1st 3090 Ti came in for repair 

The guys who modded a 4090 “for science” with the fastest available GDDR6X used a 3090Ti PCB. I wondered why bother. Seeing the minor differences in your video it makes total sense.

Crazy that the 3090ti was made so well you have only ever seen on come in.

a broke guy is watching repairing top tier GPUs

Hi Tony, the inventor of Amtech flux works for Stirri and Stirri uses the original amtech formulas plus the newer ones they've been developing like the V3. There's no such thing as questionably sourced flux from them 😅 Amtech inventec on the other hand can still sell amtech branded flux, but their formula is worse (but they didn't change their labels to confuse people into thinking they're buying the same flux they used to).

The pad that goes on the memory you reballed is not on its place when you reassemble the card.

It's amazing how much bigger those are from a6000 which has the exact same chip. a6000 is a 2 slot blower, 300 watt max. And 48 gb of gddr6, not gddr6x.

I always suspected that the 3090 Ti was just a test run for the 4090 to see if they can build a 450 W card and if the market accepts it.

Ive always wanted a 3090ti. Specifically an EVGA 3090ti maybe like the hydro copper edition or Kingpin edition.

Dam was the customer chewing on the card?

Both of these 3090tis came out of a damaged workstation used by Meta and later auctioned off. There were two brand new, not a speck of dust inside, Falcon NW workstations that somehow got seriously damaged. The backside PCI slot area had a huge dent as if something crashed into it, and caused the GPUs and motherboards to become dislodged. Unfortunately, the Maximus Z690 Heros were not able to be salvaged (I think), but these 3090tis seemed good enough to send to Tony. Hope that answers some of the questions people have over why someone would treat their GPUs like this. Only a multi billion dollar company would, lol. Thank you Tony for the work!

I actually got super excited for this, I currently have a 3090ti. Love your work man!

Remember the days when we didn't need a forklift to install a graphics card into a desktop! We didn't need to install a support beam to keep it leveled, and wasn't the size of a Toyota Prius! ah, the good o'l days! -Deuces

I believe someone already made "4090 ti" by slapping 4090 core (and maybe ram too Im not sure) onto 3090 ti board with some other modification and actually got better performance than 4090.

Your original voice is much better than AI voice you used in some other video.

You're the best gpu fixer i have seen (you are one of like 5 i have seen). Keep up the great, entertaining work!

Nice video we love it when cards corporate and are an eazy fix.

I have a 3090ti. Really love it. Thanks for the video!

That on off button is pretty nice.

like the wider POV during the repair ... keep it up mate

21:42, I had similiar hole on 3080 FE, and the chip was overheating because the heatsink was not working properly. Had smh similiar on the other 3000 series cards from the Gigabyte too (and on the GTX 10xx G1 Series). Sometimes heatpipes would have such crack/hole and that specific heatpipe wouldn't work anymore, and then the temps would go 7-8-10C more than average if it's the middle pipe, if it's the outer pipe, then around 4-5C more on average.

So true with the holding hot things im a chef I know what your talking about. Great work again

Thanks bro, you are mean!

Are you sure it's not cracked? At 1:26 when you put your finger on the board where that "Scrap" was you kind of tapped it twice with your finger and in the video it looked like there was a separation along the lower scrap on your second tap. Not sure if there are traces in that area but it did look like the lower part of the AGP tab moved when you touched it but it might have been the paper backing (or whatever it's called) on the board that moved. I could be wrong though :O)

Thanks for sharing, always interesting watching you fix up gpus

I have an Asus 3090 Ti OC 24gb thousands of gaming hours on it and it's truckin' well . I had to update the bios because of bad detection and no display with uefi though.

