Close Enough Right

Close Enough Right
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When your GPU budget evaporates faster than your motivation on a Monday morning, you gotta get creative with thermal solutions. Someone literally wedged a 50 New Zealand dollar bill between their graphics card and the case as a makeshift thermal pad or insulator. Because who needs proper thermal paste or pads when you've got legal tender that's already been devalued by inflation anyway?

The best part? That $50 NZD is probably doing more work keeping this system from thermal throttling than it would in anyone's savings account right now. Sure, it's not electrically conductive (probably), and it might work as an insulator (maybe), but let's be real—this is the hardware equivalent of duct tape fixes in production code. It technically works until it spectacularly doesn't.

Pro tip: This is what happens when you spend all your money on RGB and have nothing left for actual cooling solutions. At least when it catches fire, you can tell your insurance company you literally burned through cash on your PC build.

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