Yes and likely thermal paste or something similar pushed around video ports in an attempt to keep out air and minimize condensation which can become a huge pain at sub-ambient temps. Usually doesn't damage anything but random display drop-outs and interference in the middle of benchmarks isn't a fun time. Once again, not really an AMD issue. Not defending them, they frustrate me like everyone else but I wish he'd stop jumping conclusions about AMD cards when the problem isn't specific to them.
So even if that goop was put on by the manufacturer, why do you blame AMD for it?....AMD didn't make that card, Asus did. As mentioned, that's probably an LN2 card and that goop is probably liquid tape, and in that case no wonder that card is a mess. BTW I have a CNC mill, I hit you up about a 1080ti repair, I actually have a couple more likely broken 1080ti's on the way.......maybe we can work something out.
@@doyouwtech9012They do suck to work on but its odd sometimes when a nvidia card and amd card side by side from the same company assembling the GPUs are different quality. Brings more questions than answers.
@@GoonyMclinux read again @blazini comment as I agree with him it must be something even outside manufacturer (asus) control. I never saw that kind of goop on any GPU cards exept wierd experimentation by users like LN2, oil tanks, etc... This is obvious this had nothing to do with AMD or manufacturer, just by the look at the HDMI polution. Be smarter and dont fall into fanboyzism plz ;)
When you apply rubbing alcohol, the adhesive residue will lose its adhesion and will precipitate. This can also work with acetone, or nail polish remover. Keep in mind that alcohol or acetone may damage painted surfaces, so be careful when using these substances.@@northwestrepair
@@northwestrepair Is your gripes with AMD cards something focused on the MBA cards? (Made by AMD) Or is it their partner cards as well? I have and use a couple cards from both AMD and Nvidia but they're partner cards, one Sapphire the other 3 are Asus.
I just got over it. Saw a meme that made me laugh though. "How to sneeze like me" Step 1: Sneeze 🤧 Step 2: Sneeze again 🤧 Step 3: Sneeze a third time 🤧 Step 4: This is your life now 🤧 😂🤣
18:42 Yeah, I can relate to that. A while back, I remember attempting to learn C++, and what I discovered when writing in C is that the parameter code is written backward. It's like left is right, but you have to write the functions and variables starting from the left. It's just weird..
My amd experience has been so good on rdna 2 with my rx 6800, max of 75c on the hot spot with a mild fan profile in a good airflow case playing star field, my vram never hits over 60c everything running super good. I used to run nvidia gpus my last one being a rtx 3080 I was gifted but at the time I had a rx 6800xt I could not believe how much better the 6800xt looked in games it was a breakthrough moment for me nvidia cards look bland to me and blurry. I knew right then and there amd from now on not only looking better pulling less power and having more vram but not costing 20-40 % more money for features I do not care for.
I agree although I use an ASRock 6700xt 12 gb version witn two fans I did however change the thermal paste on the chip it self since hot spot was hitting 105 when avarege was 65 and I do mean every single temp sensor was showing that under load and in re4 remake so now I'm from 75-80 degrees on the die hotspot it self which is 5 degrees difference under load which is the same as in idle
*TIP* Get yo self a set of hot tweezers and when you need to remove a Chips Solder array from the PCB's Cut a short piece of solder wick and clamp it with yo HOT tweezers and use the wick as if it were a brush to soak and clean the Chip &OR PCB solder array/s with barely any "if not any damage" to the PCB/Chips Solder Mask &OR Conformal Coating/s.
I know the red substance is cement/glue to temporary hold components in place as the board makes its way through the reflow oven. Perhaps the black substance is a conformal coating sprayed over the board after it cools down? Maybe it oxides when heat is applied in the presents of oxygen? Interesting Video as Always, Keep Them Coming!
It has to be from assembly process, crap is all over the place sometimes, its like they preheated the crap out of them during assembly and baked the crap on or something.
This isn't all from manufacturing. It's a card used for extreme overclocking that was covered with plastidip or some kind of conformal coating. Red stuff might be but since it's pressed into areas like behind the HDMI port, it's more likely thermal paste or something similar used to minimize display dropouts caused by condensation at sub-ambient temps.
