RTX TITAN repair

[@jesses1589]

25:05 You're our favorite ball handler my guy!

[@The_D_Taylor]

Just supporting your algorithm my man.

[@northwestrepair]

I appreciate that

[@dogosrobi]

Love to see that you don't need $$$$$$ tools to do amazing job, just your brain and some common sense. Really admire your skills and knowledge, please keep these videos coming!

[@Alexlfm]

Right, except for the 2-3K in other equipment that he uses and needs. Yes he uses off brand and homemade stuff but that hardly means it’s cheap. It’s just cheaper.

[@dogosrobi]

@@Alexlfm I agree, my point was that unlike other channels, you don't see expensive brands being worshipped and mentioned in every video, he is not trying to convince you that X brand flux is superior to Y brand flux and his work is generally being done with whatever he has. Yes, he has 2k worth of equipment and does just as astonishingly good quality work, as others with 3 times worth equipment.

[@Joshua-jx4lt]

@Mike1984-lc9rhI think you’re wrong- look at the clones from AiXun

[@magnusoptimus2052]

Love watching you work....when I can see you work. Quite a bit of video stuck on memory chart.

[@hyltonjorgensen99]

Ngl i loved the design of those cards

[@blakegriplingph]

They look like a gas stove lel

[@alvabravo5655]

@@blakegriplingph my wife said that also

[@OtherWorldExplorers]

"I don't like that chip.. just something about the way it looked at me..." This made my day 🙃

[@gamerelated3887]

I'm just dying to know what you do full time if not this. I have this hilarious picture of you working as an accountant by day and an expert solder tech by night. LOL. those 2 jobs strike me as polar opposites. LOL

[@northwestrepair]

Picture of me ? Where ?

[@gamerelated3887]

@@northwestrepair LOL. It's not an actual picture. just in my mind's eye. lol

[@DonMungia]

It's 5am and I've been binge watching your videos all night. I'm new here and enjoying your content.

[@richteritwan]

I'm binging as well. Addictive and rewarding, intricate repairs! Love fixing neglected parts.

[@Sharpless2]

@@richteritwan that and the fact that repairs like this is something that you barely ever see. Im glad there are people that upload content like this.

[@crtxdistortion657]

Reballing the balls seems quite a harsh body mod... Good one Tony!

[@northwestrepair]

😂

great repair as always!

[@northwestrepair]

Thanks 👍

[@jihjio]

33:03 The thermalpaad for the mosfet got dubbelstackt so the Components next to it didn´t get a pad.

[@northwestrepair]

Yes I realized it when I noticed board did not want to sit flat. It was fixed before the final assembly behind the scenes.

[@Preciousfrank]

thank you very much for this instructive video. Your videos are the best about graphic card repair and they are certainly not too long. i prefer these longer videos. greetings from switzerland Franco

[@sebastiandenenfeld9886]

I love your humor !! Definetly 😃😀

[@northwestrepair]

Thank you! 😃

[@Andrectba1981]

Great Job man. Im Brazilian. Your channel is amazing. Big hug!

[@christopherbartleson8918]

I love how you say "Lets put some balls on this thing", LMAO!!!

[@leowob2aol]

As always great video. I tried using gddr6x d8bgx on an rtx 3070ti that uses d8bww and that card had memory training errors. I also tried using d8bgw and that card worked with no training errors, passed all stress tests except OCCT which would complain about memory errors. So now I'm waiting for the correct GDDR6x to arrive and just replace them with the correct type.

[@arctiicfreeze4018]

upgrade it to 16 GB VRAM so you can use it 2x the time nvidia intends you to 😂😂

[@leowob2aol]

@@arctiicfreeze4018 the 3070ti has space for only 8 chips. I’m not sure if there is 2GB GDDR6x or if there is that’s cheap, it would be a nice experiment to do!

[@cjmillsnun]

@@leowob2aol It's been done.

[@Xgamer-q3z]

ur the man sir......nice repair....

[@ThePopolou]

Impressive job handling them balls on that Titan.

[@canadianxbox360nerd]

i love to watch your videos, its cool to see people like you that does not throw away these GPUs but fixes them, i wish there were more people like you that fixes and not throw away. this titan is a gorgeous gpu and i think its beautiful

[@real_arbuckle]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and time!

[@randomthingschannel2692]

Without a doubt my favourite KZbin content 😀

[@brandongardner2853]

Great skills you have there . Also on the memory question you asked i am not sure on that very good question i would like to no that one as well lol ty again keep up the great work .

