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God oh this is really bad oh this is

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terrible wait what there's no way this is okay what why is this

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on I just got six gpus for only

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$1,700 because they're all dead although by the end of this video with any luck a

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couple of them will be alive and huge thanks to origin PC for sponsoring this

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the gpus we have here go from boots up but crashes

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to I haven't looked at this one yet so

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let's have a gander brand in boxes seen better days okay it's just a loose

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graphics card excellent oh water we also

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have um a variety of loose screws that's

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never a good sign if you want to do what we did and go on ebay.com and just get

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it for parts GPU make sure someone else hasn't already had a crack edit like

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this one right here it looks pretty decent and as far as I can tell from the

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description the old owner didn't really put a whole lot of effort into trying to

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fix it as for like this one it's clearly

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already been used for a parts card um if we get this guy back I will be shocked

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980 TI for 10 and a couple bucks worth a

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try first step when you have a dead GPU is to verify that it's dead in order to

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do that we have our our test bench here from origin it's their Millennium 5000t

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and it is certifiably a good one I guess we should probably make sure this works

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first Brandon oh fancy so in here we have all

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of the best stuff so 12900 K 3080 TI

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good looking board from MSI and a

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peel wow the best feel in a while yeah that was a really good peel I have to

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say one thing that's super cool about these PCS is that even though it you

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know comes with a warranty you can swap out the parts and you still maintain

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that warranty I don't know if they intended you to put something like this

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in it but we're going to test it out well the rest of these gpus we just got

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from eBay this one right here is jonos yep so what's wrong with it it would

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kind of like disconnect like the monor would just disconnect randomly and it'll

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do that in a series and stop and it'll

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do it in the series again so it like happen like every couple hours so I'm

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kind of hoping you can fix it or see at least what's wrong with it that sounds

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very hard to diagnose I don't

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know also I've just been running firm mark on this PC and it's looking great

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gpus is at 70° everything's kind of in line with what I would expect yeah the

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memory is kind of hot it's at 94° but that's not too crazy NVIDIA says

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you can do 20 so that's a good Baseline to go off of now check jonos in I'm

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sorry origin you did actually do quite a nice little job of cable managing here

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and I'm going to have to ruin it we have loads of power easily available though

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thank you for running it like that origin I don't know Brandon you say it's like their system builder but I've seen

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some pretty shoddy stuff from system Builders that's fair but not origin yeah

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not origin I think step one for this guy is going to be just to give it a little

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clean one thing to note when blowing compressed air make sure that it doesn't

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spin your fans it can just overload the motor and turn your fan into a generator

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not great there are apparently like diodes and stuff in this that should

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prevent it from killing your stuff but either way just don't let them

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spin wow that helped a lot brand new if

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your GPU seems to be dying try out the easy stuff first make sure your drivers

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are up to date and check if your temps are okay so we're just going to be doing

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a quick driver install here and then we're going into Hardware info 64 it's a

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free program just install it check your stuff run something like maybe a firmar

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or something just any game that you run

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see if anything in your GPU temperature starts looking weird so temperatures

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that you're looking for GPU shouldn't be over about 80 and memory is normally

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fine if it's around 100 120 at the

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highest what you really want to look for though is that their performance isn't

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just tanking so we have something like fir mark here we can run it and we'll

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see that at the start we're getting 225 FPS it's going to go down a little bit

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at first as the turbo runs out but it shouldn't like become half of that or

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just completely fall off a cliff well I have some bad news for jonno he thought

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that the temps might have been the problem here and they aren't I didn't

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think it would be we could leave this for longer but it's at 50° right now

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like there's clearly nothing wrong with the GPU temps one thing that people

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almost never do with their gpus is update the firmware on it even though it

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can fix things like what jono's been seeing they might have patched it like a

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year ago and he's just never updated it we've done everything easy on jono's GPU

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so drivers firmware temps are looking

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good I can't get it to crash so that's kind of where we're at with that right

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now what I'm doing is just running 3D Mark with a GoPro pointed at the screen

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to see if it does crash eventually there's so many things that could have

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been causing his problems I don't even know where to start like I personally

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had a problem that was similar to that a while ago and updating my monitors

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firmware fixed it so like there's too

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many variables at this point until we see it actually crash and can go through

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the logs while it runs though we're going to test out the rest of these gpus

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to make sure that they're safe to put in our system and just look for anything

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obvious so first thing we're just going to check for shorts it's highly unlikely