Everybody is entitled to their opinions. When working as a RV solar tech, I saw the way most manufacturers made their coaches and it would confirm to me not to buy that brand or brands. When your working on the guts of something and you know your stuff. The bad things stick out like a sore thumb. But in this case, that board was most definitely plastic dipped. Can't blame AMD for that one. Personally, I'm on my 3rd AMD card and they have all been very good. Were they built great? No, heck my second XFX card was bent from one end to the other cooler and all. Still worked great but was wonky. My latest Asrock 6800xt is much better built, but it is one of their higher end cards. It's really hard to judge AMD for what third party vendors make.
36:40 "Here in Kentucky I'm having a headache almost every other day. Why that is, I don't know" If this isn't a jest, its highly possible its your water. Look into sending your water in to get tested, and a NSF Certified, under sink RO filtration system for your drinking water. They're expensive, but we're not talking about filtering out water for taste. There's heavy metals in a lot of the water here. A lot of the Midwest/flyover area of the United States has very substantial water issues and the utility companies are extremely underbudget. As long as they can technically get within FDA margins they won't go one part per million further on purpose You're expected to take care of yourself beyond that
30:50 thats not right, with an oven you got a nearly closed system which will be much smaller than your room obviously. With an hot air blower the system pretty much is your whole room. So which system will need more energy to heat up by 5 degrees celsius? Right! Your room! So your loosing energy consistently with a blower into the room while an oven is an insulated system. Time is the only thing you are saving here. With an oven you can also avoid some/most of the soldering gas that may be harmful. In the older days the people used soldering tin already mixed with a flux called Rosin or collophony which smells like pine woods and is less harmful than other flux that is used by the industry. This soldering tin was intended for "home-use" and is gone nowadays. I think they found cheaper alternatives that are also harmless.
This reminds me of the MRE (meal ready to eat) that we have in the Military. I'm surprised that you can make it indoors, the heater pack produces a high concentration of hydrogen gas and can be dangerous in small areas. love your videos btw.
that my friend is not factory , that GPU was Water cooled or they used liquid nitrogen on it and before using doing that they paint on either Nail polish or Liquid plastic dip so that moisture doesn't get into all the nicks and crannies and cause a short or fry the GPU from moisture !!! they do it with motherboards too when Overclocking and trying too set records and such on benchmark runs !!! ironically if the customer didn't know a GPU miner probably did it then sold him the card ..
Techpowerup posted a review (asus radeon rx 5700 xt strix oc) and there's a clear view of the pcb and there's no red paste on any of the display port and there's no black goop on any of the vrams and caps. Chances are this is not from the factory but from the end user or from the previous repair shop. Quit trying to blame AMD for every single thing, makes you look kinda pathetic.
oooh,AMD guys gettin' horny..and from the poorman point of wiew amd cards seems having more problems than nvidia..amd..nvidia..who cares when is not important can some card be fixed only how long it gonna last for you to fix the issue.and now car manufacturers making our job more expensive and time consuming..soon a regular maintenance will be to change windshield every 2y..where's tech goin',bro..backwards or..this man invest something verry precious into the industry and we are judgmental,as always..lol..its like you meet a perfect girl,beautifull,smart,but at the end you say 'but she has one eyebrow too thin than other..hat off to this man who raising the dead gpu's back to life..celebrate life
On the chip with the mask two other ball spots have trailing out of area marks. I have seen them before to no effect but seems a ball joining path if chip is moved up or down not side to side. I mean the tiny movement to return with surface tension back home. Probably not the same with memory compared to ic's. Larger balls?
Yeah I'll never skimp on a good set of tweezers, You can't get the quality from the higher end ones, Don't forget you get what you pay for.. And with cheap tweezers you're going to be dropping chips caps and resistors constantly because of alignment issues and the tweezers not functioning properly..
If you are looking for a reflow oven there is an interesting device that helps you convert a kitchen oven to reflow oven. The name of it is Reflow Master Pro. Of course there many arduino or other MC based DIY projects.
BTW, Hakko CHP 5B-SA are good fine tip tweezers, not sure if they are small enough for handling balls (lol) but I use them to place 0402 and 0201 components
My whole Gaming PC is a Gigabyte build the only component I removed was the graphics card after having two Gigabyte cards in my build they are pure dirt .
liquid cooling failure residue? very interesting crap to find under electronic parts, i know some smd elements are glued with red glue if you flow solder big pcb on both sides but that stuff is nasty
So you met my mortal enemy, the Underfill. I do microsoldering on mobile devices and ALL of them have underfill under the CPU, if you aren't super carefull and heat up the board a little too much you have to reball the cpu because the balls short out when the underfill expands under heat.
