The BIGGEST problem of modern GPU's | Repair  

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Incredible fix, as always, taking a rejected card from the company and giving it a se cord life, and like you said, making someone happy with it. Awesome job, impressive knowledge and skills.

Holy shit, absolutely awesome work. 99 out of 100 microsoldering shops would not be able to fix damage like that. Just continue to show your skills and you will make a huge amount of money soon.

From all the PC repair channels that I've seen This one is by far the best ! Absolutely brilliant 👏 And the music choice was on point too !

Its so funny, i started watching northridge fix repairing GPUs, then i found out about Tech cemetary and i thought, wow this is incredible, THIS is peak of GPU repair for sure. But then, i find this channel, and now im certain, this MUST be peak GPU repair! Absolutely amazing work, incredible!

Thx for the video! Wow you really put the point across the importance of GPU support brackets, its not just to avoid Gpu sag, its to avoid cracking the PCB!

I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact GPU on ebay some time ago. Nice to finally see it fixed.

I was already a big fan of horizontally mounted motherboards, one of the reasons being that it allows you to mount the videocard vertically, eliminating any concerns about GPU sag, and this is just more evidence to support choosing cases which orient the motherboard horizontally.

Like always good job Kris.. I do a lot of these mostly gigabyte cards through eBay repair service and yours is the first I've seen that didn't have broken traces under A1 also in my experience broken traces under the GPU and last ram chip as it was on the last one I did.. Oh and on the last card I didn't it worked after the repair but would randomly power off and this was do to cracked solder joint on the 12v fuse at the PCIe slot probably do to the flex which caused all the other issues..

Having those schematics at hand like you have makes all a kids game, nice repair! Where do you get those modern schematics from?

Amazing work Kris!! Good to see some videos again!

Great work Kris. Sadly I have a similar problem in the same area. Without schematics I am unable to figure out what should be going where on the different tracks and layers. I have low resistance on all the power rails but no evidence of damage to components(hopeing VRAM and GPU are good). Hopefully you will repair a strix 3090 with the same crack and make a video that I can over study :) Keep up the grood work. PEACE\/

Hi That is some great work there.. keep it up. I live in Zambia and have a gigabyte RTX 3080 broken at the same spot, I would love to send it for repair.

Oh man now i see why i got the Gigabyte Vison OC 3080Ti its gonna fail if i am not meticulously careful. Amazing work on this now i know where to ship if it cracks in the prone to failure spot.

I got an XFX 7900xtx black edition and it comes with a massive support bracket that bolts the right side of the card to the rest of the PCIE slots on the case. There's zero GPU sag whatsoever and it actually looks really good. If video cards are going to continue growing then companies have to start designing them with support brackets in mind. The sag I've seen on some cards is horrendous, there's no way that's good for them. I've seen cards sag an inch or more, sooner or later they're gonna break. These PCB's aren't that strong.

Hi Mr Theodore, Excellent repair thumbs up🥳 also the music really corresponds to the detail-quality work that has been done😍

Amazing skills ! You are on another level. Well done and thank you for sharing.

Coolest repair I have ever seen. This is really the hard drugs in electronics repair on RU-vid IMO.

This is the 4th video I've come across that has a Gigabyte 3080/3090 with a break in the PCB in the same, exact, spot! The PCB isn't strong enough to support the weight of the cooler. Design problem!

Literally blown away. I can't really understand, why do they run so many traces through that mechanically loaded part of the PCB?

This was awsome. Really incredible fix. Love your work. Keep it up.

Seller has to ship with GPU installed because users sometimes break it during installation and then claim as not working. It's a landmine if you ask me. These cards need bracket to prevent that sag from happening.

Board designers need to start addressing this issue. There is no reason why these areas cant be reinforced, other than greed or sheer laziness. I have over thirty years bare board fabrication experience, and know they can address this design flaw.

awesome work!😳

amazine work, one would think it impossible repair.. but you nailed it. thumbs up.

