Improving performance of video card on 10-15% 💪/ Making from 780 to 780 ti/ repair and upgrade

[@hardware20x]

Re-balling without a BGA Rework Station. Louis Rossmann would be impressed.

[@rkan2]

I think he's still not using enough flux to Louis' standards.

[@Sextusheap]

and cooling the gpu with his fingers for testing purpose. Last time I did that I would regret it on the press of a button. What a savage

[@IlTHATGUYlI]

this man is a god for this alone

[@elitech3339]

@@rkan2 oh, Im following Eli Tech flux standarts

[@slaaayx]

You have so much patience, its insane (placing the solder balls).

[@UnrealWaifuTV]

I agree.

[@spacecy]

exactly my thoughts.

[@spacecy]

@marius stoprfidbiometric i think both.

[@stephengatley8144]

@marius stoprfidbiometric High IQ has nothing to do with electronics repair as IQ is a measue of common strategic thinking/knowledge!. I much prefer having patience when repairing computers it costs much less :)

[@lucabeavis]

I never thought I would see something like this! What you did on the back of that chip is something that cannot be explained. I hope you haven't posted any videos recently because you now work for a company that pays you for what you are worth, that is a lot!

[@hohhan1978]

Holy sh... it's like brain transplantation.🤣 It's a life!!! "we have a picture"

[@alanrodriguez1433]

Who else watch it to hear “We have a picture!”, to hear a nice beat and just to see some best tech skills ??

[@ac11dc110]

sold on ebay: barely used like new

[@thealien_ali3382]

Lol

[@redbassboosz5222]

HAHAHA

[@FR4M3Sharma]

Upgrades a Graphics Card by almost breaking it but it works! *Plays 1.6*

[@jnuxca]

at 60 fps :')

[@DD-sw1dd]

Damn! And I thought Louis Rossman’s solder ball installs were a pain! You have ungodly amounts of patience. Fastest GTX “780” ever on Futuremark.

[@polimorph2023]

I just can't believe what I just watched... arranging all those tiny balls manually? That's... awesome!

[@samanmahdiabadi]

You got my sub just the moment I saw you started soldering those small balls onto the chip... OMFG ... that's insane, you are a true technician ! Nice and well done. My Best Regards

[@jigglypuff4227]

Wow, you are so talented its truly amazing to watch

[@dirkjewitt5037]

You do insane work my friend, simply amazing.

[@CookieGalaxy]

Now THAT is a cool mod

[@maxblade01]

It needs balls to reball that chip.... you ma man are a beast... great work pal... 💪 keep posting videos

[@MrBlackdragon1230]

Dude you are impressive! You have electronics god skills.

[@jacquesvonromburgh9476]

Very Epic Repair!!! Wish you would bring videos out more often!!! PLEASE :)

[@skutterbuster666]

this channel is awesome....I've learnt a lot from watching your vids, I have attempted one repair with limited success. great work, great channel, super interesting.

[@williamc7367]

Respect! There is NO way that I could do that.

[@KenneXS]

I could If I know these technic & I have all that material, actualy it'll be for me like resolve a puzzle.. I enjoy fixing stuff Also the dude he is very skilled must sy

[@YUNGSVGE]

my boy out here listening to loud lord beats lmao good taste shout out to swisher boys

[@arkama67]

You deserve 1 like for each ball lol. Always impressive to see you succeed in these repairs. Thank you for sharing amazing content.I can send you a psu corsair gs 700 if you want to try to fix it.

[@TX55OffShore]

Really precise yet good work. Very impressed by what you've done mate

[@mikelowder7082]

reballin like a BOSS!

[@sirbhimasb]

glad to see your new video eli, recently I made a deal on broken msi gtx 1060 6gb for $65 (still has warranty) and then sent the card to the msi local service point. the guy from the service center get back to me saying that the card missing few component and so the warranty is void but they still trying to fix the card for free. and then just today i get email that the card is fixed and they already sent it to me. hope it turns out good 😁

[@sirbhimasb]

the card came today with kinda ghetto fix like what buildzoid do, they say that the pad is broken so they make a bridge conection with some sort of cable from the resistor to the cap and then the chip. this is the image link from the fixed part i.imgur.com/rB2OXD8.jpg

[@techbuildspcs]

@@sirbhimasb does it work? If so dont complain and enjoy it ;)

[@sirbhimasb]

@@techbuildspcs works really good, already sell it few months ago

[@KenneXS]

definitely subs to your channel Very impressive, complicated technic, risky & a lot of patience.. Fantastic how did you learn all that stuff

[@TechTalkTobi]

reballing gpu is only for guys with balls of steel ... my respect ! nice work !

