i'm happy i've stumbled on your content, i liked the cod3rs switch/ps5 repairs too but he is going Apple nowadays so my interest is declined 4 good ;p. north ridge repairs was good to see too, but he does everything. doesn't really matter what broke.. this content of yours is more like i wanted, trying to fix broken graphics cards.. wow cool and you sound like i could learn a lot from watching you. not everything off course because its knowledge trough practice ;p but i like it. i'm considering to learn electronics repair too. i know things with my PC, software I'm kinda okay with and modified it like i wanted it. Same as my (gigabyte) gtx 1070 ;p modded it by putting big ass cooler on it (Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV), did this for noise control i did'nt like my pc ramping up and down with original cooler. then there was a chipset cooler that made lots of high pitched noise too ;p so ordered an copper block from china in +- the right dimensions. modded my pc kinda good i guess. ti-wrapped the copperblock on chipset with some thermal grizzly pad and it still works, while i took a lot of parts out of my pc ;p your voice is relaxing too..
Your extensive knowledge of the videocard components/electrical components is amazing. I watched the whole video out of curiosity and amazement. So cool to see how detailed you can be and repair such small parts. Nice! Thanks for that unique look into the process! Best of wishes
Small correction: near the end of the video I claimed that card came with no pads over vram. In reality, pads were there but they were not thick enough and we're not making contact with the components as a result. This card was never opened before so I conclude it was a quality control or design flaw. Either way, exact same cards I had before did not have this issue.
maybe quality contro, i have an aorus 2060 super and all pads where making contacts correctly, i just replace it just for fun for others more efficients.
@@JomarsYT Doing that is incredibly fun, isn't it? Lol. Actually ended up getting a world record on my RX 580 with the best pads I could find, and copper shims on the memory. That was a good day.
Took you a whole month to diagnose and repair just a single card... I don't know about others but, that's inspiring, bro. I've literally zero knowledge on electronics but what you did was inspiring.
LOL, Diagnostic takes couple of minutes or more. I had to wait for parts to arrive and when they did, after replacing one part, another problem emerged and i had to make a new part order which took another month. I simply dont have enough spare parts or donor cards to use at this point. Otherwise it would have been maybe couple of days at most, considering the amount of work that was done.
LOL, gigabyte does the same thing. It takes them a month to "repair" a gpu and send it back to the customer. Then, it shows up not even working right out of the box.
I definitely wouldn't say "anyone can do it" but if you have a good understanding of electronic schematics and diagnostic equipment, a steady hand along with a good repair setup then you too can be like this guy. I can't do it though. I am big dumb.
U need to be able to understand how the pcb board works. Im pretty sure any pcb board engineer could troubleshoot this if they have enough experience and a lvl of understandings in electronics
I am 71 and did many years in component level electronics but by the time i switched to network administration we attempted some crude surface mount repair. I could not be more impressed with your work. I find it very entertaining and educational. I am into these modern GPU's. Thanks again I look forward to your videos.
Just found your channel today and watched all your video's in a row. Your troubleshooting are repair is fascinating. New subscriber here. Can't wait to see more.
People like you are the reason I keep learning more and more about pc related content. Seeing you take apart the graphics card and soder compenents is fascinating. Keep it up man.
Glad I found your channel. I usually check gpu for proper thermal paste application. Now I will be checking all thermal pad placements too. Thanks for the thorough videos, keep it up. Going back to watch all your vids.
I’ve always liked Gigabyte motherboards but their GPUs, well, that’s a different story. Had to take apart my RTX 3090 OC Gaming card due to overheating issues and found that a fan cable had gotten crimped and rendered two fans inoperable, badly applied thermal pads, and a power connector that almost melted down. After a quick fix and cable swap my temps went from 85°C under load to 67°C.
While high end gigabyte motherboards are good, gigabyte is also known to make the worst boards as well. Esp in the budget end products are known for lots of kinks and random inconsistent compatibility issues
@@ZDY66666 true though. I once have the Gigabyte B450I Aorus Motherboard after coupled with the RTX 3070 eagle from also Gigabyte got a lot of constant stability issues, BSOD constantly. Id send the Motherboard for RMA while the I sold the GPU during the Crypto Craze. After getting back the Motherboard and coupled with my old MSI GTX 1060 is when the issues stop but later did returned. I got fed up with it and sold off the Motherboard and upgraded to an ASUS ROG B550. Previously I didnt get any issues with Gigabyte but since then I promise i wont buy from them again.
