knowing how much dedication you put into your work. I would not be surprised if you pulled out a string puppet and used that to do the work.@@northwestrepair
I was an electronics tech before flat screen plasma and lcd was a thing. I have done PCB board repairs many times but never anything to this level. Multi layer PCB is well beyond anything I ever done. Certainly high level repair work done here. I was that dog in your video watching this. Unbelievable your able to repair such intricate tracing structures. Man you are amazing ! I was faced with socket damage on a Godlike Z690 LGA 1700 series. The CPU slipped out of hand and was dropped into the socket bending multiple pins. At least 40 pins was mashed in different locations. I was able to fix the pins using a burred medical needle as that was the finest point I could use as a tool. Hours spent resurrected the board and stress tested to ensure heat would not cause pins to lose connection. I thought I was pretty good until I seen this. Awesome work !
Not to take anything away from what you are saying about northwestrepair, from someone who only JUST managed to safely exchange his graphics card, what you did sounds amazing. Well played!!
but why is he grinding off part o the board that doesnt plug into anthing? doesnt he know that tab is just for alignment?? lol the gold strips are the only parts that actually coonects........ so as a pc tech of 35 years I'll tell ya most common causes of gpu death, over voltage or spike .. (kill caps on card) or its just given up cuz its old (rare these things last decades ON fulltime :-)
@@HarmonRAB-hp4nk Repair of broken tracings. That PCB is a multi layer board meaning not only tracings on either side of the board but also sandwiched in between. It will have at least 3 sets of tracings. To repair the inner tracings he has to grind away the board to get at them and bridge the breaks.
@@HarmonRAB-hp4nk Did you even watch the whole video? He had to restore and strengthen the tab before anything else so it could actually be safely installed and tested, THEN he got into the real work. I'm a PC tech of around the same amount of years as yourself, to a fairly senior level in the industry, that doesn't make us more knowledgeable than this man! What he does if far beyond the scope of regular 'PC techs' like us... I've done some intricate PCB work in the past, but nothing like that!
I almoast killed my gpu because of this lock. I couldnt reach it and it got stuck half way out.... So i had to use knife to press agaisnt it, if it slipped i would make hole into my MB.
And the world record goes to this man for the world's steadiest hands. I could never in a thousand years. Thank you for keeping this GPU out of E waste.
@SordidusFellatio bro i have similar problem but i got it from my mom, for her it subsided when she gave birth (so she says). i dont have it as bad as you in certain sense as my legs are completely okay so its mostly my hands. my hands shake especially when im doing something precise, my fingers would randomly twitch, which makes me unable to feel im holding at the moment which usually makes me drop whatever. it sucks to know that every job u take people will look at u, possibly make fun of u even its mundane job.. even something as simple as giving change back which for others would take no thought whatsoever takes so much concentrated effort. i am also not good with people (idm being social but im just not good at interacting) so social jobs are out of question, that either leaves me with physical labour, IT or maybe even some trade(not sure which trade would not require steady hands)
Whenever I feel a bit cocky like I have half a brain, I watch something like this in order to bring me down to an acceptable level. His work is a piece of work.
Wow! did not even think a repair like this was possible, at least not at this level.. bravo and thank you for pushing the boundaries of what can be done at home in a work shop.
@@Plant_Parenthood not just specialized tools but incredible knowledge on how these boards work and micro-soldering skills on a level not seen often, this man is a very skilled technician
@@bluecar5556 i wasn't being sarcastic. I live in L.A.... and the PC guys here are mostly just mild software guys and re-installers.... they DEFINITELY don't have any hardware skills.
I didn't know people like this existed, or that GPU repairs were actually a thing. My understanding is that if you can't RMA a card under the 3 yr warranty, into the scrap pile it goes. One of the most impressive feats of craftsmanship I've seen in a long time!
There‘s hardware components that are dozens of times as valuable as this, you think companies just toss those if one breaks? Nah, of course there‘s specialists to fix what‘s fixable, and now that consumer grade components are starting to reach well into the four digit price range, it becomes increasingly worth fixing whatever is possible too.
It's not that people can't repair them, it's just that it's way too expensive to do so, so you might as well get a new card for the same/cheaper price. The only exception is people who do it as a hobby or people who have a youtube channel that gets decent views and can economically justify the repair that way lol.
@@niwohit's also knowledge. There aren't too many people out there who know their way around a PCIe GPU board, and you need to know exactly how they work to be able to do any kind of diagnostic that's more complicated than fixing a blown fuse or cap. The only people who can do this are GPU specialists that probably work at graphics card vendors and understand how to read these PCBs.
I have watched many many of your repairs and they are amazing!...this one just came across my feed and godDAMN you blow me away every time! Respect and Honor! You Legend you !!!!
I found your repairing videos therapeutic, the humor and memes top it all 😄. I own a small computer shop and also do repair stuff but not on your level, im learning more each time from your videos. Kudos!