[@damngood8476]

Insane skill, love your videos! :)

[@TheCrongs]

Holy moly. Nice skills dude. Thumbs up! :)

[@Remu-]

"This is GeForce GTX 780 from a company Jevga" :--D Nice vid and repair though! :)

[@sidburn2385]

Surely impressive! Nice work, keep ballin.

[@jcoc8877]

Wicked Skills bro!!! I'm an XOCer and I would love to be able to use your services in the future!!

[@jakegarrett8109]

Just make sure not to cheat like this (where it shows a different card name). I’m still upset 3dMark doesn’t take down the “RX 470” scores where the rendering is done on a second GPU, I still need to run it on my Titan and “RX 470” to make another complaint and prove a point. It even says the card they are running in secondary slot under the drop down...). I would totally trust this guy with soldering my Epower board than me, some cheapo Fermi cards may need to die as practice, because Nvidia flagships are getting too far up there to screw up!

[@Tamerabdelsalam1]

Gigabyte must give u good offer to work with them why not u share them this vidio i think u will find place with them there but Dont foget me ^_^ ur work 10/10 handshake for ur jop

[@Madatu411]

Jesus, your patient. For the prices of GTX 780 these days, i would of just bought a GTX 780 instead of reballing it. Great video.

[@SegaSaturn4Life]

You make repairing GPUs look easy.

[@elitech3339]

of course when its sped up by 10 )

[@Francisco_Angulo_de_Lafuente]

I congratulate you on the work you are doing. I learn a lot from her videos. Can you put a GTX 1080 GPU on a GTX 1070 board? Thanks greetings.

[@northwestrepair]

What heat station do you have, DIY or you bought it ?

[@realhusky]

Alright, that was cool af.

[@BF2042Pro]

would love to get into soldering and micro soldering but i cant even keep my hand from shaking while i hold my iron.

[@viktorstaaf2513]

Man i love your videos. Can you please make a video about all your tools? And also i was wondering if you maybe have any dead gpu chips or graphics cards laying around.

[@EricDenny]

THATS BALLING!! Real ballers do that shit by hand! You might be the most balling baller on the earth my man! You ever just gonna go all out and scratch build a whole GPU from hand? What about cell phones? Your do repairs/mods on those? You should start changing out chipsets and BIOS chips on motherboards with open source alternatives that don't have Intel's NSA enforced total control backdoors built-in! There is a huge market for that but you could be the only guy with the balls to actually do it!

[@bassbatterer]

All that BGA rework looks like hell, GDDR5 is bad enough when you do have a stencil, nevermind handworking a GPU. Hat's off to you.

[@milandjukic88]

My God, you are crazy, wow

[@R4FMalik]

wow... he´s placing the solder balls manually... thats insane... how long does it takes...

[@rkan2]

He's nuuuuts!!

[@RhinoXpress]

a long time more time then most people have patience.

[@sw-sat]

Hi, welcome back

[@Sangiu6142]

you are awesome!

[@ac11dc110]

nice skills man, what did you use for soldering it back?

[@mikegaming4924]

Can you diagnose GTX 780 based on symptoms? First it gave artifacts during game menu. Then I rebooted. Artifacts in bios letters... then big artifacts and stripes at Windows. I manually rebooted again. Now only black screen at boot. No burning smell.

[@RAFID]

How are you doing bro is everything okay

[@arrtea]

u r crazy boi .... oof .... u blow my mind ... BGA soldering by hand .. Respect bro

[@SHAHZAIB-sr7hn]

Awesome work bro

[@northwestrepair]

I think you need to flash it with TI bios. Cant just swap the core and call it a day. Maybe i missed it

[@gailankamei9907]

OMFG at last youtube recommend this video , i have been searching for this. I dont knw wat the fuck r u doin but i fucking enjoy watching u fixed

[@nirvashaoe3211]

i love every your video eli.. keep it up plzz

[@thestar111]

Nice work!

[@codybroken]

06:10 - hands like a surgeon.

[@MargaritaFranky]

Nice job Eli, and nice video edit.

[@jonnotuckster8856]

Could you make a 980 non ti into a 980ti just curious And please please please makes some more vids really enjoy your work

[@saeyimkuon7394]

Great skills! So, you can take any graphics card and repair it! And the same with Motherboards, RAM modules, Power Supplies, etc.

[@HiltonHeslop]

WOW steady hands man

[@DanielRakowiecki]

the curved one tweezers - where I can get them, looks real solid. Thanks for the source :)

[@elitech3339]

one of my following video will be about all my tools, be a bit patient )

[@medifreeman2998]

We have a picture 😍😍😍

[@DanielCardei]

Good to see you back man.

