How To FIX Faulty DDR3 RAM.....? Mass FIXING Graphics Cards (Can YES Fix it)

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

If janky methods don't work, they get put in the YES TAIWAN box for Computex 2021!

[@1NIGHTMAREGAMER]

is r7 370 still usable in late 2020

[@mokahless]

Certain plastics can degrade over a few weeks after exposure to brake cleaner. Please report on if the plastic on the motherboards begin to show cracks and degradation or not after a month or so! I'd like to know if it is safe to use.

[@aga7ka]

@@1NIGHTMAREGAMER no

[@FieryWings01]

Yeah man hopefully that one will be going ahead

[@JamiePineappleWyatt]

Immortal I’m with you man, being around these chemicals frequently calls for some PPE, brake cleaner is rather corrosive, it’ll eat the shit out of your lungs over time. Not to mention the amount of filth you can get out of a part too, that shit gets into your system and you can get really sick, really fast.

[@wickeRstick]

First off, love the content! Iv'e been trying to build new/used gaming pcs and here in Texas the market is terrible for used parts, even on ebay its brutal. but I have been doing hardware repair for well over a decade and here are my tips. 1.)Flux is cheap and helps the solder move into place better when even using the heat gun method. 2.)I've never used your cleaning methods but if you ever want to make an investment get a large wave-oscillating ultrasonic cleaner, Its amazing the amount of hardware you can repair with this alone! also on the cheap you can use a dishwasher. but the ultrasonic cleaner is the best method 3: next step from a heat gun is a re-flow gun, I have a 2n1 re-flow and solder (SMD rework station) bought of amazon and it works fine. also love using an oven or a toaster oven. this not only ensures even heating but allows you the space to do multiple parts at the same time. keep it going!

[@salteveline]

yah he needs to invest on those equipments u just mentioned. well i guess hes a vlogger, not a Board Level Technician

[@prashanthb6521]

Great points thanks.

[@Yurie13]

them: you can't wash electronics with water and soap! tech yes city: haha RAM go squeak squeak

[@bestbattle]

You can wash any electronic device. You just need it not have any voltage through it (like BIOS battery) and to dry it.

[@ebattleon]

Washes part with water all the time on this channel. kzbin.info

[@Psyadin2]

@@bestbattle For the most part you can wash with small batteries like that connected as well, inadvisable, but you can, the main problem is if a 12V rail connects to a smaller one, like 5V, the 5V traces and components cant handle that kind of power, what TYC should be more clear at is to make sure all capacitors are discharged before trying it, as they can hold a charge for hours after.

[@zoe1882]

I've done this many times and allowed them to dry for at least a week before reusing to make sure it's completely dry. I told my friends the same thing and they think I'm lying and ridiculous, lol.

[@Hr1s7i]

Pft my old PC was submerged in flood water for two days. Cleaned it up with some rubbing alcohol and wd-40. Worked no problem for another 12 years.

[@HelloKittyGUNDAM]

PC part resurrection is so satisfying!!! uhmm, about the RAM resurrection, can you run some test like Memtest86 to really conclude those rams are working 100% same as GPU testing being done. Great video again! more videos like this! 🍻

[@DiGiTaLGraveDigga]

So that hot blow gun method is referred to a rework (basically your remelting the soldering points) also on a side note solder melting points range from 90c to 450c. Always learn something new when I watch your content!!! Cheers from So Cal USA!!!

[@MattJi]

Subscriber for 4 years. This channel has gotten me through tough times. Tech Yes City forever!

[@HauntedCorpseGaming]

Great content as always, I've managed to resurrect a few Intel motherboards and even got a free i7 3770 + Acer motherboard with 4 dimm slots working perfectly fine solely by giving it a good clean; with a GTX 1060 6gb and 4x4 DDR3 it plays Metro Exodus like a champ. :D

[@6DAMMK9]

TYC: Repairing laptops? Electronics repair school: Let me introduce to you...

[@jrr851]

Louis Rossman can come too.

[@bou222]

I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for putting it together. Seeing those components come back to life is always a good time. Hearing you read the fan letters was also great to hear. Makes me proud to be a loyal viewer of the channel. You too have inspired me to get into the pc re-selling business. Take care, Sincerely, Richard from the U.S.