[@ipanesm]

I got a question, at 10:32, why do you count the numbers in reverse? The chips are layered a1 and a0, why is the one before the 0?

[@TrueMathSquare]

That thermal pad did actually went to a chip next to the one on board which had the therminal pad on it directly.

[@bigmind8508]

A repair video that does not just swap new parts! I'm hoping for millions of subs for this man.

[@TravisStamper]

Balls........ha. I hope you are enjoying your new surroundings. Thanks for the video

[@meneergroeneveld]

Please pump up your volume. Every time an ad interrupts, my heart stops for a minute.

[@northwestrepair]

so ads are louder ?

[@trebel]

Thank you for all your hard work. Cheers m8.

[@Mehecanogeesir]

You're a wizard, Harry!

[@horusfalcon]

Nicely done! Almost bought a Titan a while back, but it would have been overkill for my daughter's Dell T7500. Settled on an RTX2060 Black XC from EVGA. Glad I got it when I did... prices for EVGA have almost tripled.

[@castercs]

I just came across this channel and i must admit I'm fascinated by this kind of work ... where would one start to learn as a hobby this kind of work?

[@TechLevelUpOfficial]

25:14 knew that one was coming lmao.

[@bkaczy]

Just watching and relaxing! Awesome skills!

[@gillianseed4419]

depends on which chip the bios uses to get a memory id for strap table lookup you could replace all but that one, unless its checking multiple chips...

[@richteritwan]

I've never dreamed of attempting anything this scientific but will absolutely trust you should anything ever happen, God forbid, to my EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra. But, you'd have to record it and your brilliant commentary.

[@androcarot9288]

Leaving comments on your vids just for the algo. Hopefully more people will learn this wizzardy.

[@MichaelChanslor]

Love the content!!!! Please keep making videos!!!!

[@fingledobe]

Amazing. Hope you succeed in all you do.

[@bingojango2297]

a professional ball reballer right there

[@farizfadillah7557]

17:15 can i use H5GC4H24AJR -R0C chip to replace H5GC4H24MFR-T2C Chip? i still confuse with hynix memory suffix/code. MFR, AJR, AFR, BFR, etc....

[@saltyexxer8253]

I found your channel last night and now I'm bingewatching your video card repair videos. What the hell is wrong with me??

[@Horus9339]

It did not sit correctly as you had left a solder ball on the board. 6th pad down on the right inside @15:25 nice fix though. Have a great day.

[@northwestrepair]

It's a small bump, not a solder ball.

[@Horus9339]

@@northwestrepair That's what she said.

[@jpy0005]

Way late! I'm glad I wasn't the only one to catch that solder ball. I mean bump! Lmao

[@mime4331]

Ahahahaha 4:26 nice anti-ad for Northridge 🤣🤣🤣 Their pricing is just ridiculous

[@TheGiuse45]

Anf the stuff is from aliexpress

[@mime4331]

@@TheGiuse45 so true. when he was showing his shipped goods they are all Chinese from Ali.

[@JustAUser938]

Seeing a technician solder on a chip with lifted pads that aren’t ground pads, makes me feel, I might actually be a decent technician. 😂 I’ve started re balling fpga’s and cpu’s recently, my amscope purchase has changed my game. Nice fix!

[@3.14guy]

I very much care and would love to know the answer to where the cut off point for replacing the memory would be.

[@PsychEngel]

About the speed of the memory chips. It's easier, then you might think. The bios has a fixed speed for the memory and chips with slower speed, can't get the higher speeds, it's nearly impossible, also the timings won't catch up. The memory chips with higher speeds, have the most time a little bit slower timings, but if they lower they speed, the timings went down, so it will work. The best way to see it is, if you look for XMP profiles on the memory for the Mainboard. If you ramp up the speed, the timings went down, but slower memory doesn't scale up the timings as good, as faster memory, if this makes sense.

[@nicekeyboardalan6972]

Amazing as always brah

[@jayrodriguez439]

i don't wanna be dealing someone else's balls damn i feel you on that 1!

[@Rockr69747]

All your videos are entertaining

[@arva1kes]

A bit odd question about the memory replacement. Arent the memory clocks in bios? As long as you run higher spec memories it will be fine as they will run below their specifications. I would assume you can swap them all to faster ones and they run on stock (factory memory) speeds. You can oc manually later in OS, but since bios has it oc limitations you might not be able to benefit from these higher frequency memories. All that said most of the higher end gpus have generous memory overclocking overhead so 14000=>16000 could be acheavable. I do have a question - if memory was balled improperly then could it be assumed that chip is fine and could be just put back on (instead of replacement)?