[@Zamsky39]

Holy shit, reballing by hand without a stencil is so much work, is it even worth it?

[@pythonstatistical4105]

Hi, Eli, great video however, there was a lot a noise in your audio there are a number of ways of getting rid of noise using software. The way I do it is to use Audacity which has an effect for noise reduction.

[@elitech3339]

thank you will try!

[@Alin-ox9fn]

Damn. HARD WORK 👏

[@jonatan8470]

increible :0 quede totalmente sorprendido no habria podido imaginar esto posible debiste tener un muy buen pulso para las esferas de soldadura

[@pcguy21]

@Eli Tech Hello! I'm hoping you can help me with this problem I'm having. I actually have an EVGA 780ti SC and the problem is TDP drops. In graphics programs like "Furmark" and "Heaven" the TDP can drop as low as 88% which also means an FPS drop. I've tried different versions of Furmark, different nvidia drivers, none of that has helped. I know it's not my PSU because a EVGA 980 I have and other video cards I've used in the past have worked fine with the same PSU and same computer. I think I'm down to testing components on the video card. Can you please tell me what each component to test is and what settings to use on my multimeter? My multimeter is a Craftsman 82400. And the video card is an EVGA 780ti SC (EVGA108 REV: 2.0).

[@AaronHendu]

Wow dude...instant sub...

[@blnk-1773]

Great Video as always.

[@jkd7799Yann]

Hi Eli. Thank you for the amazing content. I have an MSI 980ti gaming oc which shut down after driver update because of crazy overheating. Could a bios Flash fix the issue ?

[@jacquesvonromburgh9476]

This is because there is a hot spot on the die on your GPU. Try to use a "Thermal pad" and not Thermal compound. Thermal pads will spread that heat spot out over the pad quicker then the paste will. Also the pad has conductivity of around 150w/mk on X,Y where paste has only around 60 X,Y

[@safetydancer87]

Cool video but man you need to fix your mic. That noise makes watching the video hard.

[@stridexr]

My 2080Ti after shipping my PC started having those same artifacts. There's more lines than in the video but they also disappear when you move the mouse over them in exactly the same way - is this also probably a broken chip?

[@turboFarid]

WOW dude , i am stunned

[@Captain_Dark]

Now if you could fix my 1080ti that would be awesome lol.

[@eggnogg8086]

Where do you buy the chips from? Aliexpress?

[@expresszor]

waiting for a reply :P

[@jacquesvonromburgh9476]

ebay

[@allmight5008]

Taobao, alieexpress

[@Hazardteam]

06:13 What a patience!!! :) A question: Can you convert desktop cards to workstation (FgL/Qua) with resistors/diodes etc? I mean desktop cards with same chip/same parameters than the pro versions. I'm just curious.

[@Basuko_Smoker]

good lord the patience...

[@le5100kw]

how is that possible you couldnt make the bios treat it as a 780ti? where do you think are those resitors?

[@alien_man1669]

I have a old radeon sapphire HD 5870 that back in the Xbox rrod days I took a heat gun to when it started dying and it brought it back to life only for a short while no doubt as I had 3-4 out of probably 25-30 attempts work for longer that. 6 months and maybe 10 that worked 1-3 months talking about Xbox 360s I had the same results with the radeon card. Worked for a few months but died again just like the others. I always wondered if it was because I got the card second hand and didn't know it needed memory thermal pads. Any idea how long that would take to kill it? The thermal pads being missing that is, I've been curious ever since and was going to attempt my first GPU volt mods on it and was thinking what was feasible even if just proof of scaling that kind if thing. Great thing is I have a spare one for comparison.

[@madmatt2024]

Supposedly the issue is that a connection inside the chip itself is failing. You can completely reball the chip and still have the same issues within a year.

[@alien_man1669]

@@madmatt2024 yes exactly but I probably should have mentioned that it was tesselating like memory overclocking instability so I wonder if I was reflowing the memory thus why I might be able to volt mod the voltage. I might try no matter what to better my soldering skills.

[@aaronslippery1921]

You ever did this to a zotac? some reason I have 780 amp! and it has 2688 shaders from a titan. benchmarks show up as a gtx 780 with titan performance. I dont have fp64 option in nvidia control panel though.

[@muhammadmubasyir3950]

Thanks for tutorial....

[@sgawd]

You are a legend.

[@PwnedBeioutch]

Could you try to upgrade a GTX780 to 6GB of VRAM? I found that a 780 SLI is a powerful combo still, but would definitely benefit from 6GB of VRAM and even though 780s with 6GB of RAM exist, it might be worthwhile for people already owning the 3GB version.

