What's interesting is that this guy has an opinion about someone who otherwise has no clue he exists. People who have an ego or self confidence issue demonstrate these tendencies. While I enjoy repair videos on both channels, NWR's attitude towards Alex is unwarranted and unnecessary.
@@mike6340unwarranted?? This NRF clown calls himself an expert, 90% of his graphics card "fixes" are just the dumb connector issues or a knocked off component. Yet he still doesn't actually test his fixes. "Hey it posted, it's fixed , ship it!" . The other 10% are no fixes because he doesn't know what he's doing with TRU diagnosing and ACTUAL REPAIR ! Northwest repair is a true video card expert.
@@mike6340 First you start out by projecting your issues onto this guy, then you follow up with a flat out lie: Clearly his view is not unwarranted and he also lets the viewer know exactly _why_ that is.
His methods are barbaric and painful to watch, he shouldn't be allowed to anything remotely valuable, and yet people still send him their expensive GPUs or even SSDs/HDDs for data recovery
northridge is an ape and a-hole, he is lazy and has no idea what he is doing, he doesn't actually fix much. he deems a lot of very expensive hardware as "unfixable" because he doesn't want to spend more than 15 minutes on it, and just pockets the "diagnostic fee". he can't reball memory/cores. he doesn't know how to diagnose a lot of hardware. and yet people still send him their $2000 GPUs, pay him a ton of money for no reason.
For real! He takes 5 minutes of every video telling us we can buy his cheap crap and they almost always ship the same day. While he's spewing that crap he could be preheating a board.
Go back to his earlier videos. NRF has a preheater, and knows how to use it. These are two completely different types repair shops. NRF has many years on NWR . There is no comparison, because they are totally different. NWR isnt wrong..at the same time. NRF is all about making money at his business. You cant fault either of them.
Hey i really enjoy your videos and find them helpful for my job (test technician) for the past year ive been taught by a test engineer how to fault find and using his genius and yours ill be being promoted to a fault finding test engineer come the new year, have you got any tips n tricks i could take as im shitting myself with imposter syndrome (we make single board computers in different form factors VME, CPCI VPX etc)
For the 4090 that said memory errors but seemed fine ask what CPU was used. If it was a raptorlake chip there's a very high likelihood that it was a cpu issue. Ask them to down clock it to something like 4ghz on the p cores and ring and test again.
@@zetsubou3704 The second GPU he is referring to most likely. And Intel 13th and 14th gen CPUs triggers when going bad like has gone in masses famously reports example vram errors certain games. Intel first did complain motherboard manufacturers but after that fiasco intel offered microcode which second time (first one were published in silence before) did lower their clocks and voltages etc to try throw bandage for their overclocked chips which degrades fast. And now they panick published new intel cpu's to most likely try make people forget their failed 13 and 14th gen and make new naming scheme for cpus top of all LOL.
Nah, go for it but make sure you buy a bunch of cheapo boards to practice on. That's what I did. But yes don't jump straight to attempting to fix $2k gpus before successfully fixing $100 or less gpus.
No one is born with the skill out of the box First step is always learning, in this case he has chosen $2000 GPUs insead of something like 7xx 9xx series to learn on and improve
@Adenser I agree with you and I agree with you. You need to have common sense. You don't attempt to repair something soooo expensive without knowing what you doing.
@@AdenserI agree. The problem with the advice is if everyone live by it, then we wouldn't have someone like Tony in the 1st place 😂. Trying to fix something is okay, but don't be surprised if you failed a hundred time 1st before succeeding 😁
Measuring resistances while while voltage circuit is complete gives you 0 ohms. Like that 1.8v rail you measured while it was active. And while actualy having dead short rail wont power up. 1.8v was clearly generated by the card. We all make mistakes, not only northridgefix.
i have had bad motherboards, one 8 years old and another only 3 years old that pointed to a gou memory corruption problem with every graphics card I tried. replaced the motherboards and all was good. something to keep in mind for some people. these motherboards worked great for years until they started to become unstable and crash regularly in games, failing gou memory tests. some kind of bus instability caused by failing motherboard that could not be fixed by underclocking or overvolting the bus.
17:09 I remember I had an 9800gtx that was working perfectly in most games, but in games like world in conflict... just artifacts everywhere... I was playing doom 3 and many other more fps oriented games without any problem!
When you work on a board that has been attempted before, if items are missing on the board, how do you know which parts that are missing on the board need to be replaced? Coils missing, capacitors, mosfets, or what ever? Thanks for the video.