Asus definitely had some poorly made 5000 series cards, some of the TUF branded models I believe. They released a revision for one or two of those models at one point. I think it was the memory cooling which was considered very inadequate on the original versions. Not sure what's going on with all the crap on this card, doesn't seem likely to be explained only by poor memory cooling.
I wonder if it would be cost effective to brush-plate gold onto those worn out connector fingers of the adapter. Was copper showing or was it only worn down to the nickle plating?
i think someone in the assembly line left or been dropped some piece of duct tape or something and that over time due to heat melted and wrapped arround the components inside gpu,or some third party but it looks been there for a looong time
I think that card was in a fire and the fan holder melted + etc...., and cleaned it up a bit and installed a replacement; The motherboard looks terrible, she needs a good sonic cleanser Maybe you have a headache due to a leak in your solder extraction system, test it with a smoke system dudes
They are getting tons of RMAs so instead of redesigning and fixing the actual issues, aka board flex, they're trying bonds and underfills to hold components in place long enough to make it through the warranty period. Like NWR said in an earlier video, the best possible thing to do for your product life extension is to mount it vertically.
why not use paste instead of balls? in most of rossmann's videos that i've seen they always use paste to solder ssd nands and ram on the macbooks they fix. just curious if there are any significant differences between balls and paste in regards to GPUs.
I wouldn't necessarily say its amd cards in general, i would blame the board partners like asus and gigabyte. saphire, powercolor, and even the new xfx models seem like good options. I'll be going with amd once my current gpu dies on me, granted after i send it to you 1st to get it fixed and hopefully get some more milage out of it 😅.
I got a question. I have a evga 3070ti its brand new basically never touched/stock. Im pissed about paying $980 for it during coin bs. I didnt pay attention to amd cards so I was kinda out of the loop. I overpaid for basically 8gb of ram. Can you mod a card to 16gb and what would you charge for it ? God bless you and your work I enjoy watching.
its guarded in drivers, its posible to do (in theori, and has been done on some youtube channels) but you will get a ton of issues running useable drivers proberly. Also doubtfully worth it with current prices on new cards. Sad to say but you got punished for not understanding supply and demand. Plenty of indicators upto the RTX3k/RX6k launch that it would be cards worth getting on day1.
reverse engineering..we used to make parts not to break but now they're making things that's gonna break itself that,your only option will be to buy another one which will have the same break patterns..pure economy making dineros by itself,but not for consumers. its for spenders..
I have an older AMD Radeon R9 290X which also seems to live: It refuses to crash under heavy load but only when cooling down afterwards! Any idea what might be the cause for this strange behaviour?
amd is more like those modern car engines these daysif you try to do 50% of any kind of rally its gonna break quickif you not crossing 2000 rpm treshold they gonna be just fine
That compound is ATC compound it is desighned to swell under heat amd tear pads off chips and used to deter technicians from fixing their cards in order to sell more cards
Thank you for another hard work video 👍 I've read somewhere online that AMD gpu manufacturers did use glue on memory chips to make them more secure....whatever that means. I found online, owner of 6900xt finding it on his gpu - asking about it, another owner of 6950xt made by XFX... I think GamersNexus did a teardown of Sapphire 6950xt finding the same "hotglue" being used. Why did they decide to use glue? I really don't know, many are saying to prolong gpu life, but idk about that - LOL there's a broken gpu in your hands. So would it break earlier? 😂 Kinda bad manufacturing solution when it comes to repairing I hope they don't do it any more 🤷♂️ I haven't seen the glue in person so I can't say anything from personal experience, just from what I saw online ...
I have a 6950xt Xfx and have taken it apart there was no glue what so ever I think you’re comment is baseless and you have 0 clue what ur talking about
@@aliensounddigital8729 I just hate the Brand NAME. I don't want GAYMER written on my GPU. I don't identify as a GAYMER. Even though I love great hardware, for example I bought Lenovo Legion 7 gaming Notebooks, but they don't look like frikkin Gamer Laptops, they have great design, elegant and not too obnoxious, even with the RGB lights on full rotation a Legion laptop still looks classy. As for the Hardware, I think the best GPUs are Sapphire NITRO+ for AMD, don't know if they also make Nvidia GPUs. The best were EVGA, but they are gone, because NVIDIA sucks and hates their Board Partners do cool stuff, so they limited them so much that it got basically pointless...
