$20 Graphics Card Challenge... 

Hey we're all friends here! :D Damn, I gotta get my heat gun out, I got like 10 dead GPUs 😅 I lol'd with warzone 2 ahahaha

I imagine fixing a gpu with a heat gun is a little like telling a customer to turn their computer off and on again and suddenly all is resolved 😂😅

The glamour shots of the GPU's in the garden are really nice, more partners and companies should do this too.

I scored a GTX1080 from a yard sale over the summer for $5. It was an OEM version so had no obvious part numbers on it so the guy didn't know what he had. I was so excited. My son uses it now in his PC, works great.

Huge respect from a viewer a bit nearer to London than yourself. To build a channel so large and just from home takes some doing. Nice one bud.

I honestly love the ground rainbow in Warzone 2.0. I might have to find a mod or something for it. Good to know that the GTX 760 can still put up a fight.

One thing I really enjoy about your channel is that you have content that resonates with the real lifes of the majority of the people who play on pc. Budget builds, testing old cards people might still have on theor systems, etc. And allways very genuine! Found your videos on 2020 and still like to come back and chill watching your stuff. Only keeps getting bettee with time, congratulations!

As far as I know, this heat gun trick only works with Nvidia gen 7xx and older, because they changed something in soldering technology in the 9xx generation It can sometimes help with newer gpus but it is because while you are heating gpu, you also heating surrounding memory modules

Also the GTX-770 came in a 4gb version. Interestingly I had a 2gb EVGA GTX-670 die in the last few months of it's warranty and they sent me a 2gb 770 as a warranty replacement. It was still working perfectly when I sold it for $50 over the summer. ($25 less then I paid for the used 670!)

Managed to get couple months Ago Asus Direct CU II r9 280x 3gb for 20euros. It had rattling fan, used teflone and fixed it, cleaned it, it performs 2x better nowadays than its original competitor gtx 770, infact it mostly performs like GTX 1060 3GB in all new tittles. hd 7970/r9 280x aged really really well

If you're taking suggestions for benchmarking, could you try doing benchmarks with Metro: Exodus in the future? The base version alone is a demanding title but if you ever get a 40 series RTX card then I'd love to see you benchmark the Enhanced Edition with all the RT options on!

The crazy thing about the GTX 760 is that A LOT of these cards have the exact same problem. I have one at home which I harvested from the junkyard, it had the same problem and the same heatgun-fix did the trick. It seems to be a manufacturing issue during this generation since SO many GTX760s are suffering from it. Anyway, I got a passive 7750 for 16$ instead (more reliant). Not the fastest thing in the world, but enough performance for the stuff I need it to do. :) (ubiart-style 2D game development, 2D graphics and vector animations) openGL performance is great, I run the game at 1440p120Hz, even with 20+ parallax layers, thousands of assets on-screen, tons of post-processing. no slowdown to speak of.

Steve, always watch and enjoy your videos mate. It's nice to hear another English voice for tech stuff, given I'm Stateside and never hear one. I recently bought an EVGA GTX 1070 FTW, a Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3GB, and a Zotac RTX 2070 AMP that all had "failures." They would all post, but had varying issues. - The 2070 would only post in low resolution mode and when using GPU-Z wouldn't display any VRAM information. This was fixed by, get this, applying additional thermal pads for increased pressure on the memory chips, and increasing the stock fan curve on the card. - The 1070 would artifact and crash in a few games after a little while. This was fixed by, get this again, cleaning, repasting, and applying additional thermal pads to the memory chips, then increasing the stock fan curve. - The 1060 3GB would not display an image at all, and would not be recognized by Windows besides as a basic display adapter, however, NVFlash would find it as a 1060 3GB. After pulling the bios on the card it had been flashed somehow with a 6GB bios. After flashing it back to a 3GB, it exhibited the same VRAM failure as the other cards, which was fixed by, get this, adding additional thermal pads. It isn't entirely fixed considering only the HDMI port works, but it at least displays an image. Not sure if you've ever tried this with a GPU exhibiting VRAM failure, but it has also worked on a couple of AMD cards I did it too. After trying the baking method and having it end in failure too often, I resorted to finding other solutions and thought this might be a good place to share what I've found so far.

My last gpu was actually a Evga GTX 760, (although my one had dual fans) and it was actually pretty good for the price!