[@BrandonSale]

Good timing, I just bought ddr3 ram today and it wouldn't boot into windows. Both sticks work now

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

Bryan the builder... ♪ Can YES Fix it? ♪ Bryan the builder... ♪ YES he can! ♪♪

[@justceez6552]

Petition to make this the Aussie theme song for " Bryan the builder"

[@superlativeb]

Pretty much any Bryan with a "y" is a straight G . Just saying ;D

[@ORBPHIL]

Just make sure you dont see Ralph “Wreck It” on what Brian builds and fixes!🤪

[@topperdude2007]

The man's on a roll! Keep cranking the awesome content. Let me once again thank you for the inspiration - I know you do not work with laptops as much(this is the first video I am watching you work with laptops) but watching your videos - especially ones like these and the parts hunt - inspired me to work on an old Thinkpad W510 with i7-720qm and Nvidia GPU that kept overheating (almost 100C in HWInfo without any programs running) and shutting down. Opened it up completely, cleaned up the dust and old crappy thermal paste, re-applied some good old TX-4 and my daughter has a great working laptop now that rarely goes over 70C and flies through all the stress tests (Prime95, Intel XTU, etc.) without breaking a sweat!! 😎Keep spreading the Tech Yes Love!! 👍👍

[@DeadTalkLive]

Nice video ♥♥! As a current KZbinr, I am contantly searching for new ideas! Good Job!

[@smashandburnyt6938]

Can YES FIX IT YES WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY GEORGE LUCAS

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

YES!!!!!!

[@francescovolpini]

that was so funny hhahahhahah!

[@Djare915]

Awesome job,Bryan!Favourite part:washing the ram in the dishwasher! :)

[@chosensupra9978]

Dang, I was about to go to sleep and I see a new Tech Yes City video posted lol.

[@Hankotoba]

for some reason i am only entertained by your videos now out of every tech channel

[@DanielMelendrezPhD]

Geez! "Heat-gunning" everything. *Cries in Louis Rossmann*

[@Krisztian5HUN]

@Martin M yes this is not a fix only a temp. solution. Selling zombie cards is a huge no no!

[@jarodatkinson5306]

@@Krisztian5HUN Couldn't agree more... Heatgunning is for re-balling a ps3 chip or something, not capacitors that die 3 weeks later after heat treatment....

[@BootedTech]

21:00 - I'll do it for you. Not a problem, even flash it for you. Have the tools and parts, just send it! Also, don't be afraid to keep the heat going on those parts, just don't burn them.... Happy to fix ya laptops too, no need to replace whole board, unless CPU dead or dying. Cheers Bry, luv ya content.

[@pc-sound-legacy]

20:09 - the view from your balcony is amazing

[@kaitoharrison872]

I did some parts hunt in Singapore (I live here). A lot of ex mining Polaris card and GTX 1070 at good value.

[@レインレイン]

where i can get it? did they sell them online?

[@poside]

Do you get them from carousell or directly from the miners? Seen a few of these mining cards but mostly from either guys who buy up the cards in bulk and list them or miners that want to sell the whole system.

[@kaitoharrison872]

@@poside Yeah, I buy from one of those. I am not sure whether this is common but make sure the seller re-flash it back to gaming VBIOS. My RX480 comes with a mining VBIOS and Brian trick to re-flash the VBIOS didn't work for me as I cannot find the correct VBIOS. I have to use a registry edit hack to fix it. Also, maybe this is just me who push my card too far but keep the VRAM to stock. Pretty sure that is how I kill my RX480. Especially with mining card which tuned to have lower core clock but higher memory clock than stock.

[@aye796]

@@kaitoharrison872 just find a techpowerup vbios that fits the description of your card

[@04132]

Wanted to fix my DDR3s. Saw your video title. Clicked into it. Saw you washing the rams. I hesitated. 🤣

[@CitizenTechTalk]

I'm so glad the HOF card came back to life! As you were saying at the end of the video as well. What an awesome save!

[@bernieolicia3221]

whoahhh!! I have so many dead laptops here. I hope the contact cleaner and heat gun helps me to fix all or maybe some. very interesting! Thanks to this video.

