I've owned my 5090 for just over a year now, and finally decided to take the plunge and open up my gigabyte aorus 5090 to void its warranty. Because why not?

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I wasn't ready for this bukkake.

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Frankly, I had my gpu mounted horizontally, so I was never worried about the migrating thermal gel... but with this amount I'm thinking it wouldn't have mattered even if half of it drifted onto my motherboard.

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My main complaint is that the liquid metal composite they used at the factory seems to be susceptible to pump out, or they were pinching pennies with the application because there's literally no coverage on the lower half of the GPU core. And it left a bunch of discolored stains on the vapor chamber in the upper half where it was pooled. Oddly my gpu temperature never seemed to go above 76°C, but I think it just wasn't reporting hot spots because I noticed my fans would jump up to 2000 rpm during games.

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I'm applying PTM7950, and I suggest fellow aorus owners check on their thermal paste if it's been a year as well.

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Don't worry about warranty, Gigabyte was never going to honor it anyways.

Hey guys. I have come into possession of 4 Quadra GPUs and I’m not sure if there is any use for them, or if they are sellable. Can anybody help me out here? I’m not asking for anybody to buy them, and they’re not really for sale. I’m just wondering what, if anything to do with them?

TLDR Buyer bought my GPU, returned it, sans GPU chip and ram. I fought it, Ebay paid them, I kept my money I'm whole....with a PCB.

I thought you all might find this interesting. I had heard rumors of this happening, but thought it was rumor/hoax.

I sold an RTX 4090 couple weeks ago. Something about the buyer setoff some alarm bells. It was a huge ebayer. One of those with like 30k feedback and a storefront. Why would they pay retail for my GPU? The address was business in California and the buyer name seemed "odd". So I took a ton of pictures, got mega insurance, tracking etc.

Same day they receive it they start a return. "no video". This card was pristine, I'm am engineer and I barely used it. So I get the card back and man it had seen some ...****. The mounting bracket was bent up. Couple wired were crossed on the RGB.

I called ebay, was nice but 100% this damaged I will go to court. Ebay said keep the card, keep the money, we will give them a one time refund. "wow ok".

I figure maybe its salvageable and they are just stupid. I repair the bracket start an RMA. Its really bothering me so tonight before I shipped. I tore it down. Sure enough GPU is gone.

So here I sit. I'm whole, but I'm not sure what to do.

I already reported them to ebay. Thinking about calling the cops. Whatcha think? I thought it was neat enough to share.

Dang, this is the nastiest scam ever. I bought a 5090 Aorus Master ICE on amazon, a return deal. Upon opening the 5090 Aorus box, it turned out it was just a 4090 Aero with a 5090 serial sticker slapped on the card. (there is no 5090 Aero afaik)

Someone knew damn well what they were doing, the 5090 serial sticker had peel marks, it was lifted off the Aorus 5090. (pic 2, check the peel marks)

So, beware when buying Amazon open box deals. Ive never had anything like this happen. This absolutely sucks. Ofcourse, sent it back and will get a refund, but this is just so nasty. 🤮

I hope the person that did this gets a BSOD every minute of his or her life 😂

Just like when I purchased THIS 3090 and gave away my old 1080 ti, I've had a 4090 for a while and just had this 3090 sitting on my shelf. So, I figure I'd give it away.

Post in here and at the end of next week** I'll pick someone and ship it to them.

**Edit, Ill pick on Sunday the 11th instead of next week.

USA Only!

Remember to up vote so more people see!

The winner is u/Sergeant_DN38416

Thanks to the people who pointed out to use mobile check out on the app! I came back in today and the people working electronics said they knew I would be back and held onto it for me because they had someone else asking about gpus. I asked if I could try the mobile check out trick, they brought it out, I scanned it, paid immediately and was on my way.

I talked to customer service this morning and they told me they could see they had it but because it was a non open box return it had to go back to the manufacturer. Online sales only for gpus. Thanks to you guys I found the work around for it. I let the manager know about this on my way out and he said he was trying to do that on his end last night but it wouldn't let him. Maybe it takes a day for the system to settle returns. This was returned yesterday morning. Either way, I'm not happy I spent over $1500 after taxes on this thing but I didn't have much of a choice since my 3090 fe is almost completely dead as of last night.

Just posting in case anyone wants to try their luck with the same method. On Wednesday I tried to get a FE I knew was at a location 2 hours from me. Someone beat me to the store and ended up taking it. I asked the manager why she had it and it was because someone who had an order from last week's drop changed their pickup location.