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that there will be shorts but if there is and you plug it into your computer

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you might blow up your power supply so it's cheap and easy Insurance got our

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multimeter here it'll go Bing there's a short

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like that and we're just going to go across these pins it's going to be

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something like this thank you Gamers Nexus so if these guys are shorted to

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those ones you're going to have a bad

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time uh that one a sense pin it's fine

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it's the sort of thing where if your power connectors are shorted your gpus

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is probably never going to come back you done when you're getting it off eBay you

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might as well check yeah so none of these are going to blow up our power

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supply super easy probably don't have to do it but I would recommend doing it if

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you have multimeter cuz cheap easy

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Insurance oh shut up now what I want to do is just take

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these apart put them back together see if there's anything obvious and I find

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that a lot of the time just disassembling and reassembling stuff

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that's dead is the easiest way to fix it you won't know why you fixed it but it

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just does first one we're going to look at is this rx580 and we paid $150 for it

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uh what do you think the chance are this was minded on David 100% 100% yeah

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probably one thing that I do like about this card is that there is still a

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sticker on the back so chances are it hasn't been taken apart and no one's

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really taking a look into what's gone wrong with it this one smells kind of

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weird like you know how there's those thrift shops that get cool stuff in oh

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yeah then there's those ones that just like someone's nand died and her whole

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house is there oh no this one smells like that this might be completely

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unnecessary it might just work so easy to take it apart and just have a look

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there we go okay this card it looks fine now there is just some crud on it

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there's like a little bit of corrosion in some spots that's kind of what I like

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to see cuz that's the sort of card where if you just give it a clean it might

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just come back should give a little wash hell yeah just using a little bit of

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Vice alcohol and toothbrush those spots

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that are kind of gnarly

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just last a little bit for this

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580 sorry David if I was going to do this properly

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I would also replace the thermal pads but they seem like they're fine and if

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it actually works later maybe I'll replace them this card's good to put in

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the system but I just want to keep running jono's 2080 TI to see if it

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eventually crashes it is entirely possible that we fixed it when we just

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blew all of the crap out of it and put it in a case with good air flow so it

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might have just been thermal throttling before it's so hard to say our next card

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is this GeForce GTX 1080 now I'm a little bit scared about this one because

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I had the exact same card in my system and these early ones from EVGA had a bit

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of a bad habit of kind of like exploding there's just something wrong with the

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capacitors whatever you updated the firmware it was totally fine whoever

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owned this might have not and it might have just killed itself let's take it

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apart though give it a little clean and then it should be good to put in this

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system this one's also just like pretty Gro filed like look I think those are

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supposed to be holes but it's just like solid I really miss the days of the

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capacitor plague used to be that something was dead you could just take a

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look at it one of these guys would be bulging replace it it's all good now

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it's so much more difficult even if a capacitor goes it's like one of these

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stupid little things and they're super hard to deal with that yeah that really

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looks like someone spilled a bunch of water on it well sticking in some rice I

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say yep sticker in some rice that's actually really satisfying in a weird

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way yeah this is I really have been loving this I am a bit scared for this

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one though and this part you can really see just whatever was spilled on this

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it's like all sticky up here collecting dust it's even kind of wet like right

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there still M

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tasty well I think I found what's Dead with this GPU and if we just take a look

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uh yeah that's now how rough is this going to be to fix this is a smaller

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Phillips and if we look right here it looks like a really large Phillips when

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you put it against this chip but yeah I am very confident that this is what is

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wrong with this GPU now can we get another one of these

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chips I'm not sure but there is one right here and we might have something

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that's dead around that has one of those I don't know I found what's wrong with this do

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you want to have a little look someone like just extinguish a cigarette on top

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of that icy oh there's also like a massive solderable brigina resistor yeah

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that seems um do you think that's the culprit or do you think someone tried to

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fix it she's had some work done the sticker were still on the GPU so no one

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could have had like I don't think anyone took it

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apart what the heck's attack oh I was

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like this is just disintegrating it possibly caused like a short then scent

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whatever this is looks like a mosfet I'm going to say it's a mosfet uh yeah it's

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probably it's dead it's dead yeah it's very dead oh yeah you might be able to

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get the I markings of the the not dead guy yeah I did oh you and you bought it

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I haven't bought it yet okay if it failed short then like replacing it

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doesn't matter right cuz it's already shorted duting is bad yeah this is one