[@deltafire5058]

That break clean will eat your hands super quick. I recommend wearing gloves.

[@jay22alco]

keep going what you're doing man. You inspire me into building my first PC up to making money from it. I make more with PC and laptop repair as more people are looking into getting the hardware fix during this pandemic as they work more at home. Thanks for the vid man.

[@saguate69]

No freaking way! I was about to throw away a GTX 1050 because it would give no signal. Tried the oven and then the heat gun method and still would not work until I watched the video and decided to try and use the DVI output, and it lives!! Thanks Brian, keep them great videos coming.

[@auradzrts691]

Bryan you really open my eyes on second hand PC parts. I used to think that new parts must be really good due to its price. But watching your video, hey you can play a video game in 1080p with second hand parts, and the hunting for it, is an experience. Keep up your great job mate, my best wishes for you and family!

[@TheGauges420]

Well new parts are still worth (usually) what they cost, I mean you dont have to spend ANY time tech yes lovin' a new motherboard or RAM lol. Buying new is also it's own experience, because then YOU are also still the one to choose how it looks and all.

[@shadowarez1337]

Is there any particular kind of brake fluid I should avoid? loving this segment of channel it's helped me tweak my method of brining back a few dead cards including a unique slomo bluescreening Nvidia Titan X GPU. Keep up the good work stay safe.

[@SUCRA]

That white pcb graphics card is awesome! Fingers crossed here that you get it working while I watch this.

[@NSHG]

Greetings from Romania, Bryan! I can attest the DVI thingy on the HD7950 as well - I have a older card (7870 OC, the Gigabyte kind) that does the same thing - it will cut out on standard HDMI, but work absolutely fine on a DVI to HDMI adapter. P55 machine by the way, the kind that you loved - GB P55A-UD3 + i7 860.

[@RaimarLunardi]

You are a smart guy, must have tried too, but is Very common to the hdmi die... i bought a 960 for cheap because the hdmi was dead, but the display port was ok (and I'm using it with an adapter now)

[@michaelilie1629]

Love the work man!!! Stay safe and keep on tech yes loving! We love youuuuuu

[@iwanhaniyoto]

"This is a big reason why I'm not big on laptops personally, and that is we've got GPU CPU RAM all on the same motherboard" Totally 100% agree, I have 3 PC, and only 1 Laptops.

[@TheGauges420]

Yeah cause my RAM GPU and storage are all in different parts of my room, my pc still runs fine! Totally not all on the same motherboard inside my case.

[@sachatrin2981]

Some decent laptops still have socketed RAM and CPUs

[@Psyrecx]

@@sachatrin2981 Clevo's are the best bet for one of those. They also have excessive cooling.

[@supergeekjay]

@@sachatrin2981 Only the REALLY high end flashy ones, sadly. And this is the industry's answer to REVERSING landfill???

[@supergeekjay]

@@Psyrecx And excessive price tag. I love Clevo, but find them too plastic, and the fans are whiny. My old M670SRU had such a whiny CPU fan it was like a BANSHEE.

[@mikelilley5710]

Loving your clear, concise content Brian!. So much so that "and with that aside" has now crept into my regular vocab. Not sure about today's "pew pew pew" though 😂 Heat gun & oven bake methods have ressurected plenty for me also. Thanks for your generosity ... "peace out for now" ✌

[@Kitto0]

brilliant video 👍👍 totally out of the box style jury rigging to see the old hardware coming back to life for another round is so satisfying to watch make more of these i am all in for it 😎

[@feeterican]

This is awesome showing how to resurrect some cards. If you ever want to upgrade in the future with the tools. Check out the Hakko bottom heaters and PCB vises. At work, these things really speed up the time without burning up the parts and PCBs. The new stuff is kind of expensive but if you can find it second hand you could save some cash. The bottom heater really helps with layered boards with large ground plaining or large BGA's. At work we use ether Weller or Hakko and this stuff works 3 shifts a day 6 days a week. We put these tools threw hell and they just keep working, though the solder tips if miss used will only last a week but if you know how to use them they will last a few months. I've gotten a medium size Hakko 936 solder tip to last 4 months.