@@northwestrepair Oh...😯. As my ever optimistic son might say "Dad, look on the bright side...at least they didn't steal everything". The wisdom of youth.
It's not AMD, it's Asus. Their quality has degraded over the comming years so far such that JaysTwoCents had to cancel them, and literally ban them from all the future sponsorship he would get from them. It's just how Asus is now.
My guess... someone spilled something on this card. Pulled apart countless GPUs and I've never seen anything like that that couldn't be explained by something having been spilled on it by the user. Neither the black or the red substances are anything I've even seen on a card from the factory. This is on the use end.
Overclockers paradise , that pcb was sprayed with plastidip for liquid nitrogen cooling , and lacker for liquid metal isolation .
O man......... your right.
Yes and likely thermal paste or something similar pushed around video ports in an attempt to keep out air and minimize condensation which can become a huge pain at sub-ambient temps. Usually doesn't damage anything but random display drop-outs and interference in the middle of benchmarks isn't a fun time.
Once again, not really an AMD issue. Not defending them, they frustrate me like everyone else but I wish he'd stop jumping conclusions about AMD cards when the problem isn't specific to them.
@@JJFX- Was quite literally just thinking the second part of what you said. Thank you, someone had to say it.
And if the card was made by Asus (who makes also Nvidia boards), why blame AMD for that? It’s a case of confirmation bias in my opinion.
Was just about to type this when I seen this message 😂😂😂 def been OC hahah I’m thinking people are sending ya there garbage 😂
So even if that goop was put on by the manufacturer, why do you blame AMD for it?....AMD didn't make that card, Asus did. As mentioned, that's probably an LN2 card and that goop is probably liquid tape, and in that case no wonder that card is a mess. BTW I have a CNC mill, I hit you up about a 1080ti repair, I actually have a couple more likely broken 1080ti's on the way.......maybe we can work something out.
He is well aware of that but he probably wanted to troll the NVIDIA ultra fanboys by sounding like one ;)
...I hope so for him....
@@doyouwtech9012They do suck to work on but its odd sometimes when a nvidia card and amd card side by side from the same company assembling the GPUs are different quality. Brings more questions than answers.
@@GoonyMclinux read again @blazini comment as I agree with him it must be something even outside manufacturer (asus) control. I never saw that kind of goop on any GPU cards exept wierd experimentation by users like LN2, oil tanks, etc...
This is obvious this had nothing to do with AMD or manufacturer, just by the look at the HDMI polution. Be smarter and dont fall into fanboyzism plz ;)
@@doyouwtech9012 yeah true, could be, no need to be snarky bud, calling people stupid is disrespectful.
@@GoonyMclinux who called you stupid ? not me !
"To be creative you've got to be poor" - amen to that bro!
Painfully true...
This is no factory or production. This card has been tampered with. Somebody was there before you.
Maybe one Day you will also learn to repair AMD cards aswell 😉
That's the plan!
When you apply rubbing alcohol, the adhesive residue will lose its adhesion and will precipitate. This can also work with acetone, or nail polish remover. Keep in mind that alcohol or acetone may damage painted surfaces, so be careful when using these substances.@@northwestrepair
@@northwestrepair good time to start OC my card xD
@@northwestrepair Is your gripes with AMD cards something focused on the MBA cards? (Made by AMD) Or is it their partner cards as well? I have and use a couple cards from both AMD and Nvidia but they're partner cards, one Sapphire the other 3 are Asus.
memory chip shifted at 44:00 because it was never aligned to begin with. Solder was just doing its job and pulled the chip in line 1 row off.
I've gone down with the nastiest of colds and these videos are therapeutic for me to watch while laying in bed and sneezing profusely. Thanks dude.
That's a COVID variant dude. We all had it or have it. Sleep well and eat well.
I just got over it. Saw a meme that made me laugh though.
"How to sneeze like me"
Step 1: Sneeze 🤧
Step 2: Sneeze again 🤧
Step 3: Sneeze a third time 🤧
Step 4: This is your life now 🤧
😂🤣
@@Dandan-tg6tjah yes, if you're sick, it has to be covid
Yeah this looks like conformal coating and Plasti dip for an overclockers card..
