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Optimal airflow (thelemmy.club)
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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 7 hours ago

What exactly does the shield do?

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago

Real answer: it serves two purposes. First it ties the ground shielding from the ports to the grounding plane of the case itself so that static discharge is dissipated there rather than the motherboard. Second it completes the RF shield created by the case, this was way more important in earlier in computing and is also required to comply with that FCC rule about not interfering with other devices that you see printed on the bottom of things still sometimes.

[-] Mnem667@retrofed.com 3 points 4 hours ago

So.. Neither is missing from this case. Ain't no shielding happening on this plastic-coated beast

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

As long as it’s plastic coated metal it should still be capable of shielding any wavelength larger than the squares. So you would still need to put your WiFi antenna on the outside I think.

[-] Mnem667@retrofed.com 3 points 4 hours ago

You know, that's fair. And I suppose that covers radio, so...

[-] lime@feddit.nu 16 points 7 hours ago
[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 points 7 hours ago

Ah yes managing airflow is a huge priority with this build.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

i thought that was the entire point

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 hours ago
[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago

But what keeps the O's I??

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 5 points 7 hours ago

I thought it shielded the I's and O's to keep them separate.

[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 points 6 hours ago

It is the underwear for the PC. The PC's nethers will be left uncovered. Although that might be intentional in this case since some people like the breeze in their nethers.

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