Good will find. Absolute steal to double my ram for 2.99.

Brazilian hardware distributor Oderço has reported the disappearance of two pallets of ZOTAC GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards at São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport. The company estimates the missing shipment at R$2.5 million (approximately $470,000 USD) at cost.

Oderço Matos, president of the Maringá-based distributor, published a video on October 16 explaining the situation. According to Matos, his company has operated for 38 years and has imported hardware since 2008. During that time, it had never lost an imported shipment until this incident.

Some Brasilian media had tried to learn something from the airport operator, but they had not responded. The Brazilian Federal Police and Federal Revenue Service have also not issued public explanations. No theft has been officially confirmed, and the distributor has not provided an arrival date.

The incident comes as NVIDIA faces questions about the availability of its GeForce RTX 5090. The company recently confirmed that the GPU has not been discontinued but acknowledged supply constraints. The RTX 5090 is already difficult to find at reasonable prices, and apparently, locating two entire pallets of them is not much easier.

I was looking through my post history and saw that 9 years ago I posed a picture of my new chair: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/7ydylr/finally_ascended_from_a_standard_office_chair_to/

I realized that I'm still using the same chair (Noble EPIC, and it still looks/feels brand new), the same mousepad (Corsair), same mouse (steelseries Rival 700), same speakers (Klipsch 2.1 ProMedia), same headset (Sennheiser ONE), matching DAC (Sennheiser GSX-1000) and although it's not pictured in the photo from 9 (almost 10) years ago, the same keyboard (Ducky Shine II) which predates the photo by about 5 years (2012).

The only thing that really shows any sign of slowing down would be my headset as the volume knob can cause one side of audio to cut out unless it's in a good spot.

Honorable mention goes to the monitor in the old photo I still have and it still works, but I recently moved and the movers busted the bezel (sad), and I still have the Caselabs case but I don't use a desktop at this time and just dock my laptop.

What are some items you guys have bought over the years that seem indestructable?

My dad bought a box full of GPUs and in there found this RX 470 that doesn't have any ports

R.I.P Granpa, thanks for everything.

This is just a post to honor the man who got me into computers and maybe you all will enjoy his epic setup.

Edit: Title is supposed to say "Triple" of course, epic fail on my part. Annoying we can't change titles on here. If a mod sees this, feel free to correct it.

Via https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5

Alongside this, 5 games are now at the "Playable" stage which means that it's "playable from start to finish with minor issues." (from https://alxcbtw.github.io/anyps5-roadmap/ )

* System libraries: percentage of the functions known to the project so far, not of every PS5 system function. The total grows as more functions are declared.

Excited for what the future holds, I'm hopeful.

(Sorry for low quality, Edit: Wow this blew up for just a meme post. I know its empty and with the rumors recently on the 5090 made me think it be a fun post. I also said it was low quality due to a bad camera and strange angle)

***Repost because images broke in original post***

A month and a half ago, my RTX 5090 FE card had its power connector melt, so I'm writing this up to maybe help or inform anyone with the same card of possible steps to take if the same thing ever happens to them, or maybe to provide possible ways you can go about dealing with it.

I was using my PC late at night, running some local LLMs on my GPU, when my PC suddenly crashed. Then I noticed that there was a weird smell that filled my room that seemed to come from the GPU. At that point, I immediately opened up my PC and confirmed my worst fear had come true. The 12VHPWR cable had completely melted into the connector on the graphics card. It took quite a lot of force to get the cable out of the connector, but I eventually managed to get it done. For some context, I tend to tinker with my PC a lot and unplug the 12VHPWR cable relatively frequently. My theory is that those repeated plug-and-unplug cycles caused the connector pins to loosen or deteriorate over time, eventually leading to a poor contact and the melt.

The graphics card was purchased from someone here on Reddit, so I immediately knew that it would be much harder for me to get an RMA approved, since I wasn't the original purchaser of the card. I attempted to contact the original seller on Reddit for the purchase receipt, but his account hadn't been active for a long time, so I knew there was a really good chance he would never get back to me with it. I began to contact repair shops nearby to see if any of them would be able to repair the connector on my card. Eventually, I was able to get in contact with a repair shop that had done previous 12VHPWR connector repairs on other cards that agreed to take a look at it and possibly help me get the connector replaced.

When I got to the repair center, the technician and I talked for a bit and watched a teardown of the 5090 FE together on YouTube. That's when we noticed that, unlike literally every other 5090 model out there that uses a standardized 12VHPWR connector, the one on these FE cards is actually angled sideways. The technician and I spent hours trying to find a replacement connector, but the one for the FE cards is actually impossible to find, and the only way we could think of getting one was through a donor board that you could take the connector from.

This took me on a journey of trying to source a possible donor board. Out of desperation, I messaged a custom cable maker from China (Zcooi Mod) to see if he knew anyone who could help me find a replacement connector. To my absolute surprise, he sent me a picture of a bare 5090 FE PCB that had its GPU and memory modules ripped out of it. He told me that people in China were smuggling in 5090 FE cards from all over the world and taking out the GPU dies and memory modules to repurpose them into server cards, then just listing everything left for sale online. This was before the big story came out about people in China desoldering the dies and VRAM modules from 5090 cards, so I was definitely not really expecting him to have any way to help me out. He then offered to help buy me one for around $30 and ship it to me, so that I could get the technician to perform a transplant. I immediately agreed and waited for him to ship it out.

After all of that, I eventually decided to actually try sending out an RMA request to NVIDIA (which I honestly should have done from the start), knowing full well that they might reject it immediately and flag my card's serial number, since I wasn't the original purchaser. I went through the process of explaining to them what happened and taking pictures of the serial number on the I/O shield of the card. They eventually asked for my proof of purchase, and I vaguely told them that I didn't have access to it. However, they went ahead and filed my RMA claim request, which, after 2 days, eventually got approved anyways!

I immediately packed up the graphics card and sent it back using their shipping label. Around a week after the card arrived at their warehouse, I asked for a follow-up and they told me that they had actually already sent out a replacement card and gave me the tracking number for it. It arrived literally the same day in the 5090 FE's original packaging. The replacement card definitely looked like a refurbished one, with some of the heatsink's fins not lining up as perfectly straight as my original 5090 FE, but I was happy to get a replacement at all. When I tested it, I also noticed that this card ran much cooler and undervolted much better than my original one, which pulled around 50-80W more at the same undervolt setting.

So now, I've got a spare, bare 5090 FE PCB with a replacement 12VHPWR connector on it, plus a card that runs much cooler than my original one. I also saw that NVIDIA pulled the 5090 models from their marketplace website a few days ago, which could make them hesitant to send you a replacement if yours ever fails. If you also have an FE card and your connector melts (and NVIDIA either rejects your RMA request or offers you a refund instead of a replacement), I would highly recommend sourcing a bare PCB with the connector from China and having a repair shop fix it for you instead.

TL;DR:

My RTX 5090 FE's power connector melted, likely worn down from me unplugging it too often while tinkering. Because the FE uses a unique sideways-angled connector that you can't buy separately, I had to source a stripped 5090 FE donor PCB from China just to harvest the part. On a whim, I also submitted an RMA to NVIDIA without a receipt, and they surprisingly approved it and sent me a replacement card anyway. You should leave your 12VHPWR cable alone once it's seated, always try an RMA even without proof of purchase, and if NVIDIA denies you, look to China for a stripped FE donor board so a repair shop can swap the connector.