Proven 8-pin PCIe plugs aren’t immune to melting — Thermal Grizzly WireView adapter burns out on Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Three 8-pin connectors on a Thermal Grizzly WireView reportedly suffered burning and melting while connected to a Radeon RX 7900 XTX, with the company now investigating what caused the failure.

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We tested unofficial DLSS Multi Frame Generation support on RTX 40-series GPUs — new mod brings RTX 50-series exclusive feature to older cards, and it really works
 We tested unofficial DLSS Multi Frame Generation support on RTX 40-series GPUs — new mod brings RTX 50-series exclusive feature to older cards, and it really works

We tested DLSS Multi Frame Generation on RTX 40-series GPUs.

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Lucky PC scavenger discovers 12 RTX 3070 GPUs from the crypto mining era — cards survived years of basement storage with only minor signs of wear

What looked like a couple of forgotten mining rigs turned out to be a surprisingly valuable haul, with 12 RTX 3070 graphics cards potentially still ready for gaming duty.

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China-modified Nvidia RTX 5090 with massive 96GB of memory appears on Alibaba for less than $4,000 — 3x more VRAM at 65% the cost of the original
 China-modified Nvidia RTX 5090 with massive 96GB of memory appears on Alibaba for less than $4,000 — 3x more VRAM at 65% the cost of the original

An alleged Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 96GB with 96GB of modded VRAM surfaces on Alibaba for $3888.

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Desktop graphics card shipments hit four-year high of 12.5 million despite increasing prices — Nvidia takes 90% share as gamers rush to beat looming price spikes
 Desktop graphics card shipments hit four-year high of 12.5 million despite increasing prices — Nvidia takes 90% share as gamers rush to beat looming price spikes

Shipments of desktop add-in-boards in Q2 were the highest since Q1 2022 despite rising prices and dropping sales of desktop PCs, according to new numbers from Jon Peddie Research.

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Modded RTX 5090 ditches 16-pin power for triple 8-pin connectors — draws up to 900W and hits 3,400 MHz

TecLab’s experiment puts the humble 8-pin connector to an extreme test, with the modified RTX 5090 pulling more than 120A while avoiding the newer 12V-2×6 design altogether.

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Nvidia’s unreleased RTX 3070 Ti 16GB comes to life thanks to a modder’s crazy GDDR6 swap — Frankenstein card combines RTX 3070 PCB and new VRAM with RTX 3070 Ti GPU
 Nvidia’s unreleased RTX 3070 Ti 16GB comes to life thanks to a modder’s crazy GDDR6 swap — Frankenstein card combines RTX 3070 PCB and new VRAM with RTX 3070 Ti GPU

A modder has recreated the never-released RTX 3070 Ti with 16GB of VRAM using GDDR6 chips instead of the GDDR6X the retail 3070 Ti actually shipped with.

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All-in-one ‘DLSS Unlocked’ mod brings DLSS 5 and multi-frame gen to RTX 20, 30, and 40 series — hybrid tool taps AMD FSR 3.1 to boost frame rates up to 6X
 All-in-one ‘DLSS Unlocked’ mod brings DLSS 5 and multi-frame gen to RTX 20, 30, and 40 series — hybrid tool taps AMD FSR 3.1 to boost frame rates up to 6X

Performance for the mod remains untested but just the sheer utility of DLSS Unlocked easily puts it at the top of the RTX GPUs mod list. It combines OptiScaler_DLSSNR with DLSS Enabled to bring neural rendering and multi-frame gen to all RTX GPUs.

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German scammer dupes two different buyers into spending thousands on hollow RTX 5090 GPUs — stripped-out cards netted fraudster $5,000 despite being worthless
 German scammer dupes two different buyers into spending thousands on hollow RTX 5090 GPUs — stripped-out cards netted fraudster $5,000 despite being worthless

Graphics card scams without the core and memory chips are spreading worldwide, with the latest report coming from Germany.

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One-slot, low-profile Nvidia RTX 3060 12 GB with two monitor outputs breaks cover at Newegg for $496 — bus-powered model looking for a use case in local LLM work

Small-form-factor, low-profile Nvidia RTX 3060 12 GB with two monitor outputs breaks cover at Newegg for $496 — bus-powered model looking for a use case in local LLM work

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