18:42 Yeah, I can relate to that. A while back, I remember attempting to learn C++, and what I discovered when writing in C is that the parameter code is written backward. It's like left is right, but you have to write the functions and variables starting from the left. It's just weird..
assignment usually goes from right to left, thats all :p
My amd experience has been so good on rdna 2 with my rx 6800, max of 75c on the hot spot with a mild fan profile in a good airflow case playing star field, my vram never hits over 60c everything running super good.
I used to run nvidia gpus my last one being a rtx 3080 I was gifted but at the time I had a rx 6800xt I could not believe how much better the 6800xt looked in games it was a breakthrough moment for me nvidia cards look bland to me and blurry.
I knew right then and there amd from now on not only looking better pulling less power and having more vram but not costing 20-40 % more money for features I do not care for.
I agree although I use an ASRock 6700xt 12 gb version witn two fans I did however change the thermal paste on the chip it self since hot spot was hitting 105 when avarege was 65 and I do mean every single temp sensor was showing that under load and in re4 remake so now I'm from 75-80 degrees on the die hotspot it self which is 5 degrees difference under load which is the same as in idle
*TIP*
Get yo self a set of hot tweezers and when you need to remove a Chips Solder array from the PCB's
Cut a short piece of solder wick and clamp it with yo HOT tweezers and use the wick as if it were
a brush to soak and clean the Chip &OR PCB solder array/s with barely any "if not any damage"
to the PCB/Chips Solder Mask &OR Conformal Coating/s.
I know the red substance is cement/glue to temporary hold components in place as the board makes its way through the reflow oven. Perhaps the black substance is a conformal coating sprayed over the board after it cools down? Maybe it oxides when heat is applied in the presents of oxygen?
Interesting Video as Always, Keep Them Coming!
It has to be from assembly process, crap is all over the place sometimes, its like they preheated the crap out of them during assembly and baked the crap on or something.
This isn't all from manufacturing. It's a card used for extreme overclocking that was covered with plastidip or some kind of conformal coating. Red stuff might be but since it's pressed into areas like behind the HDMI port, it's more likely thermal paste or something similar used to minimize display dropouts caused by condensation at sub-ambient temps.
36:37 soldering fumes gives that headache. Maybe not immediately, but after day
Everybody is entitled to their opinions. When working as a RV solar tech, I saw the way most manufacturers made their coaches and it would confirm to me not to buy that brand or brands. When your working on the guts of something and you know your stuff. The bad things stick out like a sore thumb. But in this case, that board was most definitely plastic dipped. Can't blame AMD for that one. Personally, I'm on my 3rd AMD card and they have all been very good. Were they built great? No, heck my second XFX card was bent from one end to the other cooler and all. Still worked great but was wonky. My latest Asrock 6800xt is much better built, but it is one of their higher end cards. It's really hard to judge AMD for what third party vendors make.
a 3d printer could work as well as a cnc machine if you dont necessarily need to use metal
36:40
"Here in Kentucky I'm having a headache almost every other day. Why that is, I don't know"
If this isn't a jest, its highly possible its your water. Look into sending your water in to get tested, and a NSF Certified, under sink RO filtration system for your drinking water. They're expensive, but we're not talking about filtering out water for taste. There's heavy metals in a lot of the water here.
A lot of the Midwest/flyover area of the United States has very substantial water issues and the utility companies are extremely underbudget. As long as they can technically get within FDA margins they won't go one part per million further on purpose
You're expected to take care of yourself beyond that
Amazing. I love this place even more now.
I agree w/you; those of use with limited means, find creative ways to fix things/problem solve vs the sect that just run out and buy.
I love the red v green debate / quarrel - makes for some fun reading - thanks for a great video again and again
watching from Argentina, amazing channel and amazing content!
23:08 good point. spitting out wisdom there.
30:50 thats not right, with an oven you got a nearly closed system which will be much smaller than your room obviously. With an hot air blower the system pretty much is your whole room. So which system will need more energy to heat up by 5 degrees celsius? Right! Your room! So your loosing energy consistently with a blower into the room while an oven is an insulated system. Time is the only thing you are saving here. With an oven you can also avoid some/most of the soldering gas that may be harmful. In the older days the people used soldering tin already mixed with a flux called Rosin or collophony which smells like pine woods and is less harmful than other flux that is used by the industry. This soldering tin was intended for "home-use" and is gone nowadays. I think they found cheaper alternatives that are also harmless.
it is underfill, whis is used for decades, became more common with lead-free solder.