My first GPU I ever bought was an EVGA 2gb 760 ( twin fan version ), which eventually got passed on to my brother and then my mom, before both of them moved on to upgrade. After that I ended up selling it to a friend for $50 before I eventually bought it back from him recently. I actually intend on framing it. I remember the interim between upgrading the rest of my build from a prebuilt to a system I built myself, I couldn’t afford to get a gpu upgrade but the prebuilt was so cpu bottlenecked I went from 25-30fps in witcher 2 to 60 on the same 760 before I was able to get a 970. That 760 got me into PC gaming though and was really great at the time.

Nice to see you rocking that awesome minisforum in the back!! Ps what about some couch gaming video? Like best gpus for tv sets yada yada yada

I have fond memories of this card! Just sold mine on eBay for $50 dollars US. Awesome content!

i laughed out loud when you did, keep up the fun videos

I picked up the ACX SC version at goodwill for $10 last week. SUPER dusty but it worked. It's all repasted and cleaned up now, fairly quiet at full load, does the job in the games it was built to run. I had to get it just for a being a EVGA card.

It's not the GPU you're aiming with the heat gun, BTW, it's the solder joints. Solder(newer lead free solder dries faster, so if you're ever planning to solder something, use leaded for longevity reasons) dries out and cracks, meaning no power won't get through properly, if it's not completely dry, heating it up will cause some of the still moist solder to melt and fill the gaps. Of course, dry solder is dry solder, so it'll eventually just crack again.

thats a really good price! i managed to snatch a gtx 460 a few months ago on ebay for some retro gaming! I love seeing old cards still put a fight, as new cards are really expensive

The heat gun is used to reflow solder joints and help fix bad connections. Over time, some electronics suffer from cold solder points and the heat reflows and reconnects things.

You are looking so healthy, sir! Love your videos and your beautiful accent. Always a pleasure!

Great card for the money. Might work nicely for a retro rig. It doesn't stop surprising me at hearing that 2gb is too little VRAM when I clearly remember being stoked when I got my first 12mb Voodoo card, and even further back to my old Tandy in the 80s.

I snagged an R7 360 for $30 recently, but man! That's a steal!

Love your content mate

0:02 "A few days ago a friend challenged me to find a graphics card for just 20 USD. Alright, i'm lying. i have no friends. i challenged myself." 😂😂😂 that was funny

Would love to see some challenges between you and Budget-Builds official. It's been a long time since I've seen a budget battle.

Nice score! The heat gun trick seems a lot more efficient than putting it in the oven

I've heard the heat gun or toaster oven fix on a number of older Nvidia GPUs was not usually because of the BGA connections but because of connections between the bare silicon itself and the interior wiring that went to the BGA pads on the underside of the finished chip.

Great video, challenge completed

I would go for the hd 7750 in that case. Edit: HOW THE F*CK DID YOU FIND A GTX 760 FOR £14

"Alright I have no friends" Ahaha that cracked me up mate. As someone who has lost most of my mates over the past few years through my heavy drinking and bad behavior I would certainly like to have a friend like you that has an interest in computer hardware and software.

Looking fresh brotha

Right now, power usage is a real thing for me since electric has gone madly priced here in the UK so this 760 with an 8pin + 6 pin is just horrendously bad for the performance. But then again I'm not a budget user either but love your videos and the information revealed.

I'll be your friend, if I ever get around to moving to the UK I'll buy the first pint! Btw the heat gun is the poor man's reflow oven - it fixes any corroded connections. It doesn't fix any damaged components so it's often a temporary fix because it was getting hot for a reason.

I actually used this heat gun method to revive a trashcan mac pro which had failing graphic card. It still works now after about 2 years. My method was a bit more aggressive, I used plastic clamps that can grab asymmetrically and can be tighten, and only then I used the heat gun, then let it cool with the clamps still tight pushing the gpu to the board

Great little GPU in its day. Still got one in a box with an r9 280x which used to trade blows from team red.

I bought a used gtx 770 off of eBay recently for $20 US, and it is a Kepler based gpu, but it works well for older titles that are DX11.

What a fine deal you found. Even though its life is almost out. wish I could send you some GPUs for you to test it out. (It's super cheap right now in Thailand for old GPUs below rtx 2060). For example. I've bought MSI GTX 1660 Aero ITX for only $55.

remember buying gtx 980 back in 2016. For like 20$ had the same issue its fans weren't working and was fried. Upon heating and re assembling the gpu is still working and playing games on it since than.

reflowing the cpu does fix some cards depending on the level of damage, maybe you can try using dxvk for DX11 and vkd3d for DX12 games and see if the card does better.