Additionally, someone like this almost certainly has donor boards laying around, he could just take a peek at an identical donor board to figure it out
People like this that have the mindset to just check problems and fix them one by one can fix anything and it doesn't really matter what it is or if you know what it does aslong as you have the sense to figure out what the componets do and how they function
VRM errors must be the infamous 13th and 14th Gen Intel CPU degradation. Once those CPU degrade enough, they give wild errors including the video memory issues. One of example mentions right at the start here: ua-cam.com/video/HIubZYwBfPc/v-deo.html but later it has expanded not only into i9. More CPU were degradation prone, than not prone.
Every single CPU from the 13th and 14th gen, including locked and mobile CPUs were effected by the degradation. Every. Last. One. Many of them got the BIOS update before the degradation caused stability problems, but every single chip that was powered up on the faulty bios was degraded to some extent, with no exceptions.
I have ran my watercooled 4090 without water, just in idle and turned it off when temps got to 60C just to test. It should not be a problem as there is almost 2Kg of copper there to heat up.
Sure, if the card is working properly then it isn’t a problem. But if the circuit is shorted somewhere, either the core is stone cold or it is blazing hot. You can’t rely on thermal throttling as it is not always working in this kind of situation.
Ironically the better a waterblock is at actively pulling heat away from the core (with water) the less effective it is at passively cooling it through raw thermal mass, no such thing as a free lunch.
not sure why they send gpu to northbridge hes okay but he does not have the tools you have , replacing a part and works does not mean its future proof.hes better on laptops and other devices
He has the tools but he stopped using them because his main business is not repairing electronics, but to sell the overpriced Chinese tools with his stamped logo on his online store, to his die hard fans and total noobs who don't know better. The reason for his channel existence and the videos he made is to promote his e-commerce business 😊
@@getmefix1921 I guess that how business does business but i get your drift . I do know the tools he sells are over priced that i do know . I think that due to he is the only one doing the repairs showing you certain edited videos of him fixing them and doing laptops etc going is a bit to much for editing . He could either get a tech to separately do gpus or someone to do the video side of the channel ,but i guess he would not do that as he is a money grabbing git.
eh i know NWR doesn't like Alex but just because Northridgefix doesn't specialize in GPU repair like NWR does its kinda hard to call him an amateur when he has been doing motherboard repairs for years now.
@@ItachiRyu That's not true, Mobo repair just isn't worth as much so Northridge pretends he's putting effort into a project he doesn't give a crap about when he doesn't want to delve any further
@@Vernonnn which part isn’t true exactly? He has been doing it for years. And anyone in the repair business has to make the decision how far they’re going to put into a repair you can’t spend time on one item if you still have 10+ more on your bench.
@@ItachiRyu it's not about how far he's going to go into a repair, but how poorly he does the job he already started doing - as NWR mentioned, things like blasting hot air at cold board because he doesn't wanna spend enough time to do it properly
Honest question, are you and Northridge repair cool and just taking jabs at one another, or what? I've no allegiance to him, as I love your videos by miles!
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Because he's (NRF) a salesman rather than a technician, but calls himself as the best technician that can fix everything, yet only replaces molten connectors and sells overpriced stuff on his site.
Good old nvidia :) what we cant expect, hey owner of the dead 4090, try amd vga, at least amd not make vga which cause death gpu :) I know have downside, like a bit worse raytracing fps :) but at least Northwestrepair can fix it :) if 1 day dead
There is a great difference between salesman selling overpriced stuff and declaring "hard" repairs unfixable (+fee) while saying they are the best technician that can fix everything and a real technician actually fixing tech (even if it takes a core replacement etc) for cheap(-er) and not screwing customers. The difference is that the salesman will walk away with a lot of money.
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Northwestrepair and Northridgefix, a rivalry older than time itself.
The classic battle of good vs evil.
What's interesting is that this guy has an opinion about someone who otherwise has no clue he exists. People who have an ego or self confidence issue demonstrate these tendencies. While I enjoy repair videos on both channels, NWR's attitude towards Alex is unwarranted and unnecessary.
First time I even realized those are two separate dudes. I'm here just for the PCB porn and the soldering/reballing action
@@mike6340unwarranted?? This NRF clown calls himself an expert, 90% of his graphics card "fixes" are just the dumb connector issues or a knocked off component. Yet he still doesn't actually test his fixes. "Hey it posted, it's fixed , ship it!" . The other 10% are no fixes because he doesn't know what he's doing with TRU diagnosing and ACTUAL REPAIR ! Northwest repair is a true video card expert.
