"Obviously I wouldn't spend a thousand pounds on a decade old GPU." Yes. Yes you would. We all know it. That's why we're here, and love your videos. :)
@@RandomGaminginHD Don't feel too bad mate. I paid I think it was $279 for my HD2900XT (recently). Best overpriced GPU ever. Looks BEAUTIFUL sitting on my shelf! :D 50 pounds for that GTX 580 is an absolute steal man.
it's a old ps3/360, laptop GPU fix really but I've been telling him for years whenever I see him do it to get a bottle of liquid flux it makes this fix way more reliable because it can help bring temp under GPU higher, flush out corrosion under it and mend cracked solder balls just a heat gun is like throwing a bandaid on a cut while with flux would be equivalent of using duct tap and toilet paper just way more sturdy of a fix lol
@@Babbages Sorry for being stupid but do you have a video of you/anyone doing this? whatever you just said is too big brain for me so I need a visual presentation lol (also I wanna know to try and fix my dead GPU like you said in a better way)
@@hexusmexus6971 yeah like a band aid fix without a actual reflow station it can never get hot enough to reflow it fully I always just throw no clean liquid Flux under if I use heat gun method because sometimes older cards can have oxidation on pins and balls and it cleans that off and can sometimes cause a more permanent fix but you are rite it's never a real fix with a heatgun.
@Por Qué? At this point, I assume no one knows how to solder correctly until they demonstrate for me that they do. 75% have no idea. 24% tell you they do, and all about how much experience and etc they have, then with no flux in sight, melt 14 grams of solder onto the tip, and then try to use that on cold parts, expecting it to make a super solid joint. And THEN act super surprised when it runs intermittently for 2 days and then fails outright again. 1% actually know WTF they are doing.
I'm 65 years old and almost a pensioner..smiling at these comments and the video remark..thanks to my father who kept his thinning hair I do too..thanks dad..good thinking of the heat gun..may the huge graphics processor last for years..or rather get used occasionally
Seems like you lost some weight. You look great. Nice to see your face every now and again. Hopefully soon we can see some of the local wildlife in your backyard.
Awesome! A couple years ago, I bought two GTX 480s for dirt cheap. Was good seller but I went about a year before installing one. It worked for about one second and the power supply blew up. Well, it blew one cap. I test everything in a backup backup backup system so no big loss and the power supply didn't take out anything with it.
Caps that are severely degraded from use and which are then sat around for years without being turned on are suspect even if they worked before, they might blow the next time they're brought rapidly up to operating voltage, as the polarisation of the cap may not be intact any longer. I don't even know whether the GPU contributed to that, it starts off in a low power mode, like sure you expect some extra heat in the can due to the burst load, but if the capacitor oxide layer is no longer fully formed, the only way to get it back on is gradually raising the voltage over hours, full voltage no-load condition isn't going to be very helpful at all.
The heat gun method you used is called reflowing, what you are doing is melting the solder underneath the GPU which when it cools down can reconnect bad solder joints that weren't making proper connection to the actual motherboard of the graphics card. The proper way to do this also involves using a good amount of flux to make sure the melted solder hardens on the proper contact pads.
You don't fix that problem with a reflow, only by replacing the chip. You CAN'T reflow the bumps on the flipchip, so flux is useless in this case. You just put a bandaid on the problem, and sooner or later the flipchip connections will loosen up and it will stop working again.
@@DarkoPetreski Depends if the chip's damaged, most time it's not and you can get away with re-balling the package. You wouldn't do this with normal ICs since there'd be replacements available, but GPU packages aren't nearly as common so you might as well get a new board if the package is truly dead.
@LabRat Knatz i have a hard time believing that the heat gun action as shown gets the card up to the liquidus. There have been a number of issues in that era, including lack of underfill, bad thermal expansion coefficient matching, a lot of things went wrong at once. Of course these materials worked "fine" when softer leaded solder was used and when power density wasn't quite as high, but well things changed. But ceramic and tantalum caps are worth an extra thought, when they go faulty, they sometimes recover when heated up. Not quite ideal but the issue might not crop up again after.
I did something similar and got myself a Gainward Bliss 7800+ AGP, the version with the G71 chip and all the shaders available. It runs WinXP paired with a Pentium-M770 on an Asus P4P800 with ct-479 adapter. Somehow it is very satisfying to see one of the fastest AGP cards working with one of the fastest single core CPUs.
Got two Pentium M builds myself with one running an 8800 Ultra just because I can though the overclocks are much more limited due to the 915 chipset not liking to overclock much.