Thankfully my Gigabyte RTX2080 is still going strong with no issues. Margins are really slim for Nvidia AIB partners, so I’m not surprised that they’re all taking shortcuts.
I'm new to your channel (I subscribed) and until recently I never knew there were engineers like you that repair graphics cards. I am very impressed with your knowledge and work. If I ever have a malfunctioning graphics card I'll be sure to ask you for your repair services!!!
Gigabyte's Vega 56 8GB has been a heavy use/daily driver in my main rig for 3+ years running 4 monitors, lots of multitasking, and it can game if I want it too. Son's 5-year old rig has been swapped from AMD to Intel, but has used the same Gigabyte RTX 2080 which gets very, very heavy use (he's a 15-year old PC gamer). No complaints here...
it's a crap shoot.. I had one of the last AGP Radeon cards Gigabyte ever made and it seemed to be good in the time I had it, but later I had a PCIE GeForce 9800 that was an absolute piece of junk.
Loving the content. Kinda sad that none of the big manufacturers make boards to your liking except EVGA who will not be making them anymore. Any thoughts on AMD only manufacturers like PowerColor or Sapphire, have you done repairs on some of those boards?
I have some limited experience with AMD's GPUs and would say that I've seen the most attention to detail from Sapphire. I'll likely be purchasing a Sapphire RX7000 series card for my personal system now that EVGA is no longer in the picture.
i'm running amd 5700x powercolor , it is good for me, i was considering sapphire too, but i went for the looks of the powercolor red devil, off course i'm not as knowledgeable as northwest repair ;p so i don't know 4 sure, for me i'm happy with it
Hey man, I wish my country had more people like you, people fixing these boards so skillfully are a rare breed and I appreciate you a lot, watching your videos have a meditating calming effect on me thanks, keep up the good work
found this channel a few days ago..i have only watched a couple of videos so far.I have to say this type of content is somewhat relaxing to watch and informative at the same time.cheers :)
I would genuinely love to see a whole series of these, "why I hate (AIB partner)" for every single one of them, highlighting the build and design flaws in each partner's design. Including EVGA. These are incredibly enlightening, and could help inform consumers better on their high end GPU purchases and what to do to "fix" some of the blunders in the design like adding thermal pads or improving on the ones pre-included.
It's too bad EVGA is leaving the graphics card industry, but it makes sense. They generally do a really good job of cooling cards properly/achieving good clock speeds and not skimping out on certain board components, which I'm sure is why they felt their profit margins off of Nvidia were too slim. Every time I've bought a card new, if EVGA had a model that wasn't too much more expensive, I went for them. Never been disappointed.
Would that we were all so adept at testing and repairing one of the most important components in current era PCs considering how many people enjoy gaming. Nicely done.
Randomly landed here, new to your channel. Right away when you mentioned gigabyte cards at the beginning I was thinking "I wonder if he is talking about poor QC with the thermal pads and/or thermal paste". I only ever owned ONE gigabyte graphics card because it was only option left in stock when the 2080 came out. Never again. I had to RMA it because it was overheating, and then it happened again a months later. I ended up replacing the paste and the pads myself and it went on to function for a few years without issue. Not only did it come bad from the factory, when it was sent back, they still didn't do it properly. Gigabyte does make decent motherboards though.
Yes they do make decent but not the best motherboard. ASUS is the guy to go to for a motherboard, but for a GPU, neither gigabyte or asus are particularly good at it. I'd go with MSI and ONLY if they have AMD GPU and not NVIDIA. Why ? Because MSI had been in the manufacturing cards with AMD processor since long before AMD bought out Radeon. MSI+Radion is an iconic combination.
An amazing video and detective work. Gigabyte have been sucky of late with customer warranties and their attitude towards them. In saying that it must be very stressful being an AIB partner with Nvidia for Gigabyte, sadly for EVGA they have had enough Nvidia's treatment and bailed after being Nvidia's top AIB partner for decades.
Great info. I myself, am not a hardware guy but really enjoyed the video. Every famous guy here only measures performance when new product arrives but no one tells you the design flaw of that product. This is the knowledge everyone needs so that everyone can buy better product.
Appreciate your video, rare to see stuff like this and should be a big help to the rest of us tech-heads. I have a gigabyte 6700 xt that refuses to run its full 16x lanes and is stuck in 8x lane mode no matter what my configuration. That PCI-E 16x card tester looks very handy to have!