[@xenaguy01]

_"could it be assumed that chip is fine and could be just put back on"_ No, the chip itself had ripped pads.

[@ryanl890]

Great no fix repair

[@jarrod0987]

"Ever since I laid my hand on it" LOLOL

[@KilroyNBC]

why does your vids have northridgefix tag? same shop?

[@northwestrepair]

Am not sure. I think it helps to get views ?

[@yanekdrzazga7529]

Great job as always!

[@AKGWolf]

the thumbnail made me laugh so hard, good job

[@Intel-6969K]

I am surprise that owners aren’t more honest with you when sending in cards. Why wouldn’t they say it had been repaired before? Surely would help with troubleshooting and ultimately help them save money via your time?

[@dano5238]

Exactly. People are weird.

[@synapse5791]

I got a question. How hard is it to find ram chips? Cause you seem to not have alot unless you have more somewhere else. i also heard online that its hard to find these chips.

[@northwestrepair]

Not hard. Aliexpress has tons.

[@larkan511]

Tried using a set of premium "highly rated" aftermarket power supply cables on my PC, and found out after about a year that they were the cause of several issues I had with crashes and blue screens. Never again unless they come directly from the power supply manufacturer.

[@laserak9887]

What brand?

[@kentstansberry9748]

Do you work for a board assembler full time? I worked for bare board fabricators around 30 years, creating all the tooling including paste masks for assembly houses.

[@ExcelInstructor]

Hi, Im having weird issues with my graphics card, so what is the software you use to test stuff? especialy the one which tells you what chip is broken?

[@northwestrepair]

weird issue like what ?

[@ExcelInstructor]

@@northwestrepair ive run multiple stress tests (Valley, furmark) and it seems all work out correctly I also re seated the GPU twice. I have re install win 10 twice.and did other stuff nvidia told me to. the issues is when I play games like Oxygen not included or Darkest dungoen 2 the pc can randomly reset, or the game crashes and sometimes im loosing signal to the monitor. but when i dont play games - it works with sometmes loosing monitor signal (usualy when moving monitor around on an arm. So I have no idea what to do next, the GPU is on warranty, however the seller closed their bussiness. And I need my PC run almost daily, so I need a software proof that my card is broken Like the text which results are presented in txt files

[@renter84]

What bandwidth and sampling rate oscilloscope we need minimum?

[@northwestrepair]

100MHZ is plenty 1 GSa/s sample rate. 200mhz is what i have

[@intoxicode]

Have you ever tried upgrading the memory modules to a faster or bigger capacity and have a success?

[@EXOWill]

Your content is great as is.

[@saninhodo4267]

You are balling dude! Keep up this great content for all of us. In case you see this comment, got a question. What exactly is that silver wire that you put next to the chip when applying heat?

[@pwn2own23]

24:46 perfect ball handling

[@theoldbigmoose]

You mentioned that you work a day job also. The skills you demonstrate here are well polished, logical, and effective. Was just wondering if your day job is electronics related also?

[@dano5238]

Another great video. I know next to nothing about these repairs. Could you add "pads" to to the missing ones on the memory chip to see if it was salvageable or is the chip no longer be good?

[@MasterJediSean]

How did you clean the pcb? IPA bath, Ultrasonic? just curious what your preferred method is. Thnx. Cheers!

[@northwestrepair]

Soap and water and alcohol

[@MasterJediSean]

@@northwestrepair Distilled water?

[@Solanza]

My mans a true baller

[@MrMCMLXXV]

What is the temp you use on the preheater and hotair station?

[@northwestrepair]

I preheat the board to 150 or higher if needed.

[@MrMCMLXXV]

@@northwestrepair Thx for the info. How about hot air temp setting? I use 340C but it takes me long time to heat the DRAM chip and I wonder if I should use higher temp.

[@markvietti]

you sound tired. thanks for making the video. good job.

[@northwestrepair]

It's late. Am trying to keep it quiet

[@johnmascardo7047]

Genius stuff

[@alvabravo5655]

U are true Pro ball Handler!!!!!!!!!

[@obieewon]

Sir you got skills

[@mikkokuorttinen3113]

Amazing!! How could you figure out which memory chip was wrecked? I wonder how much do you charge for this kind of repair?

