Brand new EVGA 3090 broken during shipping 

re-balling takes balls..

Your editing of your videos has improved. From the text explanations to the music track, it's a noticeable improvement! And as usual, it's always a treat watching you work your magic. Thank you!

These videos make me appreciate how far machines have come in terms of microsoldering and what kind of black magic they can do with very small components. Great video as always, you always make it look super easy when it's a very difficult job.

Mad respect for you giving instructions on screen as to what you are doing. Some other repair channels seem to think showing that will make them lose business lol

That thermal paste is PTM7950, a phase changing material that is extremely durable due to almost zero pump out compared with traditional thermal pastes. Probably the best thermal compound for bare die applications. It liquifies with heat and hardens at room temperature.

I really like how you are adding notes off to the side explaining what you're doing.

These special thermal pastes are built to be dry, to counter pump out effect. They have pretty good thermal conductivity even when they are dry, but the huge advantage is, because they are dry, they dont get pumped out, which happens quite easily on baredie applications, due to a huge difference in thermal expansion coefficient of copper vs die.

I love your videos and the tips and tricks you share along with the music in the time lapses. Your channel is a wealth of knowledge but also soothing to watch.

Wow, new intro, on screen guide, great music! gonna love your video even more.

thanks for putting in the captions briefly explaining each step

I have watched quite a few of your videos and I am always impressed by sheer amount of time, effort and patience involved in these repairs. Thank you for sharing these entertaining and educational repair videos.

+1 to the video editor for the little captions explaining the steps, I'd like to see more of that.

We noticed the editing improvement mate, those text overlays are great. Keep it up!

Appreciate the captions explaining what's going on during the repair. Have been curious about the finer details of the procedure being undertaken and what the type of flux and other fluids being used are since subscribing to the channel about a month ago. The diagnosis and repair of the cards seem to be strangely compelling viewing. Thanks.

I love this one.. you explain what your doing is realle help me understand what is going on.. please do like this again..

Definitely the BEST hardware tcch repair videos on RU-vid. A+ Mate!

Amazing work, as always. GPUs should be packed separately while shipping, those inflatable bags do not protect enough. You will end up with either dead GPU, or ripped pcie slot.

Love the music. This one sounds like it’s from an old NES game.

i like the notes on the screen and the 80's synth music.maybe add in some vaporwave style transitions and wipes to complete the vibe!

Mr Wizard you're making everything look so easy 😅. Excellent video as always but even better I dare to say because your editing on this one was even better, also plus-one for the captions 👍

You really are a magician my man. You make it look easy. I enjoy all of your content.

Gotta love the detail of showing the cleaning of the tools after use

I'll bet alot of repair techs wish they knew half as much as you do !! Great channel, good work and see you in the next one !

Masterfully done! As always! Keep up the hard work!

That "Hopefully it'll blow up" and the explosion few seconds later actually took me by surprise😅 as i didn't expect you to follow up with that explosion but the second time i was ready.

Man, you are truly awesome with this stuff!!!!

Wow that is insane 😮 top work man 🙏

Awesome ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻 You shows it in very easy way👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

That music while you reball. That's "The Last V8" by Rob Hubbard. A remake of an old C64 game music. Good choice!

WoW 😲the video quality has made a huge leap forward with this one.😉 Very nice editing🙂👌👍

Hmmm, what did I learn today? Oh, I know! Man that music is smooth. Fits very well and I like it. Thanks for saving one more EVGA from the void : )

I could sit and watch you all day, mesmerising.

I learned something. In each video I learn that you are a God among technicians.

Absolutely unbelievable, awesomely fascinating. Would so love to possess even a smidgen of your knowledge.

I found this channel and now i cant stop to watch

Amazing vid Man!

If I could send 1000 likes I would. Masterful troubleshooting, Sir!

My neck pain came back trying to read the vertical text description in the video

These new parts are so delicate! I used to be rather rough with chunky old computer parts.

man I almost shit😵‍💫 myself with that explosion effect of yours. Felt an aluminum cap in my face.

Thank you for this wonderful part of the internet

Well, this is enough evidence for me to call this issue a dangerous design flaw. I've had 3 of this exact GPU (EVGA RTX 3090 FTW 3) over the last 2.75 years and the first 2 both stopped working and had to be sent to EVGA RMA. Of course, they denied both and sent them both back broken...but by that time I'd figured out it was how/where they put that PCI bracket. Even though my 3090's lived their entire lives with the PCIe connector pointed down with gravity and the motherboard beneath them (in a sideways cube case) this stupid issue kept cropping up. After buying the 3rd identical GPU (I know, during mining times no less, but needed the VRAM for work) I immediately removed the PCI bracket and secured the GPU PCB to my case via zip ties. This 3rd 3090 has been running fine for almost 17 months now and I hope for it to last several years to come.

good save!

"Panic if you see 200" The meter shows 198.5 right after😨

nice production upgrade!

love this channel

Just bought one of these bad boys second-hand. Works fine, good condition, no real problem but furmark shows hot spot @ 104°C so I think I need to change thermal paste/pads. Never done that before, wish me luck!

another impressive repair - kind of surprised that a reball was needed but hey...

This is why I have issue with most prebuilt setups. What they should be doing is packing the video card and memory in separate containers, and giving instructions on how to install them to people, including call in tech support to walk people through this who need help. THat would eliminate a LOT of the shipping issue problems. Mind you when fed ex kicks the box to your door, or you have porch pirates, that's another issue entirely.

