I finally learned what the problem with the 2mm pads was and why it didnt work. It was because they were NEVER 2mm but instead 2.25 from factory. So now i always check pads size instead of trusting the label.
or dont go there at all i dont say hes doing a bad job or so all i say is if it takes to much time to fix it he wont even try to fix and its a no fix with a high bench fee
I dont know man I tried watching a random video the other day and he went on some rant about the connectors being faulty and breaking off of the board when the customer clearly cut it off because he wanted to solder the wires direct for some stupid reason. If you cant tell the difference between something being broken or cut that doesnt give me much faith.
I keep saying this. Better buy a new card than go to NRF. You'll spend more money and waste time without getting a proper diagnosis. There's a repairshop in my country with 95% success rate. They reball, replace resistors, replace chips other than drmos, etc. Northridgefix doesn't even have an ultrasonic cleaner
It's amazing to me how many failed electronics can be so easily fixed by skillful, insightful, and dedicated technicisns. I'm a long-time electronics hobbyist, and modern-day consumer electronics are still pretty daunting. Helps to have the right quality tools and knowledge/experience! :) Good job!
I fully agree. Since the pandemic, I learned how to solder electronics and Ihave done myself basic repair, like recapping boards, replacing diodes and transistors… fixed a lot of stuff that would need to be replaced and gone to landfill. I can clearly see the planned lifecycle for products…. Expensive TVs using cheap capacitors that saved the OEM a couple of dollars in a product that costs $1000 and will surelly fail within 5 years, of course after the 1-2 year warranty period. Meanwhile, I have some electronics from 1980 and early 1990s that still run sperfectly - and guess what? Good japanese capacitors. So our engineering evolved, we have CAD and other modern tools, but somehow and intentionally we make less reliable products
I too, know that feeling very well 😑 I have an EVGA rtx 3080 that wont post and after many close inspections and stabbing every possible component with my multimeter, Im completely stumped on whats causing the problem. I need to send it to Mr. GPU Guru Guy here. I have a Dell rtx 3080 to send as a spare donor gpu too but mostly just to see his reaction when seeing what happened to it. Im 99.9% sure its beyond repair but I'd Still be curious enough to know what his opinion is.
NRF business model is simple: fast and easy repairs = fast and easy money. Complicated repairs like data recovery, digging several board layers to fix a crack or reballing a core with stripped pads underneath it will result in the device returning for warranty. Krix fix Germany no longer provides some of these repairs because it is time consuming and mostly likely will return for warranty. I think you already encountered this with GPUs you have repaired. Once you start thinking about saving time and money, you would appreciate his approach 🤣
NRF business model works because there aren't many shops that do repair to the component level. YT is their positive avenue of exposure. Everything else is so so to really bad. And it doesn't take much to understand why. As Alex has said, family comes first.
Pretty much nailed it. It is what it is, Alex is optimizing for profit, he just doesn't have the time (or the desire, frankly) to grind through 7 layers of a PCB and do a bunch of stitching. Can't say I blame him. I sent them a capture card years ago, took them months to reply (and only after I had nagged them once every two weeks for nearly 3 months), told me "an IC was ripped off the pads" and no fix. Charged me 50% of the repair attempt. I told them not to bother sending it back. In retrospect, knowing what I know now, I bet nothing was missing (I certainly didn't see any missing ICs!) and they just didn't wanna work on it so made up some BS. I wonder if I had asked them to send it back if they would've ripped an IC off just to CTA.
I love watching tony fix stuff others have deemed "no fix".... Northridge fix is an amateur compared to Tony, I've sent him many GPUs and he has fixed every one of them. Thanks Tony, keep up the great work!
Hey there , yah I get it you’ve re-balled more gpus than NRF replaces shorted mosfets and it’s probably boring for you, something you can do in your sleep. But it’s so satisfying to watch you do that every time ! Plus you have to remember your new viewers who never saw you work before . You literally make it look easy. Try an not skip it if you can ! Cool ! Thanks !! Love your vids !
I have that exact card and I have swaped to 2mm thermalright pads and they worked nicely for 6 months, less than 14c delta to the hot spot. However, the backplate uses 2.5mm pads, not 1.75, not even 2mm. Then I blocked it with a biksky block and have been running it fine since then. Solid card. Original cooler is pretty anemic for it.
Another great repair tutorial, really enjoy these. These gpus should come with a matrix that lists pad thickness, would save a lot if time. Another lesson from the gpu master. Cheers...
It was causing core to overheating and shutdown due to overheating long before it would post so it would have no power by the time you get to the memory test. Pads may have contributed to the problem because core was pressed on one edge.
@@northwestrepair The temperatures at the end were really good, hot spot crept up to about 73 then dropped a bit to 72-71. Only 11 degrees delta between core and hot spot, and memory temps way cooler as well. Nice job with the pads!
I'm embarrassed that I plan to send my two cards to Northridge when I was new to the channel.😄 Eventually, I found other GPU channels and this channel the last one subbed.
