I tried to fix my $48 fake "GTX 1050 ti" from Wish.com 

For those of you that are here from the Linus video, first let me say make yourselves at home and maybe grab a drink. Secondly, if you are interested in me finally fixing the GPU check out the fibal video in the series here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dsEbksBSXLs.html

YEEEES you 100% need to get out the soldering equipment and get this card fixed, !! make Linus proud , lol

SOLDER IT!!!!

YESSSSSSSSSSSS!! You should definitely solder the connector!

Linus Tech Tips had this videos link in their newest videos description, just wanted you to know

I finally found out who is buying those Polaroid T-shirts in Wal-Mart.

I don’t think this card can give a satisfying visual safari experience... And yes, love to see the soldering 🤪

That was very satisfying. I demand a 10 hour video with you clicking that switch.

You absolutely need to try soldering a power plug onto it, with how easily the BIOS was to fix what could go wrong? Lol! Thanks for the fun videos

Linus tells me to watch you, you tell me to watch phil, me Okay then..

i would love to see you try to add a 6-pin onto that GPU, love your humor :)

Do it ASAP. I'm pretty excited that you reached such a logical conclusion. I knew something was off with that GPU not having a power connector.

I WISH, you could post more often ❤️

Your videos are great. Your honesty is refreshing and I just wish that general point of view infected the entire IT industry in North America. If only!

Great job Dawid! And yeah, I'm looking forward for that soldering lol

Hey ! Just found your channel yesterday by watching your 1050 Ti purchase video ! And just now saw this magnificently long attemp to flash it with the help of paper towl... *subscribed* Now now you can't just stop there can you ?

Dawid I cant think of anything I’d like to see more than you soldering a 6 pin connector to that gpu

You don't have to solder on a power connector. Nvidia made a quadro variant of this card called the quadro 2000 that had the same chip just no 6 pin. I had one and discovered I could flash a gts 450 bios onto it and use the gerforce drivers instead of the quadro drivers. So I flashed a bios that worked but had the same issue as you, all my games would crash if they maxed out the gpu. The solution was just undervolting and underclocking the card with Msi afterburner till it didn't crash anymore. Afterwords for a more permanent solution I used a Nvidia bios editing software to adjust the stock clockspeeds and voltage permanently, after that I had no more issues and the card worked fine. If your issue is actually related to power delivery this solution will work for you aswell.

Before going out and soldering on a 6 pin connector you could also try lowering the power limit in MSI afterburner and see if that works.

dude, newbie enthusiast here in the same boat, bought a graphics card claiming to be gtx 1050 ti for like $67 + shipping+taxes here in canada. I also like you noticed the missing 6 pin pcie power socket. i haven't taken the card apart but it defo doesn't accept any available drivers from Nvidia. Furthermore my PC crashes just with the card installed with blue screen "thread stuck" error. I wasn't sent any drivers or a disc, just a printed sheet of paper with screenshots of the driver install processs. On those screenshots it clearly shows that the Nvidia installer has recognized the card as a GT730! I'd love to see this next video you're planning on doing. This has got my tinkering bone itching...

As a fellow tech enthusiast ,we both know that you're going to do it, even if you never made a video on it. The time you have already put in it and just the sheer curiosity and the rush of endorphins you get when you can get it to work, especially when it's something new to you, is just too sweet to pass up.

Man, don't give up! Don't let the WISH guys laugh at you. So, solder it! Ah, you have a new subscriber. Thanks!

Love the extended intro! It's the ending that needs a more snappy finish rather than fading out - still love it. Quality content as always👍

If the problem is the power connector you should ensure that the circuit that take the power from that connector to the power section of the board is fully populated with the relative components, such as resistors, fuses and capacitors. Find an high resolution picture of the board that matches the bios you used, and compare the area between the power connector and the circuit near it

Just don't waste ur money/time and at first just try underclock/undervolt ur card just to match the 75W, that PCI-E motheboard slot is able to deliver, if games, keeps crashing on the lower power consumption, that means - the power is not a problem, just try it out it will take like 10 minutes :D

The cards without the connector usually have their cpu and memory clock speed lowered so they don't draw as much wattage. The easy fix is to run msi afterburner and set lower clocks speeds in software and give it a shot. If all goes well then either find a bios from a Eco card or do a bios edit and lower the speeds to what didn't crash in afterburner.

I definitely need to see some soldering. Should be pretty straight forward

I definitely think you should solder on a power connection. The good thing is that the contacts are relatively far away from each other which makes the job just that much easier.

I love everything about this video. It's entirely pointless, but strangely fascinatingly addictive. There is something wrong with us. We should form a club of pointless causes or something. At this point it's impossible not to solder the dang power connector.

You can try undervolting and underclocking the GPU and memory first before soldering, just to check whether lack of power delivery is the only issue.

I think its bad idea. Think first GTX 1050 have 4GB VRAM and GTS 450 have 1GB or 512MB. You need to edit the bios from 4GB to 1GB or 512MB therefore artifacts appear on the screen.

