inside the phone is a pen from his graphic tablet that he uses with a graphic tablet to play the game.

11:15 - This isn't "Recover the data". This is "That is the main hard drive of the machine and this is how it is being used for daily operation". The internal ports failed, so they're using the eSATA port for everything. Also, if you have to ask why you'd beat up a sibling, it means you were an only child. ^_~

I absolutely love your hatred for HPs. None of my less technical friends understand why I hate them so much (HP computers, to be clear, not my friends). It feels so nice to see someone who understands.

2:35 Pun combo is god level

As someone who has had to solder for multiple class projects, 9:15 is painful. Like I know it's only 1.2k (It looks like a brown, red, black, brown with a 10% tolerance), but please people just buy a stand with the little clampy hands. It'll save you so much time.

That flaming computer was running Yandere Simulator. No wonder it was on fire.

I love how they always have Lexi do the software stuff because she works with it and knows what is happening.

The number of chargers that have been destroyed..

Rules ᵃⁿᵈ ʰᵃʳᵈʷᵃʳᵉ are meant to be broken.

@ 14:13 i want to say the corrosion is caused by gallium since the phone appears to be made of aluminum

My younger cousin died last month in a bad car accident, and he left me his gaming rig. Somehow he literally BENT the external hard drive bays and part of the case above the pcie expansion slots to get a 5700xt red devil to fit into his ancient mATX case that is so old it has a firewire port. For those wondering specs, everything else was modern (msi b550m pro-vdh wifi amd r7 5700x powercolor red devil amd 5700xt and 700w bronze corsair psu) but the case (Microfly Ultra) is old af and it surprisingly works well for the odd setup. I may have to transfer the components to a bigger case and use that ancient case as a server. I wish RU-vid would let you comment pics just to show you the insanity of this case

This is the perfect fit between narrator and subject.

Check list for hiring Emkay Nattators: stay inside of house 24/7 Stay silent about the gun in your face Be happy go lucky Dont comment about the screaming children in the basement

My dad actually works as the head of a section for manufacturing computer chips in Intel,and I showed him some of these, and made him laugh-cry so hard he had a nosebleed! He said Lexi's narration makes the video 90% better

7:35 Prior to OLED, we had backlit LCD screens. When those screens break, the liquid crystal (LCD stands for liquid crystal display) leaks from the pixels, causing the "ink patterns." Calculators also use LCD (but minus the backlight, so no colors, and with substantially larger cells) and smashing its screen will cause a similar effect

13:57 Telling ya, Yandere Sim is bloatware and will some day blow up your pc.

So I was watching Emkay to fall asleep to [soothing voices] and I had a funny dream where Robin and Jack finally teamed up and narrated a video together... while they were both riding around in a cop car they had for some reason... 20/10 would dream again

The solder resistor is definitely a shop. You can tell the lead is actually melting (and the actual resistor lead wouldn't), and also doesn't connect properly to the resistors, and you can tell around his fingers where they were originally holding some solder.

I've been known to take some of my devices apart just to look at the hardware. My love for that green and white gold has taken me far, but the keyboard at 4:10 made every inch of my body cringe in horror. Thank you for reading my short novel.

i heavily appreciate the yandere sim joke as someone who assisted with that joke of a game

Lexi is awesome. She is one of my favorite people on the emkay channel

BRO THE "This kids, is why we don't cook grilled cheeses inside your computers" at 1:29 is so funny to me because I HAVE GRILLED CHEESE RIGHT NOW THAT I JUST MADE XDDD

4:20 "slightly damaged" lol. not a single piece of that keyboard is intact :D

That subreddit should be called r/hardwaregone

from 2015 to 2017, my windows vista held ON. motherboard was partially fried (from a water spill), keyboard wouldn't work, couldn't boot up with the battery inside. Numerous software/hardware problems caused from the spill eventually calmed down; and the keys from by keyboard were taken for the plastic bits that hold the keys and I was using an LG external keyboard. Had no job at the time so I used what I had and am still impressed it didn't give out at any point until I finally was able to afford a new one and transferred all my files; at one point wanted to give it a viking funeral. Edit: forgot that two years prior to the spill the fans stopped working and; until the day it was put to rest; it was sitting on a cooling tray with little fans underneath. And years before that (the vista had the power button on the laptop hinge) the laptop had opened and closed enough times to pop out the power button and the power cable ripped the wires, so had to send that out. The screen at one point gave out due to screen burn after the power button issue but before the spill, sent it off to be replaced. It came back with a screen that was pixelated and blurry. SO back out it went. The vista had a backlit keyboard so I would be able to tell when the motherboard would act up because the back light would turn on. BTW it was my first computer and I'm treating my current one much better. got a silicone keyboard cover first two weeks after I got it.

Poor Lexi. You could hear her die inside over and over

11:10 problem is the contol board is resting on metal. Exposed solder joint + conductive material = oh noooo

my old computer melted through the wifi card at the beginning of lockdown. i spent one and a half years doing online zoom lessons on a 50cm ethernet cable that sometimes just stopped working out of spite.