Great find man! My best find from a UK pawn shop is a Alienware desktop with the beasty AMD FX-56 single core king CPU which is super rare now but it is also water cooled from Alienware themselves and two 8800 GT in SLi and it cost me a massive £40
@@tommyrockstar100 you think that's good my old company upgraded their old thinkpads back in 2001 these thinkpads where from 1991 and I managed to save a few . Thy all had the first commercial ssd it was made by SanDisk and I still have them it's strange having 31 year old solid state drives they where only 20mb
@@tommyrockstar100 i also have a few i486 dx2 intel processors these where released in 1989 but intel kept making them all the way up to 2007 they used them in medical equipment and such i have 2 from 2007 pulled out of an ultrasound machine and a respirator . iv been trying to see if i can use one in a 486 motherboard but because they where made for a specific task like life support alot of the features got locked out to minimize the risk of a chip failing while trying to keep someone alive my plan is to one day build a computer using only parts released on my birth year 1989
I just swapped my 3060 for a 3070, and still find far more interesting learning about older GPUs Edit: since this got heat, yeah I play at 1440p and definitely the 3060 wasn't enough, and 3070 is a beast at this res. I know is a weird swap. I live in Costa Rica, 3080 here are ULTRA expensive even shitty Zotacs. So 3070 had to be. But yeah wanted to be happy with the pc and it's now a dream. Not saying the 3060 is bad, it's a great card, but we are always greedy, and could afford it so why not make the swap. Still selling the 3060 though haven't had any luck, is even an ROG and no luck
It's basically the same thing.. The fact he swapped a 3060 for a 3070 is an upgrade.. he did pay for it. Yeah maybe, but still, upgrading to a card from the same generation is kinda stupid. He could have waited for 4000 series that comes out in a few months.
The fact that the last time I saw you, you had more hair makes me realize that a lot of time has passed lol. I'm also losing my hair at an alarming pace so I totally get what you feel. Also lucky you that the heat gun trick worked, I tried that recently with an old R9 270X and I couldn't revive it, oh well you win some and you lose some. At least they make great sexy paperweights lol.
ah lol, there's a video from 5 years ago on the recommended. he looks like a teenager in there. he aged 20 years in 5. omg. but he seems to be in better shape now
@@AJ-po6up Zamn, I hope you get the 270 to work then, ofc it isn't the best and almost 10 years old but its better then intel hd, but to be fair there were always good games no matter the hardware, I had a blast playing serius sam on my old laptop that has intel hd : )
I agree, when it comes to a collection piece that you intend to keep, the performance value means nothing. It's no longer about utility, so that metric can be tossed out the window. I wouldn't pay $50 for that thing to put in a system, but that sounds reasonable for simply a rare collectable. You should make a nice spinny stand for it!
My friend's 960 4gb Asus started artifacting last year, had to borrow him a gtx 260 to keep his PC running, I'll definitely tell him about the heat gun trick, maybe it could revive the GPU at least for a while :)
Don't forget to check the ASIC Quality in GPU-Z _(only for old GPU's, sadly)._ You can google what it is and what it does. In short, the higher the percentage - the better the potential undervolt/overclock. Basically a silicon lottery, but confirmed on a SW level - before you even start testing. Highest I got was 92.2% on a Palit GTX 670 back in the days. New owner was getting it for Witcher 3, and was quite happy with it.
I heard about these 580s back then but almost nobody had one but they had the normal versions of the 580. Good to watch the heat gun working and another gpu was brought back to life. Nice job.
A great behemoth. I have from long ago a HD 6950 DirectCU II triple slot in box. I moved to ITX and the card isn't fit in the case. I stored it in box in my parts closet. Love these old cards but beautiful. Anyway, thumbs up and congrats by your job with the heat gun, you revived it!
I have the 7970 Matrix, unfortunately non-Platinum and its VRAM doesn't OC to Platinum speeds without artifacts. Still a good buy for 30 Euros an year ago, and it's in daily use in my 2nd PC with NimeZ drivers.
Haven't actually seen you in awhile! Nice return to form, don't be so self conscious :) I have an Asus Matrix 5870 that I absolutely love, I use it for CRT gaming and such...
it really won't matter , modern PSU's supply all there power on a single 12v Rail and the cable gauge is going to have no issues throwing 240w through it especially when its a seasonic unit that are literally famous for there reliability.
One of my favorite finds I have is my Asus Mars 760 SLI card. Anytime I post it to PC forums, I get a few compliments. Managed to find a new old stock listing and paid $300 for it. Overpaid sure, but I'm glad to own it.
This reminded me of finding a R9-280X Matrix Platinum being sold locally for $75 CAD a few years ago. Seller said the card was crashing. It was in good condition other than a roughed up rear I/O plate. Did a little research, and apparently it was known for overheating VRAM chips. So new thermal paste, and adding a few copper VRAM heatsinks, the card was up and running no problem. Currently an item in my display cabinet, while it being a working spare GPU.
