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A Reddit user stumbled upon a significant GPU haul, discovering two old cryptocurrency mining rigs containing 12 Zotac-branded NVIDIA RTX 3070 graphics cards. These GPUs, originally used during the pandemic-era mining boom, had been sitting unused in a basement since Ethereum mining became unprofita

Brazilian YouTuber fmklab (Fabian) has successfully recreated a prototype of NVIDIA's unreleased RTX 3070 Ti 16GB graphics card. Originally expected to feature 16GB of VRAM instead of the 8GB in the actual release, this version was never officially launched. Fabian achieved the build by transplantin

A gamer discovered factory protective film on the VRM thermal pads of their Gigabyte RTX 3070 Gaming OC graphics card after five years of use, leading to overheating and system instability. Despite multiple troubleshooting attempts, including BIOS and driver updates, the issue persisted. Upon disass

A Reddit user from r/SerbiaGaming shared an impressive story of how his father repaired a dead RTX 3070 graphics card using a capacitor salvaged from an old radio. The GPU had failed due to a dislodged capacitor, and a repair shop demanded $120 to fix it. Instead, the father, an experienced electric