Gigabyte AERO 4080 repair

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[@DIYRepairHour]

Signs of man needing vacations: - it's a giga... zotac... gigabyte - 4 screws... 3... 4 screws... - there are no fuses... there is one fuse Nevertheless brilliant fix as ever :)

[@ToTheGAMES]

At least he checks twice :)

[@Al-kw5ii]

Dont forget the "And ....... Nevermind"

[@northwestrepair]

Lol😅

[@503ali]

Thanks for the video

[@Theqwert202]

The comforting feeling that someone like you exists out there who can repair any GPUs.

[@mattp8466]

I know, its such relif😅

[@napoficial7123]

Reballing is the most relaxing videos. Should do one Reballing Asmr video😂

[@jesusfreakster101]

I have no desire to ever do such tedious work, yet I find myself soldered to every video you make😂 Would you consider making the text comments long enough for the human eye to process? I watch via smart phone and I can’t ever locate the single frames they lie within. Strong work and mad skills!!

[@Kepler_2258]

AD103-301-A1 is a newer release SKU from NVIDIA that has a more efficient pin-out compared to the AD103-300-A1, its overall the same exact GPU

[@elonwong]

Wait, doesn’t the 01 in 301 mean it’s a worse bin of the same silicon? Just asking cuz I basically don’t know anything about

[@Kepler_2258]

@@elonwong Nah, it’s just a more efficient pinout compared to 00, according to Nvidia it’s the same performance

[@elonwong]

@@Kepler_2258 o cheers

[@JeeTinator]

4:12 that bit about the balls. That was REALLY funny! XD

[@northwestrepair]

Haha 😆

[@yypingu]

Finest balls from the finest man. Much love from the South East at 4 am lol!

[@RetroJack]

South East Asia?

[@yypingu]

@@RetroJack Yeah

[@Vile-Flesh]

Absolutely love these videos and LOVE the commentary and ALWAYS learn something.

[@LeonSteelpaw]

"Because I don't trust another man's ball job..." Legend

[@DougguoD]

16:36 Thanks for all the info 👍🏽 I'm creating a list of who not to buy from in future. Had my own experiences of course, but these are definitely a help ✅

[@ion1984]

news flash, he doesnt like ANY of the makes, I was doing the same thing and as soon as he gets his hands on any of them, he just shits on em. I mean I get it, I'm sure they all cut corners. But it makes it very confusing as a consumer.

[@realdeal485]

@@ion1984 asus ftw

[@DougguoD]

@@ion1984 There are better and worse manufacturing practices, though. I don't get to see this kind of stuff 'cause I don't take these things apart. He does. Dunno who's the winner yet, but now got 2 loosers.

[@WHAT_1400]

@@ion1984 ? brands have good products and bad products. tony is not selling gpus, it's not his job to say one brand is better than another. i'm not active in his discord but if you're buying i'm sure you could go in there and ask something like "i'm looking for a 4090, which brands should i avoid?" one brand might make a good 4090 but used to make a terrible 1080, or vice versa. just use your loaf

[@reg2590]

Thanks for another laid back moment. Comments are good 😉

[@EliteRock]

Those contra-rotating fans should be de-facto _everywhere_ with two or more paralleled - GPU's, rads, even PC cases. Huge reduction in turbulence and increase in flow (increase in efficiency overall) from having adjacent blades trying to mover the air in opposite directions to each other.

[@JMUDoc]

Thanks for reminding me that Furmark 1 is not nerfed, and can force the new cards to max boost!

[@shiftctrlhack]

STIRRI has been my go to since they came out. I use the ASM and V3 everyday with good results. They have good deals on AMAZON too but to catch them I use the Honey app. They at one time marked down the 30cc for 15$ and I got 2. Then the ASM 100g jar I got for 20$. Waiting for the V3 to pop up again to get more. Both clean up really easy for me.

[@northwestrepair]

I think v2 and v3 are the same thing

[@shiftctrlhack]

@@northwestrepair I’ll have to buy some of the V2 and try it.

[@shiftctrlhack]

@@northwestrepair those both a have purpose for me. Each worked pretty good and clean pretty easy compared to some of these other brands. I hate cleaning up brown syrup lol.

[@GregM]

The company behind Stirri I think were involved with selling Amtec flux at one point and they parted from Inventec the licensed to sell Amtec. Stirri was born and developed their own fluxes in competition with Inventec. At least that is how I remember it.

[@nolimitza.j5063]

im not a mechanic ,but i love GPUs so much that i watch this channel

[@cszolee7979]

When I was looking for a 4080 Super in February, I went with MSI (Slim X White) because of your comments, Steve.