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bucket of short mate oh jeez have you tried running it I have not I'm going to

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turn off this Benchmark of jono's cart it's been running for 3 hours straight

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with a stress test and it hasn't failed yet so I think it's safe to say it's

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fine or the problem was with jono's system that exploded mosfet that we saw

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is shorted so even if we replace it it's

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a L doing what it's going to do when it's on anyway well one of the tests that we wanted to do was what if we just

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shorted it and see if the card boots up we don't have to take it off to test

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that cuz it's already shorted if you wanted to work properly as an actual

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like load switch we would replace it so that if it need to turn off it can yeah

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the worst thing that could happen has already happened I think that's a that's

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a power supply trip man yeah that sounded like a power supply trip to me

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that still smells fine send it again yeah

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oh oh maybe you just needed the magical

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hands man do we have a do we have an output no no well it still is post

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coding so like oh yeah maybe it hasn't posted yet I feel like we're in Windows

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right now so wait if we're in Windows then yeah then man then we can do stuff

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yeah no nothing it's G it's

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G knowing what P fets do I Would S I

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would assume that it would have to be closed for the graphics card to work so

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it is closed permanently not by choice

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um so yeah I know I think there might be something else wrong okay so what we're

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going to do now is see if we get core voltage this is a Jank way to do it um

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there's no there's no AC it's all DC it's all low voltage um one of the

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easiest ways to do it is probably the end of one of these um capacitors never

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mind I'm getting 12 volts cuz I got it the other the wrong way around but there

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you go 12 volts okay we have voltage uh

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um well that means the power supply is working wait are you plug to the GP

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right now like for display wait what the

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display working uh we gain coal voltage it's working wait what yeah it's

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working like we got GTX 1080 we co voltage man it works but I have no idea

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what we did to make it work and you know what we call that like if it if so we

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removed the back plate although wait

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there might have been some stuff in there there was some liquid uh yeah have

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you tried to replace these yeah because those touch the Caps right is is this

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game can you can you do a stress test and do we have a like a thermal camera

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to see if this actually gets warm I can get a thermal camera oh oh maybe it's

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not so worky she picks you up just to put you down again it's less dead than

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before at least so we can potentially take off the back plate look at it with

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like a thermal camera or something and see if we can find out some stuff that's

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an after lunch problem I'm disa pointed I'm probably going to do most of it off

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camera we're going to just move on see if like where did that 580 go see if

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this 580 after we cleaned it just works now we have

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lights we have

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fans interesting I'm suspicious that

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it's going to keep doing this one thing that's interesting about this card is it

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has a bio switch on it

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so no way no way oh wow okay so this is

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I didn't want to say what I thought might have happened cuz it's so stupid

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but I was a bit suspicious there might have just been a mining BIOS on this

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with no video output and you just switch it over to a normal gaming BIOS and it

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just boots up uh because we did switch from NVIDIA to

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AMD I'm just running ddu getting NVIDIA

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drivers off there and then this might work that would be crazy 150 bucks for

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580 can you believe it David that's what it should cost yeah that is what it

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should cost we'll let it run through but I think

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she's good it would be so embarrassing to put up a video on fixing gpus and not

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fix one well did we actually just fix this

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thing with the flick of a switch maybe hopefully it's not like that stupid 1080

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yeah we'll leave it running for a little bit let's see what the next one is which one do you want to do let's do this one

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what is that oh this one's bad so this

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one's this is a 5700 XT beautiful card

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not great things have happened to this one and someone's already had a crack at

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fixing it we need to come over the microscope to show you what's on the go here you probably can't see it but on

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this pciu Trace there's a little capacitor that's missing right there

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also it's all burned to heck up here now

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there's kind of two things that I could have happened this cap might have fallen

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off card died and whoever tried to

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repair it cuz someone's clearly tried to repair this was a big dum dum and put

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their soldering iron right here and burned it that's kind of best case

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scenario other option this memory chip like destroyed itself and in the process

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blew up this cap if that happened she's dead never coming back so in the

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microscope you're able to see it it looks like that this might have just

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completely blown itself off although more likely someone scratched this off

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trying to repair it got a big old ball of solder right there that's definitely

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not helping anything that also might have been this cap blew up and in trying

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to repair it they ended up just screwing up this one you can also see some solder

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on this Trace up here where they presumably tried to you know add some

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solder to the trace and Bridge it or whatever now what you might think that

