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Darren Allan

Nvidia RTX 5090 owner practices soldering skills on a $5,000 GPU — and the result is predictably disastrous

NorthridgeFix working on fixing a damaged RTX 5090 board.

  • Someone bought an MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z, which is a $5,000 GPU
  • They then practiced their soldering skills on the board, and broke the graphics card
  • Why? It's surely because they wanted to implement a hardware mod that allows for an extreme BIOS to be run on the GPU
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