@@mike6340 First you start out by projecting your issues onto this guy, then you follow up with a flat out lie: Clearly his view is not unwarranted and he also lets the viewer know exactly _why_ that is.
Tony you are truly a talented man. Fr. Im serious, peoples best chance at saving their gpu is sending to you.
I like when you mention nothfixbridge.
I really want to know what is the beef with Northridge fix?
I'm really curious 😅
I've watched some of his vids and he's kind of an obnoxious d*ck while NWR is just a nihilist
doesn’t know how to repair a gpu
His methods are barbaric and painful to watch, he shouldn't be allowed to anything remotely valuable, and yet people still send him their expensive GPUs or even SSDs/HDDs for data recovery
northridge is an ape and a-hole, he is lazy and has no idea what he is doing, he doesn't actually fix much. he deems a lot of very expensive hardware as "unfixable" because he doesn't want to spend more than 15 minutes on it, and just pockets the "diagnostic fee". he can't reball memory/cores. he doesn't know how to diagnose a lot of hardware. and yet people still send him their $2000 GPUs, pay him a ton of money for no reason.
I would love a longform explanation of this.
Nothing worse than fixing someone else's screw-up. No greater signs of professionalism and competency than fixing someone else's screw-up.
how tf can a guy who flexes so hard on his million dollar house not spring $200 for a pre-heater? its such basic pcb repair stuff.
Maybe he can't working more than one device while waiting 5 minutes for preheater reaching max temperature 🤣
For real! He takes 5 minutes of every video telling us we can buy his cheap crap and they almost always ship the same day. While he's spewing that crap he could be preheating a board.
@@danielhulan3058 I don't necessarily agree, but that was funny 🤣🤣🤣
@@danielhulan3058 "spewing that crap" looked in the mirror lately
Go back to his earlier videos. NRF has a preheater, and knows how to use it. These are two completely different types repair shops.
NRF has many years on NWR . There is no comparison, because they are totally different. NWR isnt wrong..at the same time. NRF is all about making money at his business. You cant fault either of them.
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I feel sad thinking all that 3090 card needed was to have some water 😂
If the balls next to a hole need reballling, we're all screwed
Hey i really enjoy your videos and find them helpful for my job (test technician) for the past year ive been taught by a test engineer how to fault find and using his genius and yours ill be being promoted to a fault finding test engineer come the new year, have you got any tips n tricks i could take as im shitting myself with imposter syndrome (we make single board computers in different form factors VME, CPCI VPX etc)
Man as soon as I saw the blown caps I was going to say it must have come from NRF but you beat me to it haha
But the blown caps near vram not drmos 😂
For the 4090 that said memory errors but seemed fine ask what CPU was used. If it was a raptorlake chip there's a very high likelihood that it was a cpu issue. Ask them to down clock it to something like 4ghz on the p cores and ring and test again.
But customer probably ran some sort of memory test to pinpoint the chips, then how could the memory test fail while the GPU works perfectly.
@@zetsubou3704 The second GPU he is referring to most likely. And Intel 13th and 14th gen CPUs triggers when going bad like has gone in masses famously reports example vram errors certain games.
Intel first did complain motherboard manufacturers but after that fiasco intel offered microcode which second time (first one were published in silence before) did lower their clocks and voltages etc to try throw bandage for their overclocked chips which degrades fast. And now they panick published new intel cpu's to most likely try make people forget their failed 13 and 14th gen and make new naming scheme for cpus top of all LOL.
Nice 3D printed tool at 21:05 :)
The GPU whisperer
Now, the advice of the day from me. People, if you don't have half the skill of Tony's, do not, I repeat, do NOT attempt to repair any GPU.
Nah, go for it but make sure you buy a bunch of cheapo boards to practice on. That's what I did. But yes don't jump straight to attempting to fix $2k gpus before successfully fixing $100 or less gpus.
No one is born with the skill out of the box
First step is always learning, in this case he has chosen $2000 GPUs insead of something like 7xx 9xx series to learn on and improve
@Adenser I agree with you and I agree with you. You need to have common sense. You don't attempt to repair something soooo expensive without knowing what you doing.
@@AdenserI agree. The problem with the advice is if everyone live by it, then we wouldn't have someone like Tony in the 1st place 😂. Trying to fix something is okay, but don't be surprised if you failed a hundred time 1st before succeeding 😁
Measuring resistances while while voltage circuit is complete gives you 0 ohms. Like that 1.8v rail you measured while it was active. And while actualy having dead short rail wont power up. 1.8v was clearly generated by the card. We all make mistakes, not only northridgefix.
