Titan X core on this PCB sounds crazy good. My opinion - just do it. That is an awesome idea and it could easily make you the one with fastest Titan X on HWBot, supposed you get a good Titan core.
I'm incredibly fond of the maxwell generation. The cards weren't as locked down, they were cheaper and performance was great. Plus, that's about when I got into pc gaming so there's nostalgia ya know. It also helped that AMD wasn't completely nonexistent.
Look at the linux kernel, files for nouveau might tell you a bit about how to mess with that, like atombios.h and other files related to it tells a bit about AMD's vbioses. I've been looking heavily at similar things for AMD. Currently making sure I can pull, reball, and reflow gddr5 and then later the core package too, myself being doing Binning and Upgrading efforts.
@@ezengondolkozom3700 I tried to try arch but I will only compile things myself as a last resort and that install process indicated to me, arch is not for people who do not want to compile things. I gave up on it before even installing it.
Bullzoid do you have a BGA rework station? Put the BGAs back on a Titan core is extremely hard as it has done by laser precision machine. I will take over 3 h to do the work.
@@BitterCynical 3 hours when you are a confirmed technician in soldering and BGA soldering. I don't know if bullzoid has any experience in that, maybe he does.
@@sithounetsith9877 From personal experience me being a total noob with SMD repair it doesn't take a very long time to remove and replace something. Biggest difference from an experienced tech will be in the likelihood that the damn thing actually works and whether nothing else got killed from the heat. And this sort of stuff is a one off personal project so there's no worries about whether the time investment will pay off via a dead GPU owner paying for the repair.
@@BitterCynical BGA Rework is not SMD rework. Everyone can solder 0603, 0402 probably too with a magnifying glass maybe, but properly balling a chip **of this scale**, especially without a stencil, getting the right alignment [remember we're talking singular mil tolerances, and i'd call that pretty bad still] by hand, securing it in place to evenly heat it up and cool it down without any problems with the solder joints [that are usually xray verified even after machine processing] BY HAND, is virtually impossible. If you wanna look how bga rework for smaller chips looks like, look at Louis Rossmann channel. He had a showcase of the entire process with all the tools used. It is one of these things that actually really are mostly outside of hand human work. With the right tooling though, well sky is the limit. And luck. At least a bit.
@@walek92SFC I watch Rossmann doing repairs all of the time. And Paul S basically does microsurgery for logic boards. It's not worth it for them to struggle with dead CPU and GPU replacements for hours especially when they can't be sure the replacement isn't dead to begin with. There's always a one in a million chance that an amateur without stencils, BGA rework stations and all the other fancy stuff will manage to successfully replace the processor. It's like lottery, entertaining.
I use to have one of these cards, sadly it was DOA. It would throw out a black screen whenever a driver was installed. Good to see the PCB of one in good hands, and it would be hilarious if you got a Titan core working on this.
You going to try and mount a gpu with just hot air? Don't know if you've watched any of Louis rossmann stuff that sounds like that's not an easy feat. If you can pull it off that would be awesome
Hi i really like your Videos and i wanna get into the Basics of "electrical engineering" as a "Hobby"! Do you have any tips and / or resources you would recommend ?
I had 3 of these and all died within a year. One that worked the longest had about 1/3 of GPU not covered with thermal paste at all. Other 2 were fine in that department but still died very quick. And also coil whine is a thing. Like real WHINE on these cards. As for Titan Core you should be alright without any bios mods. I've installed 2048 SP Desktop chip from GTX980 on my GTX980M(1536SP) Clevo laptop and it went without any problems at all. No bios tinkering, no nothing. Just plug and play. And it was before Huang announced full GTX980 for laptops lol
you get any where with this? I have some 980ti dies, also Im doing this on a 290x lightning. Theres a guy on yt that swapped a 780ti die or titan die on an 780 board and didnt do anything and the cores got recognized.
I know this is an older video, but I have a couple of questions. I just purchased 2-980ti classified editions that have water blocks. I don’t do water cooling but these were 2 cards for the price of one. So I jumped and thought I could just replace the water blocks with air coolers. Easier said than done. The question is, are the air coolers from a 780ti classified the same and would they fit on the 980 ti classified editions. 2nd question would you or anyone of your subscribers have the air coolers from the 980ti classified editions laying around if they water cooled? Please contact me if you do.
How come the powIRstages instead of the directfets on this card? I would have thought the directfets have better current capability, or do they take too much space for the same throughput?
you can overvolt the vram with software up to 1,8 volts and the samsung memory scales fantastically.from 1750mhz to 2200+mhz und the 980 classy for example. OFc no one really know how much memory voltage the card can take on long term and who wants to risk the card?