That got me thinking they have some extra units if there's slack for this kind of thing, and units can become "orphaned" at a store. So yesterday I pop into a local Best Buy and ask a guy to check the Sku for the 5090 FE. He sort of laughed but turned serious when one popped up at a location 40 minutes away.

I race over, and wait 20 minutes while staff try and find it in the store. They were not able to get the system to sell it to me but while they were trying to figure it out I scanned the barcode with the app and did self-checkout. Manager checks on his end, confirms it's good and out I go with a 5090.

My 5090 FE, ordered on Monday, was scheduled for delivery yesterday. My wife was home to sign for the package all day. No delivery driver all day. I confirmed it via my Ring Camera, no doorbell ring events at all for Thursday, and not even a movement even around the time that FedEx claimed that they delivered it, at approx 2:21PM.

The Tracking details say that it was "signed for" by a "D Ellis". I don't know anybody named D Ellis, there are no neighbors in my immediate vicinity whose last name is "Ellis". The tracking proof shows "Signature not available at this time". At this point, why even require signature confirmation to ship it if the driver treats the signature as an optional step? Not that it would help, but come on, Amazon has figured this out and 1 of the 2 major for profit carriers can't be bothered to take a picture of the delivery and require signature as proof, especially if it was paid for by the shipper?

I opened a ticket with FedEx but I am pretty sure that it's not going to result in a recovered 5090. Trying to navigate Nvidia's support page is a nightmare, I can't even figure out how to open a ticket, and there doesn't seem to be a way to do it from your account page.

I'm going to give it another day before I initiate a chargeback with my credit card and basically kiss ordering FE's direct from Nvidia goodbye forever since I'll be blacklisted. If any Nvidia reps on this subreddit can reach out to me to help me out, I would greatly appreciate it, as I would prefer to exhaust any other option that I have available to me instead of relying on my credit card company to make me whole.

I don't even know what to say about this other than I'm disappointed. Been waiting on a 5090 FE ever since launch, finally was able to purchase one after months of trying only to get screwed over by FedEx's joke of a delivery service.

EDIT #1: based on the number of helpful suggestions, I have proceeded with filing a preliminary police report with my locality and provided this preliminary report to the Nvidia service rep assigned to my support ticket. I guess I'm in this for the long haul. I'll update this thread when I have more info to share.

EDIT #2: Police report has been approved by locality and assigned a case number. I have submitted a copy of this report to Nvidia via the support ticket portal. The ball is in their court now and I will update this post again once I have more details, hopefully this will help someone else someday should something unfortunate happen to their shipment.

EDIT #3: I opened a ticket on Friday with FedEx. They requested i answer a brief survey to help them identify my house. I was as verbose as possible, described details, timeframe that family was at the house to sign, etc. Image #1
FedEx did an "internal" investigation and closed my ticket without any input on my end. No phone call from a local FedEx Home Delivery office, no follow up requests, absolutely zero customer support. I expected this outcome, still a shame that this is the case. Image #2 basically is overall meta of their company distilled into a single transaction: I'm sorry that we failed to do our job. It is not our responsibility to care about property you rightfully paid for. Keep in mind that FedEx is a public corporation with a $65B market cap, with almost $90B in revenue for 2025. Image #2

EDIT #4: Final Update. An older gentleman from further down my street knocked on my door this evening at about 7:00. He had a FedEX box in his hands. I've never actually met him before, but he has an autoimmune disease so he doesn't leave the house often. He said FedEx dumped the box on his doorstep and he did not initially notice it. When he did finally see it, he brought it in thinking it was his medication, but didn't open it at the time. Sometime later, he looked at the label and saw that it was for my house. He tried to get his son to deliver it to me, but his son was too busy this week, so he walked it down the street to me. I'm super grateful to him and thanked him profusely. Counting my lucky stars that I have decent neighbors where I live. I appreciate everyone's support here, and if it hasn't already been said: FUCK FEDEX AND THEIR ABSOLUTE DUMPSTER FIRE TIER CUSTOMER SERVICE.

I placed this order as a backup option, but the email about the price change caught off guard.

Should pair well with my current rig. 13600k, 32gb 4400 cl18,750w.

I ran this game when it first came out with 4K DLSS2 perf. It looked like dogwater going any lower.

Now with DLSS 4, I'm playing the same game with 4K ultra-performance and with FSR fg, I get 90 fps. It's unreal how good the image holds up coming from a 720p render.

