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Everyone: WOW the repair is amazing etc. Me: No one even noticed the "Make Earth Flat Again" hat i spent most of the editing time on I have no hope for humanity anymore.
@@thelespauldude3283 Well the latency would depend on the length of the connection, not if it's a wire or a path on a PCB. Both use coper and wires cab be shorter than the path of a signal path on a PCB. Remember Cray? they were once the absolute super computer masters. Well some of their early computers were using wrapped wires between the components instead of a PCB with traces. This allowed them to design the computer in 3 Dimensions rather than 2 Dimensions as a PCB forces you too do. That way the data paths were shorter and they could run the system at higher frequencies. This is part of how they were able to provide more performance than their competitors. So wire wrapping or soldering the components is harder to do, but theoretically they could be faster. Cut hey, even if you were forced to run it slower it would be a very cool GPU. Just a PCI-e connector and a blob of wires and components. In fact Cray were also water cooling their supercomputers, but of course in their own interesting way. I'm not sure how the cooling of the components were done, but they didn't use a radiator to cool the water. Instead they made the cooler a decorative waterfall that was letting the water fall down a panel and end up in a little pool. Today you can buy similar waterfalls that can be mounted to a wall as a decoration. Again to make their computers more art than equipment they made the chassi look like a round bench. In the middle there were a tower with parts of the computer. The "bench" was even covered with cushions. A little of topic but for real, wire wrapping was something Cray used to be able to make the fastest supercomputers on earth back in time.
@@ThaWoundedFoxI highly doubt any manufacturer would go through this effort on an RMA. It would be cheaper for them to just salvage the core and reflow it onto a brand new PCB that was assembled on a pick and place machine.
I get $150 for Xbox X and PS hdmi replacements. And I have gotten them down to a science. Can have them done under an hour thats fully disassembled and reassembled. This is baby work compared to what you just did. Some comments saying $400 and $500. I see $1000 to $1500 value easy. The skill needed to do that work without damaging further is world class alone. Re-balling chips.... Serious work there.
@@calceus2640 $1000-1500 is not half the price of a 4090. i can get a brand new 4090 for $1600. why should i take the risk of fixing a broken one that has no guarantee that it wont break again later.
This is the kind of work that is done out of passion, as otherwise it would be economically unviable. It is clear that you are passionate about your work. Congratulations and continue
Not gonna lie, I love your repairs but this video with all the hard work that included all that transplant from a dead card onto the other one which already has been a donor (stripped off of almost everything), plus the epic music made me cry. Of happiness man. Bless you, and all your hard work! You are an incredible electrical & IT engineer ! May you live long, healthy, and may you find all the peace and love and happiness that you deserve, my friend!
Thinking of that BGA chips.. There's literally thousands of ways this repair could have gone wrong. But here you are, a true champion of rework. Even Louis Rossmann would salute to you, sir. At this stage, repair is probably way more fun than actually gaming on that 4090!
"But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career." You have skills I will never have. It is nice to watch a master at work...I bend a few pins on a motherboard and I just trash it and go get another one cause I have zero skills :(
I thought I was a pretty decent amateur DIY fix it guy, but then I see this and I am very, very humbled. I can't believe that was a viable repair. Hats off to you sir.
I agree - I'd expect it to be cheaper for him to get a new 4090 than transfer the components onto a donor board (which itself was damaged). Feel for him a little , there's no warranty which would cover obvious impact damage like that .
@@northwestrepair$500+ as far as I'm concerned, it is better than paying $2000 for a used one on eBay of unknown origin and condition. Keep up the great work and entertaining videos 👍 Cheers 🍻
@enkur1972 A 4090, I hope he charged at least $400, no make that $500+ for this repair. It's a 4090, a used one on eBay is around $2000+. At least this one had been looking at, all temps checked, serviced and has a guarantee on the repair. A used one from eBay is, well, it could be being sold for a bad reason. No, paying at least $500 for this 4090 repair is definitely better than paying $2000 for a used one from eBay of unknown origin and condition 👍
Just found your account. Holy crap this is the craziest repair I have ever seen on a PCB. I am an ET that only gets to replace component level items, so much respect for the rebuild. Had to of taken 20 hours easy, right? I would never even dare something so time consuming. If it didn't work I would of lost it.