[@rcook0001]

Would love to see flux before the heat gun to give any dry solder more chance. Also a ultrasonic cleaner. But great content.

[@jeffkuzzen]

What do you mean with flux? Spray flux all over the card, then heatgun it, or??

[@mwnciboo]

When you own board is being featured and he is cleaning it to flip it... ok upgrade time. Also city view in the background of a video is cool as hell.

[@arkwolf2390]

Thank you Tech Yes for giving me extra methods to revived dead gpu's :DDD. This one of the reason i love your channel!

[@TheRailroad99]

I hope you won't sell these cards! As an electrical engineer I can say that without applying BGA flux, they most likely wont last very long. reflowing BGA Chips is not that easy. A small oven works better, but only if you apply flux. For private use, heat gunning (or baking) them without flux is totally fine, but just don't expect them to work over time. It really is a gamble. I've done this (like you, without flux) to an R9 280X, worked great for over a year, but then it failed again. For some graphics chips it also won't work, because the die itself is degraded. A good example are Radeon HD6xxx and GeForce 8xxx cards. They have a VERY high rate at coming back to life, but they will fail again after a bit of thermal cycling. This method is great for extracting an extra 6-24 months of the GPU, for example to wait for the next generation, or for fun, but NOT for selling those. If you want to sell them, use flux, so the fix will last. Also, it is a good idea to check vcore with a multimeter before trying this. if Vcore is not even present, this won't fix it, or it will only work for a few days (because heating capacitors can revive them for a few days)

[@Tiger351]

Fellow Aussie here (N.S.W), got a few questions to ask. 1) Why Brake Clean specifically? Price? Availability? Larger capacity than most cans of electronics cleaner? 2) Are you flipping the AM3 970 board? I'm looking for one to drop a loose FX 6300 in I have laying around and finding good mobo's for a decent price that suit FX processors is really difficult now.

[@Iam_Dunn]

Dear Ben, “Spellcheck.” Love, The Internet

[@melangeken]

Techy ass loving xD

[@PhillipLemmon]

This.

[@rexyoshimoto4278]

You're the only guy I know who'd put a motherboard on the wall rather than a picture frame or certificate. Guess someone can give you a moose head, yeah but I'd imagine that would be too big. Motherboard fits you. Please don't staple it on your shirt with LEDs. You're a great tech to watch!

[@x40ozSkiLz]

Love your channel Bryan. Keep it going.

[@DrMuFFinMan]

Being someone who deals with refurbing laptops any of your business oriented laptops like Lenovo ThinkPads and Dell latitudes are super easy to work on and repair even the screens. Also some times unplugging the cmos and built in battery for a couple days have saved some of the ThinkPads I've had that boot loop. Also the market for parts from those type of laptops from the screen to keyboad have a pretty good resale on ebay and the like.

[@cinlung]

I love this kind of fixing content. You can try to do the same heatgun method to the laptop motherboard, I mean you got nothing to lose. It'll be cool if it works

[@NickonWheelz]

Dude . Loving the music while you work. Very M83ish..

[@Dynamitethedrummer]

Love for you Brian, great channel and most of all great help.

[@glyrin.e]

Great video as always, keep the good work. I have been having issues fixing a family member's laptop, it's an old Samsung. For some reason the desktop icons keep flashing, and if i press the right mouse button they apear, if i press the left button they disapear. It even started pasting the days date on a document for no reason. It reduces the sound when playing videos to 0 and keps refreshing the webpages. Initially I thought it could be the keyboard so I unplugged it and used an external one, problem persisted. Then I thought it could be software so I intalled win10, Win8, Win7 and even linux, but the problems persist. Then I started thinking it could be a problem with the graphics chip (the pc was overheating before I got my hands on it, so it might be shorting) but that would cost way to much to fix it, it it really is that. Do you happen to have any idea what could be? Also the problems seem to be worse when the temperatures are higher.

[@MrMoustacheish]

Tech Yes City is simply the best tech tuber, hands down.