[@Suresh_Pillai]

Hey Tony, great re-balling work! As you said, I was expecting to see a 3060 fake GPU spit balled onto the board.. but naah.. lucky customer.. who experienced a bad "balls" repair.. These so called "re-ballers" are present everywhere, claiming they can fix such complex installations. brah... ! Anyways, good pick and nice re-balling as always.. Cute work! Keep it up.. 👍👍

[@teddp]

Nice, something easy for a change. Even the other guy that tried to reball it didn't do a bad job destroying stuff.

[@danielhulan3058]

Tony, UFD just featured you in one of their short! Your coming up in the world man!

[@Alte.Kameraden]

I think reflowing comes from the PS3 and XBox 360 repair days. Just REFLOW and REBALL the core, fixes all problems they say.. ignoring the fundamental reasons the consoles were dying to begin with. Though in a lot of cases reballing would fix PS3s, as one of the most common failures was the CPU detaching from the board from intensive heat/wear. But it started the whole buzz of Reballing/Reflowing. Honestly makes me wish GPUs used pins instead of solder balls. Imagine just if GPUs were modular like Motherboards. lol

[@tonycrabtree3416]

It’s 3rd party repair shops using immigrant vietnamese workers that are held to a deadline of fixes per hour. They are threatened with deportation, etc. There is no real quality control other than, “yeah, it powered up and booted into the main screen”.

[@CryWarhead]

@@tonycrabtree3416 you talking about nrf bro? 😉

[@South_0f_Heaven_]

Reflow works just fine if done the correct way. Fixed over a hundred laptops, dv6000’s, dv9000’s that sold and some are still in the family over a decade still working just fine. Did the same to a few GPU’s I bought for myself during the price gouging days, all work just fine as well years later. The ones that fail are the people sticking them into toaster ovens that don’t get hot enough to begin with and if they are lucky will work but barely. It’s the constant heat cycles along with PCB sag/flex that pops the BGA. It doesn’t fail due to “wear”

[@PrinzessinMaki]

We fixed our ps3 with throwing in into the oven, but only last for 6-12 month

[@Alte.Kameraden]

@@PrinzessinMaki Hmm I wonder why. I sent my 60gb Fat with backwards compatibility into a repair shop. They reballed the core, replaced any problematic parts that were likely to fail with better ones. They also boosted the fan curves so ya it's louder but helps a lot with the over heating issues that would kill fat PS3s. Still have it, though I mostly only use it for PS2/PS1 gaming anymore. Bought a PS3 Super Slim a year later for games like GTAV. GTAV is what killed the PS3 to begin with. It got super sluggish during the burning high rise mission and then poof.

[@TwoTwenty2]

this guy's videos are awesome

[@Al-kw5ii]

I have moved back for time being to my home brewed flux because I'm frustrated with the options out there, I find what I think is great and next batch its junk. I have been through this cycle with all the major brands and to keep my sanity for now tell I regain some patience again just using my own.

[@rabi0ne]

amazing... just amazing!

[@deamooz9810]

15:15 “if I wake up” lol

[@Kopetan4egX]

Would be interesting to see some kind of a list from better to worst gpu vendor based on your experience

[@ATREES]

Gigabyte not having fuses explains what happened to my PC when my gigabyte 3080 ti got fried. The entire PC freezes the moment I login to windows. I had to unplug and replug everything and do a fresh win install. I may have to send you my 3080 ti for repair. It used to crash on only one of the games(ready or not), but I ignored it and just kept restarting the PC until that one time the PC shutdown as if the power went out and then the GPU never worked. VGA light on start. Months later, the GPU decided to work, but one of the 8pin connectors drew a max of 2.93W... 3 weeks later black screen 100% fan speed and the GPU never worked again.

[@ChrisGR93_TxS]

fuses are a big plus when they actually do their job

[@Al-kw5ii]

BTW, What ultrasonic cleaner are you using? Asking because im impressed with how well your solution works.

[@Schorch1962]

Great job 👍 and i had a little flashback to the time i build my own electronics for the model train hobby. "I only trust things i ruined myself". Back to graphics cards: i have the Gigabyte RTX 2080 Ti Aorus Xtreme, and it is pretty fast. And running very hot because the cooling system can`t handle the heat it produces. Runs only good and cool with undervolting, but now i miss the temperature readings. Will test it in another PC soon. Got an used Zotac RTX 2080 Ti, the black one with only 2 fans, and it runs much cooler even without undervolting. When i get and newer card, which ones have fuses? MSI is clear, how about Zotac and Gainward? Which manufacturer would be your choice @northwestrepair ?

