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Modded RTX 5090 ditches 16-pin power for triple 8-pin connectors — draws up to 900W and hits 3,400 MHz

TecLab’s experiment puts the humble 8-pin connector to an extreme test, with the modified RTX 5090 pulling more than 120A while avoiding the newer 12V-2×6 design altogether.

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Nvidia’s unreleased RTX 3070 Ti 16GB comes to life thanks to a modder’s crazy GDDR6 swap — Frankenstein card combines RTX 3070 PCB and new VRAM with RTX 3070 Ti GPU

A modder has recreated the never-released RTX 3070 Ti with 16GB of VRAM using GDDR6 chips instead of the GDDR6X the retail 3070 Ti actually shipped with.

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All-in-one ‘DLSS Unlocked’ mod brings DLSS 5 and multi-frame gen to RTX 20, 30, and 40 series — hybrid tool taps AMD FSR 3.1 to boost frame rates up to 6X

Performance for the mod remains untested but just the sheer utility of DLSS Unlocked easily puts it at the top of the RTX GPUs mod list. It combines OptiScaler_DLSSNR with DLSS Enabled to bring neural rendering and multi-frame gen to all RTX GPUs.

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German scammer dupes two different buyers into spending thousands on hollow RTX 5090 GPUs — stripped-out cards netted fraudster $5,000 despite being worthless

Graphics card scams without the core and memory chips are spreading worldwide, with the latest report coming from Germany.

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One-slot, low-profile Nvidia RTX 3060 12 GB with two monitor outputs breaks cover at Newegg for $496 — bus-powered model looking for a use case in local LLM work

Small-form-factor, low-profile Nvidia RTX 3060 12 GB with two monitor outputs breaks cover at Newegg for $496 — bus-powered model looking for a use case in local LLM work

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Astonishing mod runs DLSS 5 on a second GPU to boost neural-rendered FPS up to 127% — game renders on one card, neural post-processing runs on the other, much like dedicated PhysX GPUs

A modder has created a ReShade add-on that runs Nvidia’s DLSS 5 Neural Rendering on a second GPU, rendering the game on the first GPU to share the performance load.

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Enthusiast says DLSS 5 pushed RTX 5090 past 600W and melted the 16-pin connector — Nvidia’s neural rendering tech adds up to 50% more power draw in testing

Another RTX 5090 has gone down but this time it has something else to blame other than its own 16-pin connector. The connector is still what melted but potentially because of DLSS 5 pulling way too much power at the back end.

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Single-slot low-profile 75W RTX 3060 with no power connectors disappoints in tests — GPU runs entirely off the PCIe slot, but offers severely crippled performance and frightening thermals