Repair technician "northwestrepair" on YouTube reveals the dangers of using copper memory cooling mods on GPUs. In a RTX 3080 ...

We have seen these types of mods on multiple generations of Nvidia cards; it was only inevitable that the RTX 5080 would get ...

Sometimes, it's better to leave things to the professionals. That's the reasonable conclusion you might come to watching this new video that showcases a repair shop's attempt to salvage a Nvidia ...

GPU repair shop NorthridgeFix has been busy repairing hundreds of broken NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards, with the repair shop reporting it receives RTX 4090s that have been burned from ...

TL;DR: Northridge Fix, a Los Angeles electronics repair expert, warns against buying the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition due to its fragile, complex multi-piece design and delicate PCIe connector.

Why it matters: The surprisingly common practice of replacing a high-end graphics card's GPU with a different one from a cheaper card, borking it in the process, isn't going away. A Chinese repair ...

In China, specialized modders can add significantly more AI acceleration capabilities while repairing broken Blackwell GPUs. A technician claimed that turning standard GeForce RTX 5080 cards ...

Despite its next-generation performance, Nvidia's flagship RTX 4090 GPU has faced criticism due to the high failure rate of its 12VHPWR connector, which Nvidia ...

As RTX GPUs age and 12VHPWR connectors fail, ZapFixers steps in to restore burned cards and prevent costly replacements. We’re seeing more RTX cards with burned connectors every week — even older GPUs ...

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