As RTX GPUs age and 12VHPWR connectors fail, ZapFixers steps in to restore burned cards and prevent costly replacements. We’re seeing more RTX cards with burned connectors every week — even older GPUs ...

TL;DR: Northridge Fix, a Los Angeles electronics repair expert, warns against buying the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition due to its fragile, complex multi-piece design and delicate PCIe connector.

Gaming laptops promise desktop-class performance in a backpack, but repair benches tell a different story. High failure rates ...

Why it matters: The surprisingly common practice of replacing a high-end graphics card's GPU with a different one from a cheaper card, borking it in the process, isn't going away. A Chinese repair ...

Hardware Slop?: While repairing a nonworking piece of gaming hardware is a common occurrence, adding extra RAM during the process is still unusual. However, a Chinese modder recently said that this ...