How i learned GPU repairs 

This is insane, I was certain you had a background in electronic engineering or computer engeneering, but you are self-taught! genius

I'm a medical doctor. The way you explain your thinking and approach diagnostics is not unlike what we are taught to do when diagnosing people. You're totally right - there's a meaningful difference between being 99% sure, 100% certain, and a 1000% right about complicated stuff. When lay people go to a doctor, they don't know what is wrong with them and trust the MD (and their reputation) to be dead certain about any conclusions they reach. The same applies to you - GPU microelectronics are complicated, and the majority of people will be lay people in this field. And therefore they trust you to be dead right on your conclusions. And you, Sir, do certainly deliver! Keep up the good work! Success lies ahead in your path!

I find your structured way of repairing hardware like listening to classical music. Structured, calming and surprisingly pleasant.

This is like watching Louis Rossmann doing repairs on macs… Enjoyable to the max! I see this channel growing strong in the future. All the best from Serbia

The fact that you do not give up and (as you mentioned) you ensure that everything is checked out is something not a lot of people consider doing. Keep up the awesome work, since, as I mentioned, your subscibers are increasing quite a bit! And I am pretty sure that not only for me, but for others also, the time you release a new video, it is a good time. The fact that you can understand anything like that is literally beyond me, how did you learn everything, did you go to a school or just messing around in forums?

Just recently started watching you, I thought you had at least 10+ years of experience. Only a few years you have been at this? You are extremely talented!

Even if today's repair was unsuccessful, I am glad the current GPU price environment means good guys like you can earn a bit of money repairing damaged GPUs. Then the fact GPU manufacturers are robbing us blind at least has one positive side-effect.

This is so calming, amazing, and inspiring. Thank you for what you do!

Thank you for ur hard work although I have no idea about how ur fixing these video cards. But the fact that u explain everything about how the card is good at what and what design has problems about the heating really helps a lot! Please keep it up thank you! With out EVGA it's really hard to say what card to buy now everyone that u take apart seems to have flaws with their cooling.

first time ever seeing content this great, keep up the fantastic work buddy! truely a gem to this world

Loving the content . keep up the great work and im so glad your subs have grown so quick you deserve it!!!! Also after watching this vid I thought your job entailed fixing GPUs motherboards etc but if you learned this on your own time then wow im blown away!!

I very appreciate your ethics! Thanks for your work and please continue to share videos like this

i love that u go for 100 % to the best of you capability's, keep looking and maybe finding something is how you learn. I scrapped stuff that i later found the solution to and it does feel bad knowing that u could have fixed the other stuff :D

I just realized how much information you provide to everyone to get into this. You are a genuinely awesome individual and I love watching your content. Thank you!!!

I like the lesson you are teaching us. I certainly should follow it. Maybe not at work, because i dont have the luxury of damaging something there, because its not mine (i work repairing things like wachingmaschines, dryers, microwaves, etc). But with my own things, i definitely should be more insisting and dont give up that easily. Everyone makes mistakes but im always terrified of making them. I have to get over it at some point if i want to get better. Btw. I love your videos, because they are so chill and i can just do my own thing and have one of your videos in the background and still learn from it at my own pace

Great work. I started making decoders then working on amps with 3KV and 1amp. Schematics and boards are laborish at times having to flip from side to side. Sound cards for below the noise floor signals are pretty easy these days since you can buy the kits online.

I'm just a lowly software developer, so what you do is magic to me. Love your channel.

Thank you very much for explaining, I felt that you have a wonderful personality just by listening to your explanation.

Wild.. I fix PCB's too.. But the fact that you do wild things like grind into these 6-10 layer boards blows my mind. Been binging on your videos and picking up all kinds of tips. You rock. Dziękuję

i just stumbled a few days ago over your channel and i like your video. you are doing great

I enjoyed hearing about your story. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent! I have a couple broken cards lying around myself, never knew how to proceed. Now I see how to take it one or two steps further.

Thanks for the full walk-through. I had the brain knowledge on this, but lack of hands-on. This helps me a lot.