I buy cards with my own money and new cards are very expensive to buy even broken once. For that reason, i dont have allot of experience with them. Maybe if my channel gets enough views to start monetizing it, i will be able to afford to take that risk.
Finally, someone who understands my burning hatred for Gigabyte products. They always gimp their products be it hardware or software. Went though their motherboards, laptops and gpus as a pc flipper. Their quality leaves a bad taste in my mouth every time I disassemble and refurb them.
It's sad EVGA is going to stop making video cards (NVIDIA at least). I stripped my 1080 down and replaced it with an Artic Cooler and fan assembly 3 years ago when the fans started rattling. I saw then it was really well made. With the new assembly and undervolting, the card is still working like a dream 6 years after purchase.
I have MSI 6600 XT Gaming X and it usually sits at 56c and 0RPM while gaming for hours and it never went above 65c and 1100 RPM, even in a hot summer day (still completely silent). I am more than happy with it. I wish we had more people like you. You are doing God's work.
It’s very interesting seeing board level repair for this stuff - it helps to inform, as a consumer, what cards I should be buying. It’s hard to know what’s quality and what isn’t, and stuff like this just makes it that much clearer.
This sort of expertise in stuff like this ,is very very rare. Hope skills like this do not die out . You are doing a great deal helping out with the GPUs.
I only had one Gigabyte product that didn't have any trouble - its HD7850. Cooler was INCREDIBLE, large fans that were almost silent the whole time, GPU core that can overclock by cracking up "GPU frquency" in MSI Afterburner to the top right position (all the way in), with temperatures below 70C... It's an awesome product. I sometimes regret selling it.
Glad I saw this because I was just about to buy an AorusX570 Elite motherboard. Entirely differnt component I know, but still, same manufacturer. Fantastic video. Cheers.
I am just starting into tech repair and am just waiting for my Microscope then all is good to start... Excellent video and very informative... Thank you
Great video Learning more about what cards to buy in future for my next build . This helps me make better choices when building a gaming rig. These videos are very imformative. I love how you explain and show what things really are .Ive done some techy stuff with cars and computers .
My EVGA 980TI also had some missing thermal pads. I saw that immediatly as I installed a waterblock directly after buying, though. It's annoying but it happens ☹️ That card still works Like a charm
This is amazing and at the same time very scary, I was saving up to get an EVGA card and now it's almost impossible to get one. So now I am back to the daunting tasks of trying to decide between GPU companies for my 1st time new build. Anyways great work!
When I started mining Ethereum, the only 30 series cards that I had managed to snag that actually had heatpads on the back of the board attached to the backplate were EVGA. The rest of them, aorus, gigabyte, HP, MSI, Dell, none of those 3080s had any heatpads attached to the backplate. They would throttle just from running them up to full power no overclocking. It's incredible how much those backplates hurt thermals, and without a heatpad attached to them the backplates literally end up being heatshields! The EVGA ones were also the only ones able to overclock past 1500 on the memory on afterburner and still be stable. God I love that company, it's such a damn shame.
Really wish we had someone like you here in the Philippines. So many cards get shipped in just weeks from China it Philippines so there's also a bunch of cards that need in depth repairs like this.
Very interesting. Do you guys have eBay in Philippines ? You could list broken card for sale world wide. All I find here is from US and Canada sometimes. Nothing outside of the US from what I can tell.
@@northwestrepair We do but, its mostly like sloppy seconds fest nationwide. Cards get sent over from China, then when someone here gets bored or changes his mind, it goes to someone else. Eventually it reaches that one guy who either is very unlucky or who uses a "Korean True rated PSU"
I just subscribed, Great Job man, I did start fixing GPU but I dropped as even faulty GPU are expensive plus as you said it takes time especially when you need parts.
Glad you mention it took 2 months even for you, it looks so easy in a video put together but in reality it's a long process even by excluding China shipping times.
Had an EVGA 980 ti SC which caught fire after about 5 yrs, apparently a common fault with that class of card. It was glorious to watch and it left a burn stain on the motherboard. Fire stemmed from the area around the memory chips.
When you swap the capacitors expecting a signal to just swap.. But it fixed the problem.. The original factory solder joint was cooked and created enough voltage drop in the capacitor itself so to you when you would read it it would seem normal as it's going in. Your soldering job corrected the issue.. I'm still in the middle of the video.. But I'm sure the messed up heat pad caused the issue.. It also looked like dust and dirt was under some other heat pads Nice job .. I wish my hands were steady enough to work on circuit board's... Always burn the boards. I remember doing my first car amplifier. It was a rockered fosgate 400x4 the 1999 version. I did fix it but I did a pretty sloppy soldering job removing it putting it back on. I did fine removing it. I kind of burnt the board. I kept the amp to have as a trophy.. Even though it works. I will never use it . I don't trust my work that time.. I did finally buy a helping hand and it does help me do stuff like lipos and RC car batteries but I still stay away from circuit boards. Nice job.