[@RTCLR123]

+1

[@nexxusty]

GPU VRAM upgrades do NOT work like that.

[@matthewfennell7886]

That's super cool!

[@mrjonjoe1895]

If my 2 800 dollars Titan XPs Vram could not be reballed due to damaged traces.. could you heart implant their cores out onto another card or do you wanna experiment? I'd like to talk to you please

[@samsami9014]

as always, great man

[@rohon4972]

Nice work

[@falconcool11]

2.7 ohm resistance of gpu chip,,learnt something today,,I need to know other cpu/gpu resistance "Normal" range please.Any idea where I can find those data?

[@bouabdellahghanem4380]

great video m8

[@baassbooster]

Overflow? I just toss it into oven preheated to 210°C for 10 min. 90% of the cards that i baked were resurected.

[@cdoublejj]

i wonder if this could be done to a laptop mobo?

[@jcr65566]

my old AMD Radeon R7260x Video card improved when I add an after market air cooler it use to run as hot as 100c now it runs at about 45c This card is four years old but I have not come across a game yet that can not run in high res

[@TheSilviu8x]

can you add more/missing vram chips?

[@nikolakarovic5964]

On what card ?

[@Nevakonaza.]

ive always wondered this,surely its possible if you then edit the bios to make it recognise the extra amount of vram?

[@RuruFIN]

I'm more curious that could he make a 6GB 780 Ti

[@TheSilviu8x]

@@nikolakarovic5964, whatever card... It's the possibility, that I care about.

[@nikolakarovic5964]

@@TheSilviu8x On gtx1060 3gb u can

[@mosot624]

I've been watching a couple of your videos now, do you have like a format education on EE?

[@combatantezoteric2965]

Excellent! Now the question is: can you upgrade the memory on the gpu?

[@ninja226]

Where are you able to buy replacement gpu chips?

[@skorpe8722]

impresive man :D

[@albundy9223]

Amazing....

[@TheRealFobican]

Is this is achieveable on integrated graphics as well if you know exactly what you are doing?

[@milojkokitic6991]

Pasta Sarmonella E-Specialé im pretty sure its not possible on igpu, igpu is usually built into cpu sillicon

[@TheRealFobican]

@@milojkokitic6991 If there was one method proven to increase the raw power significantly it would be cool.

[@jakegarrett8109]

Pasta Sarmonella E-Specialé Overclocking? You can already do that (AMD chips like 2200G/2400G, and old A8/10/12 series and Intel K series). What people probably thought you meant is do a repair/physical upgrade like this, and that you can’t really do. However, Overclocking is an easy way if it’s unlocked (it’s such a pain if it’s not unlocked, it’s so not worth it...) You can also run duel channel memory (2 sticks of RAM), and that will also definitely help. And using faster RAM speeds will also help your integrated graphics even if it is locked out of overclocking.

[@gpubenchmarks7905]

Eli Tech how to fix my GTX 660 ti when I try to start it psu runs 0.1 sec and turns off.

[@D3PeXoR]

Well isn't that issue that GPU-Z shows that card works on PCI-e x4 rather than x16?

[@neddy1287]

That depends on the motherboard some had pcie 1.1 which runs at x4

[@UrokLizard]

​@@neddy1287 you must be confused. The bus width (1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x) is separate from the bus speed (1.1, 2.0, 3.0). Either he has multiple PCI-E devices asking for lanes, which requires the some wider bus devices to sacrifice their lanes for other devices, or there is an electrical failure on the device side or host side that prevents a wider bus width negotiation (Bad PCI-E slot pin contact, bad solder balls for GPU core to PCB for PCI-E connector, something similar on motherboard side, etc). I have an MSI board that will not do a wider width than 8x on the primary slot, but an identical model/make board with identical settings will do 16x. On the flip side, I have a Gigabyte GTX 1080 that will only do 8x width, no matter the board it is installed in. Switching to a different graphics card allows 16x width. PCI-E speed is dependent on cpu/chipset ability; very old boards may only be capable of 1.1 max. BCLK changes can also limit PCI-E speed (A higher BCLK may cut down 3.0 to 2.0). Long PCI-E risers can cut down on signal integrity too, bringing down speeds (Very long risers I have bring down maximum speed to 1.1)

[@neddy1287]

@@UrokLizard well you got some facts correct there. As i have an asus p5q premium that have pcie x16, x8 and 2 x4 lanes.the x16/8 operate between 2.0/1.1 regard to gaming or anything. Now here comes the problem i have to use x4 lane which runs at 1.1 for an asus gtx 1050 ti oc expedtion without crashing. If i used x16 or x8 i get nvidia crashing non stop. As you see i have already changed everything except the motherboard