Alex de Northridgefix was in despair after a customer sent him a “crazy RTX 3090” for repair. The graphics card was sent to Northridgefix because it was not detected during connection to a PC system. An accompaniment note explained that the card was “not used for mining”, has been in stock for several years and that the fans and RGB LEDs sometimes worked. However, Alex quickly discovered that this graphics card was out of repair: with a missing GPU, devoid of VRAM fleas, and “brought down components as you have never seen it before”. The PCB looks a real waste.


Northridgefix saw its just part of desperate cases sent for repair, but this RTX 3090 (Review Link) seems rather confusing with Alex. First, the owner writes as if it was his game card and simply neglected in a PC stored for three years. The owner continues to reassure the graphics card fixing service that the RTX 3090 has not been damaged by the exploitation of the cryptocurrency. However, this bad graphics card has much more damage than the race in a GPU mining platform could have inflicted. “Is this customer in contact with reality?” Sonda Alex, rhetorically.
There must be a simpler explanation for missing GPU and RAM fleas, and chaotic damage to other support components that we see. The answer, believes that Alex, is that his client bought this GPU from a crook who offered insurance that this particular GPU had been in a storage PC for several years and has never used for exploitation GPU. These insurances were then transmitted in the customer’s repair citation message, which perhaps hoped that a simple solution was possible. It was certainly not an “easy problem” that a repairer could solve.
The best lesson we can withdraw from this video is that buyers must be more cautious when purchasing computers and components used. Alex de Northridgefix ends his video by repeatedly emphasizing that it is important to choose an online platform which is reliable and “has a very good return policy” during remote purchase. If you can buy and test in person, with a local agreement, it could be different because you can insist on performing certain games and benchmarks To test the equipment – as well as speak to the previous owner in person.
Currently, with people who sell old GPUs to increase money for new generation components, the desperately broken RTX 3090 lesson could serve as an important recall. Cards like this are always powerful, seated high in the Tom material GPU hierarchyAnd Vorm-Sage (24 GB), it comfortably beats the new shiny RTX 5080 (16 GB). Please be careful there in a second-hand field, people.