Man you are a master , how did you get your skills , did you study electronics or are you self taugh? I like all this world of electronic but i don't where to begin . God bless .
very informative thanks for the video and work i know its not simple to do let alone produce a video for it as well, but we want more maybe on you're preferred tools of the trade
If you need a repair, please contact me using a link in the description.
i'm happy i've stumbled on your content, i liked the cod3rs switch/ps5 repairs too but he is going Apple nowadays so my interest is declined 4 good ;p.
north ridge repairs was good to see too, but he does everything. doesn't really matter what broke..
this content of yours is more like i wanted, trying to fix broken graphics cards.. wow cool and you sound like i could learn a lot from watching you. not everything off course because its knowledge trough practice ;p but i like it. i'm considering to learn electronics repair too. i know things with my PC, software I'm kinda okay with and modified it like i wanted it.
Same as my (gigabyte) gtx 1070 ;p modded it by putting big ass cooler on it (Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV), did this for noise control i did'nt like my pc ramping up and down with original cooler.
then there was a chipset cooler that made lots of high pitched noise too ;p so ordered an copper block from china in +- the right dimensions.
modded my pc kinda good i guess. ti-wrapped the copperblock on chipset with some thermal grizzly pad and it still works, while i took a lot of parts out of my pc ;p
your voice is relaxing too..
When he said, "Expect for EVGA", my heart dropped knowing that they won't be a thing anymore in the graphics card department. 5:30
i fully support EVGA though. FK nvidia
Exactly what I wanted to ask just to make sure... good news getting better.
@@klemendebevec8777 what's the good news?
@@konchy Sarcasm...
YEP
Your extensive knowledge of the videocard components/electrical components is amazing. I watched the whole video out of curiosity and amazement. So cool to see how detailed you can be and repair such small parts. Nice! Thanks for that unique look into the process!
Best of wishes
Wow, thanks!
same goes here! nice :)
Are you sure you and Buildzoid are not related?
@@ashleyjaytanna1953 It's not what you think.... Is he related to the It's not what you think guy? The same voice.
Small correction: near the end of the video I claimed that card came with no pads over vram.
In reality, pads were there but they were not thick enough and we're not making contact with the components as a result.
This card was never opened before so I conclude it was a quality control or design flaw.
Either way, exact same cards I had before did not have this issue.
Same with the 1080ti Extremes I have owned.
Never any issue.
Definitely a QC issue/ Friday run.
Can you please do one for the PNY cards
maybe quality contro, i have an aorus 2060 super and all pads where making contacts correctly, i just replace it just for fun for others more efficients.
@@JomarsYT Doing that is incredibly fun, isn't it? Lol.
Actually ended up getting a world record on my RX 580 with the best pads I could find, and copper shims on the memory.
That was a good day.
@@nexxusty was fun because was my first time experience with changing pads and I nailed it, but actually is quite tedious.
You're doing the world a service by keeping these GPU's going
simple as that!
You are the Cringiest Dogo I have seen this entire day.
My exact card still running and I know people with older cards.
@@cgplays9 The amount of resources that go into each one of these cards is huge.
Took you a whole month to diagnose and repair just a single card...
I don't know about others but, that's inspiring, bro. I've literally zero knowledge on electronics but what you did was inspiring.
LOL, Diagnostic takes couple of minutes or more. I had to wait for parts to arrive and when they did, after replacing one part, another problem emerged and i had to make a new part order which took another month.
I simply dont have enough spare parts or donor cards to use at this point. Otherwise it would have been maybe couple of days at most, considering the amount of work that was done.
@@northwestrepair you're like the ifixit of GPUs. Or maybe that's what you could become? Maybe talk to them?
LOL, gigabyte does the same thing. It takes them a month to "repair" a gpu and send it back to the customer. Then, it shows up not even working right out of the box.
more power to techs like you sir. repair knowledge of all kinds should be a norm. It reduces waste, creates job, and saves resources.
Thanks !
There's an actual guy who can fix dead graphics cards! If only there were more of you in the world. Hats off sir!