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you'd want to do is just attach like a wire there wire there and add a cap but

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the problem is that PCI traces are

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length matched and very fiddly basically

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this capacitor being gone is a huge

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problem because there are two traces on each one of these pins and those need to

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be the same length within I looked it up and I think for Gen 3 it's like 5,000 of

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an inch or something stupid like that that's just because the signal is

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switching so incredibly fast that if one

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of them takes longer than the other the whole thing just kind of falls apart I'd

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like to say that I have a good fix for this but I have a really dumb fix for

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this that might work well that was a success this 580 seems to be working

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great it's pretty much raid on what we'd expect for a 3D Mark score this card has

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16 PCI lanes and the very last one is the one that's blown up no if we just

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put it in an adex slot and don't use

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these ones maybe it'll work let's try it well

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this slot right here is adx as you can see there's only pins up to there

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nothing at all it doesn't even know that there's something in there like we're

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just in Windows fans haven't spun cards

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yeah I think we're going to just call this one a loss for now I'll come back

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to it later and maybe have another look but this one's bad vibes 1080 TI 980 TI

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980 was afraid of that there's nothing obviously wrong besides that it's

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clearly been stripped and presumably is

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dead one of the many unfortunate things about this card is that it came with a

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PCIe power pin that just fell off in shipping we need to reattach that before

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we can try and power it on given the burn marks on this I don't think it's

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the first time it fell off pins back on now we just have to

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figure out which way these connectors are on cuz if we put our power supply

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cables on the wrong way the card explodes or our power supply shuts down

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either way don't want to do that that's ground yay so the end of this that has a

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little clip is a side that has ground we just need to make sure that goes on the

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right way oh God this is really

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sketchy do not do this ever any of

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it we did it how confident are you that this one will turn on I feel like this

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one's hovering just above zero picked up the thermal camera the reason

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that I want this is just to try and see if there's a short anywhere it should

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just be hotter than everything else and then hopefully we can go from there oh

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wow look at this though it has all of the covers for the display outs that's

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uh impressive wait what no what the No

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No Way what how would this turn oh my

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God gForce gtx980 T what why is this

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on I'm flabbergasted you should go buy a

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lot of T yeah holy I just applied thermal paste I can't believe this is

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just working this is crazy this is actually crazy that 980 TI we got for

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$103 it ran score is a little bit low like it's 1,700 points under the average

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but there wasn't a cooler on it so like pretty good yeah let's see if HDMI just

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doesn't work is it working oh it is this

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card just works wow yeah this card going for like 350 400 bucks we got it for 103

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hell yeah call that one a big win I don't want to take these connectors off

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I'm going to break the pin probably just going to use a little bit of thermal

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adhesive and stick some mini heat sinks onto the memory chips that aren't going

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to be getting direct contact to the heat sink the rest I think is going to be

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totally fine with just airflow directly hitting them here I hope it still

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works for cool I'm going to zip tie this fan to the card hell yeah yeah now we

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just have to plug it in without breaking the pin off again this pin is falling

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off so I'm going to just use our PCI to hold it in place can't believe this card

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is working the only thing I can think of with this card is that it had the stock

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thermal compound on the GPU die and it was just completely dried out so maybe

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it was just booting up almost immediately overheating and they were

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just like ah it's dead well the score did increase a fair bit by turning the

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fan up now it isn't quite as fast as I want it is getting up to about 83° and

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we're probably losing clocks because of that although like look at this thing

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it's working I can't believe it this thing's sick Big W here's our final card

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and it's another one that literally had work done on it we have parts of it

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right here like look even just on the PCIe all scratched up we're going to see

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what we can do though let's take it apart and we might have another water

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damage card these thermal pads seem a little bit wet it's not looking good

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David what's on the go here oh this is

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bad this is really bad just look at the corrosion on this card right around

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here I feel like this card one of two

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things is going to happen either we clean it up and whatever is shorted by

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Shmo up in here just kind of solves itself or it's completely dead it's

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probably completely dead oh this is terrible this thing's not surviving this

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David so oh where do we even start with

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this it's completely black and there's just I don't even know what's all over

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it like it looks like the PCB here yeah

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is just completely lifted up there's a pad here that's no longer really

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attached yeah the pcps kind of exploded

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all through here some of it just came off as I touched it that's a good sign

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it's also really hairy I'm not a huge fan of that uh let's see what else we

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can find on here yeah so so this resistor is just crumbling I don't know