G'day Random, Yeah the heat method is a bit Hit & Miss, I'd rather look for one that is 100% working, but in a time when people are paying well over 1000Whatevers for a GPU "'cause I gotta have this to game" this shows how even midrange older GPUs still give a fun playing experience. I have a nVIDIA GTX *60 collection which is almost complete just missing a 960 as Human Malware sent prices to Infinity & Beyond when I was ready to get one, but am searching for a good one again now, the 760 I have is a EVGA GTX760SC ACX Cooler 4GB (Boost: 1150MHz)

"alri' im lyin', i have no friends" bro first 10 seconds already too real fam

Just done a fortnite/apex/minecraft/roblox box with 760 and i5 4670. Nice video, not everyone can afford the latest and greatest kit.

Dude you made crack down from laughing 🤣 at the beginning of the video

Honestly if you ever decided to do a challenge like this again. I would love to challenge you to one!

It's a good-looking card, impressed with how it ran cyberpunk.

I had a 660 Ti which I had to use the heat trick on a few times to keep it alive for my son. However, rather than using a heat gun (which I like the idea of far better), I literally baked the card on a low heat in the oven. The card had a severe overheating issue (it was a blower-style, but I honestly don't know how relevant that is to the issue), and I suspect that the components around the GPU die would just get so hot that they would (partially) unseat themselves. I don't recommend this to anyone with anything less than huge minerals and heaps of caution, but if your card is already borked - it works a treat 90% of the time!

I always find your thumbs hilarious. Graphics card up against a tree on wet soggy dirt 🤣

I have a video idea for ya. Elden Ring is really demanding on older CPUs, could you try a bunch of old CPUs and see which ones are able to maintain Elden Rings 60fps cap?

warzone on LSD lol great video bud

I do have this card. It severed be well when it was in use. Its now a video output for a home theater PC

Those first 15 seconds, gold! That's what she tells me too...

Lmao that intro is literally my life. ✊🥺

Broken graphics in WZ 2.0 is pretty much another entry in the game's extensive list of bugs. For me it was, for one game at least, looking at trees that emitted light so bright I couldn't see any enemies behind the trees.

Really, your approach to repair was more technical than some. I think many of us would have baked this puppy in the oven.

One of my fav youtubers

Careful with that heat gun trick, you can cause solder bridges or popcorning and that can cause shorts and potentially kill the motherboard

not gonna lie, you got me in the first half when you said my "friend"

Very nice idea and video as usual! About a year ago I bought 2 HD7850s for 80€. I wanted one for a friend but the seller had an extra one and we made a deal for both. I used them for a while for general test and to satisfy my curiosity about crossfire and I ended up giving one to my friend and selling the other one for 60€. So....that was my last year's sort of 20€ card.

The "I don't have friends" joke just hits home way too much man

Dunno if you've done this, but trying one of those ultra budget builds using i.e. Aliexpress cheap Xeon CPU's (or similar) + a creative gpu purchase. In today's economy, interesting to see how down low one can go.

I got a Radeon 5970 for 20 pounds a few years ago off ebay that said it wasn't working but it must have been a PSU issue as it worked fine. Still got it tucked away in my collection 😊

nice wallhack on warzone 2.0 dude it mimght help you spotting enemy easier :))

omg i am using a evga 760 rn i had gotten it for like $50 a few months ago but mine is a 2 fanned one, glad to see the card i have getting at least a little attention online

You got a friend in me. ;D Love your videos my dude.

Have you seen the RX580's on Aliexpress for $70? 8gb ones too

Got an "untested" Dell 6gb GTX 1060 off Ebay 5 years ago for £15 with possible water damage. Cleaned it with IPA, fresh thermal paste and I'm still using it.

It's incredible how far did the apu advance. Nowadays ryzen 6xxx and 7xxx are pretty much comparable to what this card did like ... 10 years ago?

Used GTX760/2GB until late 2018, very nice card although 2GB memory limited picture quality (textures) slightly. It's still very quick in older games, I'd say in pre-2015 games? Played a lot of modded Fallout New Vegas with excellent fraterates back then!

I did this trick to fix one my gpu but it didn't last as long, I did it again but added liquid flux underneath the die by syringe and heated it evenly and it's working fine for two years and more to go!

