Today, I finally found out why my graphics card in my PC had been overheating recently. My brother disconnected the card's fan because it was too loud when he was gaming. I guess I can always spend another $750. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I returned home to find out that my new and very expensive computer had overheated. I confronted my mom, and she told me that she had covered up the fan because she didn't like the noise. FML
Today, I blew out the dust from my GPU, and when I went to reinstall it, it turned out that I had inadvertently shorted something and now it's dead. FML
Today, I almost paid off my credit card. Then, a couple of hours later, my air conditioner broke. Found out it’s 12 years-old and leaking Freon. I’m going to have to get a whole new unit, which will cost me $6,500 to $10,050. FML
Today, the family computer kept overheating. My four-year-old son thought the solution was to pour a nice, cold cup of water on it. FML
Today, I opened up my laptop to replace a faulty chip inside, which took me half an hour. When I closed it all up again, I saw the replacement part in its packaging on my desk. FML
Today, I just found out that I was missing almost $500 from my debit card. Turns out my brother used my card to simp on a streamer. When I confronted him, he said, "But you would have simped on her either way." FML
Today, I took the motherboard out of my computer so I could put more RAM and a new video card in. While I was in the bathroom my mom threw it all out because it 'looked like garbage'. FML
Today my brother disconnected my internet and made my task bar disappear. I spent 2 hours trying to fix it, when I figured out I just had to restart the computer. Now I'm a little behind on assignments. FML
Today, my brother yelled at me, calling me a "no-good fucking whore", because I couldn't fix his laptop. The same laptop he threw on the floor after screaming "FUCKING HEAL MEEE!" at his game. As ever, my parents took his side, refusing to believe that I can't fix a cracked monitor. FML
Today, nearing the start of what I was hoping to be a relaxing week off, my air conditioning system died. A replacement system will be in the $7000 range, just the amount I'd finally saved for my dream vacation. FML
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Top comments
TimTheFish 11
I guess right now you aren't his biggest fan.
walker9879 25
Ohh that sucks bro, maybe get your parents to help you pay for it? (Assuming he's not an adult) Also it might be time to educate him on computers.
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Comments (79)
SqurtieMan 10
Sell your brother for the money
derpman123 17
gabynator?? is that you?
pandemonium307 10
You say you finally found out why....why didn't you look into it sooner? I would be concerned if mine started over heating....sounds like you and your brother only think you know computers...
atlien247 16
First nerd problems...
capnbzarr 43
So he's smart enough to know how to disconnect just the fan, but not smart enough to know that it's there for a very critical reason? Little brother is a special kind of stupid.
NateHQ 13
Ahhhhh. Some nerds never learn. Maybe you should learn a trade like welding or mechanics rather that playing with silicone chips and crap.
Xamry14 10
Building computers is now considered a trade and can be just as useful as welding or anything else since the world is relying on them more and more.
Lunchy306 8
Sorry no sympathy here. get heat pipes next time. as uncool as it was your brother is probably right.
carter227 3
you clearly don't know anything about how the cooling system on a graphics card works. so let me clarify. there are three big components to a graphics card the board itself, the heat pipes and the fans. the board it the thing that does all of the things you buy it for like rendering, gaming ect. then there are the HEAT PIPES which you so ignorantly claimed he did not have, if you look closely at any high end graphics card you will see pipes with the diameter of .25 cm these are the heat pipes they deliver the heat from the graphics card to the fans so the fans can disperse the heat. if you had them and no fan you would get very hot pipes and still be in the situation op is in right now which is why the fans are SO. DAMN. IMPORTANT
isuckwithnames 22
I use a computer that NEEDS for large fans and a radiator. I have never noticed how loud that was until I first cleaned it out. That beast is right next to my head.
Xamry14 10
Do you even know how computers work?
xGoldColossus 7
I think a good brotherly ass whooping is in order. (Half joking) seriously that blows id be ******* pissed.
FujisakiChihiro 24
If the fan's "too loud while he's gaming", why couldn't he just wear headphones? OP's brother is an idiot.
ChuckHolmes 8
I call BS on this. Only a handful of graphic cards are $500. You can buy a top of the line NVIDIA 9xxti for about $300. Also any video card without a shield and having an easy to unplug fan sure the hell didn't cost you no $750. I'm gonna go with "contrived FML"