Most GPUs today still ship with conventional thermal paste, but some higher-end cards — such as the Founder's Edition RTX 5090 — use liquid metal to maximize the cooling potential on the core.

Limits on the amount of VRAM on Nvidia's consumer GPUs have forced the modding community to take matters into their own hands. Time and again we've seen various DIY memory upgrades being performed, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of the time, when a graphics card fails, you'll either return it to the manufacturer (assuming it's inside its warranty period), sell it to someone for parts, or simply discard it. You could, ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Power-related issues have been a running theme with NVIDIA's RTX 4090 and RTX 5090 cards. Despite newer 16-pin standards that were meant to be safer, ...

A specialist GPU repair and modification service is offering a memory upgrade that converts Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080 Ti from its original 11 GB configuration to 22 GB. The modification reportedly ...

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 is currently the most powerful consumer GPU on the market. Class-leading power, however, often comes with some drawbacks. First, the GeForce RTX 4090's $1,599 MSRP is steep ...

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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In brief: We've seen plenty of instances of fake graphics cards being passed off as the real deal over the years. While these forgeries usually fool the less tech-savvy, more experienced users can ...