I hope you work on one of Intel's cards like Arc a750 or a770 to give us your opinion about them
that was not factory. too random and messy. it was from user error. something happened in pc to cause it
Or maybe something bad happened at the Asus factory?
This reminds me of the MRE (meal ready to eat) that we have in the Military. I'm surprised that you can make it indoors, the heater pack produces a high concentration of hydrogen gas and can be dangerous in small areas. love your videos btw.
Then in the small area you put the Tabasco sauce in the heater and create ......
could you please explain what PEX
PCI EXpress
@@formbi thanks
that my friend is not factory , that GPU was Water cooled or they used liquid nitrogen on it and before using doing that they paint on either Nail polish or Liquid plastic dip so that moisture doesn't get into all the nicks and crannies and cause a short or fry the GPU from moisture !!! they do it with motherboards too when Overclocking and trying too set records and such on benchmark runs !!! ironically if the customer didn't know a GPU miner probably did it then sold him the card ..
You have a blessed day to my friend and carry on winning these fights ✊🏻
that chip did not shift. it was in the wrong place since the begining
Techpowerup posted a review (asus radeon rx 5700 xt strix oc) and there's a clear view of the pcb and there's no red paste on any of the display port and there's no black goop on any of the vrams and caps. Chances are this is not from the factory but from the end user or from the previous repair shop.
Quit trying to blame AMD for every single thing, makes you look kinda pathetic.
I said i dont think this is a factory thing, i said i dont know.
If you were to watch the video instead of commenting right away, you would know the full opinion -_-
oooh,AMD guys gettin' horny..and from the poorman point of wiew amd cards seems having more problems than nvidia..amd..nvidia..who cares when is not important can some card be fixed only how long it gonna last for you to fix the issue.and now car manufacturers making our job more expensive and time consuming..soon a regular maintenance will be to change windshield every 2y..where's tech goin',bro..backwards or..this man invest something verry precious into the industry and we are judgmental,as always..lol..its like you meet a perfect girl,beautifull,smart,but at the end you say 'but she has one eyebrow too thin than other..hat off to this man who raising the dead gpu's back to life..celebrate life
That card has had stuff added to it for cooling protection. It's not normal for a production card. It wasn't factory
great work there im using some of your ideas at my work PS was hoping evga go amd side :D
Soon as you did the green fix... I hit like. Good eye.
On the chip with the mask two other ball spots have trailing out of area marks. I have seen them before to no effect but seems a ball joining path if chip is moved up or down not side to side. I mean the tiny movement to return with surface tension back home. Probably not the same with memory compared to ic's. Larger balls?
Yeah I'll never skimp on a good set of tweezers, You can't get the quality from the higher end ones, Don't forget you get what you pay for.. And with cheap tweezers you're going to be dropping chips caps and resistors constantly because of alignment issues and the tweezers not functioning properly..
If you are looking for a reflow oven there is an interesting device that helps you convert a kitchen oven to reflow oven. The name of it is Reflow Master Pro. Of course there many arduino or other MC based DIY projects.
Man, you should always avoid heating those caps too high. A reflow oven is not something I would use to repair a video card.
@@Dandan-tg6tj I do not It was just a recommendation because Tony mentioned it in the video.
BTW, Hakko CHP 5B-SA are good fine tip tweezers, not sure if they are small enough for handling balls (lol) but I use them to place 0402 and 0201 components
I like the 7A-SA, awesome tweezees. 🤣
When you pre-heat the board for the different operations, what temperature do you heat the board to? What temp on the hot air gun? Thanks
Love videos there great for me as i repair tvs and wanted to learn more these video help me learn about my gpu want to know how they work.
My whole Gaming PC is a Gigabyte build the only component I removed was the graphics card after having two Gigabyte cards in my build they are pure dirt .
If you’re going to buy an AMD card, stick to the AMD exclusive makers. There seems to be more problem with the multi brand makers.