Enjoy the videos, keep up the great work!
Lot of shade towards NorthridgeFix lol
I suddenly feel the urge to subscribe!
This is another reason why I prefer heatsink blocks over watercooling.
Most of your vids are hard to understand for me. Still, I like to watch them over and over...
I own a PNY 4090 and I am constantly tempted to use nvflask and flash a MSI Suprim 520 bios but I know I have crappy power phases so I don't.
I have question, why you don't use liquid rosin like sorin use during repairs to avoid oxidation on chips.
What happened to the sound? It is a bit scratchy or when talking too loudly into the microphone or turning up the sound too loud
good video as always
i have had bad motherboards, one 8 years old and another only 3 years old that pointed to a gou memory corruption problem with every graphics card I tried. replaced the motherboards and all was good. something to keep in mind for some people. these motherboards worked great for years until they started to become unstable and crash regularly in games, failing gou memory tests. some kind of bus instability caused by failing motherboard that could not be fixed by underclocking or overvolting the bus.
17:09 I remember I had an 9800gtx that was working perfectly in most games, but in games like world in conflict... just artifacts everywhere... I was playing doom 3 and many other more fps oriented games without any problem!
When you work on a board that has been attempted before, if items are missing on the board, how do you know which parts that are missing on the board need to be replaced? Coils missing, capacitors, mosfets, or what ever? Thanks for the video.
1st: if you repaired many of the same board, you most likely spot something wrong or missing.
2nd - BoardView shall provide him with exact details.
@@Azura2910arpgthanks for answering
Additionally, someone like this almost certainly has donor boards laying around, he could just take a peek at an identical donor board to figure it out
what does that wire on the preheater do?
It's a temperature sensor
People like this that have the mindset to just check problems and fix them one by one can fix anything and it doesn't really matter what it is or if you know what it does aslong as you have the sense to figure out what the componets do and how they function
Hi! Nice video as always!
May I know where did you buy the duster fan? Was that Aliexpress? Do you have the link by any chance?
i think aliexpress. search for blower fan high rpm
Died of thirst in the desert.
What is your opinion on inno3D cards? Specifically the 40 series
Thats ia very good brand that sells in Europe. And they are that make evga cards
Well I started with a GTX 560 and failed miserably when the board pops 😂
Why you don't use UNI-T260b thermal camera ? It is expensive but it works great.
3:33 Are you sure is it possible to check for shorts with an ohm meter while the card is powered on?
Yes! You can 👍
What about doing a stability test on a 4090, using 1920x1080 ? Shouldn't it be using 4K ?
Agree - I'd use Steel Nomad and Speedway instead of Time Spy for newer GPUs as they are way less CPU bound , even at 4k
Did you ever replace the 2 destroyed capacitors on the first card? Just curious.....
10:05
VRM errors must be the infamous 13th and 14th Gen Intel CPU degradation. Once those CPU degrade enough, they give wild errors including the video memory issues.
One of example mentions right at the start here: ua-cam.com/video/HIubZYwBfPc/v-deo.html but later it has expanded not only into i9. More CPU were degradation prone, than not prone.
Even the i5 13600k isn’t safe
Every single CPU from the 13th and 14th gen, including locked and mobile CPUs were effected by the degradation. Every. Last. One. Many of them got the BIOS update before the degradation caused stability problems, but every single chip that was powered up on the faulty bios was degraded to some extent, with no exceptions.
do you have new test leads?
What's the purpose of a water block of there if there's no water inside
how much will such a repair cost? Or could you tell us how many time you needed to fix such an error like on the first card.
what thermocamera do u use ?
Infiniray p2
Seriously. An $1800+ videocard and this is the treatment it gets?. What the hell?.
Waiting for ur video
I can't do that tedious work now
nice.
"i started with 1070s"
My broke a** still running a GTX 1070 🥲
Wish I had bought a 1070 or even 1089 back in the day, instead of my 1060. The extra VRAM would come in useful right about now.
Same bro, strix 1070 and an i5-3570k. 9800x3d ordered though, gonna reuse the 1070 in the new build and drop in rdna 4 or a 5080
We have refrigerator, why not use that to cool the core?😇
Can you give me that gddr6 and gdd5 pinout picture
Tony, please fix your audio setup. Use a compressor plugin to drop some decibels when you speak loudly. my ears are hurting. THANKS
I have ran my watercooled 4090 without water, just in idle and turned it off when temps got to 60C just to test. It should not be a problem as there is almost 2Kg of copper there to heat up.