Thanks for answers bro I appreciate it. As a guy who soldered something maybe twice in my life i am really amazed by your skill.

Great video, I found your channel through yt feed. I really like it. Didn't know these kind of repair can be done. I thought the company would load it into their machine to do all the test

I just found this channel today and I'm glad I did cause it's f-ing amazing!

Always amazing job you do keep up the best work thankful for these vids :) there always great and learn stuff from them keep it up !

Another awesome video. I love watching them :)

amazing skills, you make it look so easy i hate ball grid array so much ive never even tried, you inspire me to have a go ill start with qfn though! took me ages just to be able to swap 0.5mm pin pitch quad flat pack chips as its so hard not to get shorts between the back of the legs where solder wick cant get to it but then i never learned to use extra flux till youtube (self taught tv, video, audio repair in the 90,s)

Amazing work everytime! Keep it going 😀

I'm glad to see someone as dedicated as you doing real diagnostics and repairs, it warms my old heart. Sure, this one had a dead core but I've seen you do some remarkable repairs in other videos.

My 1st gpu repair was on a GTX 745. replaced the fan and repasted the chip. Minor compared to grinding down the board and soldering micro circuitry into place. I come for the knowledge and hope it may help in the future

You must have worked your ass off and had a lot of fun to have this expertise, great work.

Amazing work and integrity. Subbed.

Recently came across this channel, have zero clue how to do what you're doing but I find it fascinating.

For the algorithm! Also what a legend to not only learn repair but to customize all the tools and 3d printed holders/mounts!

Bro you are inspirational! I d love to do the same, learn everything but i'm a student and sadly, no time to do that ! Keep the hard work the channel is blowing 👍

great origin story, one of these days ill have to look into what memory tests are, how many different ones there are and where to find them as an intro to learning more

oh those sleepless nights over the smallest details. i too have that problem which is why its best to do things right the first time. great videos!

Man love your videos, I watch them everyday for relaxation :D I would like to see in your channel tier lists. By generation, by manufacturer, by model all ways of tier lists would go (I think that may be a good clickbait as well hehe :). As you are ze best GPU repair specialist your opinion of tiering cards according to part analysis, build quality, failure rate from experience, etc, would be outstanding.

Another great video northwest!

Very interesting to hear your story and yes, I did learn something definitely. Although I have almost no clue what you're doing when measuring resistances and stuff even despite the fact I study CS in Poland (where it's like 50/50 CS/Electronics), maybe because I always found it unbelievably boring and useless so it was a study -> pass -> forget process for me, I find it very interesting to watch you use this knowledge on something I'm interested in which is GPU diagnosis & repairs. Though I would lie if I said our knowledge is on the same level. With how complicated it was for me to comprehend the very basics of electronics when having 0 experience with it, I have a hard time wrapping my head around how you can self teach that stuff. Hats off to you and you people in the comments who shared some of their stories on how you self taught something yourselves - yall motivate me to put my hands on my car and learn and sort it out on my own.

I really appreciate your thoroughness. I'm a retired auto mechanic. I use to see techs write down that they had done a bevy of tests that led to a conclusion when they actually had not. As an example. An engine that is overheating. If it's a common occurrence on a certain engine to blow a head gasket, then that's what their diagnosis would be. Even if it was just a faulty thermostat, the thermostat will get changed when replacing the head gasket, or replacing the engine. So whatever the problem really was, was never actually diagnosed. I always did the full set of tests, no matter how sure I was of where the results would lead me. One time I asked a particularly crooked tech how he could live with himself. He said, "safe and sound knowing my kids and I have full belly's and a roof over our head". The service writers were happy to sell all the high ticket jobs he wrote up too, as their pay was based on the total amount of money they could sell each month. I simply cannot operate that way. I ended up leaving the dealerships and working for small independent shops where reputation was everything. That's how I was able to sleep at night.

Amazing work, very entertaining your the best. I have a bad Nvidia 3060 that works sometimes, but not with a load, I might be sending it to you to look at.