3:43 "'Cuz I am kind of a paranoid about balls" I grabbed a cup of coffee and came back to this line and started thinking "WTH did I miss?!?"
liquid cooling failure residue? very interesting crap to find under electronic parts, i know some smd elements are glued with red glue if you flow solder big pcb on both sides but that stuff is nasty
So you met my mortal enemy, the Underfill. I do microsoldering on mobile devices and ALL of them have underfill under the CPU, if you aren't super carefull and heat up the board a little too much you have to reball the cpu because the balls short out when the underfill expands under heat.
Asus definitely had some poorly made 5000 series cards, some of the TUF branded models I believe. They released a revision for one or two of those models at one point. I think it was the memory cooling which was considered very inadequate on the original versions. Not sure what's going on with all the crap on this card, doesn't seem likely to be explained only by poor memory cooling.
that looks like resin/silicone; to protect from touching and shorting. this one seems little more abused :D
I wonder if that card was water cooled... Could that goop be some dried up water based coolant that leaked all over?
Awesome video
"Let's get ready for rrrrrreball!" :-)
You have a milling machine!
Noice
I wonder if it would be cost effective to brush-plate gold onto those worn out connector fingers of the adapter. Was copper showing or was it only worn down to the nickle plating?
How can you brush gold plating to those pins?
It's easier to replace it at this point
i think it was a mining card and the user bought it second hand and this residue from water cooling
hey man, ive been wondering, that aluminum-ish block where you put the memorys is custom made?
yes
Ultrasonic cleaner didn't help? (This graphics card is used for extreme overclocking.)
i think someone in the assembly line left or been dropped some piece of duct tape or something and that over time due to heat melted and wrapped arround the components inside gpu,or some third party but it looks been there for a looong time
Wow nice content brother 👍
bought a 5700xt cracked in the first week playing video games not even benchmarking
I think that card was in a fire and the fan holder melted + etc...., and cleaned it up a bit and installed a replacement;
The motherboard looks terrible, she needs a good sonic cleanser
Maybe you have a headache due to a leak in your solder extraction system, test it with a smoke system dudes
In your opinion, which card is more reliable?
What flux do you use when you are reballing memory? Thanks
Lol .. that one memory chip was crucked all along .. like hilary clinton
Memory on compound is bad idea)
They are getting tons of RMAs so instead of redesigning and fixing the actual issues, aka board flex, they're trying bonds and underfills to hold components in place long enough to make it through the warranty period.
Like NWR said in an earlier video, the best possible thing to do for your product life extension is to mount it vertically.
Glad that we are "Internet People" finally :)
why not use paste instead of balls? in most of rossmann's videos that i've seen they always use paste to solder ssd nands and ram on the macbooks they fix. just curious if there are any significant differences between balls and paste in regards to GPUs.
I think he answered that question during the "It's Ballzday Again" video?
wouldn't blame AMD instead ASSus. the new Gigabyte
I wouldn't necessarily say its amd cards in general, i would blame the board partners like asus and gigabyte. saphire, powercolor, and even the new xfx models seem like good options. I'll be going with amd once my current gpu dies on me, granted after i send it to you 1st to get it fixed and hopefully get some more milage out of it 😅.
Have you had any sapphire cards with these same issues
What is that stuff for? Why would they be putting it on/in the gpu?
You love to hate right? Amd cards get you out your confort zone.
Bro names very other repair channel he watched but north ridge come on u guys don’t actually have beef right now
is it glue from the factory
Some one call 911 too much blood over here
Is GDDR6x the same design?
I got a question. I have a evga 3070ti its brand new basically never touched/stock. Im pissed about paying $980 for it during coin bs. I didnt pay attention to amd cards so I was kinda out of the loop. I overpaid for basically 8gb of ram. Can you mod a card to 16gb and what would you charge for it ? God bless you and your work I enjoy watching.
its guarded in drivers, its posible to do (in theori, and has been done on some youtube channels) but you will get a ton of issues running useable drivers proberly. Also doubtfully worth it with current prices on new cards. Sad to say but you got punished for not understanding supply and demand. Plenty of indicators upto the RTX3k/RX6k launch that it would be cards worth getting on day1.
At that time AMD cards were highly overpriced too. You wouldn't get an AMD at good price either, unless you lived only in US.
reverse engineering..we used to make parts not to break but now they're making things that's gonna break itself that,your only option will be to buy another one which will have the same break patterns..pure economy making dineros by itself,but not for consumers. its for spenders..
