Wunshot Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 Boom headshot. My face was less than a foot from the side panel when it spontaneously exploded into thousands of pieces. Wow... The only thing I've ever seen close to that is if you toss the ceramic from a spark plug at a car window. Trust me, I wasn't doing that... Was simply putting the screws back in the side of the case. Is this a fairly common occurrence? Fortunately I was completely uninjured, but I am pretty bummed that my new "glass" case has become deglassed. https://i.imgur.com/fCBOZUZ.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarity Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Boom headshot. My face was less than a foot from the side panel when it spontaneously exploded into thousands of pieces. Wow... The only thing I've ever seen close to that is if you toss the ceramic from a spark plug at a car window. Trust me, I wasn't doing that... Was simply putting the screws back in the side of the case. Is this a fairly common occurrence? Fortunately I was completely uninjured, but I am pretty bummed that my new "glass" case has become deglassed. https://i.imgur.com/fCBOZUZ.jpg Youch! Looks like a 570x and it looks like it is the cable management side of the case. Glass while it has strong compressive strength has very weak tensile strength. compressive strength: the resistance of a material to breaking under compression tensile strength: the resistance of a material to breaking under tension. http://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/Matter/Glass.html Tempered glass is very strong and it is designed breaks into many little shards to reduce injury. It also can't be cut like other glass can, when it is tempered. You are able to shove cables into a normal steel sided case and compress the cables with the steel panel, as it has great tensile strength. Doing the same with a tempered glass panel will result in the same outcome as you experienced. It could also occur from an object like a disk drive sticking out as you screwed in the thumb screws. You could try contacting support, as there can always be a flaw in glass that weakens it. However as it is the cable managed side of the panel and you were screwing it in when it happen leads me to believe user error. :( To be honest I am surprised to see this doesn't happen more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wunshot Posted August 21, 2018 Author Share Posted August 21, 2018 I'll meet you halfway and call it a mix of both user and design error. The design error is that the power and sata cables for the HDD's stick out enough to put pressure on it no matter what I did to try to reroute them. Because of that I figured I was supposed to put a little elbow grease into pushing the glass down on the side. Whoops :) Oh well....it's running 4 deg Centigrade cooler now. Silver linings... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee Corsair Caliente Posted August 23, 2018 Corsair Employee Share Posted August 23, 2018 Oof. Definitely contact our support, https://support.corsair.com. They should be able to help you out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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