GFX card cooler won't fit... I'd better drill a hole in the PCB

[Ericloewe]

I believe the title accurately explains the supposed thought process behind this atrocity (note that it's on Linus Tech Tips, but it wasn't Linus who screwed up, for a change!):

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/561041-980ti-darwin-awards-help/?page=1

My favorite comment of the thread:

Lol what an idiot. This is what happens when you watch Linus half ass everything. Kids start to think it will work for them.

 

[Jailer]

Saw that on HardOCP. It made me lol.

A fool and his money are soon parted.......

 

[solarisguy]

I read only page 1 of 4, as so far nobody pointed out that the board had clear markings indicating he drilled through the tracks...

P.S.
It did happen to me more than once that I did not read the instructions... After all, what can go wrong :)

 

[Ericloewe]

Saw that on HardOCP. It made me lol.

A fool and his money are soon parted.......

I wonder how some people manage to stay alive, never mind afford a 1k graphics card.

 

[jgreco]

I believe the title accurately explains the supposed thought process behind this atrocity

End result: he's screwed for sure

(don't everyone groan at once)

 

[Yatti420]

Lol not as bad as screwing your motherboard directly to the mobo tray lol..

 

[Ericloewe]

Lol not as bad as screwing your motherboard directly to the mobo tray lol..

At least that is a mistake one can make out of honest ignorance instead of lack of thought.

 

[Mirfster]

My favorite part is when the OP did this...

You were right about the layers. I booted the pc while holding a metal screwdriver in the hole to simulate soldering the hole shut. But it just started smoking. The card is F**ked

From absurd to lunacy...

 

[INCSlayer]

My favorite part is when the OP did this...


From absurd to lunacy...

on lunacy you saw that he has broken the card in half in frustration in a later post aswell?
some people shouldnt get to buy nice hardware

 

[jgreco]

Yeah, it's a train wreck.

 

[Kevin Horton]

I'm gonna sign up on that forum with ID "jgreco" and say that when he gets it working he should come over here. We would love to help him set it up to dual-boot into FreeNAS. :)

 

[Ericloewe]

I'm gonna sign up on that forum with ID "jgreco" and say that when he gets it working he should come over here. We would love to help him set it up to dual-boot into FreeNAS. :)

He'd probably thing each half of his former graphics card would be assigned to a different OS.

 

[jgreco]

I'm gonna sign up on that forum with ID "jgreco" and say that when he gets it working he should come over here. We would love to help him set it up to dual-boot into FreeNAS. :)

Feel free, but don't be shocked when your username here suddenly changes to "Linus Sebastian."

 

[anodos]

I'd say you can't fix stupid, but we've had some stupid dogs that we had 'fixed'. Maybe that's the sort of fixing that needs to happen in this case.

 

[jgreco]

He'd probably thing each half of his former graphics card would be assigned to a different OS.

Maybe he was trying to do split screen.