[@oPtiMuMpRiCe]

One of the GREATEST youtube heroes 😍😍

[@zoranbozic8592]

I love the channel. Just one note. You should try to shield caps on the graphics card. They don't like heat at all. Since inside is electrolyte and you are cooking it with heat gun. Maybe wrap them with aluminium foil somehow. Keep up the great job you are doing. Also great video editing.

[@morrisenslin2194]

Much respect and love from South Africa.

[@benjaminargus9563]

Love these episodes, have given up on my crashing 980ti so it might get sent in too

[@Wushu-viking]

Awesome work. I really hope especially the 780 Ti ressurection holds up.

[@meruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu]

One of my favorite series aside from deals hunt keep it up brian

[@heroburgerdoe5904]

Hey love the videos. Buy I don't have a heat gun. Will a hairdryer at max setting be enough heat? What temps are we looking at to be ideal?

[@rossmpostpro]

You had me at Tech Yes Lovin!

[@Sephy69]

your videos are amazing, i was only meant to watch a few then game, but 2 hours later here I am enjoying the tech yes fun!

[@matttiaz7576]

Brian and His Gun....give you some Tech City Love....oh YES.

[@ogomah]

hello, I liked your video but I have a question is the WD-40® Specialist® Fast Drying Contact Cleaner an equivalent to the product you use because in europe it is to get it

[@vitor900000]

Hey man since you have nothing to lose try the oven method on the cards that didn't come back. Preheat a oven to 205°C~210°C put the card in and set a timer for 10mins. Turn off the oven and let it naturally cool inside the oven. Would be a cool video :D I brought a Wifi card back to life using this method. Be careful with plastic. Many plastics start melting at this temperature but PCB manufactures usually use plastics with a higher melting temperature so they can solder the components that have plastic without melting them. @Instead of aluminium foil you can use MB spacers to raise the cards out of the ground.

[@Matt-ns8px]

What brush are you using to clean the motherboard pins?? Always a daunting task when refreshing a pc

[@AranakAsulis]

Small detail, but I really like your choice in good music. Its a minor gripe when videos are good, but the songs are a little distracting.

[@Traye0n]

@18:15-18:20 the BIOS Chip seems like it needs to be pushed into the DIP - socket a little bit, might be the reason for no boot! (Asus B150). PIN 1 and 8 are lifted up the most, I don't really know if PIN 1 aka Chipselect is needed for normal BIOS operation, but I know for sure it's needed for BIOS Reprogramming. However PIN 8 is VCC and is crucial, since it is the main Supply Voltage for the Rom, without it connected properly, malfunction is guaranteed. The precise Timeframe of 15 Seconds from power on to auto power off, seems to be the period in which the Board tries to autodetect BIOS Flash Rom, RAM is not even initialized at this point, it turns off because of Bios detection timeout! Since u got the board second hand, it might also be the case, that someone exposed the board to an excessive physical shock, during which the BIOS chip might have popped out and someone plugged it in back the wrong way, so make sure to check the orientation as a last resort. Both the chip and the socket have an etched in mark, which is to be alligned. Sorry for the weird wording! Enjoying your Content a lot, Tech Yes City Gang! TYCG

[@fabiofoltran4361]

Noticed that too

[@MarshallSambell]

It should be possible to pull that bios chip out with pliers and put it back in

[@fabiofoltran4361]

@@MarshallSambell you could also desolder it and put it in the first slot really easily, you don't even need hot air : )

[@gregball]

Good show... cheers mate. Very cool to watch

[@yabsdonanderson5322]

Hi there, i am new 2 ur show and i was hoping u would explain y a heatgun has the effect of fixing those graphic cards. ur an amazing teacher.

[@johnm3850]

I guess the hot air is better the old oven trick to reheat a bad solder ball or loose joint so tks for the flick.

[@bledwhite409]

What!? I just realized that you have around 450k subs instead of 4.5 million.

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

Bloody KZbin typos!

[@grandad40]

ASKED for GOOD TIPS, try puting some soldering flux smeared on the soldering pins and legs of cpu dram etc before applying the Heat gun resulting in low heat remelt and connection of DRY Joints and connections,Works a treat Brother !