Well wow, props to you. I wonder if you already had previous experience or knowledge in electronics, I’m pretty bad when it comes to volts, ohm, resistances, capacitors and everything about circuits. Anyway thanks for this video and keep it up 💪🏻

Brings back good memories fixing cards multiple times when our overclocking sessions go sideways :-). It's useful to take a good look with microscope on the GPU die, since shorted chip often would have visual discoloration or cracks on a surface. You see cracks or bubbles coming from the edge - no need to troubleshoot the PCB (unless you need a donor for another GPU).

Thank you for another nice upload.

You are the best man!! If only i'd knew you exist few years ago, when my GPU died, you are a life saver. I had to trash it because no one was able to identify problem. Keep rocking man!!😎

CONGRATS ON 50K SUBS :)

Mad props foe even trying

ah man, i have nothing but component repairs on my mind right now, i want to be able to repair and not just replace. but you make it look a peice of cake haha. i build and repair PC's and its therapy for me now days, the last 18 months or so due so many things gone/going wrong and bad mental health. so to be able to just keep going and learn something extra is what im "trying" to do. gone as far as buying tips for the dremel gas solder i got given and buying a new multimeter so far haha. watched and watching a few of your vids now thankyou. oh i have 2 classic gaming boards with cpu sockets needing replacements if you wanted ;)

your channel is the best, no blah blah blah, no BS, no victimism, begin to end, no cuts no black magic... kudos on that and best regards from Brazil.

I really like your videos! Insane, what you can do and how deep your understanding of these kind of repairs are. Just out of curiosity, I have seen someone who swapped vram on a 3070 and upgraded it from 8gb to 16gb, do you mind to do a similar video? I think the making of and testing it in some games might be interesting!

I was asking myself this same question today!!! Insane!

I'm so glad to see more people post their repair jobs, that's all I want to see on RU-vid

Thank you kindly. Cheers m8.

You re a true master, old skool! :) Greetings from a master, old skool :)

Hey man been enjoying the videos. I was wondering(if you have not already, I didn't see any) would you be willing to do a video on your workstation and all the common and not so common tools that you use. Just a run down (quick or I'm sure most of use would love In depth) of tool/materials you use, prefer, tips and try to avoid. Maybe even links for some of the things you highly recommend having on hand for those just working on their own cards/learning and even for those already ahead of the curve. Im sure a lot of us already know the basics but still love to hear it from someone like yourself

keep in yhis way tnx we learning from you

Thanks for the mini class. :)

This is one of the best how to channel on ne web !

your very good at troubleshooting the hard way.

Please make a detailed video about where and why you probe on different points on the pcb. Also its hard to understand where exactly you are probing so a little magnifying those areas would really be great. Keep the great work :)

This is the first video i need to watch :)

Great video thanks 🎉

I LOVE UR VIDEOS BRO.

You have to admire the man's optimism and care for computer parts.

New Sub, love your channel.

we've been blessed by daily uploads

Nice video sir one thump from my side.

Increadible, we just looking on a genious work

This man is a legend!

Damn straight keeping it 1000 round here

thx for sharing

If it is a waste of time - it still isnt imo! I get alot out of your content (my fav of the electronics repair channels) and its nice to see things done in real time sometimes even though your segments that you speed up are done well! Im lost in alot of the intricate stuff you deal with, but Im slowly working to one day not be as lost. Im not trying to reach your level or anything, but I imagine you werent either early on in your journey? If you have any recommendations on where/how to learn more, informally, then Id appreciate that as well. If you dont mind, Id like to know which microscope your running, it does very well and you must have it mounted very well! I need to work on the education side before worrying too much about removing any cores ehh? Anyway, I know your a busy guy, so if you dont get a chance to respond here, its a-ok. Ill be watching for your next video!

I had a single slot Galax Katana GTX 1070 for many years, now it’s been running for a few more years in my partner’s PC. Great little card. Damn thing won’t die.

Great work

i could watch bro fix stuff nonstop

Thanks for the new video. Do you think it is possible in the past, that core may have got so hot, that some re-flow happened on the core itself to cause all of those shorts? It would be nice to X-Ray that core and see what it looks like

Very Impressive!

