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    Let me blow your minds - 3D for $0 on every display

    I was just thinking, why I never tried this, so I did - and it worked! You can get (kind of) a 3D effect on your games and videos. It's not perfect of course, because it's not real 3D, but you should definitely try it - and it's free. What you need is sunglasses. Now cover just one of your eyes...
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    1080P 144hz with adaptive sync. What card going forward?

    There are different types of freesync. There's eg. "freesync premium" which has higher range. "Low framerate compensation (LFC), allows FreeSync technology to work when the framerate falls below the minimum refresh rate of the display. When the framerate drops below the minimum refresh rate of...
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    [Solved] RX 460 Blown Fuse

    I could buy it and try it. Does it have to be A4N? Or can it be anything "NCP81161" like A4F, A4L etc.? I guess it's just a marking on the same thing. I removed the card today to check if these are indeed A4Ns (they are). I didn't do that previously as I thought it could lead to some problems...
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    What was your least favorite graphics card?

    Not a card but Integrated GPU though it's undoubtedly GMA500 that I consider to be the worst thing that ever happened to me.
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    [Solved] RX 460 Blown Fuse

    Fortunately I've read it before assembling the card again. Pin 1 is left top corner (it's indicated on the motherboard). The controller is apparently well known and has been used in many other AMD cards before. It's NCP81022 (4 + 1 phases). Documentation is available online.
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    [Solved] RX 460 Blown Fuse

    Drivers didn't work at the beginning. System didn't even detect the card correctly. I've written about it in here: https://hardforum.com/threads/solved-rx-460-blown-fuse.1992996/post-1044519704 But if it works right now that doesn't matter, but I didn't have to flash the vBIOS. I cleared CMOS...
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    [Solved] RX 460 Blown Fuse

    My multimeter can't measure frequencies 😂 But yeah. Once I get something to check it, I'll do it.
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    [Solved] RX 460 Blown Fuse

    Because of the worldwide spread virus it took a very long time before the package with the new mosfets came. I was testing how the card behaves without the mosfet. I downclocked it so it doesn't exceed 808 MHz and it topped at ~30 W usually at ~22 W under the load. I "torture tested" it for 72...
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    [Solved] RX 460 Blown Fuse

    Well the fans are working great after the reboot and are now following my fan speed settings. It seems that there's something wrong with the driver. It worked good yesterday. I plugged in second monitor today (and I didn't reboot the system after that). Do you have double monitor setup? I...
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    [Solved] RX 460 Blown Fuse

    I just noticed something very strange. My fan settings are ignored. They worked yesterday (while I was setting them) but now the fans are spinning and they stop... spin again for a while and stop again. Maybe the whole core of the problem is in the fan (or software controlling the fan). I have...
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    [Solved] RX 460 Blown Fuse

    Unfortunately mine doesn't. But it's not an issue. I'll just solder new MOSFET in there. I'm pretty sure my card died because of the drivers fault what made it "reinitialize" (for the Nth time). And I'm used to that 99% of electronics is dying during its startup. Looking at Gigabyte's PCB I...
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    [Solved] RX 460 Blown Fuse

    Replacement is coming ;) It sounds like I would need an oscilloscope to check this though. But if I'll solder a new MOSFET it's not like it does matter right now. But yeah, I'll buy an oscilloscope in the future for sure. Another toy to have fun with :)
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    [Solved] RX 460 Blown Fuse

    Because I've seen it in the videos I had to try it myself. I checked all of the MOSFETs and found one that behaved differently. All of them had almost the same values except for this one, that turned out to be the same as kodaf56 's. I desoldered it. Plugged in my "power supply" and the core...
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    [Solved] RX 460 Blown Fuse

    How bad would it be to desolder this one mosfet and try to run the card on 3 phases? EDIT: From what I've learned trying to get more information about how to repair a GPU, looks like failing MOSFETs is the second most common problem after failing capacitor (at least it looks that it's like...
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    [Solved] RX 460 Blown Fuse

    Let me give you some update. So I've searched for hot spots on the card but didn't find anything. Probably I'll really need lab power supply - because this buck converter probably can't do what I want ;d (I power it with a laptop power supply because they're usually ~19V and 3-5A). At 2A the...
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