Would you mind sharing what grinding pen/dremel bit you use to grind the board? It seems like it grinds much cleaner than bits I’ve seen/used before

Great job. Could you share the documentation of layered display of the boardview for the GV-N307TAORUS and GV-N306TGAMING ?

only one word for this repair: "WOW"

Never seen a repair like this before. Very nice, u have done a great job to keep this card alive. How do u know where to measure? Do u use board Diagramms? Really interesting

very professional work !!

Good afternoon Kris. Excellent job! Bravo! But let me say that you underestimate this repair difficulty: 3 out of 10, in my opinon at least, is too low...regards from Italy.

Your videos are so interesting. Thank you for sharing! I had no idea such repairs were possible. I have a question about some of the traces that were thicker. I noticed they were also repaired with the same very small wire and I was wondering if that can be an issue? I assume the thicker traces were those meant to carry more current, possibly the shunt stuff you mentioned you could measure to the 12v PCIe rail? I'm a very amateur electronics person so I might be totally off here 😅.

Einfach nur faszinierend deine Arbeit.... ich dachte niemals das man quasi zuhause ein GPU-Swap machen kann.

Excellent video , the best fixing content on RU-vid period ….

Dude this was only 3/10 difficulty? 😂 Crazy repair

This repair is like a operation video, absolut insane !

I have been working on one of these cards with numerous faults for a few weeks now and noticed the exact same crack on that area of the board. I had no idea that this area had that many inner traces.I have used very thin wire to fix the 1.8v reg enable pin to the other side of the board. From your excellent video it looks like I have a few more to do. That drawing of all the board layers is a god send, is this freely available?

Holy crap, I thought you were going to run patch wires to the exposed pads, not rebuild the traces inside the PCB! What are the chances that stress on the crack will break your traces inside the sealant?

Awesome repair and great video. You can have a metal back plate to help during shipment, however, with so many components need to be populated on the PCB, it's packed tight without enough space between edges of PCB and traces, it's still possible the edge of the PCB somehow got hit and the whole graphic card is unusable. It's just not a good design in terms of reliability. It's not that it's not possible to avoid this kind of problem, it's just too much greed to make as much money with as little cost as possible these days, and that's why this kind of design are sold to customers, and that's why I am skeptical buying new high end graphic cards nowadays.

Отличный ремонт)))

Beautiful work!

Da bin ich wieder xD. Das selbst Layer Repariert werden ist wirklich nochmal ne ebne krasser. Die Frage die ich mir stelle, gilt so eine Reperatur nur Grafikkarten? Ich bin derzeit in einem Computerservice Tätig, und manchmal sehen wir doch Notebooks, die das eine oder andere Problem haben. Seltener ist es direkt ein Platinen schaden, eher sind es die Grafikspeicher, oder drauf gelötete Ram bausteine, welche probleme machen. Auf der Webseite werden andere Geräte aufgelistet, wo man nachfragen kann. Aber würde sowas bei euch auch gemacht werden? Würde natürlich vorraussetzen das hier und da auch ersatz Bausteine da sind, bisher habe ich nur Videos gesehen wo hauptsächlich die mit gelieferten Teile wieder neu aufgelötet wurden, weil Korrusion oder sonstiges war. Wäre interssant zu wissen. Je nachdem, hätte man vielleicht noch eine Alternative für die Kunden, anstatt zu sagen ja, boardwechel und oder neues gerät. (hängt auch immer mit den Jeweiligen Preisen der neuen PLatine zusammen).

whow, nice job man!

Amazing repair! I am surprised every day by how little common sense engineers use in product designs. Anyone would tell you not to route any traces at the edge of a problematic area. But in a way I understand them, since they are under the pressure of deadlines and it is in the interest of marketing that you buy a new card if you lightly damage it :(

Crazy fix! It worked! I have a 4090 tuf with the support stick. Kinda silly as it’ll break free in any situation other than stationary. I’m not a very conservative person but if I space out in a move and forget to install a support bracket or remove card during move it could easily end up cracked. And I’d rather not have that happen.. thanks 🍻

Very nice. Mother of all repairs👍

some serious skills here peeps bravo.

where do you get schematics from?

Oh yeah. I don't understand campanies and shops who ships fully assembled pc's without internal hard foam packaging unlike originpc. They should put the gpu and air cpu cooler in in a separate box with instructions.

wow that is amazing what you did with hat card xx

Excellent work!

