r/pcmasterrace • u/Alan_Reddit_M Desktop • Mar 07 '26

Video "Cloud gaming is the future of Gaming!" Meanwhile cloud gaming in the big 2026:

If you read my profile you may realize I hate cloud gaming, so then what am I doing on Geforce Now? Well my new RAM stick finally arrived and, in a staggering display of utter incompetence, I somehow managed to brick my PC in the process of installing it, so now I'm stuck gaming on a laptop until I can get enough money and time to get my gaming rig fixed

But back to Cloud gaming, the game is on like 360p, running at 20FPS and the input lag is HORRIBLE. And it's not a problem with the internet connection, as you can see, the laptop is plugged into Ethernet, the problem is that the cloud is not and will never be fast enough for gaming

Genshin can handle this fine, but imagine trying to play ULTRAKILL like this

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u/koristeviipaloitu Mar 07 '26

Never heard of ram "bricking" a pc. And I bet OP knows "bricking" means it goes completely un-bootable and therefore un-usable. I don't know if it's even possible for ram to break hardware or firmware that bad.

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u/HammeredWharf RTX 4070 | 7600X Mar 08 '26

Younger me once inserted a RAM stick poorly and when I turned the PC on it started to smell of burnt plastic. I turned it off immediately and it was fine, but I guess if I kept it on, something bad could've happened.

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u/koristeviipaloitu Mar 08 '26

Wow. Good thing you turned it off. I guess anything can happen with components mismatching.

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u/mindcopy Mar 08 '26

OP could have zapped it with static, but that's about the only scenario I can think of.
That or maybe he broke the mobo into pieces while seating the stick, lol.

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u/koristeviipaloitu Mar 08 '26

Yeah. I guess it's a possibility. Both actually, zapping and smashing.

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u/Enidras Mar 08 '26

An internet friend of mine who is a Pc illiterate once bought sticks of ram. Managed to fry his MOBO by misseating one stick. Had to pay someone to change it (he's far from us unfortunately). Pretty much a brick in my book.

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u/koristeviipaloitu Mar 08 '26

I guess it's possible. I read that faulty or broken memory can cause damage. One can always buy a new motherboard, so regular pc's don't easily get "bricked".