RandomGaminginHD : I appreciate you being an "old" soul for the GPU-s....but the THERMI (Fermi 1.0 and Fermi 2.0) were one of the WORTS NVIDIA GPU-s ever made. They were stuttery, poorly equipped for and near or far future, HOT and LOUD and ate nuclear amounts of power. This GTX 580 you have here had a 244 Watt TDP....in reality it ate around 290 Watts as a GPU alone and exhailed HUGE amounts of STEAMY HOT AIR inside a case due to its inefficiency. I had both GTX 480 and GTX 580 later on when they were released and I've "scrathed" by nerve for them in less that a day of gaming. The GTX 680 was much more efficient and a complete overhaul of the architecture that presided all the was to Pascal refreshed RTX 2000 series in 2018.
@@theminec Touring was a fake new architecture....in reality it was a Pascal refresh series with only additiom of GDDR6 which was overheating and dying :-).
Keep going , would like to see you make a video about a higher end card in 4K vs a lower end in 1080p or even 720p , the 3080 Ti in 4K vs 750 Ti in 720p
Fun video as always! I have a question for ya! I have a card that looks similar to this in storage right now. I don't know if it's a platinum edition or not but I am curious to check. Would you happen to know how much these platinum cards would normally be listed for on the used market? Would be cool to know if I had something valuable in storage all this time.
i used this heat gun method to repair my teachers gpu in the labor room, Usually this fix worked for a day or two, then had to do it again. The gpu was a radeon 9600 pro 128mb, in 2018 xd. yep, in 2018. now that card is basically dead, the heat gun method works for 10 minutes max, so it is a paperweight now.
I had one of those and sold it years ago, it was a great card. I remember it having a large red box with a flap/cover page which showed you all the bumf.
looking fresh ;p, i alway enjoy your calming voice but the cards a bit older always so i look how it was before ;p. got to take the mute off next video ;p
If a broken soderjoint is melted, reconnected and cooled down again i really don't see why this should break again anytime soon, though i only "baked" a bard in the oven...... like 6 times, worked 2 of the times and they still work. :) Though to be fair, i don't use my GT9800 as often as i used to. :P
I can feel you because I also have big head and very badly thinned out hairline which makes me look like couple hair left on my head :D probably should trim that but still not have courage to do that. Anyway, I have bought couple graphic cards from thrift store and occasionally they work but then I start any game they just crashes. After inspection of cards itself I see that many of them have common problem - missing smd components which probably fall off then cards have been kept roughly.
Pawn shops in my country are so over priced its unbelievable. Usually the item is 20-30% cheaper than a new one. Which is basically pointless to buy anything from there. :)
there is a lot opf places like that in the U.K like cash converters they try charging next to retail and pay people prices for stuff like they are a rattling herion addict desperate for a fix
congratulations on fixing a old legend. i have a rx470 that give me a black screen every 2 to 3 days then i unplug the HDMI and plug it back in and signal comes back. have u ever seen something like that? its not the HDMI port because i unplug it at the screen and plug back in and signal is back.
As for the hairline. I think was a comedian that said his hair was chilling around his head like a boomerang. As for the gpu I've pined over those matrix cards for years. those and the cerberus cards. I'm an asus fanboy lol
If you have never tried the oven regiment you should. As long as your oven gets up to 550 you can use it a toaster oven is a great idea basically you put the card in for three or four separate stages the starting off with a heat of like 230 for 30 minutes then you crank it up another hundred degrees another 30 and just rinse and repeat. Let it cool completely before you touch it or move it. Usually a couple of hours and then give her a go. Works better than a heat gun every time but not as good as true board repair
@@RandomGaminginHD I'm actually surprised you guys in the UK don't have some easier way to distinguish those two words, or even just use different words. Like maybe you'd call the other kind a "smut shop", call this one a "pawn and loan" shop or something similar.
the performance issue with the games could be down to the GPU either not been heat balled enough or drivers or even GDDR ram damage .. if the card was used intensively before you got it, god knows what happened to it .. its showing signs of loosing its marbles as us brits say .. only a matter of time before ends up as a door stop or mantle piece ornament lol there is actually diagnostic software you can use to test the memory ect of the gpu... GPUmemtest or memtestG80 which is NOT memtest86 lol .. worth having for testing stuff like this .. you will find them on the usual safe websites to download .. free...
I can't really tell from the last time I've seen you on camera, but to me you look different. In a good way though. If you are working out it shows dude. Keep it up! I mean this as a geniuine compliment and I hope you can use this as motivation. Thanks for the videos!
If you buy stuff like this from say cash generator/converters ,. I don't think they do any testing or nothing that's probably on the sense of cex. In fact I sold a basic VGA/DVI monitor and they gave me the money without even testing it. There was no issues with it, but either they don't or just didn't have the time to test. I did take a gamble with them the other week. Found a h110m board for 15 quid. Didn't have a box or back plate, but all seems to be working and been gaming on it with an i5 6500 and 12gb ram. What pawn shop you use?