I definitely wouldn't say "anyone can do it" but if you have a good understanding of electronic schematics and diagnostic equipment, a steady hand along with a good repair setup then you too can be like this guy.
I can't do it though. I am big dumb.
there are hundreds of thousands of people that can fix graphic cards; they just dont want your minimum wage dollars.
there are more than you'd think
U need to be able to understand how the pcb board works. Im pretty sure any pcb board engineer could troubleshoot this if they have enough experience and a lvl of understandings in electronics
there are, but those repairs didn't come cheap and fast. some people rather buy a new one.
I am 71 and did many years in component level electronics but by the time i switched to network administration we attempted some crude surface mount repair. I could not be more impressed with your work. I find it very entertaining and educational. I am into these modern GPU's. Thanks again I look forward to your videos.
Just found your channel today and watched all your video's in a row. Your troubleshooting are repair is fascinating. New subscriber here. Can't wait to see more.
Awesome, thank you!
People like you are the reason I keep learning more and more about pc related content. Seeing you take apart the graphics card and soder compenents is fascinating. Keep it up man.
Yep Sir !
gonna comment for the algorithm. good job man. keep it up. love seeing this videos where u explain why something went wrong and how to fix em.
Glad I found your channel. I usually check gpu for proper thermal paste application. Now I will be checking all thermal pad placements too. Thanks for the thorough videos, keep it up. Going back to watch all your vids.
Glad I could help!
"Except EVGA" unfortunately they won't be making graphic cards anymore
never say never i still hope, i just think EVGA has such high standards, and Nvidea left no meat on the bone. maybe they will come back @ one point.
@@RaphaelSwinkelsEVGA it’s exiting the business. Not only graphic cards. It’s shutting down all the lights.
Msi is better than most
@@colchronic never was
@@colchronic maybe more expensive than most
I’ve always liked Gigabyte motherboards but their GPUs, well, that’s a different story. Had to take apart my RTX 3090 OC Gaming card due to overheating issues and found that a fan cable had gotten crimped and rendered two fans inoperable, badly applied thermal pads, and a power connector that almost melted down. After a quick fix and cable swap my temps went from 85°C under load to 67°C.
While high end gigabyte motherboards are good, gigabyte is also known to make the worst boards as well. Esp in the budget end products are known for lots of kinks and random inconsistent compatibility issues
Also had to re apply thermal pads to my gaming oc 3080 , its really good now
I heard some people use copper plate to cool vram, maybe you should try it
@@ZDY66666 true though. I once have the Gigabyte B450I Aorus Motherboard after coupled with the RTX 3070 eagle from also Gigabyte got a lot of constant stability issues, BSOD constantly. Id send the Motherboard for RMA while the I sold the GPU during the Crypto Craze. After getting back the Motherboard and coupled with my old MSI GTX 1060 is when the issues stop but later did returned. I got fed up with it and sold off the Motherboard and upgraded to an ASUS ROG B550. Previously I didnt get any issues with Gigabyte but since then I promise i wont buy from them again.
Thankfully my Gigabyte RTX2080 is still going strong with no issues.
Margins are really slim for Nvidia AIB partners, so I’m not surprised that they’re all taking shortcuts.
If I ever need a card repaired I would want it done by you because of your attention to detail and you quality of work!
You definitely have a future customer if my card goes south. You’re a damn legend.
hopefully it will last
I'm new to your channel (I subscribed) and until recently I never knew there were engineers like you that repair graphics cards. I am very impressed with your knowledge and work. If I ever have a malfunctioning graphics card I'll be sure to ask you for your repair services!!!
Thanks !
Gigabyte's Vega 56 8GB has been a heavy use/daily driver in my main rig for 3+ years running 4 monitors, lots of multitasking, and it can game if I want it too. Son's 5-year old rig has been swapped from AMD to Intel, but has used the same Gigabyte RTX 2080 which gets very, very heavy use (he's a 15-year old PC gamer). No complaints here...
it's a crap shoot.. I had one of the last AGP Radeon cards Gigabyte ever made and it seemed to be good in the time I had it, but later I had a PCIE GeForce 9800 that was an absolute piece of junk.
Loving what you have to teach and share. Please keep going.
Loving the content. Kinda sad that none of the big manufacturers make boards to your liking except EVGA who will not be making them anymore. Any thoughts on AMD only manufacturers like PowerColor or Sapphire, have you done repairs on some of those boards?
