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It's amazing the difference a year of use has on thermal paste. It was solid cake on mine before I repasted with the noctura nt-h2 paste. Reckon when you refurb your card it'll be so much better and quieter Who needs a 40 series

Personally I think the Asus gpu fans are quite delicate. The bearings can be damaged by improper handling and/or by cleaning e.g. use of high power air putting too much pressure on one side of the bearing. Might of happened with your ex- mining card. As long as you're careful with them they seem ok generally. If you do some maintenance on it, you can seriously improve the performance of older cards. So if I were you I'd take the opportunity to strip down and re- thermal paste and everything.

They should do. I'm in the UK. May not be as cheap as AliExpress but they are definitely genuine parts straight from Asus' supplier. This I can confirm with absolute certainty. They were with mine. Here is my original thread at the time.

I used this company to replace all my fans on my x2 Asus 980ti strix with genuine sourced replacements: https://www.gpufanreplacement.com/ Would recommend. The price was reasonable and I bought six and replaced the lot after about 4 or 5 years. (Before my recent upgrade to 3080ti and the 980ti are put out to pasture in x2 office PC) I had similar issues to you with the bearings on one. Since replacement. No issues whatsoever. They are genuine sourced. Or were in my case. Matched exactly the fans product codes etc from Asus. Physically the same. But no failures to date after 1 to 2 years heavy use.

For me it's got to the point that the phrase "**** you Jensen" Is literally my mantra. I'd also add that Linus Sebastian and others in the tech community will look very out of touch if they think this blatant price gouging is acceptable to the average consumer Just how much money do they think we're made of? Consumers are not a bottomless pit. When prices go excessive, consumers stop consuming and go elsewhere! "**** you Jensen"

The fact one was dented. Is beyond ironic.

LOL I'm enjoying my Samsung QN90B How much has he spent on that Asus? No doubt. Alot.

@Glenwing this thread is fantastic. Missing some HDMI2.1 references in its current version. But so so so informative. Essential quick reference

Nevermind HTC Vive has a spare mini display port I can use https://www.vive.com/uk/support/vive/category_howto/when-to-use-mini-displayport.html The fact I've also got a Titan Ridge thunderbolt 3 gives me so many further options too. It's meaning even though my RTX 3080TI only has one HDMI2.1 I can display port to mini display port to the titan ridge then thunder bolt 3 to hdmi2.0 to the HTC Vive. Alternatively just display port 1.4 to mini display port 1.4 on the Vive Did good getting that thunderbolt 3 card last year. Never used it but got it just in case. Now looks like I will use it. For tv capture card too. I'm only constrained by what cables I have available... BTW. This thread is fantastic

Ok, its here. Everything installed. Looks like I've got a good one, no broken pixels I can see and/or no backlight issues. Another issue. I have a HTC VIVE that also requires a HDMI connection. What do you recommend? My Asus RTX 3080Ti only has one HDMI2.1 thats being used by the tv/monitor. I have displayport 1.4 cables and/or HDMI 2.0 cables and/or a Thunderbolt 3 card. But just not enough HDMI connections right now...

I just installed the beast (GPU) ready for the monitor setup tomorrow morning Everything is up up and running again PC side before changing monitors

@Stahlmann Since the Samsung is a HDMI 2.1 connection only, I've purchased a dedicated HDMI 2.1 cable https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08YD5SL4Y/ Arrives tomorrow. I've got a HDMI2.0 cable here which can use to then, but I know I'm limited to 60 Hz till then. I don't think I have any DisplayPort 1.4 to HDMI adapters. I've got HDMI and DisplayPort to DVI but nothing necessary here for this 4K screen. Just thought, what the hell get a HDMI2.1 cable. That one on Amazon.co.uk has a lot of good reviews and reasonably priced. I realise HDMI2.0 isn't going to cut it to get the full capabilities of the display. By the way. I do actually have a thunderbolt 3 PCIe card with thunderbolt 3, I just haven't used... Thats my GPU so no issues with HDMI2.1 or DisplayPort3 https://rog.asus.com/graphics-cards/graphics-cards/rog-strix/rog-strix-rtx3080ti-o12g-gaming-model/spec/ Like I say. Also have a Gigabyte Titan Ridge Thunderbolt 3 card https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GC-TITAN-RIDGE-rev-20#kf

read the Amazon page review for the Gigabyte FV43U and/or online for 'broken pixels' etc People mentioning how bad the QA is. Widely. https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabyte/comments/nco3xa/fv43u_with_tons_of_dead_pixels/

Related, I'm changing my order to the Samsung QN90B 43 inch Just cancelling the Gigabyte one now. Hadn't shipped yet Between you and @e22big you convinced me to change

I'm just in the process of cancelling my order (it hadn't dispatched yet) I'm changing my order to the Samsung QN90B 43 inch As I'm very concerned at some of the poor QA issues I've read with Gigabyte