I have been subbed to you since you lived in another country, I think Japan, but I still came here after the Linus video to see if blew up ... Looks like it did ... Oh yeah, I also remember you rocking LTT gear in some earlier videos as well, which seems fitting

0:07 When your cheap Wish Hardware goes “REEEE”

I wish I saw this video 4 years ago Dawid!! I'd have told you to drop by John's Jukes here in vancouver and I'd solder the connector on for you lol

First of all, please use the soldering iron and second, please upload the personal rig upgrade I really wanna watch it and hope you didn't break anything :)

Sure the hardware isn't set to lie about the amount of installed ram or there's some how less installed? It sounds a lot like your crashes are caused by the game/driver using more memory on the card that actually is there.

Dawid, you could have tried to just plug in the graphics card into the system, boot from a CPU integrated graphics, and try to flash the GPU with NVFlash

going to need to de-solder the existing holes, first, suggest a bulb-type desoldering iron, A cheap 25 watt soldering iron should be the best for the new part, want it mounted firm and flush, wait until the iron is nice and warm, touch the joint, then apply the solder. For those joints, probably use the thicker type rosin core lead-tin solder. The silver solder is not as good and requires a bit more heat. Don't spend more than about a second and a half on each pad. Finally, use a pair of nippers to trim off any excess length from the pins on the back side of the board. Also check for other components that might have been omitted.

Well it ain't gonna be much of a loss even if it melts from the power pin mod. A worthy risk.

be sure to update the BIOS on your soldering iron as well

🙂 yes that makes alota sense, that model always used a single 6pin video plug, i thought you already knew that? 😊

Nice job man. You diagnosed it spot on as far as you could before modifying it.....YES it is time to bust out the soldering iron. You can do it

Fix the GTS 450 to see what that gpu can handle!

honestly you came this far with the card, what better way to feel accomplished than to add the power connector and (hopefully) get it gaming the way it should.

As long as it's a soldering iron from wish where you need to build that yourself too and attach it to your PSU 😀

The connector may not be the only missing component. Might be missing sense resistors and a FET or two. Check that area for unpopulated pads.

Solder away. Hopefully they installed some VRMs to control that extra power, LOL

After what you have already done and how far you’ve gone to try and fix it. It’s a total no brainier, I say go for it!! Heck if it blows and let’s the magic pixies out in a puff of blue smoke, it’ll still be an entertaining video 👍

The 400 series had a record for overheating It even was nicknamed "Thermi" (I hope I spelled that right)

might as well fix the card completely. Great video series, btw.

Like Palpatine said: "Do It."

Your video is pretty good overall, but there are a few things you have overlooked. One of the main things that I was thinking of is that there exists are DDR3 variant of the GTS 450 that doesn't have the 6 pin power connector. The other thing I was thinking of is that there exists a Quadro workstation card that utilizes the same GPU as the GTS 450 and that uses GDDR5 but doesn't require the 6 pin PCI-E power connector, called the Quadro 2000. So, if you do attempt to solder the PCIE power connector on, I would first make sure that your card actually utilizes GDDR5 and if it doesn't, attempt to flash the BIOS from a DDR3 variant. If it *does* utilize GDDR5, you can either solder on a new power connector or attempt to flash the Quadro 2000 BIOS. Nice video.

It won't fix it (most likely). Chances are the PCB does not have the traces connected, other issues are going to be the quality of the PCB/VRM's on the card if this was never designed for the 6x pin. That being said it would be an entertaining video, I'd probably suggest to have a fire extinguisher near when trying it though 😂

Your earnest incompetence is most entertaining

Best Crap Bucket i ever seen.

just grab an old Molex connector and solder the wires on in the right order. It will transfer enough power between it and the socket, and work just as well as a 6 pin. However the crashing probably comes from a RAM amount that is not correct to the bios which would require a modified bios. I run HL2 on a newer but cut down version of that card ( GT 730 128 bit, 1gb ddr3 ) in my older retro box and it will run 60 frames on ultra at 1080p. I wonder if trying one of those bios would do better.

In the immortal words of Shia Labeouf: Just DO IT!

This was hilarious. Great video. You got this far...you might as well solder her up. She needs more power, man. Do it to it.

That gpu identifies as a gtx 1050 how dare you try to “fix it” lol

What's disturbing is one can still find these on amazon.

So essentially you're fixing gender dysphoria on a graphics card 😂

Dawid and electronics, this could involve fire. I 100% approve.

Loved that the add shown before the video was for Wish.com 😂

Hey this is how we learn, gotta be persistent. As for soddrring a power connector, 1 I'd be careful use a test rig, and make sure the PC has traces for the 6 pin. I didnt see any. I could have missed them. Keep up the entertaining work

Yeah ....you definitely should go for it. Waiting for the next part 😃😃

Yea, if you don't solder on that power connector I will have to do it myself. I NEED to see a true conclusion to this madness.

I am not hardware savvy enough to try these in my own. Much respect man.

Yes! I am interested to see.please try to solder it. need to be careful soldering because its really small. It would be very interesting if that fixed it. subscribed. Thanks for the videos!

