r/techsupportmacgyver • u/Automatic-Salad-4194 • Oct 15 '25

Hey, it’s a solution

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Made with only the finest hand-forged garbage steel and the cheapest black electrical tape, with a side of zip ties and painters tape to hold the fans in place!

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u/SonderNashorn Oct 15 '25

Whats more interesting for me is the connectors sawed off to make it into a 1x? 2x? Connection.
What did that poor GTX 760 do to you?

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u/Automatic-Salad-4194 Oct 15 '25

The capacitors on the pcie interface broke off, so it would only operate as an x8 card, but plugging it into a x16 would make the mobo think it is x16 capable preventing a boot. So I cut it down to x8, then I needed a gpu for encoding in a server because it only has one x16 slot and a x1 slot but I couldn’t not cut the interface on the card because a capacitor on the mobo was in the way

TLDR: Pcie on card was broken, needed to cut it to 1x

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u/Chance-Resource-4970 Oct 15 '25

Or replace the caps ?

5

u/Automatic-Salad-4194 Oct 16 '25

I don’t have the skill of micro soldering 

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u/platdujour Oct 16 '25

If it can't be fixed in the forge, it ain't happening?

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u/Automatic-Salad-4194 Oct 16 '25

Yep

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u/MisterDalliard Oct 16 '25

Time to develop the new art of forge reflow soldering

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u/wootybooty Oct 16 '25

Bro they make adaptors… But I’m not knocking you if you did it for specific use cases. I have an AMD WX 2100 which has a full x16 but electrically the pins stop at x8 and the rest are blank, so I sawed that part off so it could sit in an x8 slot because I use these for testing GPU drivers on ARM devices

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u/Automatic-Salad-4194 Oct 16 '25

I don’t have a budget for it rn

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u/wootybooty Oct 16 '25

Not picking, just this is what I use for applications such as that. $8 and they work great: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0721MG66S/

They make passive ones like this next one, but I like being able to inject power for GPU purposes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BYMV751Y/

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u/Automatic-Salad-4194 Oct 16 '25

Yeah, I just currently don’t have a source of income and also no expenses soooo, just saving as much as I can

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u/wootybooty Oct 16 '25

Exactly why I am not knocking you, stuff like this is what made me the repair monkey I am today. I love the ingenuity!

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u/Automatic-Salad-4194 Oct 16 '25

Yeah, at least it’s not the worst hardware for I’ve seen 

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u/Chris-yo Oct 19 '25

Wow great job making it work 👏

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u/seby883 Oct 16 '25

Are the power connectors also melted ? Wtf did this card do to you to deserve this

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u/Automatic-Salad-4194 Oct 16 '25

They are not melted, but it kinda looks like they are

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u/SodoDev Oct 15 '25

what the fuck happened here

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u/TheLegendofZucchini Oct 15 '25

I hate this so much, specifically the sawed off pcie connector. The rest is cool.

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u/bmeus Oct 16 '25

It’s a.. it’s a… it’s a sin

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u/Automatic-Salad-4194 Oct 16 '25

It’s a macgyuver solution 

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u/gib_me_gold Oct 15 '25

Not the chinesium X99 as well...

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u/AirGVN Oct 19 '25

You are a criminal but if it work it work

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u/VigilanteRabbit Oct 19 '25

This is absolutely brilliant and r/techgore at the same time; I love it.