"Obviously I wouldn't spend a thousand pounds on a decade old GPU." Yes. Yes you would. We all know it. That's why we're here, and love your videos. :)
Yeah maybe I would 😂
I agree.
Brutal takedown.
@@RandomGaminginHD Don't feel too bad mate. I paid I think it was $279 for my HD2900XT (recently). Best overpriced GPU ever. Looks BEAUTIFUL sitting on my shelf! :D 50 pounds for that GTX 580 is an absolute steal man.
What if there were a ROG MARS III around?
What a find! Good job fixing it, beautiful GPU :)
Also beautiful RDR2 and Fortnite gameplay 😂
yesss WORMZ!!! love your channel and watch all your video's!
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Kryzzp Try GTX 1050 3GB Version pls!
I read that in your unique voice
Gotta give a 👍 alone just for the Heatgun fix brilliant stuff.
it's a old ps3/360, laptop GPU fix really but I've been telling him for years whenever I see him do it to get a bottle of liquid flux it makes this fix way more reliable because it can help bring temp under GPU higher, flush out corrosion under it and mend cracked solder balls just a heat gun is like throwing a bandaid on a cut while with flux would be equivalent of using duct tap and toilet paper just way more sturdy of a fix lol
@@Babbages Sorry for being stupid but do you have a video of you/anyone doing this? whatever you just said is too big brain for me so I need a visual presentation lol (also I wanna know to try and fix my dead GPU like you said in a better way)
Heat gun doesn’t fix it permanently it just resolders it temporarily
@@hexusmexus6971 yeah like a band aid fix without a actual reflow station it can never get hot enough to reflow it fully I always just throw no clean liquid Flux under if I use heat gun method because sometimes older cards can have oxidation on pins and balls and it cleans that off and can sometimes cause a more permanent fix but you are rite it's never a real fix with a heatgun.
@@Babbages legand reply totally agree linus proved it on his channel with that guy omg can't remember his name
3:12 - it has NEC-TOKIN capacitor on it's back. Absolutely all of them were faulty - replece it with 4 smaller SMD caps and it should do fine.
I did that on a laptop, fixed it from random reboots/shutdowns
@Por Qué? why do you assume he can't solder?
@Por Qué? At this point, I assume no one knows how to solder correctly until they demonstrate for me that they do.
75% have no idea. 24% tell you they do, and all about how much experience and etc they have, then with no flux in sight, melt 14 grams of solder onto the tip, and then try to use that on cold parts, expecting it to make a super solid joint. And THEN act super surprised when it runs intermittently for 2 days and then fails outright again.
1% actually know WTF they are doing.
@@johnroberts5540 14 grams or 15?
I love the little smile after "thanks dad" lol. Makes the pettiness way funnier
😂
i can say that unironically. intact hairline at age 36, just like my dad at age 62
@@GraveUypo Bro my dad is 60 and im 14😂
@@GraveUypo all my relatives are bald so I'm letting my hair live its few happy days until they're out
I'm 65 years old and almost a pensioner..smiling at these comments and the video remark..thanks to my father who kept his thinning hair I do too..thanks dad..good thinking of the heat gun..may the huge graphics processor last for years..or rather get used occasionally
Seems like you lost some weight. You look great. Nice to see your face every now and again. Hopefully soon we can see some of the local wildlife in your backyard.
Awesome! A couple years ago, I bought two GTX 480s for dirt cheap. Was good seller but I went about a year before installing one. It worked for about one second and the power supply blew up. Well, it blew one cap. I test everything in a backup backup backup system so no big loss and the power supply didn't take out anything with it.
I’m still running a gtx 480 lol got the gigabyte edition with 3 fans so the fire risk isn’t there lol runs perfectly fine even by today’s standards
Caps that are severely degraded from use and which are then sat around for years without being turned on are suspect even if they worked before, they might blow the next time they're brought rapidly up to operating voltage, as the polarisation of the cap may not be intact any longer. I don't even know whether the GPU contributed to that, it starts off in a low power mode, like sure you expect some extra heat in the can due to the burst load, but if the capacitor oxide layer is no longer fully formed, the only way to get it back on is gradually raising the voltage over hours, full voltage no-load condition isn't going to be very helpful at all.
The heat gun method you used is called reflowing, what you are doing is melting the solder underneath the GPU which when it cools down can reconnect bad solder joints that weren't making proper connection to the actual motherboard of the graphics card. The proper way to do this also involves using a good amount of flux to make sure the melted solder hardens on the proper contact pads.
