Should a fellow graphics card fall in the line of duty, it's down to its fellow soldiers to ensure it makes it back home. Okay, not really. But there's something genuinely touching about the story of this RTX 5070 Ti, which arrived in a Brazilian workshop with a hole in its PCB, rendering it unusable.
How did the hole get there? Unclear. But what was certain was that a large chunk of the VRMs were now missing, which meant power could no longer reach the chip itself (via Videocardz). However, YouTuber Paulo Gomes took it upon themselves to see what they could do for the stricken graphics card, and arrived at an unusual solution: wiring in the VRMs still attached to an AMD Radeon RX 580 donor card to provide electrical assistance to the fallen RTX 5070 Ti.
