That's significantly worse. Assembling a PC without knowing what a cooler is for is bad enough, but to actually cut pieces off complex electronic components, I don't know what kind of state of mind you have to be in for that.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 hours ago

what kind of state of mind you have to be in for that

Probably crazy enough to demand that the PC repair shop has to bear all the costs he caused by his genius idea.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

It works/worked on some GPUs though.

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

"but I didn't need those extra PCIE slots!"

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago

The kind of state that would have me refund his money and tell him I'm baffled and can't figure it out.