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Hi guys, I was cleaning my 1080 and installing new thermal pads when I accidently broke off a capacitor during disassembly. My question is, does anyone have experience resoldering SMD capacitors on GPUs and if so what solder do you use and what type of hot tweezers work best (required wattage)? In the picture I've attached you can see there is some copper showing so I think my best bet would be to remove the older solder with copper wicking, tin the copper contacts and then resolder the capacitor. Any advice for resoldering SMD components would be appreciated.

Hi everyone, I am upgrading my mining rig to 8 GPUs and I am currently able to get the system to post with 4 GPUs but not 6 or 8. I am running two power supplies for this build and I would like to run 4 GPUs on each PSU. I believe I have wired the power supplies correctly since the system works fine when I run 2 GPUs off one PSU and 2 off the other PSU. I originally thought maybe not enough power was being supplied by PSUs so I ran all 4 GPUs off one power supply and the system still posted and ran fine. I have also upgraded the motherboard BIOS to the most recent version but I still can't get it to post with 8 GPUs. Does anyone have any advice for what could be happening? Here is the full parts list of my build: (1) CPU.... Ryzen 5 5600G, 6-Core 12-Thread w/ Onboard Graphics (1) Motherboard.... ASUS ROG Strix B550-A Gaming (Includes PCIe 4.0, 2.5Gb LAN, BIOS Flash, etc.) (1) Memory.... TeamGroup 16GB DDR4, 3600MHz CL18 (2x8GB, Dark Color) (2) Power Supply.... EVGA SuperNOVA 1300W, 80+ Gold, ATX (1) SSD/Storage.... Kingston 240GB A400 SATA3 SSD (2) PCIe Adapter.... XT-XINTE PCIe 1 to 4 PCI-Express 16x Slots Riser Card, PCI-E 1X to External 4 PCI-e USB 3.0 Adapter Multiplier Card for Mining (8) Risers.... VER009S PCI-E Riser Card Graphic's Cards: (1) EVGA GTX 1080 Ti.... Black Edition (1) MSI GTX 1080 Ti.... Gaming X (2) EVGA GTX 1080.... Hybrid AIO (1) EVGA GTX 1080.... Founder's Edition (2) ZOTAC GTX 1080.... Amp Edition (1) EVGA GTX 1080.... FTW

The recommended power supply for this graphics card is 500W. A 700W PSU should be plenty.

As I wrote in my original post, I plan on replacing the power supply with a EVGA B700.

I recently inherited a Dell T1700 computer. It has a Xeon E3-1270 v3 CPU with 4 cores and 8 threads. It also has 16GB of RAM, 3TB HDD and 250GB SSD. Once I upgrade the power supply to something like a EVGA B700, I was considering buying either a RX580, RX590 or RX Vega 56. If I decide to use a RX Vega 56, will I have a bottleneck with the Xeon E3-1270 v3 CPU?