Nice one mate haha go for it keen to see if the extra wattage helps

Yes, I would like you to continue to solder on (pun intended) and see what happens if you try to fix this card further. After that attempt, I'd love to see a tally of the money you spent on additional repair parts as well as the hours you spent on this project to arrive at an estimated final cost of the card after your initial 60$.

No, it's not jack. You would need to edit the vbios, find the memory address, so that it reads as 1GB vram. After that, you will need to solder some resistors in their correct positions. I fixed some, which work perfectly now. There is no cake recipe here, each board uses some random pcb, no datasheet, just trial and error.

I have a genuine GTS 450 and it is a perfect budget ( extremely budget ) GPU and everything works just fine but there is a one issue... You must to find a very old GPU Driver because the newest ones causes self-underclocking problem and fixing this problem with tweaks in Nvidia Control centre doesn't do much more. So if you are decided to bring this card a second life you must to do a 2 things ( one you already did ( bios ) ). you must to solder 6pin con , and install older gpu driver. Mine is overclocked from around 740MHz to 870MHz and i can play some older titles like GTA V , BF 3 , Skyrim , ROTTR at 50fps Even the newest titles but on low settings. Keep going and fix it!

Dedication at it's finest

Love your videos, Dawid. Long may they continue 😊

It may lead to extended system damage if you do that since it may have the components needed on the PCB to handle extra power. You may also not have a GTS 450 those were beefy cards and power hungry you may have a GT545 or something which is a lot slower and still uses a GF116 GPU variant.

Soldering should probably fix it, although it's weird that it works without 6 pin power. AFAIK cards don't without without needed power connectors.

It might be problem, but I dont think so. You shouldnt pull more than 75W out of your PCIE, but in case it is needed it will pull more. Der8auer made a video about it, powering Radeon VII ONLY using PCIE slots. The cables got pretty hot thought.

Have faith. Soldering on the 6 pin connector would be cool to watch even if you messed it up, cheers.

do it!!!!!! you are putting way too much effort in fixing this sh!t show of a graphics cards and I cant get enough of it!

Yes, you should solder the missing connector in. It is a piece of cake, but watch the connector orientation!

Yes! Please do it! Just take your time and check everything three times before cutting, powering or soldering anything! You can do it!

8:07 I think we all know what happened to that paper-towel sheet in 2020 during the TP shortages. It was probably worth more than the 450 by then.

DO IT! would be interesting to see if you can fix the card fully.

You could try adding on the 6 pin connector but who knows if it's actually connected to anything, there could be other components that are missing for the supplemental power. I'd try to work that out before bothering with the connector.

You have to do some soldering because I just subbed so I dont miss the vid : P Cool vid mate : ) x

Amazing video man. I fell for this same card just few days ago from ebay.

Were there any identification numbers silkscreened onto the board? There is usually something that can be searched online to find out at least who makes the card and that will narrow the possible number of BIOS options to try. It would be very suspect to me if there were none because reputable board manufacturers usually have one or more numbers that you can search for on the board itself or they would at least silkscreen the name of their company onto it. If this board were blank, or looked like it had been scrubbed of any identifiers or painted to cover them up, that would be a red flag that it's a fake.

Yes! Please put the 6 pin connector on there. It would be so cool to see it working

If available I would just cut apart an old PCIe cable from a modular PSU and just solder the wires directly to the PCB. Another option would be to do the same with a Molex to PCIe cable. I know one of those sockets probably doesn't cost much but I figure at the very least that would save you some time by not having to order one. (assuming that you haven't by now already)

You've made it this far you can't stop now!

Easy fix, do it. Though I'm inclined to think it's a VRAM issue. As in the bios you have is correct but it thinks it has more VRAM than it actually does, which is why on medium settings it works but on high it doesn't. When the driver attempts to allocate the VRAM to load textures sad faces ensue when attempting to send data to a memory address that doesn't physically exist. High uses more VRAM for textures. Have you checked the physical chips capacity and the total number on the board?

There exist no reality where you should not solder that power connector onto that PCB.It has to be done, to see if things work! Thanks for the interesting video!

Other fake cards Are gts 450 with a 6pin pre soldered. Like the one i got scammed with. I might make a video of me drowning this card.

Dew it!!!!!!!!! May the force be with you!!!

Ah yes, the old tried-and-true source of "some dude on a forum". Godspeed, people who post instructions on forums

If by now you didn't try adding the 6 pin connector, try it when you get a chance. That may be all it needs.

I just bought one on EBAY. I wasn't paying attention to the connections until the next day. Without even receiving the item, I filed for a refund which I was given in full and told I could keep the card. I have no use for the card, but if I can fix the bios to show what it really is, I'm thinking I can resell it.

really cool i like that you tell your knowlegde in a way that it's nice to watch ALSO that you are insane to go so far for a old videocard RESPECT! haha i subscribed!

Why question when you already started fixing it? Finish what you started and good luck :>

Also, check if your flashed bios is for the right amount of graphics memory. These fake cards sometimes have less RAM than regular cards.