Thnx for the informations
You don't fix that problem with a reflow, only by replacing the chip. You CAN'T reflow the bumps on the flipchip, so flux is useless in this case. You just put a bandaid on the problem, and sooner or later the flipchip connections will loosen up and it will stop working again.
@@DarkoPetreski Depends if the chip's damaged, most time it's not and you can get away with re-balling the package. You wouldn't do this with normal ICs since there'd be replacements available, but GPU packages aren't nearly as common so you might as well get a new board if the package is truly dead.
@@amirpourghoureiyan1637 But the same is true about the BGA under the gpu, those also rarely break.
@@DarkoPetreski it's usually enough to reball it. No need to replace the chip itself more often than not.
I've done the heat gun trick on a gtx 670 a couple years ago,....my nephew still runs that card daily.
Awesome content as usual!
@LabRat Knatz i have a hard time believing that the heat gun action as shown gets the card up to the liquidus. There have been a number of issues in that era, including lack of underfill, bad thermal expansion coefficient matching, a lot of things went wrong at once. Of course these materials worked "fine" when softer leaded solder was used and when power density wasn't quite as high, but well things changed.
But ceramic and tantalum caps are worth an extra thought, when they go faulty, they sometimes recover when heated up. Not quite ideal but the issue might not crop up again after.
I did something similar and got myself a Gainward Bliss 7800+ AGP, the version with the G71 chip and all the shaders available. It runs WinXP paired with a Pentium-M770 on an Asus P4P800 with ct-479 adapter. Somehow it is very satisfying to see one of the fastest AGP cards working with one of the fastest single core CPUs.
Just upgraded from my gainward gtx 760 yesterday
@@beamboy07 gtx 760 is waaaaay more newer than what this guy was saying ... he's talking about a GPU when they weren't even called GPUs, but AGPs.
@@funkysmokee8764 I know, im just saying
Got two Pentium M builds myself with one running an 8800 Ultra just because I can though the overclocks are much more limited due to the 915 chipset not liking to overclock much.
uhm isnt the amd fx 57 or whatever is its name the fastest single core cpu ?
Great find man! My best find from a UK pawn shop is a Alienware desktop with the beasty AMD FX-56 single core king CPU which is super rare now but it is also water cooled from Alienware themselves and two 8800 GT in SLi and it cost me a massive £40
I have an intel black ops x79 xeon very rare cpu I found it in a work machine that was getting thrown out
@@acid3129 damn thats a great find and glad you saved it. If only people knew what they had before throwing them away
@@tommyrockstar100 you think that's good my old company upgraded their old thinkpads back in 2001 these thinkpads where from 1991 and I managed to save a few . Thy all had the first commercial ssd it was made by SanDisk and I still have them it's strange having 31 year old solid state drives they where only 20mb
@@acid3129 sounds like something LGR should be reviewing that
@@tommyrockstar100 i also have a few i486 dx2 intel processors these where released in 1989 but intel kept making them all the way up to 2007 they used them in medical equipment and such i have 2 from 2007 pulled out of an ultrasound machine and a respirator . iv been trying to see if i can use one in a 486 motherboard but because they where made for a specific task like life support alot of the features got locked out to minimize the risk of a chip failing while trying to keep someone alive my plan is to one day build a computer using only parts released on my birth year 1989
Nice haircut lookin good :D
I just swapped my 3060 for a 3070, and still find far more interesting learning about older GPUs
Edit: since this got heat, yeah I play at 1440p and definitely the 3060 wasn't enough, and 3070 is a beast at this res. I know is a weird swap. I live in Costa Rica, 3080 here are ULTRA expensive even shitty Zotacs. So 3070 had to be. But yeah wanted to be happy with the pc and it's now a dream. Not saying the 3060 is bad, it's a great card, but we are always greedy, and could afford it so why not make the swap. Still selling the 3060 though haven't had any luck, is even an ROG and no luck
What a weird upgrade.
@@0Synergy it's not really that odd theres quite a big difference between them , 3060ti is really where the range gets good.
That's a really unnecessary upgrade. But okay I guess..
@@jonathankotzer202 swap, not upgrade. Maybe the commenter plays at 1440p and realized they needed more juice?
It's basically the same thing.. The fact he swapped a 3060 for a 3070 is an upgrade.. he did pay for it.
Yeah maybe, but still, upgrading to a card from the same generation is kinda stupid. He could have waited for 4000 series that comes out in a few months.
Oh Wow!! Had no idea about the rarity of these. I have two of these stored in my cupboard from an old SLI setup.
The fact that the last time I saw you, you had more hair makes me realize that a lot of time has passed lol. I'm also losing my hair at an alarming pace so I totally get what you feel.
Also lucky you that the heat gun trick worked, I tried that recently with an old R9 270X and I couldn't revive it, oh well you win some and you lose some. At least they make great sexy paperweights lol.