[@ThePopolou]

Where're them bangin choonz Tony?

[@danielhulan3058]

You gotta be careful when reflowing Tony you never know there those balls have been.

[@MrDvneil]

nice last comment about pwm signal going under core, remembers me one of your videos where core dies because fan sends 12v to pwm pin. Quite dangerous

[@sapperdeflap]

You're such a craftsman doing reballs like it's nothing, just to be curious at what temperature are you preheat those boards?

[@KentRoads]

why the Northridge shade lmao

[@floppydisk1137]

No thermal pad between backplate and the board ? Hmm...

[@northwestrepair]

no need. this card does not get hot and it has a massive heatsink on top so

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

5:11 blink and you'll miss it.

[@DanielCardei]

13:53 i have an old NVIDIA 9 Series GPU that has the memory and core stuck very low. It works, drivers no crush in the games but the clocks are very very low and they don`t go up. Question: last time you fixed a gpu what cause this? i understand its not the same but maybe it will be a starting point.

[@3JIbIDEHbv2]

Ю шолд хав намд видео "Маке ЮСАй грей агейн" 😂

[@northwestrepair]

Это ужас. Как это можно читать ?

[@hristiqndimitrov5249]

​@@northwestrepair ikr it's so cursed

[@ffftube-le8np]

Maybe the poster was having a stroke 😂

[@valenrn8657]

AD103 is used for both desktop RTX 4080 and mobile RTX 4090.

[@King_Koopaa]

You would be surprised how many versions of flux there are! There are different ways to make the same formula it to achieve a very similar result :) I used to make the stuff.

[@AI_MicroSolder]

From what im reading. Stirri is Amtech now. They have the rights threw parent companies that own the patient when Amtech screwed up buy selling products with labels that were incorrect for what the labels said you were buying. Thats just a little bit of what went wrong with amtech. The reason NRF. Can sell it and. Uy quantity is because Amtech direct made an agreement with NRF to make and sell bulk to them. That's why it's pretty much very fresh batches that they sell.

[@chrisfeaka4250]

Lol machine lately with vids. Don’t stop!

[@orman2222]

Is it me or do I mostly see RTX repair videos more than AMD videos?

[@tonict2302]

Awesome video

[@andersborum9267]

Great videos. You often work on cards that crash when the driver is loaded in the OS, and usually a reballing of the core is the proper fix. But .. why is it exacly that the card/OS/driver is crashing when the OS generic driver works just fine?

[@volentimeh]

Generic driver doesn't "use" all of the pinouts, all the advanced parts of the core, once the driver loads and tries to access the core parts that can't be accessed then crash.

[@andersborum9267]

@@volentimeh it's interesting that most cores apparently fail at the same set of pinouts, repeatedly, as the generic driver just addresses a few of these (as you stated).

[@Jzwiz]

God thats a thicc card, im like 99% its the same size as my gigabyte 4080 super gaming oc but it looks even bigger here. Reason gigabyte cards r so popular right now for this gen is the coil whine, they seem to have the lowest chance plus they tend to run the coolest besides asus but asus is asus.

[@TY1979KA]

do they taste the same?

[@Rmm1722]

Good work 💯

[@smokehead5318]

what exactly do You use to bath in ultrasonic cleaner and how You dry it afterwards?

[@xcom9648]

Probably pure IPA

[@KabutoRyu]

"Magical" Like someone says so

[@Drumaier]

In your experience repairing cards, what would you say is the ratio of cards that need repair between the RTX 30 and RTX 40 series? And also, are brands that seems to need more repair (and those that need less for the other hand).

[@4erbuks]

I have Aero 4090 really nice card :)

[@miguelfernandez2325]

I'll stick to Asus Strix gpu even though I don't know if they have any fuses. I don't like MSI.

[@danw3735]

I have a Galax 4090 SG 1-Click OC, do they have fuses? It's been pretty solid for the last year.

[@BMfins]

Do you see any brands that are usually built better than others?

[@metalgjohn4462]

Reflowing, Stop...just stop it. 😂 ❤

[@csepisaco95]

Just as I was looking at the 4070ti super aero, lmao.

[@Jumbro6]

with hands that steady you should be a doctor

[@dazdaz2050]

Whats the maximum amount of time you ultra sonic your GPU's for Tony?

[@northwestrepair]

as detergent recommends

[@--Jose--]

Putting an mobile gpu on pcie expansion card seems cool to me, if properly advertised

[@HorschtX1]

Which ultrasonic cleaner do you use and which liquid?

