French retailer LDLC is offering defective NVIDIA RTX 5090 graphics cards for around half their retail price, starting at roughly $1,760, with no returns or warranty. The cards, damaged in transit, ...

French retailer LDLC is offering defective Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards for €1,499–€1,699, roughly half their market price, with no returns. The cards, damaged in transit but complete with ...

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.

Defective RTX 5090 GPUs sell for €1499 without returns, leaving buyers to repair risky hardware with no guarantee of working ...

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The graphics card in your PC does a lot of heavy lifting when you're gaming, editing videos, or doing anything that pushes your system. During these activities, the GPU's fans kick in to keep it from ...

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 ...

A repair specialist received a rather unusual non-functional graphics card for repair: an RTX-3000 GPU was mounted on the ...

There's some frightening attention to detail here, with a dead Ampere GPU being skimmed and re-engraved with an RTX 4090 ...