To have killed the core the owner probably ran a game without realising and it overheated to 100+ degrees
@@hopelesslurker4082 Yeah, but shouldn't thermal throttling/protection kick in to prevent damage?
Sure, if the card is working properly then it isn’t a problem. But if the circuit is shorted somewhere, either the core is stone cold or it is blazing hot. You can’t rely on thermal throttling as it is not always working in this kind of situation.
Ironically the better a waterblock is at actively pulling heat away from the core (with water) the less effective it is at passively cooling it through raw thermal mass, no such thing as a free lunch.
Should be NorthridgeBreak... wah wah. Bad joke lol
so someone, most likely NorthridgeFix.... 🤣
👌👍👌👍
not sure why they send gpu to northbridge hes okay but he does not have the tools you have , replacing a part and works does not mean its future proof.hes better on laptops and other devices
He has the tools but he stopped using them because his main business is not repairing electronics, but to sell the overpriced Chinese tools with his stamped logo on his online store, to his die hard fans and total noobs who don't know better. The reason for his channel existence and the videos he made is to promote his e-commerce business 😊
@@getmefix1921 I guess that how business does business but i get your drift .
I do know the tools he sells are over priced that i do know .
I think that due to he is the only one doing the repairs showing you certain edited videos of him fixing them and doing laptops etc going is a bit to much for editing .
He could either get a tech to separately do gpus or someone to do the video side of the channel ,but i guess he would not do that as he is a money grabbing git.
Northridge fix is an amateur rip off artist
eh i know NWR doesn't like Alex but just because Northridgefix doesn't specialize in GPU repair like NWR does its kinda hard to call him an amateur when he has been doing motherboard repairs for years now.
@@ItachiRyu That's not true, Mobo repair just isn't worth as much so Northridge pretends he's putting effort into a project he doesn't give a crap about when he doesn't want to delve any further
@@Vernonnn which part isn’t true exactly? He has been doing it for years. And anyone in the repair business has to make the decision how far they’re going to put into a repair you can’t spend time on one item if you still have 10+ more on your bench.
@@ItachiRyu I would not believe anything this NRF-"Ali" dude is saying... its a lying islamic sack full of doodoo.
@@ItachiRyu it's not about how far he's going to go into a repair, but how poorly he does the job he already started doing - as NWR mentioned, things like blasting hot air at cold board because he doesn't wanna spend enough time to do it properly
18:04 the discord
Hello 👋
Honest question, are you and Northridge repair cool and just taking jabs at one another, or what? I've no allegiance to him, as I love your videos by miles!
Like video
Why to repair if repair cost is around 500 USD ?
... and a replacement 4090 would be... how much?
$500 repair on a $2000 card is worth it
@@ERRAJY1 around 1000 you can find it already
@@Rolandatw0w 1000-500=500
because it doest not cost 500 USD if you bring it to me.
The other guy, yes.
Not always NRF,, Maybe Sorin is just trying to school you... LOL
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Wait.. that 3090 is on water cooled system but no water runnin'?? what the actual f***?🤔🤔🤔
Northridgefix 😆😆😆
Not the EVGA card T-T
What's his problem with NorthridgeFix? 🤔
Stating facts doesn't mean you have a problem.
I can tell you my problem...they only replace connectors..and that's all they can do!
Because he's (NRF) a salesman rather than a technician, but calls himself as the best technician that can fix everything, yet only replaces molten connectors and sells overpriced stuff on his site.
PCB Way
Assume there's no problem and he's just memeing on him. Friendly rivalry. They've worked together before.
How do you know that NRF who worked on this before you should provide something to your followers
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#nobullyNorthridgefix :)))))))
dude ur mic is clippin
Might also be youtube censorship.
It seems you have issues with northridge fix , even your channel name is almost like his name pfffff
Not 1st...😂
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First
Good old nvidia :) what we cant expect, hey owner of the dead 4090, try amd vga, at least amd not make vga which cause death gpu :)
I know have downside, like a bit worse raytracing fps :) but at least Northwestrepair can fix it :) if 1 day dead
This channel is shat.
why do you think that?
You blame North Ridge because you are jealous of him, so explain to me why it is because he bought a new house
There is a great difference between salesman selling overpriced stuff and declaring "hard" repairs unfixable (+fee) while saying they are the best technician that can fix everything and a real technician actually fixing tech (even if it takes a core replacement etc) for cheap(-er) and not screwing customers.
The difference is that the salesman will walk away with a lot of money.