I take it your microscope is 3D because I really couldn’t see much difference with that one pad you pointed out. Regardless, nice card, nice video 👍🏻

Wow a 3090ti memory temp only at 68c, meanwhile my 3080 TUF goes to 85c on memory and 78c on hotspot after changing out the pads and paste. That cooler is much better than the TUF asus makes.

nice repair

Hey Tony, that was a nice repair, very clean and precise. Well done! Vapour chamber having factory faults with imperfections.. I had 2x of them from stock cards. So, suspective "quality checks" at NVIDIA manufacturing units? No other possibility. I had a slight crack on one of the distribution pipes are well.. strange stuffs are happening randomly on NVIDIA cards. Hope they keep a closer eye on newer generation card manufacturing processes. 👍👍

Am i the only one who cant understand how ppl can be so careless with such expensive hardware? I started pc Gaming on a 8800GT. I had various cards over the years, some legendary ones like a 690 too. None of them are dead. They all still work and are on a shelf in my man cave...

Almost bought one of these over a 4080 last month

do a video turning a 3090ti into a 4090

They don't make video cards like they used to, seems since covid everything now only just gets past warranty and then fails.

3090 Ti Founders Edition owner here. That's one helluva good gpu. Very expensive, but worlds away from the base 3090

21:15 looking at the dent I am confident it happened during production and simply passed QC unnoticed/"unnoticed"

Lowest price at the A2Z store currently is $800. Most others are over a $1000. I can see why someone would pay a couple hundred to fix their card.

Hi I am really curious how your work is viable from an economic stand point. I mean considering all the work you put in diagnostics, and troubleshooting. I can imagine the costs of repair quickly exceed those of a new card. Thanks for making awesome video's!

Awesome video

7:38 You are putting the pads in the wrong place 🤫 21:20 It looks like bubbles in the dent when you poke on it.

Just think about it if you replace the 3090ti with a 4090 and it's actually work and you do it for another card you can bring back SLI for 4090

We need a chair lubrication video!!! Video on chair lubrication when???

I have one that needs a good cleaning wouldn't hurt to redo the thermal pads or whatever just not sure what it would cost to get it done.

Sir,your own voice more beautiful than ai voice 😊

some guys actually put a 4090 on this board and tweaked it to make their own "4090ti" which had 40% (probably lower) better performance than a 4090

I have AMD RX6650 noting fancy but I must say it gives me problems that I never had with an NVIDIA GPU. My bad for listetning to store clerks

Maybe you need to ReBall the guy sitting in the chair lol 😂❤😮😮😊

Holy crap someone bought not one 3090Ti but two!?

love comment!

Must've had some flake from milling that dented it or to thin from milling that it ripped out.

Wonder what would happen if 2 4090 swap 3090ti would SLI

when ı see bended board o my godddd good to watch hard to handle

I'm not sure about those full load furmark numbers for the boost clock of the core. 1300mhz? seems stupidly low. Could just be furmark though I dunno. I'm sure someone in the comments will correct me if im wrong which is good, just something i observed.

Hello internet =) I have a question, I love watching these fixes and I am building another computer, what card do you recommend with out all these issues lol,

Big Boss was not around to help this time, that's why this video is 10 minutes longer.

You should do a 4090 swap on em. Lol

Do you accept video cards from another country for repair? I'm from Brazil

" And the short is gone " :)

Love video just a question cud you put more memory in a Fawnders edition 4070super 12gb to 16 gb you got me thinking 🤔

What would be wrong if memory temps are higher than hotspot

About your nc559, there is a reference after 559. And that is the flux type. Is it ASM, 223, V2, V3 .. bga. ? Thanks.

They actually used 3090s as 4090 test mules

Bro was yanking the wrong thing💀💀💀

After a lot of research, I didn't want to get a 3090 after considering getting an aorus 3090 waterforce, but i got one used, because previous owner had a waterblock AND active backplate with waterblock. Even aorus waterforce 3090's overheat on the memory chips. There is a video on youtube where a guy that owns an aorus 3090 waterforce, gets 100c on his memory chips. Avoid a 3090 in general. 3080, or 3080ti's are more than enough unless you want 4k high textures. Only reason I got mine is that I want to COMPLETLY AVOID 4000 new connectors and I wanted a card that will last me at least 5 years and I play in 4k some games. Its not only that the catch fire sometimes, THEY HAVE LIMITED LIFESPAN (in the manufacturers sheet it states that is rated for 35 plug ins and plug outs), which almost nobody is talking about. Its total bullshit.

