RTX 30 and 40 series GPUs from GIGABYTE have been reported to suffer from PCB cracking issues that are not being covered under warranty leaving users with damaged GPUs. The issues surrounding GIGABYTE ...

Some more troubling news from the GPU world, with many GIGABYTE GeForce RTX owners - covering the GeForce RTX 30 Series (Ampere) and potentially GeForce RTX 40 Series (Ada Lovelace) too - reporting ...

Gaming laptops promise desktop-class performance in a backpack, but repair benches tell a different story. High failure rates ...

A German TechTuber has observed that some graphics cards have started to routinely fail due to the stresses imposed by their physical size and fixing orientation. KrisFix, whose day job is in computer ...

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.

Some reports from China suggest that AMD’s Navi 21 GPU, used in Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6900 XT graphics cards, may suffer from ...

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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 ...

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 ...

WTF?! We're used to reading about problems affecting the RTX 4090, but in all fairness to Nvidia, this latest incident could hardly be blamed on Team Green. It seems the culprit was a bug; the literal ...