I have some limited experience with AMD's GPUs and would say that I've seen the most attention to detail from Sapphire. I'll likely be purchasing a Sapphire RX7000 series card for my personal system now that EVGA is no longer in the picture.
@@siliconalleyelectronics187 My last Radeon card was a Saphire, beautiful thing, love it.
I would also like to know more about this 🤔
i'm running amd 5700x powercolor , it is good for me, i was considering sapphire too, but i went for the looks of the powercolor red devil, off course i'm not as knowledgeable as northwest repair ;p so i don't know 4 sure, for me i'm happy with it
Hey man, I wish my country had more people like you, people fixing these boards so skillfully are a rare breed and I appreciate you a lot, watching your videos have a meditating calming effect on me thanks, keep up the good work
I just found this channel and is amazing! I hope we get to see newer cards, to see if they keep these bad practices or make some changes.
found this channel a few days ago..i have only watched a couple of videos so far.I have to say this type of content is somewhat relaxing to watch and informative at the same time.cheers :)
I would genuinely love to see a whole series of these, "why I hate (AIB partner)" for every single one of them, highlighting the build and design flaws in each partner's design. Including EVGA. These are incredibly enlightening, and could help inform consumers better on their high end GPU purchases and what to do to "fix" some of the blunders in the design like adding thermal pads or improving on the ones pre-included.
Maybe don't include Evga now :P
It's too bad EVGA is leaving the graphics card industry, but it makes sense. They generally do a really good job of cooling cards properly/achieving good clock speeds and not skimping out on certain board components, which I'm sure is why they felt their profit margins off of Nvidia were too slim. Every time I've bought a card new, if EVGA had a model that wasn't too much more expensive, I went for them. Never been disappointed.
Probably depends a lot on the models, meaning cheap models of good brands could be very bad over worse reputation brand's mid tier gpu model
@@serphvarna4154 oh yeah for sure, for example the Strix and TUF coolers from ASUS have completely different designs
Would that we were all so adept at testing and repairing one of the most important components in current era PCs considering how many people enjoy gaming. Nicely done.
"This is why I only like EVGA cards" - 8 days later EVGA announces they are stepping out of the Graphics cards game :D
it hit me hard when one of explanation why it took 2 months was because you have full time job...
well made video, highly appreciate your hard work!
Randomly landed here, new to your channel. Right away when you mentioned gigabyte cards at the beginning I was thinking "I wonder if he is talking about poor QC with the thermal pads and/or thermal paste". I only ever owned ONE gigabyte graphics card because it was only option left in stock when the 2080 came out. Never again. I had to RMA it because it was overheating, and then it happened again a months later. I ended up replacing the paste and the pads myself and it went on to function for a few years without issue. Not only did it come bad from the factory, when it was sent back, they still didn't do it properly. Gigabyte does make decent motherboards though.
Yes they do make decent but not the best motherboard.
ASUS is the guy to go to for a motherboard, but for a GPU, neither gigabyte or asus are particularly good at it.
I'd go with MSI and ONLY if they have AMD GPU and not NVIDIA.
Why ?
Because MSI had been in the manufacturing cards with AMD processor since long before AMD bought out Radeon. MSI+Radion is an iconic combination.
I love learning more about computer parts and your in-depth problem solving is really interesting to watch!
An amazing video and detective work.
Gigabyte have been sucky of late with customer warranties and their attitude towards them. In saying that it must be very stressful being an AIB partner with Nvidia for Gigabyte, sadly for EVGA they have had enough Nvidia's treatment and bailed after being Nvidia's top AIB partner for decades.
Great info. I myself, am not a hardware guy but really enjoyed the video. Every famous guy here only measures performance when new product arrives but no one tells you the design flaw of that product. This is the knowledge everyone needs so that everyone can buy better product.
Have you ever worked on Sapphire cards? I have several and they have never let me down. Been very happy with them.
No i have not, but i owned few in the past. Good cards.
love sapphire cards , they are built like hard bricks , never a fault on them , no corners cut
Appreciate your video, rare to see stuff like this and should be a big help to the rest of us tech-heads. I have a gigabyte 6700 xt that refuses to run its full 16x lanes and is stuck in 8x lane mode no matter what my configuration. That PCI-E 16x card tester looks very handy to have!
Make sure it is plugged into a x16 slot on your motherboard.
And EVGA no longer will make nvidia GPUs at the very least.
You're very knowledgeable. Why haven't I found you before?
Definitely will be watching your videos from now on.