I can give you my working 270x for a Rx 6600 ; )
I lost all my hair in crown area in just 2 years, it's indeed at alarm pace.
ah lol, there's a video from 5 years ago on the recommended. he looks like a teenager in there. he aged 20 years in 5. omg. but he seems to be in better shape now
@@akivisko I don't have a RX 6600. Will a RX 6900 XT work? ;)
I'm kidding I only have integrated graphics right now LOL.
@@AJ-po6up Zamn, I hope you get the 270 to work then, ofc it isn't the best and almost 10 years old but its better then intel hd, but to be fair there were always good games no matter the hardware, I had a blast playing serius sam on my old laptop that has intel hd : )
I used to run two of these in SLI. It was toasty 🔥
Your awesome! We love you too!
Don't lie.
@@leodf1 Which part is a lie? lol
Ain't no lie in my comment
I agree, when it comes to a collection piece that you intend to keep, the performance value means nothing. It's no longer about utility, so that metric can be tossed out the window. I wouldn't pay $50 for that thing to put in a system, but that sounds reasonable for simply a rare collectable. You should make a nice spinny stand for it!
No, a stand with electricity so the fans just spin
You're even skinnier than when you were five years ago, I'm proud of you mate you look good
Holy damn dude have you lost wait?! You're looking amazing!
My friend's 960 4gb Asus started artifacting last year, had to borrow him a gtx 260 to keep his PC running, I'll definitely tell him about the heat gun trick, maybe it could revive the GPU at least for a while :)
heat gun worked to fix my ROG 1070 was just a black screen I had nothing to lose but its working now watching your videos with it
Don't forget to check the ASIC Quality in GPU-Z _(only for old GPU's, sadly)._ You can google what it is and what it does.
In short, the higher the percentage - the better the potential undervolt/overclock. Basically a silicon lottery, but confirmed on a SW level - before you even start testing.
Highest I got was 92.2% on a Palit GTX 670 back in the days. New owner was getting it for Witcher 3, and was quite happy with it.
I cannot live without "Hello everyone welcome to another video" script for years...
"Thanks dad" love it
I heard about these 580s back then but almost nobody had one but they had the normal versions of the 580. Good to watch the heat gun working and another gpu was brought back to life. Nice job.
Thanks :) I didn’t think it would work at all this time
@@RandomGaminginHD how’s it going now? Is it still working ?
I'll never say 'Pawn shop' the same again. Excellent video!
It's a triple, baby! WOOOOOOOOOO! (I've actually never seen one before. Didn't realise they even existed.)
10:55 that monitor is screaming "clean me!"
Man, I beg you... go to displate and buy some posters to decorate that room a bit: those walls are so bare and desperately in need of a loving hand 😁
Never mind the hairline........that wallpaper though lol 🙂 That card is indeed a beast. Pleased you got that bad boy working in the end though.
I like how the iChill 1080ti is chilling in the background
I just find one at the local flemarket for 7 euro, cant wait to get home and test it
A great behemoth. I have from long ago a HD 6950 DirectCU II triple slot in box. I moved to ITX and the card isn't fit in the case. I stored it in box in my parts closet. Love these old cards but beautiful. Anyway, thumbs up and congrats by your job with the heat gun, you revived it!
I have the 7970 Matrix, unfortunately non-Platinum and its VRAM doesn't OC to Platinum speeds without artifacts. Still a good buy for 30 Euros an year ago, and it's in daily use in my 2nd PC with NimeZ drivers.
I miss buying some used GPU's and your videos makes me miss that even more lol
Yeah used gpu market is borderline dead for casual users everything is scalped. At that point buying new is the number noh thing that makes sense.
Congratulations! Great finding and nice to bring it back to life !! Thumbs up !!👍👍
Haven't actually seen you in awhile! Nice return to form, don't be so self conscious :)
I have an Asus Matrix 5870 that I absolutely love, I use it for CRT gaming and such...
"We have exceeded the VRAM limit-- WHAT DID JUST HAPPEN TO MY HORSE"
lol, lmao even.
you should use two separate 8pin instead of a single one with a split to avoid issues with the power delivery.
That's not an issue with older gpus. Just the newer nvidia cards since nvidia is too incompetent to mitigate power draw spikes.
it really won't matter , modern PSU's supply all there power on a single 12v Rail and the cable gauge is going to have no issues throwing 240w through it especially when its a seasonic unit that are literally famous for there reliability.
One of my favorite finds I have is my Asus Mars 760 SLI card. Anytime I post it to PC forums, I get a few compliments. Managed to find a new old stock listing and paid $300 for it. Overpaid sure, but I'm glad to own it.