Could you add all power phases to a base 4090 and reflash a bios from a gaming trio to a suprim? During a repaste? How much would that cost lol

Still blows my mind how people treat expensive stuff like this

I'd feel sick if I opened up my card and saw that vapor-chamber like that.

Do you think it would be possible to transfer a 4090 core to a 3090 ti board and get the NV-Link to work? Or would drivers get in the way?

Can you share the type of the modules you use in your electrical test box

Would it be possible to run some solder over that hole dent on the vapour cooler insure in its flat ?

I care Bro.

Great rtx.3090.ti repairs ❤🎉😅

Hello, that GPu tester its very cool did you made it?

Интересует стоимость и ссылка где поеупаеш nc559. Для bga пайки лучший как по мне это flux plus 412.

I learned that this "Enduring the pain" is an autistic trait. Like yes the connector / core what ever is litterally burning my flesh right now but I cant yet it across the room and break it"

Didn't those people in China put a 4090 chip on a 3090ti card and make a 4090ti? I remember hearing the stories about it.

@northwestrepair I have a Asus 3090Ti ! i dont have any issue with the card !! in most demanding gmaes i have reach a temperature about max 73 degree Celsius !!! is any thermal Pad configuration i can lower the temparature ? like kind of copper pad ??? i like to try !!! im not 100 percent sure about ticknesses of thermal pad of this card!! appreciate any advice

i wonder if this card can handle adding those missing chips...

wait, so you can mount a 4090 GPU die on that board, right? but it also has an NVLINK on it

Why the flux only for GPU and VRAM soldering?

Hi I noticed that you don't smear the thermal paste and put it on straight like that, aren't you afraid that it will go over the edges?

Where to buy the flux you use? I have bought some fluxes on ebay but it doesn't work well

Why do you only use NC559 for reballing?

Black and white aren't colors, but at still I can read. Nice repair.

What are people doing to their cards to get this damage ?! I cant understand this

i have a zotac 3090ti :D

Could I get your opinion on a EVGA 780 Ti 3gb? I ran mats on it and its saying the following: FBIOA[ 63: 32] 0 67108864 0 Thats the only error, write error. Would that be the memory controller of the core or the memory module itself? Unsure how I could check. Should I try and remove the A memory chip? I do soldering myself, interested in learning GPU repair. Hoping to have a better hot air station here soon. The Atten 862D. My 858D doesn't do BGA stuff well or at all. Thanks.

3090 👔

I am just curious what person can do that damage Connector pins ..

there is one thing wrong with this repair, it misses one essential part "and the short is gone"

What do people do with these cards?

50 degrees? Are you working in a refrigerator? 😛

it looks like he drug it home from the store!

WTH happened did they say that's what I want to know. I can understand licking the pins like a NES from the 80s but not biting them lol....

How in the world do you damage a 3090ti like that?!?!?

Dent, hmm. Not sure if the vapor chamber isn't failing the same way as in the previous video from 3 weeks back - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mSh8dtFKV94.html

Mandatory hate comment for the factory guy who dropped a screwdriver or something on the vapor chamber and went meh they'll never know

No pr0n music = video card fixed

3090 ti is actually what 3090 should have been, instead 3090 ended up being a beta test from nvidia. And yes it can accomodate a 4090, it has been done by modders.

Guys, stop eating your graphics cards 😆

How the ¤"%# do one manage to get the PCI-E connector that scraped? When inserting a card into a motherboard, You're supposed to PUSH them in place in the connector, not SLIDE back and forth..! I mean like.. Really?? And when it's not in the computer, it should be stored in the original box in an antistatic bag!