It’s no secret that we’re a fan of eccentric repair stories here at Tom’s Hardware; we’ve already had classics like a dead RTX 5090 with a cracked PCB being revived, and an RX 7800 XT that was saved after a spoiled reflow attempt. Today’s tale is no different — in fact, if anything, this is perhaps the most we’ve seen one of our persistent GPU repair wizards struggle with a job. Spoiler alert, it works out at the end, but this RTX 4080 Super almost never posted, despite everything being thrown at it.