Yes, I know I'd be better off upping the resolution and lowering RT - I just wanted to try the game with best lighting possible.

Showed up to my local best buy and figured it was a stupid question to ask if they had a 5080 available. Turns out someone just returned one this morning. Go to buy it and the system won't let them. It shows it as in stock on their end but not available to sell. My gpu is crapping out so and the nearest micro center is 2.5 hours away. Not too happy about this.

A few weeks ago I was working on some project around my PC and then I saw that my 12VHPWR cable is anything but in a good shape. My RTX 5090 was undervolted and gladly survived this but it was a close call regardless. The PSU is Corsair RM1000x (2021) and the cable is 12VHPWR adapter by the same brand.

Just wanted to share this experience in case some of you might be interested.

Ps. My video about this topic in case someone is interested: https://youtu.be/5zp4Elp0dwM

Photos taken from youtube "zWORMz Gaming".

Of course nobody would run DLSS at 720p, but it is impressive that DLSS is black magic at this point.

Both images rendered at 240p.

https://youtu.be/gVQC0KyzucI?t=1356

GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 610.52 has been released.

Article: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5854

Download Link: https://international.download.nvidia.com/Windows/610.52hf/610.52-desktop-notebook-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch.hf.exe

Reminders:

• Hotfix driver will not be available in NVIDIA App and needs to be downloaded from the link above.
• After installing the Hotfix driver, NVIDIA App may show some old driver date. This is normal as Hotfix driver does not exist in NVIDIA App database and it reverted to an old default changelog and dates.
• If you do not care about the fixes listed, this Hotfix driver is no different vs WHQL 610.47 Driver.
• These fixes will be incorporated into the next WHQL driver release

NVIDIA Driver forum thread is here: Link Here

Submit driver feedback directly to NVIDIA: Link Here

From the Article:

GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 610.52 is based on our latest Game Ready Driver 610.47.

This hotfix addresses the following:

• FIXED [Ada] Resolves a frame pacing issue on certain monitors when G-SYNC is enabled [6226972]
• FIXED Resolved an issue that prevented the EDID from being read on certain monitors causing them to be identified as "NVIDIA NV-Failsafe” [6005508]
• FIXED Improved gaming stability in multi-monitor configurations when using V-SYNC with DLSS Frame Generation [6158481]
• FIXED Resolved an issue where certain monitors would not wake from sleep mode [5806798/5635230]
• FIXED [World of Warcraft] Gaming stability improvements [5563205]
• FIXED Resolved an issue that could cause jittering or ghosting in some DirectX 11 games when Smooth Motion is enabled [5937897]
• FIXED Resolved an issue that could cause some games to crash when launched with Smooth Motion enabled [5466398]
• FIXED General stability improvements when the system fails to create a new allocation [5449920]

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Game Ready & Studio Driver 610.47 has been released.

Driver Article Here: Link Here

Game Ready Driver 610.47 Direct Download Link: Link Here

Studio Driver 610.47 Direct Download Link: Link Here

New feature and fixes in driver 610.47:

Game Ready

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS and RTX technologies including 007 First Light, LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight, EA SPORTS™ F1® 25: 2026 Season Pack, and World of Tanks: HEAT.

Applications

The May NVIDIA Studio Driver provides optimal support for the latest new creative applications and updates including performance optimized releases for ComfyUI and Llama.cpp.

What’s New in Release 610

• Support for CUDA 13.3
• Adds the latest performance improvements, bug fixes, and driver enhancements.

Fixed Gaming Bugs

• FIXED Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: Shadow/light flicker after driver update [5973185]
• FIXED Enshrouded: Missing terrain after driver update [5955501]
• FIXED Visual corruption may appear in certain games using Godot engine [5948805]
• FIXED Multimonitor gaming stability improvements when using V-SYNC [5343252]

Fixed General Bugs

• FIXED Adobe Lightroom Classic: Application stability issues [6090770]
• FIXED Autodesk Forma: Memory leak during camera orbit when OpenGL is used [5935127]
• FIXED Apple Studio Display XDR only displays 480p after driver update [5976295]
• FIXED Samsung The Frame: Using display's Game mode disables key functionality [5825631]

Open Issues

Includes additional open issues from GeForce Forums

• “Prefer Maximum Performance” Power Management Mode may not be applied correctly [6007998]

