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    Need RTX 4090 repair advice

    The PSU itself is likely fine, but you will have to replace that burned up cable/connector.
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    Need RTX 4090 repair advice

    One would have to be handy and follow the instructions to the letter. There are many ways to screw this up. It looks like the Northwest guy got away with using hot air as a preheater then when at it with a big soldering iron and a lot of flux. He also used low melt solder. This is not a...
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    Need RTX 4090 repair advice

    If one is reasonably handy, the tool cost here isn't that high. I added a video link to my post. He is using about $120 worth of tools, maybe a bit more. Probably less than the cost of paying someone to fix it. The key thing is, as stated in the video, patience. The next key thing is flux...
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    Need RTX 4090 repair advice

    Maybe that youtube guy at northwestrepair? I'm thinking if you look around there are repair services for changing that connector. Compared to a lot of the fixes the northwest guy does, changing one of these connectors is relatively easy. Something like this could even be DIY if one has the...
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    Samsung Trio 65w Phone Charger $10.92 Shipped at eBay

    I returned mine, didn't cost anything.
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    Ha! Neither am I. I have no interest in kilobuck video cards. I've watched this thread grow for some time in passing because I don't have a dog in this hunt beyond being interested in the topic and I have some experience with switching power design. What finally got me to comment was the...
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    Shrug: Sounds better to me than trashing a several thousand dollar video card.
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    In the end, the most practical thing to do here is just turn the power down by dialing back the cards a bit. I don't have any experience beyond Pascal, but on Pascal, the stock Nvidia bios really pounds the shit out of the card to get that last bit of performance. One can dial back 25-30 watts...
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    They might, but I think it is less likely. Pins soldered to a fat trace on a circuit board are going to be more uniform in resistance than relatively long wires crimped on to pins. You are correct in that if the resistance difference is from the contact on the pins themselves, this won't make...
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    It's too bad it does not disconnect the 12V when the temp gets too high. One positive thing is it looks like the burned pins, if they happen, will happen to the power supply cable and this gizmo rather than pricey video card. The resistance seen by the video card connected should be pretty...
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    What Is Your Personal Favorite Video Card of All Time?

    I don't have a single favorite, just notable ones in chronological order: Tseng Labs ET4000 - Wicked fast ISA interface that was a must for Wolf 3D in the early 90s. Several S3 cards in the 90s which brought 2D acceleration and faster 32bit VLB interfaces for Doom. One of these was the...
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    As an experienced engineer without any other data to go by, feeding all those MOSFETs from that one tiny connector on the upper right just looks wrong. Not commenting on the circled crater, just using the picture because it is convenient. However, that blowed up real good!
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    It looks like a lot more margin on the PCI-E 8 pin connectors. The test is what temperature they are when under load. 35C sounds really good as the concern here is mostly resistive heating as I don't think 35C is high enough to affect metal platings. Keeping it to 25C is even more better.
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    Gamer Pairs RTX 3090 With RTX 3050 to Offload Frame Generation Work

    I wasn't messing around with SLI at the time, but didn't the way it used to go is within 2 generations the fastest new card that was reasonably priced was faster than the fastest cards in SLI from 2 generations back? If true, a single 3080TI should have beat a pair of 1080TIs. The post below...
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    Gamer Pairs RTX 3090 With RTX 3050 to Offload Frame Generation Work

    No doubt SLI has its pitfalls. Coupled with the SpecialK injector, SLI works extremely well in Trainz 19 at 4K 50Hz. In this application, latency doesn't matter much and 50 FPS is enough. Absolutely smooth and 2x the performance of a single card. SLI has always had a big YMMV attached to it...
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