The anti amd bias is showing again , thats user related damage , plasticote or some other garbage, card belongs to an over clocker
Which is ironic since a lot of his gpu repairs are Nvidia cards
AMD cards poop blood, that’s my new favorite response whenever somebody asks me if AMD cards are any good
I have an older AMD Radeon R9 290X which also seems to live: It refuses to crash under heavy load but only when cooling down afterwards! Any idea what might be the cause for this strange behaviour?
Rebal
This card looks sketchy the blood is everywhere even where you do not expect it, defiantly user error.
I seen this black glue ?? also on some soldered RAM chips in a new laptops, make it impossible to just reflow this chip
wont a electronic cleaner remove that stubborn glue?
@@spyplane3979 no,it can only be removed by heat and scabbing after removal of the chip It doesn't dissolves in any organic liquid
I think the PC was working in a garage where a car was being painted red.
Cheers m8.
Underfill?
Exactly. Amd does this so that mem chips near the pcie slot dont rip pads due to sag. At the cost of repairability. Sometimes they do all the chips.
amd is more like those modern car engines these daysif you try to do 50% of any kind of rally its gonna break quickif you not crossing 2000 rpm treshold they gonna be just fine
Did Greg S from YT channel send you a card to look at
No. He never responded back.
Room tour😁
That compound is ATC compound it is desighned to swell under heat amd tear pads off chips and used to deter technicians from fixing their cards in order to sell more cards
Its for preventing the rip pad on weak spot near the pcie slot that tend to bending because masssive heatsink
Thank you for another hard work video 👍
I've read somewhere online that AMD gpu manufacturers did use glue on memory chips to make them more secure....whatever that means.
I found online, owner of 6900xt finding it on his gpu - asking about it, another owner of 6950xt made by XFX... I think GamersNexus did a teardown of Sapphire 6950xt finding the same "hotglue" being used.
Why did they decide to use glue? I really don't know, many are saying to prolong gpu life, but idk about that - LOL there's a broken gpu in your hands. So would it break earlier? 😂
Kinda bad manufacturing solution when it comes to repairing I hope they don't do it any more 🤷♂️
I haven't seen the glue in person so I can't say anything from personal experience, just from what I saw online ...
I have a 6950xt Xfx and have taken it apart there was no glue what so ever I think you’re comment is baseless and you have 0 clue what ur talking about
Also AMD does not make the graphics cards other than the reference so fault will fall within the manufacturer
Republic of GAYMERS
I hate this Brand, it's so stewpid.
Who tf wants to have "GAYMER" written on his Hardware?
ROG is still awesome. Just way, way over priced now.
@@aliensounddigital8729 I just hate the Brand NAME. I don't want GAYMER written on my GPU. I don't identify as a GAYMER. Even though I love great hardware, for example I bought Lenovo Legion 7 gaming Notebooks, but they don't look like frikkin Gamer Laptops, they have great design, elegant and not too obnoxious, even with the RGB lights on full rotation a Legion laptop still looks classy.
As for the Hardware, I think the best GPUs are Sapphire NITRO+ for AMD, don't know if they also make Nvidia GPUs. The best were EVGA, but they are gone, because NVIDIA sucks and hates their Board Partners do cool stuff, so they limited them so much that it got basically pointless...
Kentucky? I had you in Oregon or Washington. Shiver me timbers!
I moved.
@@northwestrepair I've haven't been to Kentucky yet. Gotta add an East coast swing to my bucket list. Hope your move went well!
@@danytoob u-pack stole few things.
@@northwestrepair Oh...😯. As my ever optimistic son might say "Dad, look on the bright side...at least they didn't steal everything". The wisdom of youth.
i think someone try to fix coil whining
Report the owner for GPU abuse. Poor thing is bleeding and shitting everywhere
It's not AMD, it's Asus. Their quality has degraded over the comming years so far such that JaysTwoCents had to cancel them, and literally ban them from all the future sponsorship he would get from them. It's just how Asus is now.
Too much coffein makes me get bad headache
AMD used this as a anti-repair protection?!
Need this software
last AMD card died literally the day after warrenty.
XFX 👋
My guess... someone spilled something on this card. Pulled apart countless GPUs and I've never seen anything like that that couldn't be explained by something having been spilled on it by the user. Neither the black or the red substances are anything I've even seen on a card from the factory. This is on the use end.
Paranoid about balls? Lol aren't we all?