OMFG - Seeing this repair was jaw dropping for me . I'm an electronic hobbyist and occasionally work with soic's but I had no idea humans could remove and resolder these incredible small and complex chips! I always thought that after their initial automated assembly that was the endo of the line (if issues- = swap out board). You must be getting these boards extremely hot...I was amazed.
It blows my mind that you could do this much labor on a card and have it be worth it rather than just replacing the card. I would assume 10-15 years ago problems like this both didn't happen because of limited complexity at the time and were not worth it at all with the lower cost of the components at the time. But today, your GPU is 50% or more of your whole system.
The PCB was always kind of complicated. It just got more complicated. Though it was a similar level of complexity 10 years ago. That was when we had 290x cards and Maxwell GPUs.
Tech changing so fast then also made it not worth it, if your GPU died a year later a new card had new features and performance that made it not worth repairing stuff all the time.
15 or 20 years ago you would be better just saving your money for another 3 to 6 months and buying the newer or cheaper tier card that equalled or blew the high end into the water
Being able to do these repairs is about as impressive to me as watch-making - perhaps more so because watch-making/-repair doesn't involve having to deal with electronics. But in both cases it's near incredible to me that people are able to fix these things. And it's also a bit frustrating, since it highlights the fact that lots of stuff we simply throw away could be repaired and then still be used. Same with mechanical watches where some cheaper movements are cheaper to replace with a fresh one than having the old one serviced or repaired.
Beautiful work. It warms my heart that someone with your level of skill is out there and willing to dive deep into GPU repairs as you do and not just send it off to be “e-waste” if it’s not particularly profitable to approach the repair.
sorry, how could this level of expertise, the time invested plus all the equipment and the material used still make economic sense? how long can someone like him work on a gpu like this before the meter hits $1,000?
@@embreis2257 This... This right here is the proper question. The skill, equipment, time... has to be $100 an hour if not more. How many hours to fix? At some point, just as you stated, it becomes a lost cause due to time invested. On top of that, I wouldn't want my repair dude just hustling through a repair to ensure the bill isn't more than the card is worth to re-buy.
Very nice to see subs rise, 1000 in a day I believe! Props to youtube recommendations, I never watched any GPU repair videos, but youtube recommended it to me, and I'm now hooked for months!
Holy moly I never knew how advance and crazy the engineering behind just a gpu is! Thanks for doing this kind of work, literally a talent very few have or care to do
If you think the engineering that goes into the board is complex, wait until you see what goes into the GPU die itself. The board has thousands of components routed in tens of layers. The die has billions of components routed in hundreds of layers.
Lol why you think US and china are fighting over taiwan ??? Why world’s top country want chips to be made in their country and why 2nd powerful country can’t do itself and want to take over taiwan , the level of engineering involved in CPU,gpu making is crazy crazy , billions of dollars are need to setup a single plant and that only for some years and then repeated again . Many countries have nuclear weapons many are close to one but only 1 or 2 have the tech to makes the chips .
I wish I found this channel sooner! I had a pile of 20 series GPUs that have been pulled from systems I had sold under warranty. I usually just ate the price of a new card out of pocket, and threw away the dead or artificing cards. Even cards that still had mfg warranties the RMA process is usually such a hassle I swap and throw away.
I'm telling y'all this is the most relaxing channel I found in RU-vid. whenever I get stressed, I watch northwestrepair doing his magic. hope he continues for many years to come.
I simply love what you are doing, your videos are an awesome mix of super relaxing and super interesting. Looking at your mindblowing skills, combined with the music, your commentaries and that lovely sense of humor it is pure magic. You definitely make this world a better place, please never stop doing this
If only electronics were made to be repairable more easily. Big fan of your channel helping to reduce e-waste and save consumers money. Absolute legend. You and Rossman Repair Group are the shit. Keep it up dude
Most of new electronics are easy to break. They are not meant to be like that strongeest by the developer. So they can sell it again or repair it bring money
There's not much you can do with PCB to improve repairability. Only way is to improve design, so that critical connections don't run in fragile parts of the board (or just don't make 3KG GPUs).
I know gpus are complex machines, but i wonder why every company decides to use those spaces as anything more than structural pieces... Like the pcie catcher tab must be the weakest stressed component on any card, it must be just as a F you, you damaged it so now but another card kinda move... Disgusting, and isnt like they can do much with that part either
It is better to remove the pci-e safety pin if you had this kind of pin and hulk size gpu. Or mount your GPU vertical using riser. It is also pretty much a common knowledge to remove GPU if you plan to move your PC.
Or use a computer case that orients motherboard so the PCIe slots are on top rather than on side or back. I have Thermaltake Tower 500, the video card just "hangs" off the slot so there's no unusual stress on the side of PCIe slot. But I do hate the PCIe locking lever, it's a pain in the butt to reach under fat GPU and reach the lever to release the video card. Those were fine back in the old day when video card were just single slot, the early PCIe cards and AGP cards.
