Re: Denied RMA for second-hand purchase of RTX 2080ti Black Edition Gaming
2020/10/25 13:29:49
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adityajaypal
Dabadger84
Can you get us a "from the side" view that shows this "bent PCB" they speak of? It looks relatively fine... not that I'm saying eVGA isn't right, obviously they know better than the majority of people here when it comes to if the PCB was broken by the original owner or not... but yeah.
This is the best I could do, while trying to avoid the fisheye effect from my phone camera: https://imgur.com/a/2pDGG9l. There is a very slight bend, but that's the most I can say based on my limited expertise...
In the top picture you can see the bow in the PCB starting at the NV Link connector to the IO plate. The previous owner probably tried to straighten it out but you can still see evidence of it there. It doesn't look like a lot but it also doesn't take much to damage the fragile and sometimes hair thin traces in the PCB. Unfortunately some of the internal copper traces have probably been severed. Baking the card will not fix that. The baking trick is only to reflow solder that may have cracked or loosened it won't do anything for copper.
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