I'd really like a compilation of Lexi's ye olden work day rants, where she tells all the technical stuff and tells her funny work stories

Never set the refresh rate above ludicrous. Plaid frames per second would rip the crew to pieces Lord Helmet

awesome seeing someone doing reddit reading type videos who actually knows what she’s talking about, so many people are just like “ooo cracks”

I'm tempted to make a reddit account just to post when my homephone stopped working because it was full of spiders

TIL about magnetic screens. I have a dust problem. I did NOT KNOW there was such a thing. I've got like... 3 cans of compressed air sitting nearby for monthly cleans trying to protect my pc from blowing up. MAGNETIC SCREEEEEEEEEEEENS

8:37 for the non tech people, a resistor basically makes it so that your electrical circuit doesn't go boom and/or create fire as soon as you turn the power on. It has a material inside that 'resists' electricity so you're not putting too much energy into the thing you want to turn on. Too much electricity is why you see light bulbs explode.

Can anyone tell me what screwdriver it is at 3:57? 😂

11:32 I had this laptop! Lasted a decade until it cracked at the hinge. Still operated perfectly otherwise, but I decided it was finally time to upgrade.

Damien and Robin might be the kings of softwaregore, but Lexi is definitely the queen of hardwaregore

The undertale music changing for every post is great haha

As an intern in IT, it pained me to see these things. I suffered mentally seeing the Soldering picture.

I dont like pears

9:40 : Pauses video, takes cookies, starts running before lexi can clarify the number of cookies i can have. no cookies for anyone else, i have a very large knapsack and im not afraid to use it. C O O K I E S ! ! ! my precious, my birthday present!

I once exploded a capacitor inside of a remote control (to a rc car) by plugging it in to the wrong thing

3:20 my phone needs this if im trying to get to round 300 in BTD6, no i didnt get a first degree burn from it

4:35 "Mah mouth tastes like teeth!"

11:30 The sad thing about Toshiba is they were _briefly_ a great laptop company then something changed and they became horrible. They were one of the first companies to put a USB drive on their machines. You couldn't even *buy* USB devices yet but the laptops they sold had the ports. Their customer service was downright freaky. We were living in China and Toshiba somehow *tracked us down* and gave my dad a gift card because many of the zip drives on that model were defective and that line of drives was recalled. For the record, ours was not one of the bad ones. It worked fine. It was a few years later that there was a change and they spiraled downhill. Sadly as we were in China and this was the year 2000 we didn't have a way to actually _spend_ the gift card. Net loss of zero though.

Therapist: So, what brought you in today? Iphone: I just... I feel like they have shattered my way of living, ya know? It hurts when I look in the mirror and see the dent they left behind. Me: *DARK HUMOR PUNS*

Lexi just having an existential crisis flashbacks and a panic attack in one when it comes to what I believe is a keyboard with all the keys no longer on it

I honestly love listening to Lexi talking about tech stuff

I feel like lexi is the only narrator thats qualified to go over this sub just because how much of a tech nerd she is lol Respectfully tho

"Slightly damaged" Bro that's freaking gone. That keyboard is gone

5:37 more like magdanger

I'm pretty sure I know what happened to that RAM! The stick is labeled as DDR3L, and it was most likely put into a DDR3 slot! It doesn't appear as a huge difference (1.5 vs 1.35), but as far as scale, that's outside of a safe margin of error.

As a person who works in IT, this subreddit is *PAIN*

1:00 "set refresh rate to light speed" "No light speed is to slow, were gonna hav to go right to ludicrous speed."

worked in IT, had someone install a huge battery in the comm closet and half way threw the installation, the floor started to bow from the weight, we go under the building the wood beams were splitting. We removed the batteries until the floor and joist could be replaced and reinforced.

I am very glad to see a reddit post reader be this smart. Others just read the text and show the post and that's it. I should frequen here more often.

My dad abuses his phones without meaning to, he's a type of construction worker. Recently he broke his phone beyond repair and still had alarms set. The alarms could not be turned off so we had to let the phone die which took a while since we couldn't use it at all. Could not open the phone, could not accept calls, could not turn off the alarms or anything.

Lexi, the reason for why you would beat up your sibling is to either vent anger (if you're a bad person) or to playfully roughhouse. If you have a sibling who was a bit more rough-&-tumble, this is a pretty good way to wear them out as long as you don't actually hurt them. That said, beating somebody in the head with an IPAD is WAY too far

It's not even night and I'm exhausted, but hearing Lexi made my day just so much better.

Someone link to where we can get those screwdrivers. They’re Lexi approved.

EmKay has got to be one of if not my favorite channel

1:25 i REALLLLY Regreat posting that now...but lexi saw it so im Happy ^_^

2:40 "Did Chuck Norris click ok!?" Bro I can't 💀

4:32 if those chunks are the batteries, I'm pretty sure Stay Puft is jealous of how bloated they are.

3:46 I hear 2 other people in the background just as confused on how someone managed to mangle that pc

3:32 processor got a little too hot, incase you were wondering. Do not say it was the battery, I have the model and I opened it up to clean the fan, the battery is external and is under the left hinge, like all HP Windows 10 Pro Laptops.

the entire game system looks like a cinder block covered in all that dust