This reminded me of finding a R9-280X Matrix Platinum being sold locally for $75 CAD a few years ago. Seller said the card was crashing. It was in good condition other than a roughed up rear I/O plate. Did a little research, and apparently it was known for overheating VRAM chips. So new thermal paste, and adding a few copper VRAM heatsinks, the card was up and running no problem. Currently an item in my display cabinet, while it being a working spare GPU.
RandomGaminginHD : I appreciate you being an "old" soul for the GPU-s....but the THERMI (Fermi 1.0 and Fermi 2.0) were one of the WORTS NVIDIA GPU-s ever made. They were stuttery, poorly equipped for and near or far future, HOT and LOUD and ate nuclear amounts of power. This GTX 580 you have here had a 244 Watt TDP....in reality it ate around 290 Watts as a GPU alone and exhailed HUGE amounts of STEAMY HOT AIR inside a case due to its inefficiency. I had both GTX 480 and GTX 580 later on when they were released and I've "scrathed" by nerve for them in less that a day of gaming. The GTX 680 was much more efficient and a complete overhaul of the architecture that presided all the was to Pascal refreshed RTX 2000 series in 2018.
Turing was the 2000 series, not pascal (pascal was 1000 series).
@@theminec Touring was a fake new architecture....in reality it was a Pascal refresh series with only additiom of GDDR6 which was overheating and dying :-).
i love the videos with camera make these more :))
Good video! lol i used a heat gun once on s cheap laser keyboard and it blew most of the ics off the circuit board... that was not a good idea ...
You have the perfect face for radio! :)
Keep going , would like to see you make a video about a higher end card in 4K vs a lower end in 1080p or even 720p , the 3080 Ti in 4K vs 750 Ti in 720p
Yeah interesting idea :)
I think a GTX 1070 on 1080p (because it’s comparable to many mid- low end cards ed.:3050, 1660, 2060, 590) vs a 3080 ti on 4k would make more sense
@@dricebaker6594 i think the GTX 750 Ti/950 in 1080p is getting similar FPS of RTX 3080 Ti in 8K
@@boufenarafetooh who in their right mind plays on 8k tho XD
Good to see you on camera. Will we get to see Affa on camera one day?
0:05 Hello brother!
been watching U for Years❤❤
Triple what now? 🤣 Nice catch.
Apart from the 590, the ultimate Fermi furnace
It's weird but I just noticed how mature you look.
That's a very cool looking gpu, great job with the heat gun fix! 🔫
Nice desks - you need some IKEA GALANT desks from 2008.
You look like Shmee lol, good video keep it up :)
Fun video as always!
I have a question for ya! I have a card that looks similar to this in storage right now. I don't know if it's a platinum edition or not but I am curious to check. Would you happen to know how much these platinum cards would normally be listed for on the used market? Would be cool to know if I had something valuable in storage all this time.
Hard to say, the best bet would be to auction it online, but only if you want to risk it not selling for quite what you want
@@RandomGaminginHD Honestly I may just do that. Would be better served in someone's hands who collects this stuff. Thank you for your response!
Do you have the original box?
@@VoldoronGaming Sadly I don't think so.
oven works too in case of doubt. a good bake brings many belived dead gpus back to life.
i used this heat gun method to repair my teachers gpu in the labor room, Usually this fix worked for a day or two, then had to do it again. The gpu was a radeon 9600 pro 128mb, in 2018 xd. yep, in 2018. now that card is basically dead, the heat gun method works for 10 minutes max, so it is a paperweight now.
I learned two things. The heat gun trick and that Red Dead characters can start on fire. 😉
I had one of those and sold it years ago, it was a great card. I remember it having a large red box with a flap/cover page which showed you all the bumf.
You could take it to a technician to reball the video card. In the Philippines it cost about more than 1 thousand pesos. 52 pesos = 1 dollar.
you look more in shape, have you been exercising?
you should review the bioshock series just like u did with borderlands, its another gem and FREE
looking fresh ;p, i alway enjoy your calming voice but the cards a bit older always so i look how it was before ;p. got to take the mute off next video ;p
Have you ever thought about doing a podcast? 😁Just kidding. Nothing wrong with showing the man behind the voice.
If a broken soderjoint is melted, reconnected and cooled down again i really don't see why this should break again anytime soon, though i only "baked" a bard in the oven...... like 6 times, worked 2 of the times and they still work. :) Though to be fair, i don't use my GT9800 as often as i used to. :P
Your voice actually matches your face, you won't believe the horrors I've seen over at Wendover and Half As Interesting.
Spontaneous Human Combustion in RDR2. Instant karma.
3:26 : seems legit as ATP stands for Adenosinetriphosphate
I can feel you because I also have big head and very badly thinned out hairline which makes me look like couple hair left on my head :D probably should trim that but still not have courage to do that. Anyway, I have bought couple graphic cards from thrift store and occasionally they work but then I start any game they just crashes. After inspection of cards itself I see that many of them have common problem - missing smd components which probably fall off then cards have been kept roughly.
