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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 12h

these cards where shipped in a undersized box with one layer of bubble wrap and touching each other... from China, and arrived quite beat up :(

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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 14h

P.S. I call this procedure "Tickling the core" 😆 because when the balls melted, you're very carefully tickling the GPU sides with a small 🪛 or tweezers, and any wrong move and you're done 😅

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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 15h

Lol, turns out one card wasn't 'fixed', it would artifact randomly, sometimes even while posting. After looking for a broken parts over and over, I've noticed it was pressure sensitive around the GPU, so I did a lazy thing and reflowed the chip, and I think it fixed it - first time for me 😅

s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 2d

and I 'fixed' the other two cards😆
turns out one of the cards has problems with the DVI port and would artifact and go black screen when monitor is connected to it, but works fine when connected to the VGA or with a DVI to VGA adapter(I suspect either a bad GPU or a bad BGA contact)

s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 3d

I fixed one. It was missing one of the 15-ohm resistors on the back of the card. As a result, only 64MB of memory was visible, and it wouldn't start with the driver installed 😞

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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 15h

something like this but modern and with glass

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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, I want something similar, maybe even smaller, without any extra space for the water or anything, plus an mATX version of it

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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 15h

same here, 100% getting this error after the PC goes to sleep and then wakes up

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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 15h

what model are these cases? they look compact

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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 1d

time to charge my PSPs...

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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 1d

Ukraine: Russian fascists carpet-bombed a residential neighborhood with cluster munitions in Zaporizhia region on the night of October 8th.

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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 1d

and I don't have a 3090 or two 🫣

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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 1d

🤗

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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 1d

Some day I'm going to build a 1080Ti SLI, or maybe even a 3090 SLI system😆

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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 1d

and Crysis, not the 100% utilization though

s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 1d

and apparently STALKER 😁
bsky.app/profile/s0n1...

s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · Aug 8

tested SLI in STALKER (285.62 driver)
top two screenshots:
NO SLI, SLI
bottom two:
forced 8X antialiasing(+transparency supersampling) NO SLI, SLI

forced 8X antialiasing(+transparency supersampling) NO SLI

forced 8X antialiasing(+transparency supersampling) SLI

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s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I'll test it with something from this thread 🤔
www.overclock.net/threads/pcie...

www.overclock.net

s0n1c.bsky.social @s0n1c.bsky.social · 1d

So far I haven't had any problems with SLI, but I've only played a couple of games... I remember the first Alan Wake running great on a pair of GTX 680

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