NVIDIA's warranty claim expenses for discrete GPUs, which includes GeForce RTX 50 Series cards, increased by a whopping 1000% ...

The GPU ended up in the oven at home at 188 degrees Celsius for twelve minutes. The unusual measure allegedly led to success. After cooling down and reinstalling it into the computer, the hardware ...

An MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z owner sent their $5,000 GPU for repair after damaging it while "practicing" soldering a resistor on the board.

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.

Want to practice your soldering skills? Don't do it on a $5,000 graphics card (in case you were tempted).

Novice modder breaks a £4,999 limited edition MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z graphics card while attempting a resistor mod, ...

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 ...

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