Yeah or lay the Case on it's side, then almost nothing can happen to the graphics card and the heatsink of your CPU. Never seen a graphics card that is so destroyed as what this one was, it looks to me that the case were the graphics card was in, has fallen from something on the ground, have had MANY graphics cards and never have had this, not even in my days i went to Lan party's. I have made many PC's now, and never had a PC that broke down.
@@madmatt2024 My last two motherboards just tore out the lever when I tried to release them. Why install them if they can't be removed by pressing down on the lever? Asus and Gigabyte boards.
This literally just confirmed my worst fear about that stupid clip that PCI-E slots have. A lesson in patience when working on computers: don't rush and never try to rip your card out of its slot.
You certainly have the skills, and I'll definitely be sending my GPUs if ever need be.💯💯 However, the real question is what is the repair cost vs. retail cost usually? With a skillset this highly developed, I can guarantee repair ain't cheap (probably be worth it for a rare or expensive card). I'm just wondering how on Earth this could be cheaper than just getting a new card when speaking of lower tiered GPUs. Damn fine work though!
His prices are quite fair (80-100$ don't quote me on that tho), at least that what he and his customers say in the comments. I mean he still fixes 1070's and made community post about testing AGP Graphics card so....
Ikr? Like suggesting the back plate of the card is merged with the brace so the whole thing doesn't sag like a sideways house brick teetering on a ledge?
Awesome work my friend my dad was a electronics engineer and he would amaze me with the stuff he would fix but your taking it to the next level of play it was a pleasure watching you work
Excellent repair, and Great video. Only issue is that my eyes and brain ran out of buffer space to process the quick motion sequence at 9:21, and then some nausea ensued 😂
I’ve was sent to your channel today which I love. You are the real tech goat most these guys just say “gpu chip problem deemed this as no fix” 😂 you on the other hand show how delicate and hard this work is
Wow... you reballed the GPU. You're the man. I've only seen the AMD guys do that in their lab when they are trying to put their best cores on the best PCBs for overclocking competitions.
Your skills are mesmerizing and admirable. Fantastic. Do you have a lot of repairs come back after a time, or do they generally last well? If you see this comment.
I wish you would tell us a little more of the process, it's not like anyone could try it themselves without a lot of equipment and years and years of practice but I would enjoy knowing a little more of what you are doing at a micro level to better understand your mad genius. your work flow is truly mesmerizing.
Absolutely wizardry. Curious how many true hours of labor this takes. Looks like several hours even with your skills snd equipment. Also, I'm glad to be out of the PC gaming race, these giant cards always seemed nuts to me, and now they're showing that my feelings are right. A little Framework board with a desktop case does all I need it to.
How any person on this planet can have the patience to resolder those hundreds of little solder blobs on the PCB is absolutely beyond me. I couldn’t do 10 and would go insane (besides not having the ability to work on this micro scale)
That's one serious bit of BGA reowrk & repair. 100% respect to your sir, I know what it takes to get far less work done with far less faults, big up NWR.
@@SyncF It actually can happen with remarkably heavy GPU coolers, most of those stories I heard were with 4090s. But it's usually a small crack which is way less brutal than what we see in the video.
Man. Just started following you now! Amazing work! I fix graphics too but my knowledge is far away from yours! Learning too much here in your channel! Congrats!
I dont know much about you or where you come from but your dedication in making the process perfect makes it even more interesting. I wish I could send you my gpus for fix.
I applaud you for your skills here. I am no longer able to work on things like this as my eysite is not good enough to see, nor my hands steady enough to NOT make things worse. I can BARELY work on Through-hole circuitry anymore!
WOW! just WOW! that was another level of repair, i was that dog throughout the video some real next level repair magic, amazing to watch, keep up the fantastic work, never seen repairs taken to that level before, simply incredilble....
The things you are able to fix on gpu's is astounding.. If only I could get a magic maker like you to fix my MSI Z590 Ace gold edition motherboard (the one with the actual gold looking dragon on the silver heatsink)
My hats off to you sir. The skill, talent and knowledge along with the patience, is indeed rare. Maybe a dozen people on the planet who could do this. A TREASURE YOU ARE.💯%
I have no idea what I'm looking at but I'm fascinated, it's like watching aliens do alien techy stuff with their alien things and their alien stuff beyond our comprehension. He grabs his his dequeefalizer to digipotrate his hypermonotrator or something.
Awesome and amazing repair job! What I don't understand is how the pads under the GPU got torn if the tab on the card edge was damaged, unless the card as a whole was flexed (drooped) while mounted sideways. This is probably the most common cause of mechanical GPU issues - drooping and flexing. I think it's time we return to the old horizontal PC case form to eliminate the stress on these 3 fan cards.
Mad respect for this guy...he is an artist. Question is...wouldn't be easier and cheaper to just buy another gpu? This guy's artistry cant be cheap. That is some master craftmanship stuff going to.
I watch what you're doing, i have a slight idea of your processes. I enjoy your videos and im liking your editing as well. Its like watching Bob Ross only with electronics
