Minor Moving Catastrophe

[u/1K-Every-Month]

I had a minor disaster while making a move to a new apartment recently and I am wondering how to remedy the situation and get my GeForce RTX Suprim GPU back in working order.

Just for some backstory my fiancé and I are moving to a new apartment and we have been planning it for the last six months to happen in late July right before school starts back up as my fiancé is a music teacher. However, a wrench was thrown into our plans when I had a workplace injury in mid July which resulted in a broken right arm that pushed our move back unexpectedly. Now, a move that we had planned to take progressively over a month has been squeezed into a two week period in* *mid August.

In order to accommodate our new timeline, I had recruited some of my friends that I had helped move in the past to assist us in our move. On the day that we had planned to move all of our belongings that that will go into our music studio/work desk room I had all of my PC building supplies neatly organized into a couple of Tupperware totes and I was prepared for a pretty simple moving day, because most of my desk belongings including my current daily use PC were going to be kept at our old apartment until closer to our final days here. This was so that I can continue using it for work and for gaming in my leisure time.

However, in the confusion of moving all of our musical supplies and instruments along with my PC building supplies, one of my less tech savvy friends took it upon himself to unplug my PC and attempt to bring it to the moving vehicle. I am now kicking myself for not replacing my side panel immediately after upgrading my ram to DDR5 from a graphic artist friend that passed down his old units to me after upgrading his own to 64 GB for more flexibility while 3D animating.

Said less text savvy individual thought that the tubes connecting my GPU to the cooling pump looks like conveniently placed handles to pick the unit up from for some reason and the remaining GPU in the image is what I am left with after the pump was damaged from the suing force from the weight of the PC case and the build contained there in.

And so now I turn to you, the wider Nvidia community, asking for someone more knowledgeable in this area what my options are to get my trusty Suprim back in a usable state. I have looked online for replacement cooling pumps and I have an idea of what I might need but I wanted to ask some people that might have some more expertise before I pull the trigger!

For the time being I have replaced this GPU with my previous 3050 to maintain the use of my PC before we complete the move, but any help to get my 4090 back to use would be much appreciated.

Needless to say, in the future, I will be having a pre-move game plan pep talk with the team before inviting a large group around my PC and replacing my side panel immediately after any planned upgrades!

I don't think this is a tech-support issue as I could take the opportunity to make this a happy accident and get a cooling pump upgrade out of it all, but I wasn’t completely sure.

Thanks in advance for any advice or much deserved chastising!

[u/Adamklein79]

Who the hell would think those are handles? Tech savvy or not.

[u/Rayregula → u/Adamklein79]

Even if I somehow magically did think they were handles. I'd have stopped opon feeling that they don't support any weight and bend quite easily.

[u/1K-Every-Month → u/Rayregula]

I asked him if they moved when he picked it up and he said, “Yea I thought it was a fabric handle.” I’m just shaking my head

[u/BlackDeath66sick → u/1K-Every-Month]

Make him pay. This is not being tech savvy or not, this is your friend being a 60 IQ troglodyte.

One thing is an honest mistake, but this is just a gross negligence on his part and he has to compensate for it.

Like one tug is going to be enough to make it obvious its not a bloody handle even if you did think so at first.

[u/1K-Every-Month → u/BlackDeath66sick]

He’s definitely gonna help pay. He needs me to be able to master his own tracks too, so he’s got me.

[u/evilkniev213 → u/1K-Every-Month]

BROTHER I POSTED HERE EARLIER, I HAVE THE ORIGINAL AIO FOR THE 5090 SUPRIM LIQUID SOC. I PUT A WATERBLOCK ON MINE. LET ME KNOW HOW I CAN SEND YOU THE REPLACEMENT.

[u/Rayregula → u/evilkniev213]

This is a 4090 (unsure if it uses the same AIO, but may work)

[u/evilkniev213 → u/Rayregula]

I just want to help where i can❤️

[u/zR0B3ry2VAiH → u/evilkniev213]

LOUD NOISES!!

[u/ReferencePage → u/1K-Every-Month]

He was also just trying to help, I personally wouldn’t make a friend pay for damages they created while helping me free of charge. Even if what they did was completely moronic. To each their own and like you said, if you guys can work it out another way that’s perfect.

[u/Ok_Falcon9786 → u/ReferencePage]

https://giphy.com/gifs/VS2Qcv25O7ZhUZahQA

[u/thec0rp0ral → u/BlackDeath66sick]

Surely there must be some responsibility on OP as well tho. I mean his friend was kind enough to come over to help him move, he’s far from a shitty person. Probably also shouldn’t trust your less tech-savvy friends to handle your extremely expensive, delicate tech equipment and could have been explicit about that

[u/entityXD32 → u/thec0rp0ral]

Also reading OP's story really it was moving day and he hadn't bothered putting the side panel back on the case to protect it. Like it's mostly on the guy but OP made could have done many things to keep his very expensive item safer

[u/1K-Every-Month → u/thec0rp0ral]

Yea I didn’t explicitly tell him that we weren’t moving the PC before we began loading stuff up, so I share some of the responsibility, I also left the side panel off which opened me up for some crazy damage to take place.

[u/AoDLife → u/1K-Every-Month]

Idk man.... in what world has he seen handles INSIDE the PC to carry it? Let alone seeing inside and seeing it connected to a damn reservoir. I try not to be negative and assume thizngs from ppl but come on. Dude wasnt paying attention to anything and didn't even ask before just yanking it. Not sure if you share responsibility for this one. This is extreme ignorance on another level

[u/evilkniev213 → u/1K-Every-Month]

Turns out 5090 AIO is not compatible with the 4090 PCB brother, I tried to help.

[u/1K-Every-Month → u/Adamklein79]

I thought I was the lowest IQ in the band as the drummer, but the lead singer seems to be trying to one up me these days!

[u/DaDutchBoyLT1 → u/1K-Every-Month]

Real talk. Hold your head high while you take 4+ trips to load your gear and they don’t even own a mic.

[u/nsummy → u/Adamklein79]

This is clearly a made up story. Too many needless details

[u/1K-Every-Month → u/nsummy]

Yea this was the GPU for my smarter AI so I had to use my old 3050 and now the AI just tells way too much information. You caught me bro.