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Yeah, I would be pissed...Though, some devices should just not be shipped assembled.

Archive: https://archive.today/pVGJC

From the post:

>Broken PCIe fingers are becoming a frustrating trend among Nvidia's latest flagship graphics cards based on its RTX 5090 Founders Edition design. Computer technician NorthridgeFix on YouTube published a video detailing the story of one of his customers who suffered such bad luck on not just any high-end RTX Blackwell GPU, but Nvidia's crazy-expensive $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 workstation graphics card. According to the video, the card snapped under its own weight during transit after the unfortunate owner (a tech YouTuber with 40 million subscribers, apparently) didn't uninstall it before moving it.

Yeah, I would be pissed...Though, some devices should just not be shipped assembled. Archive: https://archive.today/pVGJC From the post: >>Broken PCIe fingers are becoming a frustrating trend among Nvidia's latest flagship graphics cards based on its RTX 5090 Founders Edition design. Computer technician NorthridgeFix on YouTube published a video detailing the story of one of his customers who suffered such bad luck on not just any high-end RTX Blackwell GPU, but Nvidia's crazy-expensive $10,000 RTX Pro 6000 workstation graphics card. According to the video, the card snapped under its own weight during transit after the unfortunate owner (a tech YouTuber with 40 million subscribers, apparently) didn't uninstall it before moving it.
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Reminds me how I dropped my new Ryzen while unpacking - it just flung itself as I opened the package, and bent half the pins on one side. Miraculously, I managed to straighten up some pins from the corner (and they're very tiny and annoying), and then shove it into the socket - it somehow fixed itself and works to this day. From then on I'm unpacking any AMD CPU close to a soft surface in case they decide to suicide again. I bet they would've not sent me a replacement though, lol.

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Very careful hands and a mechanical pencil that has a straightened metal tip is good for these kinds of fixes. Remove the lead and use the small tip to carefully straighten the pins. Be very careful and slow though. One push too hard and you can snap a pin off entirely then you are basically SOL.

This is what I am talking about: !

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Yeah, I used tweezers or something for that. Hilariously enough, my bro also found himself in a similar situation around that time when he tried to build himself a PC while in the military, his case was way worse because he flattened almost all the pins and some broke off. Somehow, some miracle guy there fixed it up for him and it just worked.

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With no replacement parts, the victim has no choice but to hope Nvidia sends them a free RTX Pro 6000 replacement

"the victim"

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$10k for a video card?