The channel will hugely benefit from a 4K quality.

Great job! What kind of boardviewer is that with layers?

Awesome job Kris!

Excellent repair. Very sad that a brand new card has suffered this damage. Notwithstanding your excellent work, I would not purchase a card that had suffered that much damage. I know you tested all the necessary traces and repaired the ones that were obviously damaged, but there may be a problem with some of the neighbouring traces that seemed ok - they may have partial, micro-cracks that could open up over time, leading to intermittent behaviour. For me, if I had the ability to repair such a card, I could never resell it, because I could not trust it. I might give it to a friend to make them happy, knowing they can always return it to me should it go faulty again - at which point I could use it for parts. Your channel reminds me how amazingly delicate modern electronics is. It needs to be treated as fragile at all times. Once something goes faulty, it is very difficult to trust it again. That does not mean I would necessary discard a faulty part - knowing that you provide such a great service, I would send items to you assuming they were economic to repair. But, it means I would only trust the very best repair experts - like yourself.

Excellent repair! Would it help to reinforce the area with a bit of fiberglass? Maybe that's too much effort. Thanks for the tip about the supporting bracket!

What is the name of this program where you can see every single layer of the graphic card? Amazing job!!

This is an obvious design flaw on Gigabyte who also refuses to RMA or recall these cards. On the flip side it is not like Gigabyte had great customer support in the first place. This is just another reason for me to never buy their products.

Do you have any tutorial videos on how to do other repairs? Like a bad cap? On a gpu and where I could potentially find a way to figure out what the traces are and where they are? Thank you :)

Very good job Kris Bro 👍👍

awsome. you are another level.

Sir, you are a legend.

Excellent work.

Amazing fix!

wow...perfect Repair Thanks

Nice working BROOO!!!i have one question what is safe temps on memory GDDR6X for Gaming???and hotspot????

It's like Magic. Zauberei.

whoa 😲admirable😮

very good repair on otherwise dead card

Great!

Amazing skill!

i know you are the best from Pakistan

This was incredibly information, thank you so much! Been watching your videos for hours now ! What are your thoughts of using a silver conductive pen to repair each layer versus using wire?

I'v just one word: WOW.😮

incredible

Brilliant !

I can't find a schematic/ PCB diagram for the board I'm working on (Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 TI Gaming OC 12GB). Can I do this job without diagnosing the individual board layers? If I Dremel about half-way down and repair all of the traces I find, will that work l? My cracks look less severe than the ones in the video.

Whaat? Where do you get the scematic for these cards?

Outstanding

(Yes I’m aware this happened from shipping) Gigabyte cards are the worst…. PNY and zotac. Strix fans have failing fans and the forums of Asus have so many complaints. Think the founder edition’s are the best really just as long as you have a GPU mount to hold the GPU up from flexing the PCB.

Would X-Rays be faster ?

hello, i have a asus croshair 8 impact that only starts if i use a hairdrier. what could be the problem ?

I have a 4090 and it has some artifact if at stock speeds. Only a few hundred hours on it tops. I doubt it’ll self heal haha. Any ideas? Wonder if this is covered by warranty..

Hello can You please share the boardview You are using? Thanks!

Is there any schematic for a Powercolor Rx 6800xt?

How did you actually get the layout of the traces for each layer ?

what dremel tool do you use? proxon?

This card wasnt at northrigefix also?

Where do you get the replacement components from?bc I want to send you my card and I have the replacement components

Would you please share us the Boarwview for this GPU? Thanks

What is the average charge for a common fix?

Heavy duty repair. 😁

Wow!!!!

How did you get the pcb layers in BV? I have 2 3080Tis with similar damage (both same model as this 3090), but on the back side of the PCB in the same area. there are a a few data lines, and a couple of power lines that run through here (FBVDD, and 1.8v for the PWM controllers and their lines). I've corrected that damage (3rd layer damage), but 1.8v is running at low voltage when card is powered on (.258v instead of 1.8v).

wow

wow 👏

how did you get the blueprint?

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difficulty 3/10 omg kkkk