Man, . . yooz just a re-balln' *_Machine!_* 🎵 _"And He's REEE . . Re-Ballin' "_ 🎵

many people have said it before but you’ve turned this into an art form

Awesome work. Do you have a list of all the equipment you use for the reflow and reball?

Damn explosion gets me everytime!

Well done.

Amazing music man 👍🏻

Fascinating. I'm glad you included more explanation! How much would this repair cost?

new intro i love it 😁

Ah the dry thermal paste is suppose to be like that. They’re off some kind of phase change material. Which means when it’s under heat, it “melts”. This type of paste prevents thermal paste “pump out”

Amazing man. Your videos make the reballing process look so easier that I too am thinking to attempt to reball laptop GPU. Quick question, what ball size you are using for GPU reballing?

dude i love your videos, they inspired me to do some very light maintenance on my hardware, mainly just repasting. So far I repasted an "old" laptop with a mobile 1070 and reassembled it successfully and also repasted by strix gtx 1080 to great success, under 70c under load and 11c delta to hotspot I experience some issues with my 3090 from msi, the MSI RTX 3090 ventus 3x OC with 24gigs of ram. The hotspot delta is almost 20c or more, so I plan on repasting that card as well. it doesn't thermal throttle just yet but i want to prevent future performance loss. would you think I can do it on my own without breaking something or rather bring it to a professional? The pads should still be fine so it would really just be a repasting

Nice 👍

Thank you for sharing your secrets about desoldering temperatures! Does cleaning a warm board with alcohol produce white solid residue? I was never able to clean boards with alcohol because of the hard residue it left. Therefore I started to use special PCB cleaner that is expensive and very toxic.

ooh Nu Intro! NOICE🥰

Nice

Nice video.

Damn impressive. I see that you've really finetuned your testing software and layout too, super informative. Technically, doesn't it stress the GPU less if you make it do different tasks simultaneously? I guess you would know more about that than I do.

I am pleased with subtitles but I suggest you inform about F/T parameters during Gpu-chip reballing process. btw like the background music, any info? thanks.

Tim Clean. Best stuff ever. Citrus based!

Whats the magic pad you use to clean old thermal paste stains?

U always make it look so freaking easy!!! 😂

May I have the link to the "magic pad" that you use to clean off the thermal past?

ur a godam wizard mr northwest

Hardened thermal paste does not exactly indicate that the card is brand new, but may have overheated beforehand and the solder balls became brittle as a result. These fractures were certainly strengthened during transport. Sonderballs become brittle and dry out over time because the flux that preserves them and keeps them thermoelastic evaporates over time with heat.

what i learned today is if i ever find myself with a damaged gpu i really like, i will send it to this wizard

What was the song during the reballing?

Do you think these cards have paste on the core? Should be phase change polymer such as Honeywell ptm7950. It's applied like a pad but looks thin dry and grey once it's worked itself. It's not soluble in alcohols. When the surface reaches slightly elevated tempeatures, it melts and you have a circulating liquid polymer as a thermal interface. The performance of it is almost similar to liquid metal, better than paste, and it's free of long term degradation unlike paste, since because it's a polymer rather than a mixture, it cannot separate and dry out unlike paste. It's also not conductive unlike liquid metal. A safe and high performance thermal material.

I'm just about sure the music around 3:00 was used in a cracktro for an Amiga game I used to play a lot.

fun thing, back years ago when i fliped computers when cleaning dried out termal past, the best termal paste solvent i found was zippo lighter flued, is desolved termal past like brake cleaner does with oil for some reason. found out by accedent bicause i had no cleaning alcohol en tried the zippo lighter flued out with great succes.

Can i ask what is that boardviewer software?

Wouldnt a reflow of the core have worked?

Now that EVGA is out from gpu market, which brands do you sugest?

I was actually curious can you fix dead on arrival ,GPU. It seems you can, most the time, I believe. Thanks

Shout out to KWED! C64 Remixes for the win!

Can you share what software was that where you could see all the pcb layer traces? And also, do you know if you power up a 3090 card with no core you kill all the memory? ask me how I know that 😂

2:52 it's tcm material, something like laird tpcm 7000 or Honeywell 7950 or something different. Strange what you still doesn't try this great material for equalizing hotspot and core temperature

hand's of a magician !!

unleaded reball or leaded ?

WTF is that song during reballing? It reminds me off Mortal Combat's music mixed with Contra and Portal or something. I'm sure it's a stock track but I like it.

Quick question - when doing memory replacement, what temperatures do you use when preheating and when using hot air?

Hey NWR, would you consider an EVGA FTW3 3080Ti hitting 82~84c under full load, too hot? I mean, its obviously not thermal throttling but the hot spot is 8-10 degrees higher in some cases so I know that isn't great. Its the factory paste and pads and has never been disassembled since it was brand new though it hasn't really had to much use over all. I was under the impression that this was 'normal' for this card but after watch a few of your videos, I am not so sure anymore. Thoughts?

What is a "magic pad"?

How much did this repair cost?

👌👌👍👍

Ah yes, the short finder 9000 😂

In case the card is new and never used why it was not returned and fixed under warranty? Or are you doing the warranty repair services as well? Thanks.

Very hot GPU, such high Temps are just unacceptable from EVGA

has any card ever given you the explosion??

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I always creep out when u say "wait for the explosion" and the explosion happens!

WOW