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 ...

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.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There are few things more demoralizing than your PC going down in flames, figuratively or literally. It can be disruptive to your personal and ...

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 ...

Hardware Slop?: While repairing a nonworking piece of gaming hardware is a common occurrence, adding extra RAM during the process is still unusual. However, a Chinese modder recently said that this ...