"Except for EVGA" Well, guess no good gpus will ever be made again then lol
RIP
I'd love to see you repairing some of the newer cards, great videos
I buy cards with my own money and new cards are very expensive to buy even broken once.
For that reason, i dont have allot of experience with them.
Maybe if my channel gets enough views to start monetizing it, i will be able to afford to take that risk.
@@northwestrepair well, can't wait for that to happen then! Good luck!
Finally, someone who understands my burning hatred for Gigabyte products. They always gimp their products be it hardware or software. Went though their motherboards, laptops and gpus as a pc flipper. Their quality leaves a bad taste in my mouth every time I disassemble and refurb them.
bro you are so addictive i saw your mineing video and i couldn't stop watching rly keep it up and don't stop
It's sad EVGA is going to stop making video cards (NVIDIA at least). I stripped my 1080 down and replaced it with an Artic Cooler and fan assembly 3 years ago when the fans started rattling. I saw then it was really well made. With the new assembly and undervolting, the card is still working like a dream 6 years after purchase.
Just here to write a comment... this repair was awesome, keep up the good work!
And now EVGA is gone... :(
I know. It's Sapphire for AMD cards and WAS EVGA cards for NVIDIA. Guess I'll have to switch back to team red.
I have MSI 6600 XT Gaming X and it usually sits at 56c and 0RPM while gaming for hours and it never went above 65c and 1100 RPM, even in a hot summer day (still completely silent). I am more than happy with it. I wish we had more people like you. You are doing God's work.
It’s very interesting seeing board level repair for this stuff - it helps to inform, as a consumer, what cards I should be buying. It’s hard to know what’s quality and what isn’t, and stuff like this just makes it that much clearer.
It takes more than that.. U need the knowledge and skill on hw to troubleshoot a pcb board which in this case is the graphic card.
This sort of expertise in stuff like this ,is very very rare.
Hope skills like this do not die out .
You are doing a great deal helping out with the GPUs.
My Gigabyte 2080 Ti Waterforce Graphics card has been a dream to use and I have had no problems with it.
Never had it, i dont know. I hope it lasts.
I only had one Gigabyte product that didn't have any trouble - its HD7850. Cooler was INCREDIBLE, large fans that were almost silent the whole time, GPU core that can overclock by cracking up "GPU frquency" in MSI Afterburner to the top right position (all the way in), with temperatures below 70C... It's an awesome product. I sometimes regret selling it.
Glad I saw this because I was just about to buy an AorusX570 Elite motherboard. Entirely differnt component I know, but still, same manufacturer. Fantastic video. Cheers.
I am just starting into tech repair and am just waiting for my Microscope then all is good to start... Excellent video and very informative... Thank you
amazing man..will keep supporting your channel..👍💪
This is awesome, really well explained in your problem solving. Subscribed!
Thanks !
Very strong work here. Thanks for the nice close ups.
Thank you too
Found you today, instant subscribing. Amazing work, thank you for sharing your videos
I had three Gigabyte cards so far, a GTX460 1GB, R9 280X and 1070ti, all of them ran for years without a problem.
You're awesome. Been loving your videos, keep it up.
Youre amazing. Love this type of detailed work
Great video Learning more about what cards to buy in future for my next build . This helps me make better choices when building a gaming rig. These videos are very imformative. I love how you explain and show what things really are .Ive done some techy stuff with cars and computers .
TNice tutorialS WAS SOOOOOO HELPFUL!!
LOL i didnt even do a tutorial, i just showed how i fix it.
Maybe ill do a tutorial some day.
My EVGA 980TI also had some missing thermal pads. I saw that immediatly as I installed a waterblock directly after buying, though.
It's annoying but it happens ☹️
That card still works Like a charm
This is amazing and at the same time very scary, I was saving up to get an EVGA card and now it's almost impossible to get one. So now I am back to the daunting tasks of trying to decide between GPU companies for my 1st time new build. Anyways great work!
been using my MSI rx 580 for daily heavy gaming for the past 5 years, only cleaned with compressed air every 1-2years, still going strong.
When I started mining Ethereum, the only 30 series cards that I had managed to snag that actually had heatpads on the back of the board attached to the backplate were EVGA. The rest of them, aorus, gigabyte, HP, MSI, Dell, none of those 3080s had any heatpads attached to the backplate. They would throttle just from running them up to full power no overclocking. It's incredible how much those backplates hurt thermals, and without a heatpad attached to them the backplates literally end up being heatshields! The EVGA ones were also the only ones able to overclock past 1500 on the memory on afterburner and still be stable. God I love that company, it's such a damn shame.