[@manuelalmeida6284]

Thanks Buddy. I´m one passionated PC-Builder for decades now. But never dissambled Graphics cards till yet. Now I´ve got the bite to do it´s. Got here´s one damaged AMD Radeon VII Card, with faulty RAM-DAC. No signal-black screen. BIOS Warning sounds =1x long peep and 3x Short ones! Should I´ll RISK my warranty, trying to fix her by cleaning!? Cuz still remains 5 months till it´s ENDS Or do you mind If I´ll should intead send back to RMA=? We all know it´s reference Design card. The Manufacterer was MSI. So the damage just occuered on the last days. I´ve still using 2 others Rigs. That´s card isn´t affects me so bad. But I´ve really loved her. Even wrote VII in red letters on the side and painted the fans inner circle in red too!!

[@camdynkellett6782]

yess thats so sick! Super inspiring, I'm now seriously thinking about staring a buisness here in South Africa! Im loving that desk at 24:41 ! is it a DIY venture? Id love to know more about it (and how you did it?) Cheers!

[@BlanX24]

I'm kinda curious on what do you do to the parts that are bricked?

[@Rem_NL]

for laptops, try putting them in the oven 200 degrees C for 10 min, if there are plastic parts cover them with aluminum foil. Worked for a laptop where the GPU got loose. Got it for free 30 min work :) Just make sure you let it cool down be4 you move it.

[@thomassmith4999]

Lead free solder has a lot to answer for, also have you tried putting liberal amounts of gel flux on the boards before you heat gun them. imho this is the best way

[@insanity-vr6vu]

I'd love to see you solder parts from motherboards that aren't working onto other motherboards to see if you can fix fault chips/parts.

[@jarodatkinson5306]

I wouldn't trust this guy to solder a speaker wire... Check out Louis Rossman's videos if you want to watch an actual pro work, and fix stuff properly....

[@234paka]

I love this vaporware/ synthetic wave music you use.

[@edharding9363]

Those d-ram LED's are a life saver. Also those HDMI chips are a common problem for PS4 and Xbox too.

[@earthtalks5040]

That HOF Geforce looks awesome dude, good job!

[@saintuk70]

Thunderbirds are go ;) Ooops, Brian not Brain. Another good vid, ty.

[@djordjepetrovic5498]

Great video, great work with the GPUs. Can WD40 be used as well for cleaning? And if I have a heat gun with temperature what should it be set to if you know? Keep up the good work. Love you Yes man! :)

[@aesieaiyahcloe]

I just bought my first break cleaner, it should be put to good use. I just need a heat gun, and those items won't be stuck in the shelf coz I work in a hardware store as a family business. Maybe if I got my parts working, I'll try to accept possibly dead parts for practice and charge a little for the ones that will work. 😉🤣👍

[@wadeepperson6906]

you could always keep some surface mount paste on hand for soldering you just gotta lay the stuff on the contacts insert the chip and heat it up and it should bond right to it.

[@1973Hog]

Bryan: I always wondered why applying heat to the GPU would sometimes fix a problem. Also, how permanent is that “fix”? Thanks for all you do.

[@Eyetrauma]

You didn’t ask me but I won’t let that stop me from replying. The idea is that either through manufacturing defect or thermal stress during usage the solder balls that attach the physical chip to the board become disconnected. Sometimes the chip ‘floats’ off the solder ball entirely and sometimes it’s just sorta on and off so you can get intermittent failures. The heat gun partially melts the solder balls and allows thE chip to sorta ‘float’ back into place, reconnecting them. If you want to know more, look up “reflowing”

[@kakalv9152]

its not a permanend fix though. more often than not he solder balls will fracture again. Honestly I love TechYesCity but i would not recommend this as a "fix" method unless you plan to keep the hardware for the rest of its days. During the xbox 360 days many sellers pulled scams by heat gunning xbox 360s

[@phantompanda1508]

HEY, FIRST OF ALL LOVE UR CONTENT and second what is the longest time u have used one of ur heat gunned gpus and i was wondering even if its a temporary fix or permanently ....will it last for say six month using heat gun method ?and also have u seen rtx cards having such issues that needs a heat gun loving? tnx in advance .

