PC Gamer's Father Resurrects Dead NVIDIA RTX 3070 With Capacitor From Old Radio

Legendary dad fixes their kid's dead RTX 3070 by ripping the capacitor out of an old radio and slapping it on the side, saving over $100 in the process

Stara škola električara - najbolja from r/SerbiaGamingIt's never nice to have to replace your old hardware, but with the memory crisis in full swing, it has become more and more painful to watch old hardware break down. That's why it's particularly nice to see people save their old hardware with a little ingenuity, and one Redditor's dad used a whole heaping of it recently. As spotted by Tom's Hardware, user External_Length_8877 took to the Serb…

PC Gamer's Father Resurrects Dead NVIDIA RTX 3070 With Capacitor From Old Radio

Over the years, we’ve covered stories about scammers selling gamers anything else other than the GPU they ordered, along with a handful of GPUs arrived faulty or DOA. Well, today’s story is surprisingly wholesome and somewhat biblical: the resurrection of a dead NVIDIA RTX 3070. Here’s the story: Almost a fortnight ago, a Redditor by the handle External_Length_8877 posted on the SerbianGaming subreddit about how his father brought his dead RTX 3…

Ingenious father fixes dead RTX 3070 with a jerry-rigged capacitor from an old radio — Saves worried son $120 in repair costs, GPU 'works better than before' now

We've seen a lot of dead GPUs around here, some of which have been brought back to life in the most fascinating ways possible — this one we found on the r/SerbiaGaming subreddit is no different. An unlucky gamer found himself a savior when their RTX 3070 died, and a repair shop demanded 12,000 Serbian Dinars, or roughly $120, to repair it. That savior was none other than the OP's own father, who fixed his dead GPU with a salvaged capacitor from …