Thanks for the informing video.
As always interesting to watch.
thank you for watching
Great content and insight into these products. Keep up the great work 😊
Really wish we had someone like you here in the Philippines. So many cards get shipped in just weeks from China it Philippines so there's also a bunch of cards that need in depth repairs like this.
Very interesting.
Do you guys have eBay in Philippines ?
You could list broken card for sale world wide.
All I find here is from US and Canada sometimes. Nothing outside of the US from what I can tell.
@@northwestrepair We do but, its mostly like sloppy seconds fest nationwide. Cards get sent over from China, then when someone here gets bored or changes his mind, it goes to someone else. Eventually it reaches that one guy who either is very unlucky or who uses a "Korean True rated PSU"
I just subscribed, Great Job man, I did start fixing GPU but I dropped as even faulty GPU are expensive plus as you said it takes time especially when you need parts.
Such a nice attention to all those details. Great work !!!
amazing work! how insightfull!
i have a 980ti g1 since 2015 and still working great, awesome product
i have no idea when it comes to electronic parts/repairs...but i can definitely say that you are a Legend bro
As always, I enjoy learning from your videos and now feel a bit more confident in my choice for selecting EVGA as a gpu supplier
I'm a Gigabyte fan boy but after watching this video I will be looking at EVGA cards from now on. Thanks for the video.
Appreciated genius work ❤️ love it...
Wow, a lot of work, you make it look easy.
Amazing video man! Really nice to see someone who knows what they're doing rather than just yeeting their ard into the oven.
s and a couple EDM and Dubstep goals for myself, and I guess I better start learning sowhere. Thanks for the great vid!
this channel is gona blow up the content is so good
LOL maybe ill have to quit my full time job if it does. Who knows.
What a great job. Must be a labour of love for you!
It is!
Man I wish I had this skill, nice work!
I've had several Gigabyte cards and never had anything to complain. Currently rocking a Gigabyte 1080 Ti and still works like a charm.
You do a good Job again. Awesome every time.
I appreciate that
Glad you mention it took 2 months even for you, it looks so easy in a video put together but in reality it's a long process even by excluding China shipping times.
yes
This guy is a genius! And a great worker! Great work again!
Thank you.
Had an EVGA 980 ti SC which caught fire after about 5 yrs, apparently a common fault with that class of card.
It was glorious to watch and it left a burn stain on the motherboard. Fire stemmed from the area around the memory chips.
insane job brother
nice work i enjoy your fixes it the best 😉
5:30 Paraphrasing: '...and that's why I only like EVGA'. R.I.P. EVGA graphics cards.
When you swap the capacitors expecting a signal to just swap..
But it fixed the problem..
The original factory solder joint was cooked and created enough voltage drop in the capacitor itself so to you when you would read it it would seem normal as it's going in.
Your soldering job corrected the issue..
I'm still in the middle of the video..
But I'm sure the messed up heat pad caused the issue..
It also looked like dust and dirt was under some other heat pads
Nice job
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I wish my hands were steady enough to work on circuit board's...
Always burn the boards. I remember doing my first car amplifier. It was a rockered fosgate 400x4 the 1999 version. I did fix it but I did a pretty sloppy soldering job removing it putting it back on. I did fine removing it.
I kind of burnt the board.
I kept the amp to have as a trophy..
Even though it works. I will never use it .
I don't trust my work that time..
I did finally buy a helping hand and it does help me do stuff like lipos and RC car batteries but I still stay away from circuit boards.
Nice job.
very interesting work! thank you ❤
Thank you too!
You my friend are a very rare breed. We need to protect his species at all costs.
I love that thumbnail with a giganotosaurus taking a bite out of a graphics card!
love this channel!!
Guys like you who keep GPUs from turning into bricks are legends! But as far as I know you work is immaculate!
Good vid! Thanks for the info.
Man your videos are great. Learned alot on how to fix my own gpus.
Man you are a master , how did you get your skills , did you study electronics or are you self taugh? I like all this world of electronic but i don't where to begin .
God bless .
very informative thanks for the video and work i know its not simple to do let alone produce a video for it as well, but we want more maybe on you're preferred tools of the trade
I have plans but i lack time and opportunity to make more videos.
Last weekend i made two. Hopefully this week ill manage to get some done as well.
Great Work!!
Thanks a lot!
Genius. love the dedication, keep it up
Great job and thank you for the detailed explanations.