I own an ASUS Strix rev 2.0 980TI. Would it theoretically be possible to fit a GM200-880-A1 core (256Tmu variant), along with Samsung K4G80325FB HC22 GDDR5 9Gbps 8Gigiabit memory (12Gb total). I will be amazed if someone is able to make this happen on a Vbios level and physical level.
Damn, a hot air station is something I need if'n you can swap around dies Might be able to waste a few thousand in order to feel better about buying a nuked Titan for £15 Incidentally, do you want a Maxwell Titan~?
How do you expect to "mod" the BIOS? Aren't all firmwares from Maxwell and beyond required to be signed by nvidia? if you change any of its data, it'll fail the signature check and not boot, unless you know something I don't.
I'd be willing to bet that KINGPIN would be in to helping you out with a BIOS file for that!
But I think Nvidia will make Kp overthink that...
I could be mistaken but can't kingpin do what he wants in his free time? Also as far as I know he works for evga not nvidia.
@@steffeneilers8530 Now that EVGA isn't dealing with Nvidia anymore, maybe it would be possible? Not even sure if he still has this card though
Titan X core on this PCB sounds crazy good. My opinion - just do it. That is an awesome idea and it could easily make you the one with fastest Titan X on HWBot, supposed you get a good Titan core.
I'm incredibly fond of the maxwell generation. The cards weren't as locked down, they were cheaper and performance was great. Plus, that's about when I got into pc gaming so there's nostalgia ya know. It also helped that AMD wasn't completely nonexistent.
We don't bench RTX at -180 :-D.
Go for titanium, shouldn't need any BIOS mod to make it work. Maybe just a memory strap :)
I was going of der8auer's temperatures. Can't wait to see your write up for the 2080Ti.
*WHY IS MY BRUSH RED*
Yea back to orange
Euhm orange, not yellow
@@Damicske oh yeaaaa.
Coming soon: EVGA GTX Titan Buildpin Edition
Maybe K|ngzo|d =D
Pininfarina1893
K|ngZo|d > Bu|ldP|n
KingZoid
Look at the linux kernel, files for nouveau might tell you a bit about how to mess with that, like atombios.h and other files related to it tells a bit about AMD's vbioses. I've been looking heavily at similar things for AMD. Currently making sure I can pull, reball, and reflow gddr5 and then later the core package too, myself being doing Binning and Upgrading efforts.
I use Arch btw.
@@ezengondolkozom3700 I tried to try arch but I will only compile things myself as a last resort and that install process indicated to me, arch is not for people who do not want to compile things. I gave up on it before even installing it.
I think you are talking about Gentoo but I know what you're saying. @@kiaas
Broken Titan X cards go for around 100 bucks on ebay. Snap one.
that titan idea sounds so cool
I love it the idea of a titan kingpin really sweet hope it works out
Bullzoid do you have a BGA rework station?
Put the BGAs back on a Titan core is extremely hard as it has done by laser precision machine.
I will take over 3 h to do the work.
Just 3h sounds perfectly reasonable for the "ultimate titan maxwell card"
if it works...
@@BitterCynical
3 hours when you are a confirmed technician in soldering and BGA soldering.
I don't know if bullzoid has any experience in that, maybe he does.
@@sithounetsith9877 From personal experience me being a total noob with SMD repair it doesn't take a very long time to remove and replace something. Biggest difference from an experienced tech will be in the likelihood that the damn thing actually works and whether nothing else got killed from the heat.
And this sort of stuff is a one off personal project so there's no worries about whether the time investment will pay off via a dead GPU owner paying for the repair.
@@BitterCynical BGA Rework is not SMD rework. Everyone can solder 0603, 0402 probably too with a magnifying glass maybe, but properly balling a chip **of this scale**, especially without a stencil, getting the right alignment [remember we're talking singular mil tolerances, and i'd call that pretty bad still] by hand, securing it in place to evenly heat it up and cool it down without any problems with the solder joints [that are usually xray verified even after machine processing] BY HAND, is virtually impossible.
If you wanna look how bga rework for smaller chips looks like, look at Louis Rossmann channel. He had a showcase of the entire process with all the tools used. It is one of these things that actually really are mostly outside of hand human work. With the right tooling though, well sky is the limit. And luck. At least a bit.
@@walek92SFC I watch Rossmann doing repairs all of the time. And Paul S basically does microsurgery for logic boards. It's not worth it for them to struggle with dead CPU and GPU replacements for hours especially when they can't be sure the replacement isn't dead to begin with.
There's always a one in a million chance that an amateur without stencils, BGA rework stations and all the other fancy stuff will manage to successfully replace the processor. It's like lottery, entertaining.
Having fun with that hot air station, I see.
My ground pins are on now the SLI connector, thanks!
I use to have one of these cards, sadly it was DOA. It would throw out a black screen whenever a driver was installed. Good to see the PCB of one in good hands, and it would be hilarious if you got a Titan core working on this.