[@matusekpetr7806]

7:28 SUBSCRIBE IF YOU ARE NOT A COMMUNITS 😂 great note on stencil and nice typo in one shot 😀

[@diaman_d]

one fan might not be receiving pwm signal because of the cable going to fan having a shot pwm connection. Especially when all fans run from the same signal. This should be an easy fix for you, even if it is in the fans internal pcb. Or does nvidia drive all three fans with their own separate pwm signal ?

[@Wes12940]

which detergent do you use for the ultrasonic bath? thanks!

[@PistolPoet]

My 4080 class :'D

[@attuoz]

Can you make a video to show the differences between cards like Asus TUF/ROG STRIX. Is it just name and size of the cooler or do they have better parts / fuses.

[@gunterd2]

GA 104 is for a RTX 3070 i think

[@timbob1331]

Just a quick yes or no question, do you get a lot of 4070ti's/supers in for repair?

[@Tsumi784]

No, he doesn’t. I haven’t heard anything about the 4070 ti super as well

[@bmorgan98]

Kingbo flux is decent the white tub rma-218

[@ThePoolman2007]

what fluid did you use for ultrasonic?

[@MrRoccale]

U like only evga boards, so old vga up to series 30xx... Now evga it no longer produces vga...

[@zodiacfml]

16:27 this. don't buy anything high end from Gigabyte. They are average on simpler/cheaper products.

[@Tsumi784]

I bought the 7900 gre from gigabyte and it artifacted straight out of the box, i returned it and got the 4070 ti super zotac and love it

[@zodiacfml]

@@Tsumi784 Gigabyte should close🤦🤦

[@nebulink]

This is like comedy hour with his commentary. I just bust a gut listening to him. I really don't have any interest in repairing GPU's. However, I do find it interesting.

[@JP-be9cx]

Where's my daily dose of reball b-rolls :(

[@nb1843]

im a reflower😂🎉

[@themorawaboy]

Can we then assume that the higher stage of importance from being a "Baller" is to be a "Re-baller"?

[@SerieMania630]

I have a problem with my gtx 1650 super, when I turn on the PC it displays the image but with artifacts, and when I test my GPU with occt it detects errors on my vram and it crashes after 15 min. what can i do ? God Bless You

[@anubizz3]

So USA guys broke this graphics card?

[@Fatpumpumlovah2]

reflowing went viral after the first Xbox ring of deaths lol

[@highlanderspb]

Any communits in subscribers?

[@GeorgeTsiros]

Of course not. Only non-communits may subscribe! Pay attention to the mesaage!

[@hi-friaudioman]

I wonder if this is one of the ones i saw on ebay. Lol

[@whyme2500]

O boy here we go again...

[@aliemlek]

👍👍👌👌

[@JokeryEU]

that corner is from being dropped :)

[@cyberhornthedragon]

could ya put a fuse in on a 0 ohm link position ?

[@volentimeh]

Hell in some cases the 0 ohm link is the fuse, they come in different sizes...

[@f0x4nn3]

USA, which makes me think it was repaired overseas by gigabyte as refurb or RMA unit.

[@MyAngelMahiru]

“The bigger the core, the harder it gets”

[@skyirwin1445]

The day they removed lead from solder and replaced it with silver was they day we all got screwed.

[@WimiBussard]

Yes, but at the same time handling silver is much more healthy!

[@GameBacardi]

We only care durability, not health or environment. You can try live alone with your potato PC

[@nb1843]

anadaaa

[@Peppy34420]

[@easyhardenduro9847]

Is there a way to unlock a processor? I have a 4050 laptop id like to unlock to a 4060 lol

[@volentimeh]

Probably not, a lot of core binning is done by lazer etching early on in the process.

[@paddlesouth]

Does the stencil say Subscribe if your not a communist?

[@DustyCruz]

I have an asus TUF 4080 oc edition, does it have fuses?!?!?!

[@kepler104]

No, fuses on nvidia = MSI, fuses on AMD = Sapphire + MSI

[@CatastrophicJett]

m8, I know you hate reball but without equipment like yours it's an easy fix so often: you just need a heat gun and that's it - I never even used flux and done about a dozen of successful ones; Not all of us are magicians like you and looking at your balling event, tbh, gives me anxiety

[@hosseinniazi3154]

nice balls

[@magnus33john]

glanced at it and went oero making video cards?!!!

[@RealNovgorod]

Are you a communits?

[@panagiotiskatris5002]

Btw gigabyte need to go back to school the letters tha they put means asro

[@realdeal485]

The gpu god...