immolationepoch
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Anybody skilled at soldering in NCR and willing to lend their expertise?
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enthusiast29
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Performing such a mod is in itself a risk which you have to accept. Anything can go wrong.
Question here is do you pass that risk to the person doing the job for you or do you accept the failure if it happens without blaming other party?
Simply put, will you demand a compensation from the person helping you out with this experiment of yours if something goes south and the card is toast?
Question here is do you pass that risk to the person doing the job for you or do you accept the failure if it happens without blaming other party?
Simply put, will you demand a compensation from the person helping you out with this experiment of yours if something goes south and the card is toast?
immolationepoch
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enthusiast29
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immolationepoch
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The risk and liability are mine, that is understood. That being said, I'm not looking for someone to test their soldering skills in this application. Rather, I'm looking for someone who has a good understanding of best practices and a decent amount of experience. I'm also open to paying a fee if the source is proven to be reliable and competent. The shunt mod should be easy for someone with the right skills as it involves soldering two resistors/shunts in parallel to the existing ones on the PCB. A wire that will provide auxiliary 12v power will also need to be soldered to one of the shunts as the GPU has no additional power connecters. If this isn't clue enough, the GPU is an RTX A2000.
I have all the equipment if that helps.
I have all the equipment if that helps.
A shop which does mobile motherboard repairing should easily be able to do it. You will have to guide him what goes where of course.
immolationepoch
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I haven't had the best experience in the past. Their methods are often crude.
immolationepoch
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immolationepoch
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Doesn't hurt to take a leap sometimes! The performance the shunt mod unlocks overwhelms the stock cooling solution quite quickly. Some water cooling is in order.. I'll share some results from the shunt mod on the SFF thread soon for anybody who may be interested. Cheers.
immolationepoch
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I did the soldering myself. I spent about USD 2-3 ordering the resistors from eBay. Had everything else handy. The water block for this GPU (originally developed for miners) is from a seller based in Poland who specializes in extreme cooling hardware. This was a little bit of a splurge.
asmlit
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Wow, I love these kind of mods and ordering stuff from different sources. I used to do this back in my school days. Ever heard of dual CPU mobos?
The price on the water block is around 90 euros, did they charge for customs and shipping as well?
immolationepoch
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Hi mate. Customs is charged at destination and is the responsibility of the importer. The packaged was declared as a gift worth EUR 10 so I paid nothing. The fact that the package was small probably also helped. Shipping fron Poland was EUR 10 and took about 2 weeks.
Dinesh6252
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immolationepoch
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The GPU power consumption reported via Afterburner, HWiNFO etc. is erroneous; but I'm within striking distance of RTX 3060 performance while the GPU consumes about 87W! Gotta love top binned silicon. I should have bought the 12 GB variant because I'm hitting VRAM limitations with the latest titles even at 1080p. The RTX 4000 SFF (Ada) provides RTX 3070 performance at 70W with 20 GB of VRAM to boot! Love these little workstation cards.
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