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Hvor vil den stadigt stigende elefantisme af moderne grafikkort som de monstrøse Nvidia RTX 4090 (åbner i ny fane) ende? I døde GPU'er ser det ud til. En tysk computerreparationstekniker har rapporteret, at Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti-kort nu rutinemæssigt fejler på grund af stress forårsaget af det tunge grafikkort, der hænger i soklen.

KrisFix (åbner i ny fane) (Via Tom's Hardware (åbner i ny fane)) says that some of the card’s memory chips can suffer from failing solder points due to the board flexing under heavy sag in the PCI Express socket. It’s the chips located nearest the socket that fail because that’s where the board bends the most.

Cards that fail in this manner can be repaired, but re-balling and soldering the memory chips isn’t excatly a straight-forward DIY job.

The better option is preventative measures and happily that’s actually pretty straight forward. One easy option is an anti-sag bracket which many larger graphics cards do indeed include in the box.

En anden mulighed er en lodret grafikkortmontering (åbner i ny fane) that allows you to rotate the board through 90 degrees and remove all the stress. Either that or let’s all return to those clever landscape PCs of yore, you know the ones in beige boxes, and forget all these silly tower PCs and their sagging GPUs.

If you’ve been running a big old card without support don’t immediately panic. RTX 2080 Ti cards are now over four years old, so it takes a while for the stress of hanging from a socket to cause failure.

Men hvis du har en nyere model, f.eks. en af de latterligt massive RTX 4080 (åbner i ny fane) og 4090 samlinger, der i øjeblikket dingler fra stikkontakten i en tårnrig, ville det være klogt at finde en form for støtte før end senere.

Hvis noget, kan det være mere bekymrende at købe brugte kort. Hvor meget stress har det to år gamle RTX 30-serie kort allerede lidt?

Alt dette er endnu en grund til, at vi godt kan lide det nye Nvidia RTX 4070 (åbner i ny fane). It’s a sensibly sized thing, an actual graphics card, not some oversized beast that seems to have grown out of all proportion to the original intention or specifications of the PCIe graphics slot.

We should note for completeness that there’s no particular reason to assume these board stresses are unique to Nvidia. AMD has its own line in huge graphics cards, including the latest Radeon RX 7900 XT og XTX (åbner i ny fane) models. We’d be taking just as much care with those as larger Nvidia cards, that’s for sure.