[@FieryWings01]

Bryan can always fix something if there’s ever a slightly chance that it is fixable! ✌🏼👌🏼

[@KrissBartlett]

Wow your great there Bryan i like the working Thinkpad look nice your amazing man good job

[@nana-chan4550]

Heatgun "fix" is usually only temporary. The cards will break again after a few weeks/months and everytime you heat it again this time gets shorter. At least that's what happened to a few of 9800GTX's that I tried it on.

[@gabrielecarbone8235]

If you undervolt and underclock you can usually save them for desktop use

[@warrax111]

@@gabrielecarbone8235 namely G92 and G80 based card didnt have 2d/3d switching, for desktop and had terrible idle power consumption of around 30W (lowest 8800-9800GT) to 40-45W (most of them), to 55W for 8800GTX. The only exception was 9800GT/9600GT green edition, they had around 20W in idle, those were one of the last G92 based cards in 2009. They have voltage lowered to 1 (from 1.10-1.15 original) So you cannot undervolt 9800GTX through software, you need do BIOS mod. If you set it so low, that card won't boot, you screwed, as it don't have 2d/3d modes, you need to change only one voltage for 3D. It's risky as hell. Would not risk it. You can underclocked it through software, I have it set to 350/500 for 2d use. (from 700/1000). It saves 5w in idle, because cannot undervolt it, which is sad. Would drop by 20W, if also voltage could be lowered to 0.90v.

[@gabrielecarbone8235]

@@warrax111 mh i usually test this way, I start with very low voltage and clocked bios and then proceed to overclock back with software to find a stable clock / voltage usually a bit lower than original but at 1v.

[@ewozniak5228]

The re-soldering by heat gun works way better if you flux the components (or the entire PCB) that you are trying to re-flow. Invest in a bottle/can of flux.

[@supergeekjay]

The old 9800's were failure prone because the chip ran too hot for the new "lead free" solder that was introduced, it was a massive problem for a LOT of systems and GPU's, on laptops. The nVidia Go 7900 was another bitch to keep running.

[@JamiePineappleWyatt]

21:43 whatchu talking bout Willis, you got a heat gun and some solder dontcha? 😂👌 Just put a finer tip on the heatgun and turn down the heat a bit more, tadaa more legitimate Tech Yes Reflow machine 🤓 (The heat will be more intense after being localised by a finer tip) Go on buddy, you can do eeit! Loving the content man, been a while since I’ve watched a video, glad this one popped up in my feed tonight

[@nhguapo]

Good content. Always enjoy these videos.

[@allenherinckx4474]

Questions on the heat gun. Are you attempting to heat the solder, or the internal components of the chips or capacitors? If it's the solder why are you applying heat from the top and not the under side (with card upright)?

[@TheBackyardChemist]

Man, if I were you I would not sell that HOF card, that thing is a collectors item! Maybe make a video about OCing the HOF card for fun? Maybe even take it for a spin with dry ice? Those cards are tuners man, made for LN2.

[@jasonhowe1697]

I suspect the hdmi issues can be 1 of 2 things.. someone has either fucked around in window or bio and set vga/dvi as primary.. second issue is the port has failed requiring replacement or it has been zapped and anything that sits behind the port is gone.. i would advise convertors on a cable as to run them on the ports (whilst can be done) can introduce excess on the pcb.. I also suspect the lack of use of a strain relief cable most likely caused damages the hdmi port..

[@Gamingrepublic]

Watching you for Pakistan for years now and love your videos.

[@TheBackyardChemist]

6:10 The one with the blown HDMI port, have you tried the DP outputs on it? DP uses an almost completely different circuit on the GPU output side, so there is a good chance that if VGA works DP should as well.

[@TheBackyardChemist]

@Serial Thrilla DVI and HDMI are electrically compatible, so both are probably coming from the same silicon block, but DP uses different electrical signaling, so it might go to a different set of output transistors on the GPU.

[@RiskPlays]

Thank you for inspiring me. i might create a channel like this and share best practices.

[@uchchwasdas4006]

i fix lot of electronics device in my life. One of them i had a laptop failed to turn on. I opened it and clean the power connection. Now it work perfectly ;)

[@SuperMetaTech]

Thanks for this Tech Yes Master Class B! 🙌

[@vMaxHeadroom]

Amazing, informative and just plain stellar content....