Even as a decorative piece, it looks so good

If you can find the laptop gpu adapter, you can use a gtx765m and I have found that it is faster than most modern cards, it comes in the asus rog g750jw

Can you do a video where you combine all the graphicscards you have tested like on a chart witch is on the video. From worst to best. Could be to much work for that i understand but it could be nice to see

I paired this card with a i7 4770 for my first gaming system and it was very capable though the issue with the GPU dying, blowing loudly is real. I've upgraded since to a 1650 and then to a RTX 3060. I've since swapped the CPU for a i7 4770k haven't felt a need to upgrade further

Hey man who says you got no friend? Heres your friend from bangladeshh. Keep up the great content

I did the same thing about 6 months ago and I must say so far so good - I'm able to play ANY Directx 10 game AND I'm able to flawlessly use N64 & SNES Emulators.... mine was the GeForce 210 - 1GB - very LOW end ($20) - I'm now going to be upgrading to a 4GB GeForce 1650... which should catapult me to "the next level" xD - ALSO what Monitoring Tool are you using on the side to get your benchmarks / FPS?!

I played Call Of Duty Warzone 2 on my Intel Pentium G7400, with the UHD 710 graphics, and it had the same glitchy textures. Not including it got about 20 FPS at 640X480 on the lowest settings, with and without FSR or dynamic resolution.

The GTX 760 comes in 2GB, 4GB, and even 3GB variants. The 3GB variant is OEM only, and the one I found was an an Asus prebuilt.

I wish we knew more about RGHD personally, cuz all we know is some of his game preferences, the general region he lives in, and that he loves tech.

That looks awesome in Warzone. It would make enemy identification easier. Shoot anything not brightly colored.

You most likely temporarily (sometimes can last forever tbh) fixed the memory issue, there is a leaked diag tool by NVIDIA called MATS/MODS that can run and check exactly what memory chip/channel is bad. Any time you see lines or error 43 its most likely a failed memory chip or (very unlikely) memory channel, a GPU that isn't detected is most likely a failed power rail, and a GPU that sometimes work but then randomly dies is usually a bad mosfet or physical damage. I recommend you take a peek at the channel tech cemetery, very good repair content. It could have been a faulty memory chip that you heated up on accident while heating the core, its usually never the core that dies when it comes to lines, usually the memory chip near the PCIE slot is the culprit as those will see the most stress.

I got one in a old dusty untested pc for $30. Came with a gigabyte mobo, i5 2500, 12gb drr3 and a 650watt PSU. Sold the other parts for profit, 760 is now in a pc with a fx 6100 and 16gb ram i got for $15! Definitely good for how cheap you can get it with good deals

my first graphics card was a 750 ti, my second graphics card was a 760, my third is a 1650. All great cards

So if you have a old toaster oven you can bake the gpu seams like the gpu dye is making week connection to the solder balls under the dye it's self bake it at 350 for about 20-30 minutes should melt the solder joints

$6/AUD Picked it up yesterday. BF1 on sale till 30th Nov.

instead of using a heatgun you could also use your oven (take cooler off remove thermal paste put on baking paper then on baking tray with baking paper bake for 30 minutes on 180°C)

Just the other day i saw a GTX 960 2GB going for 30€ used on FB Marketplace and it makes me think of how lucky you can get with deals sometimes.

The 700 series cards can be really good for making an ultimate Windows XP era gaming system with an old Q6600 or something like that. They are on par, if not better than the best graphics cards of that era (like the 8800 GT) with a whole lot less power draw comparatively. Also could try them on a Linux build using proton, but I don't think they are as competitive as the Radeon series line up.

In 2020 I got a GTX470 for my gf's pc when the shortage was at it's worst. I paid around $20 for it and now, 2,5 years later it still works. The 1,2GB of Vram is really limiting it however, and she could do with an upgrade but I haven't found anything yet that I can afford

You have 493k friends, and we challenge you to keep making content for as long as you want!

Nice sarcastic intro pal :) xdd

I picked up a Gtx 760 Gainward Phantom Edition 2GB last for around $90 during the shortage. It's got the detachable fans with screws you undo for ease of cleaning

I had the 4gb variant of this card and it was such a good card back in the day

I wonder if the gpu would run longer than the oven method, that one fucks up the caps but just the heat gun resolders the gpu die so makes sense it would last some time if not being abused.

i did this fix for my old r7 360 and after 1 year of usage it still works

I love doing this. I used to collect video cards. I'd try and run Ark on each one. Ark will run on anything with 4 gigs of ram.

Id buy that for 20 quid just to display on a shelf.....working or not !!! Thats a handsome looking GPU right there

I picked up a GT710 from CEX for £20 the other day I mean it’s no power monster but does the games I want. Also for that £20 a 2 year warranty is included however I may venture on to eBay and see what’s on there if I need a upgrade.