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I see that, the card had a very small amount of water damage which is likely what caused the original fuse able resistor that was there to blow. I cleaned the board pretty thurroughly with 99% isopropyl. I traded for the card as a broken card for my old crappy OptiPlex system that the guy wanted to use as a streaming pc, so im not super worried about the longevity of the device I just want to see if I can get it running for a few months or a year or something as a project and something to use in my system till I have more money to buy something fancy yknow.

so I did some research and you were exactly right, it is a 0 ohm fuse-able resistor. so im looking online and was just wondering if you would have any idea around what size code that would be or if im on my own for figuring that part out. I want to see if I can buy one so if something is shorted out the resistor will just blow instead of my psu/card.

thank you so much I will definitely try this. that makes sense to me. could I maybe even test this just by sticking a piece of foil between the two and running a benchmark and that way if it goes wonky I can just pull it off real quick

awesome thank you! so the piece im missing is one of the capacitors/transistors with the 0 on it, one of the small ones that you can see is missing in the picture I have taken and circled in the picture I pulled off the web, is there any good way of figuring out what kind of capacitor that is and any good way of getting a replacement? ive looked for broken cards for parts and cant find much of the same model but I can find like a 1070 or 1060 with an identical looking part on the pcb but i'm wondering if I could pull one off of a different model if it would work the same

I have a 1080 strix gamig that I got used for super cheap as a card that needs repairs, it crashes under heavy vram loads particularly, reproduce-able. runs furmark 3d and heaven at low settings no filtering just fine, runs league of legends at 180+ fps avg, but as soon as you turn up to settings or games that use heavy vram it instantly crashes as its loading textures. so I took it apart and low and behold i'm 90% sure there is a missing smd/smt capacitor/transistor. EDIT: some one posted a good picture for me to see of an identical card and it clearly has a part where mine is missing. I looked for identical or similar faulty cards to buy for parts but I cant find much. I've seen 1060's and 1070's from asus that have what look to be the same part the small capacitor with the 0 on it but im wondering if anybody knows if that same part off of a different model card would work on this or if there is a better way to go about getting a replacement capacitor

how much power can a x16 pcie riser cable carry? i've read that x16 slots provide up to 75w, is this true and are there any riser cables that are known to carry all 75w that the x16 slot provides without needing additional power like a molex plug attatched to the cable to supplement? i have a sff optiplex 7020 with a 1050ti that has no external power, and i need a riser cable to make it all fit so that i can put the side panel back on. the psu that is in it has no molex plugs or anything other than whats going to the motherboard, and from what i've read most pcie risers and cables dont transfer the full 75w of the x16 slot without some kind of external molex power from the psu. on a side note if i do end up needing a new psu to make this work, i'm considering going ahead and upgrading to a 1650 super. that card only has one external 6pin plug which i looked up online is only capable of carrying 75w. if what im reading is right, and a pcie riser can't carry a full 75w without molex, would a cable without molex at least be able to power the 1650 super under full load at its listed 100w tdp when combined with the cards 6pin external? if anybody has any experience with any of this i would super appreciate the help, could save me some money and headaches. thanks in advance!