Mine is behaving EXACTLY like the one you had! Could you get it back to life again? Thank you!
Ended up returning it to the Ebay seller I had bought it from, I wish it would have worked since it was such a cool card.
Mine went up in smoke few weeks ago! Almost saw flames and definitely smoke coming from the gpu socket!
And on my other 980 TI KPE a capacitor or resister fell out of the card. Still works. No isssues. Should I be worried?
You going to try and mount a gpu with just hot air? Don't know if you've watched any of Louis rossmann stuff that sounds like that's not an easy feat. If you can pull it off that would be awesome
I've seen someone successfully do a laptop CPU with a heatgun so while it's definitely sketchy it seems that it should be possible
@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking send it to eli tech lulz
@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking vary cool I look forward to you live streaming it..... J/k
Hi i really like your Videos and i wanna get into the Basics of "electrical engineering" as a "Hobby"! Do you have any tips and / or resources you would recommend ?
😍 yay Kingpin ftw! 😍
Would like to see you do some repairs too Cheers for great vudeos.
YESSSS, KINGPIN TITAN!!!!
I had 3 of these and all died within a year. One that worked the longest had about 1/3 of GPU not covered with thermal paste at all. Other 2 were fine in that department but still died very quick. And also coil whine is a thing. Like real WHINE on these cards.
As for Titan Core you should be alright without any bios mods. I've installed 2048 SP Desktop chip from GTX980 on my GTX980M(1536SP) Clevo laptop and it went without any problems at all. No bios tinkering, no nothing. Just plug and play. And it was before Huang announced full GTX980 for laptops lol
That is not the same as putting a titan on a 980ti....
@@Oldsah Yeah, but its close.
TFW Heating element can pull more power than my 1060 6g with 116% power target(~144w)
Would love to see a Titan hybrid
you get any where with this? I have some 980ti dies, also Im doing this on a 290x lightning. Theres a guy on yt that swapped a 780ti die or titan die on an 780 board and didnt do anything and the cores got recognized.
I know this is an older video, but I have a couple of questions. I just purchased 2-980ti classified editions that have water blocks. I don’t do water cooling but these were 2 cards for the price of one. So I jumped and thought I could just replace the water blocks with air coolers. Easier said than done. The question is, are the air coolers from a 780ti classified the same and would they fit on the 980 ti classified editions. 2nd question would you or anyone of your subscribers have the air coolers from the 980ti classified editions laying around if they water cooled? Please contact me if you do.
Well its been a year mr Zoid. Time to make it happen?
my kingpin gpu is awesome!
GET FREAKIN TITAN CORE!!!1
Any idea where a fella can get the board view or schematics for an evga 980ti. ?
Im curious to see how this PCB varies vs my 980ti Classified
isn't it possible to filter all cuda related listings out of the kingpin bios and change the value from 2816 to 3072?
Can't you just compare titan and 980ti bios and change the relevant stats?
How come the powIRstages instead of the directfets on this card? I would have thought the directfets have better current capability, or do they take too much space for the same throughput?
The direct fets are slower when switching.
@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking For these large VRMs i guess that is mostly significant for transient response?
you can overvolt the vram with software up to 1,8 volts and the samsung memory scales fantastically.from 1750mhz to 2200+mhz und the 980 classy for example. OFc no one really know how much memory voltage the card can take on long term and who wants to risk the card?
I own an ASUS Strix rev 2.0 980TI. Would it theoretically be possible to fit a GM200-880-A1 core (256Tmu variant), along with Samsung K4G80325FB HC22 GDDR5 9Gbps 8Gigiabit memory (12Gb total).
I will be amazed if someone is able to make this happen on a Vbios level and physical level.
glue the die to a MXM board and OC in it a laptop
MAKE THE BRUTALZOID TITAN CARD
Damn, a hot air station is something I need if'n you can swap around dies
Might be able to waste a few thousand in order to feel better about buying a nuked Titan for £15
Incidentally, do you want a Maxwell Titan~?
Send it to him, maybe he can get it working to check the core and then swap it
we can rebuild it we have the technology
Any idea to turn off logo light?
wouldnt a titan have more gpu paddings
How do you expect to "mod" the BIOS? Aren't all firmwares from Maxwell and beyond required to be signed by nvidia? if you change any of its data, it'll fail the signature check and not boot, unless you know something I don't.
If you use the right version of Maxwell Tweaker, it works just fine. Recently modded my 980ti bios.
Kingpin titanzoid 9titanTI EXOC
This ope- this opens ueh alot of posib- whY IS mY BrUSSH ReD!!!?!?
I have a dead 980 Ti Kingpin just lying around if you want it hit me up.
do it 😍
yeah try the titan chip or go home disable your channel
Frost.
14 gauge ftw
Where's the core...