Every video is fascinating to watch you repair. This was the best one yet! I can't imagine how time consuming it must be to setup video recording on such detailed and patient work like this. Great job!
This was extremely impressive work and world class attention to detail…and you even filmed the entire process. Hats off to you my friend. Truly amazing!
@@x2stefan2701 This guy is highly skilled technician, it's 50$ an hour, not fifty for a whole repair. get real kid. Still probably much less than 90% of a 2000$ GPU. If it's 500$ it's a bargain.
This video is a technicians story of hope! Very motivated after watching you take an idea, realise the vision, through logic and persistence, until the dream came true. Quite a beautiful thing to see.
That is pure surgery 😮 ❤❤ watching every single video on your channel and can tell that you do that with a lot of patience I know others who would say that's not economical nor practical 😂
I don't know if you saw that story from a while ago about some company in china basically buying 4090s just for the die and memory and they were making their own boards to convert them to be blower style AI cards, I wonder if the PCB and cooler came from somewhere like that after all they would have little reason to be careful with the original board.
Fascinating the different skill sets needed to do your job. I've been in IT since the 1990's and can barely solder. I do mainly PC's, software, etc. But, wow, I would LOVE the skills to do this but at this stage of my life, I'll leave it to the younger generation to keep up with the repairs like this. I'm nearing the end of my decades long career and as much fun as it would be to learn about this and do this I don't have the time, or the space for learning how to do this. Fun to watch :)
im so impressed right now... knowing that someone can do this amount of work with such precise moves + knowledge... if im ur friend i would never buy new pc part again...
High-end GPUs usually comes with 3 to 5 years warranty. If the GPU stop working the user send it back to where he originally bought it and they should send him a new one.
@@iLeicha 2-3 years is standard for pc parts, high end or low end makes no difference. some manufacturers might offer an additional 1 year warranty on some products, but you're not getting a 5 year warranty from retailers unless you buy their extended warranty. they would go bankrupt if they did
@@iLeichaNvidia and the manufacturers don't recognize the damages done to the 4090 in most cases so you literally have a paper weight card when it breaks power connector and PCB cracking on the 4090 is not covered by warranty LMFAOOOOOOO
I'm more thinking of the person who ripped their board apart only to discover that it wasn't the board that was the problem! That donor board must have had a story. I'm guessing this was a miner though, so limited sympathy.
i'm commenting and paused the video at 11:03 dude , all this work (your work) is amazing , what patience you have???? And if you even edited this all , i think you need some kind of Award!!!!!!!!!!! Saluti dall'Italia!!!
Amazing. I thought it was going to be you Frankensteining something together, but ended up it was an amazing repair and I unexpectedly stayed for the whole thing.
Any GPU can break at some point. NVIDIA being the top of the star recently thanks to all melting connectors and some weird ass cables. I would rather solder them directly onto the PCB and not give a single F about the looks.
@@thisfeatureisbad That's how I fixed a grand son's 4090 after a melted connector that even had a safety clip to make sure the wire was secured. Works great now and been running that way for a long time now.
@@thisfeatureisbad Looks are useless in pc world to be honest. people dont even waste their time looking the hardware, they waste their time in the damn screen. i still dont get it with all this crap about looks lol
Cracking soldering skills, I've only put together a few custom keyboards and I thought I was getting pretty good. You just reminded me what good looks like. I have much to learn. Amazing job.
Bro straight up love your content. Love what you do and how you do it brother!! Keep it up!! I watch anything you put out and believe you are beyond talented and your doing the gpu gods work out here my guy!!
showcase job for sure, if you count all the time spent - cost of labor far exceeds cost of new board. But man, patience to even try to do what I just saw deserves deepest respect! Hat off to you to show us mortals is what is possible.