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what to say other than I don't know enough about Electronics to really

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comment on this besides just complete destruction of everything that's kind of

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around this area we'll give it a clean at least see what it

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exposes this poor

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card what I find really interesting about this card is that it's water

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cooled and it appears to have water damage but I don't think that the water

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damage is related in any way to the water cool

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everything around the Dy and around this all looks fine it just kind of seems

00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:11.760
like someone spilled their drink on this corner it's kind of hard to see through

00:23:08.679 --> 00:23:14.400
this camera here but uh if I look in

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this there's a literal hole in this PCB and I don't think it's a via or it might

00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:22.760
have been at one point but uh it's much more than a via at this point it's a

00:23:20.679 --> 00:23:27.240
almost resistor sized hole that just kind of goes through a couple layers

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like it looks like a cap exploded and corroded everything but like there's no

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caps around here that exploded it's just something very bad got on this stayed on

00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:40.679
it for quite a while oh yeah that just came right off I think we just Chuck

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this in the PC see if it does anything there's no coming back from this I don't

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think the only way to save this card that I can think of it's just full

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zombie it like just pretty much everything from here never use it again

00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:57.440
get like an external 12vt power supply for this and hook it up like right to

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the vrms or something we might as well try the card but this thing so mangled I

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don't even think it's worth the time to put that cooler back on I'm just going

00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:08.360
to hold this Intel stock heat sink up to the die I have been wrong before but

00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:13.600
nothing yeah I don't think it's worth looking more into this card it's mangled

00:24:10.600 --> 00:24:16.360
this one's an L we paid $400 for this

00:24:13.600 --> 00:24:19.480
David by a steam deck though yeah that's bad aside from what we just tried with

00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:24.720
these gpus there are a couple more methods to try and bring them back from the dead like for instance our rx580

00:24:23.120 --> 00:24:27.919
here you're able to rescue from a bad BIOS by just getting lucky and there

00:24:26.520 --> 00:24:31.200
being a switch but on most cards you don't have dual BIOS to try and fix

00:24:29.600 --> 00:24:36.440
those you can use one of these guys right here a BIOS flasher and you can

00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:38.320
pick these up on AliExpress for under $5

00:24:36.440 --> 00:24:42.440
with this you can Flash the BIOS on your card without even needing to power the

00:24:40.279 --> 00:24:46.520
GPU on the best resource I found for this is a video from De dog that goes

00:24:44.360 --> 00:24:51.679
over the operation in excruciating detail if all else fails there's also

00:24:49.080 --> 00:24:57.000
the good old oven trick lonus did make a video on this a couple years ago but

00:24:54.880 --> 00:25:00.799
maybe don't watch that like half the video is him just cleaning a toaster

00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:06.720
maybe just read this article by I fix it basically by heating your GPU to around

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200° C if a solder joint is cracked it

00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:12.720
might expand just enough that the connection gets well connected again I

00:25:11.120 --> 00:25:17.240
have heard people describe this as reflowing the solder but realistically

00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:22.080
the ovens are not getting hot enough and if they did it'll be a really bad time

00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:26.840
because all the flux is gone this is pretty much just a Hail Mary though and

00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:31.799
even if it does fix your GPU it's probably going to last a month or two so

00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:37.520
should you buy a for parts GPU from eBay and try and fix it no I I think you

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agree David absolutely not this was fun

00:25:37.520 --> 00:25:46.440
like I enjoyed looking at how just mangled this card is that I paid $400

00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:48.960
for I wouldn't recommended sure you

00:25:46.440 --> 00:25:55.399
still can get lucky like with our 580 or 980 TI but multiple of these already had

00:25:52.799 --> 00:26:00.279
serious attempts at repair done to them if you're looking at less powerful cards

00:25:57.360 --> 00:26:05.880
than maybe you can find one and it can be fun it's not too expensive but given

00:26:02.919 --> 00:26:10.480
the current price of gpus there's a lot of incentive for repair shops to try and

00:26:08.120 --> 00:26:16.480
fix these and sell them as working cards on top of that even if you have a

00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:17.679
fullblown board repair level shop like

00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:25.120
you might just not be able to get some of the stuff if something breaks like a mosfet you can get it from Digi key and

00:26:21.600 --> 00:26:27.320
replace it but memory or die and a lot

00:26:25.120 --> 00:26:31.480
of other special components you just can't buy them and it's sucks if someone

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