I have a damaged 2080ti I'm pretty sure it is a memory issue but you are getting me to just try out some repair on it I'm not losing anything if I brick it I got a 3090 I'm upgrading soon. Thank you for all the advice and the discord is very useful

Thanks for all the great content. and enjoy watching your repairs. I do have a question, have you ever done a video on the equipment that you use, the type of Flux, Solder, and cleaners that you use. Thanks

You make your videos such a pleasure to watch. Some other repair youtubers are so arogant like that Northridge guy. Hes good but hard to listen to. Keep up the great work!

Another great vid

Hi thanks your videos are very informative, I also have a gigabyte 1070ti that just went dead on me while using it, sad thing I bought it during covid and the mining time and overpaid for it about 380 us dollars, R6500 in my country. I took it to someone who fixed gpu's but unfortunately, he could not fix it. According to him it is fixable but he did not have the equipment to fix it. I bought a Evga 3080 in the last week still under warranty but still mourn the loss of all that money I lost on that 1070ti.

I'm just happy to see someone around computers who is smart enough to use a hand driven simple screwdriver.

A true artisan. Not really doing it for the money, more for personal growth/satisfaction. Respect. 👍

Hard work and discipline pays off.

You deserve more. Respect.

Your very professional

Hats off to you sir👏 I envy you

My GPU isn't too high end ,It's a radeon HD6570 but that's all I can have with my budget ,It stopped working and I thought I should try to fix it myself ,I bought some tools like a Solder Iron ,Multimeter etc and ofcourse I didn't managed to fix it but this made me start loving hardwares and electrical engineering and now I am trying to learn this online and maybe Ill be able to fix it and maybe start my business as well ,and your video is making me more motivated and passionate about this

You are genius!

I've got an old 1080ti that fried. Thanks to wonderful people like you, I will be attempting to fix it. Thank you!

Your quote at the two minute mark made me laugh out loud. "Killed a few, fixed a few, but that's how I learned how to fix GPUs." I was a newbie at a food processing plant operating machinery. Made a lot of mistakes and troubleshooted a lot of issues. Made a lot of mess and wasted thousands of dollars creating a food mess. But that's how I became a supervisor once I was irreplaceable as an employee. Once you become good at something, you can't be replaced. Keep up the good work, Northwest Repair.

Great video! Considering that the short was on the GPU I suppose the thermal camera would've shown it if the voltage was increased and/or the time for testing the short?

I have a 980ti that started my journey, and although I have not moved on to fix GPU's yet.. I began to dive into learning about electronics repair w/ this 980. It boots up, but only when 1 of the 6 pin power connectors is hooked up. The other one does not seem to allow it to work/boot. So I suspected a bad MOSFET or something similar. A coworker bought the GPU on Ebay and when it turned out to have the issues the buyer let him keep the GPU and refunded the $ so he knew I had an interest in this type of thing and he gave me the GPU. So it does not cost me anything, but I'd love to get it working n throw that GPU in one of my servers for Plex or whatnot. My coworker knew I was into breathing life into electronics and I constantly take "broken" laptops or other devices and fix them to repurpose. So I can relate in the sense that a GPU sparked my interest in getting deeper into electronic repairs... and it's nice to pickup different tips from others w more exp. But I do feel it could be helpful if you explained more about why you're testing things... like showing why you'd test or suspect a certain part failing. And it might also help to explain and/or show where you expect the power to flow through the device so that people like me could understand the reasoning behind why you're testing the things you are... and it could help us when working on the next similar item.

great stuff, very enjoyable have you frankensteined a gpu back together yet? donor core to donor board type of thing

I just started out fixing some gpus as a hobby with different tools/soldeirng equiptment for smd repair and i am glad to hear that destroying a 1060 or similar isnt just my mistake...

Very nice vid! I’d love to be advanced as you tbh. I wish I could have the ability as you to buy a messed up or un responsive 4090 or 3090 and fix it and use it for myself instead of buying 2000 bucks for a new gpu. Your skills is impeccable!