[@northwestrepair]

I run the test, look at the results. This repairs was 105

[@theoldbigmoose]

@@northwestrepair your pricing is incredibly reasonable!

Mixing chips: it depends on the memory timing detection and configuration circuitry. If it's a single slower chip getting OC'ed then it probably won't work. It could be that either the timing is preset by the card model or that it is configured based on probing one chip for timing info and assuming they're all the same.

[@rah975]

For GPUs, there's timing profiles for the RAM chips that manufacturers use with that model programmed into the vBIOS. Putting slower chips than the profiles are meant for will cause problem regardless of how many chips are the same.

[@andrewtronics7266]

Hello what test for vram you use ?

[@intoxicode]

Wouldn't the hynix gddr6/14000/2gb have been a better swap since It's the exact same stats? Rather than just using the faster Samsung?

[@joeysartain6056]

Is that red PCIe slot you plug the card into a GPU mining card?

[@Tundreq]

About how fast and slow a memory chip can be is possibly related to what is in the bios. Putting on slower is pushing it over it what it possible can do because the bios thinks everything is fast. Faster is no problem because the bios doesn't know and the memory chip can relax.

[@andrew1977au]

Love your videos bud. I've got a 6900xt that is a no detect, what software do you use to check the memory, and where do I find it?

[@northwestrepair]

Discord

[@gonnerkat8753]

how would I test my own GPU memory?

[@Maximum_Nova]

wouldn't the vbios tell the memory how fast to run? If so, couldn't you replace all the memory with faster chips, and they will just run at the slower speed as controlled by the bios?

[@stephenhood2948]

If it's anything like mixed RAM it will only run at the speed of the slowest module. I would think VRAM would be the same?? If that was the case you could use 1 slower VRAM module, but all the VRAM would run at the speed of the slowest module, and the card would run, but at a reduced memory bandwidth. Again, not sure if its the same with VRAM as it is with mixed RAM.

[@northwestrepair]

that is why you always put faster module.

[@stephenhood2948]

@@northwestrepair Makes sense. Great video!!!

[@rah975]

With RAM modules for the motherboard, there's an eeprom chip on the module that tells the system what the module is capable of, and the system BIOS sets everything to the slowest / loosest timings it finds. For GPUs though, it's not expected that anyone would be changing memory chips out. So all of the speed and timing information for the RAM chips that came on that board is baked into the vBIOS. The GPU won't know that a slower chip has replaced a faster one, it'll try to run it at a speed that it's not designed for, and there will probably be problems.

[@tedpikul1]

Great video, as always. There IS an audience for knowledge and expertise w/out RGB. Glad I found your channel.

[@Zensaitv]

25:18 well you did reball my balls 2 times now lmao 🤣 hope this is the last time 😂😂

[@rashad5286]

What multimeter test leads do you use ?

[@SmiteCraftRo]

Is there any beef between northwestrepair and northridgefix? :))

[@Daniel32396]

How do you know it doesn't just need to be reflowed? It's just safer to replace it?

[@northwestrepair]

reflow doesnt work most of the time

[@TrueMathSquare]

I love your videos.

[@syedusama1546]

Really love your work. Waiting for my salary increment then I will purchase repairing instrument. I am also interested in learning only gpu repairing.

[@ionutnedelea780]

Whats the name of software for testing vram pls? Good job 😊

[@northwestrepair]

Mats

[@saltyexxer8253]

Don't the chips run at a speed determined by components elsewhere on the board? So basically the clock doesn't change and even though the chip is capable of running faster it's perfectly fine running slower. My guess would be that you can change out every chip for a faster one without any problem.

[@samir2zk135]

This content insane please moar.

[@adventure_rider_uk]

I can see you are a professional, same as Krisfix from Germany. Northridge fix would probably say: "to much time, not worth it" :D NO FIX

[@h.barkas1571]

Chip staring into your soul made me laugh.

[@damianpinnington5477]

I came for the repairs but I stayed for the drama.

[@TrueMathSquare]

I guess that both the firmware and drivers should run at it the lower clock speed and when you try a chip to slow then it trys to overclock it hints why it doesn't work as the chip can not handle it or has some type of built in protection to prevent overclocking etc... I wounder if you put a slower chip on but use software to oc it then would it work. That should tell you the answer.

[@taskinyucekurt]

Probably pads ripped at 1st removal of the chip, then they cleaned the board, reballed and put same chip back thats why that chip has ripped pads.

[@tomkroebel]

"Better than Northridgefix!"