The heatgun i also a good friend of mine, many GPU's brought back to life :D . Good Video!
Greatest unboxing I've never seen
It’s like the evga kingpin or galax hall of fame of its day
i got a huawei mate 40 rs porsche design yesterday.. 1000 euro full box mint condition...i couldn't belive my eyes when i had it in my hands
Pawn shops in my country are so over priced its unbelievable. Usually the item is 20-30% cheaper than a new one. Which is basically pointless to buy anything from there. :)
there is a lot opf places like that in the U.K like cash converters they try charging next to retail and pay people prices for stuff like they are a rattling herion addict desperate for a fix
My hairlines also fading fast D:
Great video as always!
'Another fine GPU for my collection''
congratulations on fixing a old legend. i have a rx470 that give me a black screen every 2 to 3 days then i unplug the HDMI and plug it back in and signal comes back. have u ever seen something like that? its not the HDMI port because i unplug it at the screen and plug back in and signal is back.
Good video, nice to see old gpu still capable.
It's videos like this why I subscribed and keep coming back. Love watching watching yiu making old gpus struggle. Still better than my laptop though.
Youre looking GOOD!
I thought you said Rx 580! I was like “why such bad performance?” Lol
Nice collab Jason Statham
With this hair cut you kinda look like the guy from Tokyo drift 😂
great vid btw
Spot on American accent honestly. Sounded a little southern.
@RandomGaminginHD Did you check thermal pads condition under the black heat spreader for the VRM's? (5:12 bottom right)
I got all my volumes but my main speaker amp maxed; it's just, audible.
Don't mix exclusively in phones.
the non platinum 580 had a complete different cooler. all the platinum cards of that era had that cooler, so 7970/r9 280x and gtx580
Just if anyone's interested Bioshock collection is free on epic this week.
As for the hairline. I think was a comedian that said his hair was chilling around his head like a boomerang. As for the gpu I've pined over those matrix cards for years. those and the cerberus cards. I'm an asus fanboy lol
"welcome to another video"
Never stop saying it
9:09 not a rockstart title if vehicles don't explode
If you have never tried the oven regiment you should. As long as your oven gets up to 550 you can use it a toaster oven is a great idea basically you put the card in for three or four separate stages the starting off with a heat of like 230 for 30 minutes then you crank it up another hundred degrees another 30 and just rinse and repeat. Let it cool completely before you touch it or move it. Usually a couple of hours and then give her a go. Works better than a heat gun every time but not as good as true board repair
I once bought a BRAND NEW, NEVER OPENED MSI Gaming X GTX 1060 6GB from a pawn shop. It works like a charm. I put it in a system I'm trying to flip.
You kinda resemble Chandler from Friends as you get older for some reason lmao
When you spelled out pawn I just about collapsed laughing
Gotta be clear. I walked into the wrong kind of shop first 😁
@@RandomGaminginHD I'm actually surprised you guys in the UK don't have some easier way to distinguish those two words, or even just use different words. Like maybe you'd call the other kind a "smut shop", call this one a "pawn and loan" shop or something similar.
@@ZipplyZane Stores you buy dirty videos from are called sex shops here, so you probably wouldn't get them confused with a pawn shop.
@@fattomandeibu Huh. I would have assumed a sex shop would be like it is here: a place that sells, um, toys.
@@ZipplyZane They are places that sell toys, too, but they're also the only places legally allowed to sell err.. full on naughty videos.
the performance issue with the games could be down to the GPU either not been heat balled enough or drivers or even GDDR ram damage .. if the card was used intensively before you got it, god knows what happened to it .. its showing signs of loosing its marbles as us brits say .. only a matter of time before ends up as a door stop or mantle piece ornament lol there is actually diagnostic software you can use to test the memory ect of the gpu... GPUmemtest or memtestG80 which is NOT memtest86 lol .. worth having for testing stuff like this .. you will find them on the usual safe websites to download .. free...
I can't really tell from the last time I've seen you on camera, but to me you look different. In a good way though. If you are working out it shows dude. Keep it up! I mean this as a geniuine compliment and I hope you can use this as motivation. Thanks for the videos!
If you buy stuff like this from say cash generator/converters ,. I don't think they do any testing or nothing that's probably on the sense of cex. In fact I sold a basic VGA/DVI monitor and they gave me the money without even testing it. There was no issues with it, but either they don't or just didn't have the time to test. I did take a gamble with them the other week. Found a h110m board for 15 quid. Didn't have a box or back plate, but all seems to be working and been gaming on it with an i5 6500 and 12gb ram. What pawn shop you use?
Red dead disaster hahahaha. Good one mate
ever heard of keeps the hair keeping