His0car

I'm looking for a used Dark Rock Pro 4, but can't find any that don't have strong pitting or sit below the higher TDP-rated Dark Rock pro tr4 (for the threadripper series). Can you mount the tr4 cooler on regular AM4 CPUs?

I'm working towards understanding GPUs, their power supplys and informational videos about the topic. To visually show and therefore better explain components and vrms and the pcb, I'd love to have a GPU xrayed and found several companies, that do that, but only for industrial customers. Is there someone or a company that offers such a scan? To better see what I'm looking for here are two images produced by a machine, built by an individual (https://uvicrec.blogspot.com/2015/08/xy-ray-x-ray-scanner.html) :

I'm currently looking at a Ebay-listing of a Palit GTX 1080 ti, that is sold as "probably defective" due to the pc-psu having a short. Afaik, 1080tis have overcurrent and overvoltage protection, is there a good chance a short on the psu could have destroyed more than the fuse (the overcurrent protection) of the 1080 ti? I'm aware this is kind of a niche question, but maybe some experts here know that.

A 6 pin can output 75 watt and an 8 pin 150w and afaik you can use an 6 to 8 pin adapter (doesn't change the power output of the 6 pin though). The rx 580 has a power consumption of up to 185w judging from my short googling. The pci-e slot can supply additional 75 watt, so with the 6 pin and pci-e slot you couldn't supply the rx580 at maximum power draw. Also the sustained power delivery may be lower than what the pci-e slot and the 6 pin can supply at peak, so it probably would be good if you got an 8 pin or two 6 pin with adapter to 1 8 pin. I'm pretty new at this stuff so take it with a grain of salt

Wait for ampere like the others said, the prices of the 10xx-series should drop significantly, especially the 1080s, if you still want one. I think it is a good time to sell 10xx series gpus right now and invest into ampere, as they should get beefed up vs RDNA coming out later that year

Oh damn, nice observation that they actually removed the sticker

I can't find any image of a 2080 ti gaming pro that looks like the item in the attached link, can you find one?

A supposedly "2080 ti" was auctioned today as broken, this is the listing: https://www.ebay.at/itm/164236484445?ViewItem=&item=164236484445. Some of the descriptions kind of didn't match the item, so I stayed away from it. Now, after the listing ended I saw a gtx770 for sale: https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/palit-jetstream-gtx770-2gb-defekt-/1416820444-225-2042 and realized, that the 2080 ti doesn't look like on the box: 2080 ti.bmp Is there any 2080 ti that looks like the sold item? Would have to be some palit version I reckon, but I can't find any

And the case^^

I didn't write that you couldn't de-solder them, but not replace them. For example if the short goes further through the board and you have to grind it down to remove the short, it gets pretty hard to replace the traces and stuff, here Eli tech needs to grind down a pcb for that (pause right at the time stamped beginning to see the amount of damage ).

If for example we have some burned mosfets next to each other and have to desolder them, but can't replace them on the pcb, can we desolder all phases of this pcb and use the ones of a different gpu (maybe one with a dead chip), where we "deactivate" everything but the phases?

I know that much, but linus seems to make a distinction between ripping off a "pad" and ripping off a pin, which I don't understand.

Luckily it is not mine, I'd really like to know though why ripping of the pad is that bad

Linus said https://youtu.be/yh2XYkRwtBQ?t=313, that if you rip of a Pin including the Pad, it's gameover for the repair. Is this true? I'd be particularly interested in why a ripped of pad is worse than a ripped of pin. I'm trying to figure out if the CPU below could be repaired or not