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The RGB cable nightmare at PAX East changed my setup forever
I was at PAX East in Boston last month doing a local LAN tournament, and three of the rigs kept losing display signal mid-match. Turns out the cheap extension cables with those clip locks were pulling loose from the GPU due to the vibration on the table. I swapped to braided cables with locking tabs and zip-tied them to the case frame, zero drops after that. Has anyone else had this silent killer ruin a tournament run, or is it just my bad luck?
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hannah24022d ago
Had this happen at a small CS:GO tourney in Worcester back in 2019. Not vibration though, it was the weight of the cables themselves dragging down on the ports. One guy's display cut out during a clutch round and we lost the whole match because of it. What fixed it for us was those right-angle adapters that take the strain off the connector, plus a little slack loop before the zip tie so the cable isn't pulling tight. Check your card side too, sometimes the port itself gets loose from all that tugging and no amount of fancy cable helps after that.
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