A Brazilian YouTuber with a talent for resurrecting and repurposing damaged or otherwise fatally destroyed Nvidia graphics cards has struck success with an RTX 4090. Paulo Gomes, who recently broke records with a Frankenstein RTX 5070 Ti, along with Jefferson Silva, have been able to resurrect a PCB-damaged MSI RTX 4090 by disabling one of its memory channels.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 ships with 24GB of GDDR6X VRAM as standard, but disabling one of its memory channels reduces the working capacity in this modified card to just 20GB. The card, which had seen structural damage to its PCB after being bent, is seen working in the YouTube video documenting the project (h/t Videocardz).