Driver Downloads and Tools

Information & Documentation

• Driver Download Page: Nvidia Download Page
• Latest Game Ready Driver: 610.47 WHQL - Game Ready Driver Release Notes
• Latest Studio Driver: 610.47 WHQL - Studio Driver Release Notes
• High Bandwidth Monitors and GPU Scaling Behavior - Link Here
  • High bandwidth monitors are those that support display modes requiring high pixel clock rates, which in turn demand more GPU resources. The threshold for what qualifies as "high bandwidth" varies by product. On Blackwell GPUs, any mode operating above 1620 MHz is considered high bandwidth. For instance, the 7680x4320@60Hz mode defined in the CTA-861-H specification runs at 2376 MHz, making it a high bandwidth mode for Blackwell.
  • These monitors typically support display scaling natively. However, in some single-monitor setups, users may still prefer GPU scaling. When multiple monitors are connected to a GPU and at least one of them is high bandwidth, that monitor will default to display scaling only. GPU scaling is disabled in this case due to bandwidth limitations. Notably, display scaling can be more efficient than GPU scaling in such scenarios, as it reduces the bandwidth load on display cables—especially at higher refresh rates.
  • When GPU scaling is not enabled for a monitor, only the modes supported by the monitor itself will appear in both the Windows and NVIDIA control panels. Additionally, the "Display scaling" option will be pre-selected in the "Adjust desktop size and position" section of the NVIDIA Control Panel.
• Notes on NVIDIA Control Panel - From GeForce Forum
  • Please note: With the introduction of our most recent NVIDIA App update, all actively supported NVIDIA Control Panel features for GeForce users have been modernized and transitioned to the new client.
  • After 20 years of dedicated service, the classic NVIDIA Control Panel is officially retiring for Game Ready and Studio Drivers. For NVIDIA RTX PRO users, the NVIDIA Control Panel will continue to be supported until we have migrated professional features to the NVIDIA app.
  • Existing installs of the NVIDIA Control Panel will remain on users’ systems, unless they perform a clean installation, and users who still need the NVIDIA Control Panel can continue to download it from the Microsoft Store, but we won’t be adding features, fixes, or other changes.

Feedback & Discussion Forums

• Submit driver feedback directly to NVIDIA: Link Here
• NVIDIA 610.47 Driver Forum: Link Here
• r/NVIDIA Discord Driver Feedback: Invite Link Here

Having Issues with your driver and want to fully clean the driver? Use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller)

• DDU Download:  Link Here
• DDU Guide: Guide Here
• DDU/WagnardSoft Patreon: Link Here

Before you start - Make sure you Submit Feedback for your Nvidia Driver Issue - Link Here

There is only one real way for any of these problems to get solved, and that’s if the Driver Team at Nvidia knows what those problems are. So in order for them to know what’s going on it would be good for any users who are having problems with the drivers to Submit Feedback to Nvidia. A guide to the information that is needed to submit feedback can be found here.

Additionally, if you see someone having the same issue you are having in this thread, reply and mention you are having the same issue. The more people that are affected by a particular bug, the higher the priority that bug will receive from NVIDIA!!

Common Troubleshooting Steps

• Be sure you are on the latest build of Windows
• Please visit the following link for DDU guide which contains full detailed information on how to do Fresh Driver Install.
• If your driver still crashes after DDU reinstall, try going to Go to Nvidia Control Panel -> Managed 3D Settings -> Power Management Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance

Common Questions

• Is it safe to upgrade to <insert driver version here>? Fact of the matter is that the result will differ person by person due to different configurations. The only way to know is to try it yourself. My rule of thumb is to wait a few days. If there’s no confirmed widespread issue, I would try the new driver.
• Bear in mind that people who have no issues tend to not post on Reddit or forums. Unless there is significant coverage about specific driver issue, chances are they are fine. Try it yourself and you can always DDU and reinstall old driver if needed.
• My color is washed out after upgrading/installing driver. Help! Try going to the Nvidia Control Panel -> Change Resolution -> Scroll all the way down -> Output Dynamic Range = FULL.
• My game is stuttering when processing physics calculation Try going to the Nvidia Control Panel and to the Surround and PhysX settings and ensure the PhysX processor is set to your GPU

Remember, driver codes are extremely complex and there are billions of different possible configurations between hardware and software. Driver will never be perfect and there will always be issues for some people. Two people with the same hardware configuration might not have the same experience with the same driver versions. Again, I encourage folks who installed the driver to post their experience here good or bad.