GPU Mod Gone Horribly Wrong

This is why most companies void the warranty if you remove the stock cooler. People are retarded and no one can be trusted to do even the simplest of mod's.
 
I do feel sorry for the guy, but this is how you learn.

I've had to mod a lot of video cards, and I've blown up a couple in the process. He didn't die, he didn't hurt himself or anyone else, and he didn't burn down his house, so consider this one an expensive learning experience and move on.

Sure, in hindsight it looks pretty dumb, but in hindsight I've done a lot of dumber things, and sometimes I've gotten lucky, and other times I haven't, so who am I to judge this guy.
 
westrock2000 said:
Oh man, this gets better.

Apparently, this is what he was trying to install on to the card. His issue was that the bracket holes did not line up with the holes in the PCB. So he decided to drill the *PCB* rather then the bracket. I'm not going to judge, becuase I have done stupid stuff in the past, but you have to learn how to engineer your problems wisely....which hopefully he got out of this.

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I've done this... Still rocking a 560GTX like this. Quiet AF.
 
Argh. As someone else said, never do this without the GERBER's.

I've seen something like this many years ago at Philips, where we had a mechanical engineer who was trying to make our 8x8 VCP development board fit into our mock-up case -- and it was too long by about an inch, due to a blank area that looked like bare PCB.

So, he chopped it off so it would fit in the case..... :(

Unfortunately, the reason it had an inch of extra bare PCB on the end was that it was a 6 layer board and a huge number of traces from the micro itself were routed out there though on inner layers, because the traces were too dense to route otherwise (and the visible surface layers in that area were just large ground planes -- probably being used as shields to keep it from radiating RF like crazy).

Needless to say, it killed the board -- at which point the hardware and software development teams (myself included) had to almost be physically restrained from killing said mechanical engineer, as it was the ONLY development board we had for software testing, it cost $2500, and had a several week lead time to get another one. Add to this the fact that he actually had to go into the lab and remove the board from our test fixture where we were using it, without asking anyone, before taking it back to do this to it. That he remained employed there afterwards shocked me to no end.
 
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The cooler was for a OEM type board which he did not have which is why it didn't line up. His first thought is to drill the board? DIYer or not he's a damn idiot that needs to be protected from himself.
 
LOL this reminds me of the guy who cut the PCI-E connector to make his video card fit in an AGP port, several years ago.
 
PersonalJ said:
Yeah, but it sounds like you might be an electrical engineer and are familiar with the design of the device.

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Wow what a messed up video; they are taking advantage of what looks to be a mentally challenged kid.
 
Lunas said:
Seems like something Linus would do... The case looks like something thrown together in high school welding class.
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atom said:
Are we sure this wasn't actually Linus himself?
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linus only cuts off DVI connectors from titan x's to make 'em single slot. however, jayztwocents once drilled through an x99 board with similar results as the guy here.
 
There's a similar forum post from years ago where a guy bought a PCI-E graphics card to fit in his AGP motherboard. So he just hacked off the end of the slot so it would fit in his AGP slot.
 
DJS4000 said:
linus only cuts off DVI connectors from titan x's to make 'em single slot. however, jayztwocents once drilled through an x99 board with similar results as the guy here.
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Oh right, that's where I had seen that before. Was for the same reason too If I recall.
 
Not to worry. I'm sure his Mommy has bought him a new 980Ti by now and he's back to gaming in complete ignorance.
 
Many moons ago while attempting to re-seat an aftermarket fan on an ATI 9800 Pro (I think), the razor blade I was using slipped and instead of taking off just the thermal adhesive I was slowly working off, I sliced one of those tiny 1mm resistor blocks right off the edge of the card...clean...snip...gone.
I stared in disbelief, the tracing was there......I said......."you know...". Took my spare beat-down PC, plugged the card in, seated it, turned it all on. The card ran great for another 2 years. <shrug>
 
Ya, don't drill into a PCB. Figure out the best way to drill into the cooler bracket instead. A much simpler design.
 
There is just no excuse for this. I did a quick search and EVGA uses 12 layer boards for their 980Ti Kingpin; typical 980Tis are probably 8 or 10 layer boards. How anyone ever thought this was a good idea I will never in a million years begin to understand.

I wonder if the OP has speedholes in his car too.

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phobos512 said:
There is just no excuse for this. I did a quick search and EVGA uses 12 layer boards for their 980Ti Kingpin; typical 980Tis are probably 8 or 10 layer boards. How anyone ever thought this was a good idea I will never in a million years begin to understand.

I wonder if the OP has speedholes in his car too.

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Some people just don't think Printed Circuit Board literally means a board with circuits printed into it.
 
Morphes said:
Annnnddddd this is why you don't join a youtube based forum for tech related stuff. We have a 10k desk but they have a guy just randomly drilling into a video card. Jesus man. At least he could've TRIED to send it back to zotac before breaking it in half. I know its not completely ethical but the worst they could say is no.
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I found this place via XtremeSystems, which I found via EOCF, which I found via... Tom's Hardware. :hungover:

We all gotta start somewhere!
 
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