@@northwestrepair I don't need emojis I need answers lmao. Surely you must have a hopelessly damaged but still somewhat working card laying around. That could actually work as a sarcastic video.
What’s your lab setup? Tools you use. I would like to make a power supply like you have. Any plans on it? Also. Are you just using an old motherboard for testing. Thanks. Great videos.
13:56 they accept it because they can charge a diagnostic fee. here is a better question, why would you send your GPU to them in the first place? you see their videos, you know they don't have the equipment for this. why send it? if there is a bad memory module or a broken solder joint on mem or core, they do not have the equipment to do anything about it.
It's kinda ironic because I didn't know ur channel until in one of Northridge videos, he mention you about a clever and sneaky editing when repairing a melted plug. Now I only watch ur videos and unsubscribe him. Lol
Hey there, I wanted to mention that your discord notification sound keeps tripping me out, I keep thinking someone had messaged me until I realize it's from your video. lol!
Thanks for the video. Just a small request -- any way to filter out the discord beep notifications from the audio track?. It causes me to pause your video multiple times to see if I've got messages 🤣
Northridgefix scams not so smart people. He takes those cards knowlingly they will mostlikely be a no fix to make some quick money. Compared to northwestrepair .... northridgefix looks like an amateur. I know you both dont have any beef or so but YOU deserve the big numbers in customers - not them - simlpy because you care and alex does not care about fixing something that takes longer than 5-10 minutes.
I don't know why you call it a scam. He spent time trying to repair it. This guy mentions Alex almost in every video because he is jealous that i can understand. But why are you talking about him like that!
@@sarahkatherine8458 Have you seen Northridgefix videos on how he diagnosed GPUs? He just skim over physical damage, if he sees no physical damage, he will test it and if it does not boot he immediately say it no fix. And if physical damage is too complex such as break near the PCI-E connector he also immediately say no fix. It is too quick and too many to be deemed no fix for him because he got so many orders and his motto is "Time is Money" so he will ignore complex repair and go for easy one (usually fixing connectors). Then for device that is declared "no fix" you need to pay him not-so-cheap "Diagnostic Price".
Although I do not agree with Northridgefix "scams" people, I do agree that he is ripping people's money with so little effort to repair by declaring most of GPUs that came as "no fix" and charge the people for "Diagnostic Fee" or some kind. He is more of busy person with too many repair orders rather than scammer, so he prioritizes easy and fast repair one. Spending hours or even days for just fixing one GPU is a big no for him, but it is what NorthWestRepair does, so a big difference.
How great that you bank on getting views by trash talking others. how about you focus on yourself and growing your business without letting your jealousy of others get in the way? Say what you will about NRF, at least he doesn't get his customers by putting other people down. this really shows your character buddy.
@@BobDevVthank you for your nice comment. Now refresh the comments and see that I responded to myself when I reached the end of the video. Who is not paying attention now?
I finally learned what the problem with the 2mm pads was and why it didnt work.
It was because they were NEVER 2mm but instead 2.25 from factory.
So now i always check pads size instead of trusting the label.
Where can this info be found? Maybe you have a link or something?
Big boss man was skimping on the pads again!
yes we all learned, don't go to Northridge fix with a GPU, unless your connectors melted. LET THAT BE A LESSON!!!!!!!
or dont go there at all i dont say hes doing a bad job or so all i say is if it takes to much time to fix it he wont even try to fix and its a no fix with a high bench fee
I dont know man I tried watching a random video the other day and he went on some rant about the connectors being faulty and breaking off of the board when the customer clearly cut it off because he wanted to solder the wires direct for some stupid reason. If you cant tell the difference between something being broken or cut that doesnt give me much faith.
It must one the work of nrf GPU outsourcing repair
I keep saying this. Better buy a new card than go to NRF. You'll spend more money and waste time without getting a proper diagnosis. There's a repairshop in my country with 95% success rate. They reball, replace resistors, replace chips other than drmos, etc.
Northridgefix doesn't even have an ultrasonic cleaner
Your typical foreign repair shop.. they don't give a shit about their work or you.
I didn't come here to learn, I came to enjoy. You never fail... making me happier. Thank you!
It's amazing to me how many failed electronics can be so easily fixed by skillful, insightful, and dedicated technicisns. I'm a long-time electronics hobbyist, and modern-day consumer electronics are still pretty daunting. Helps to have the right quality tools and knowledge/experience! :) Good job!
I fully agree. Since the pandemic, I learned how to solder electronics and Ihave done myself basic repair, like recapping boards, replacing diodes and transistors… fixed a lot of stuff that would need to be replaced and gone to landfill. I can clearly see the planned lifecycle for products…. Expensive TVs using cheap capacitors that saved the OEM a couple of dollars in a product that costs $1000 and will surelly fail within 5 years, of course after the 1-2 year warranty period. Meanwhile, I have some electronics from 1980 and early 1990s that still run sperfectly - and guess what? Good japanese capacitors. So our engineering evolved, we have CAD and other modern tools, but somehow and intentionally we make less reliable products
No, thank you for being who you are. Never forget your roots when you become big in the near future.
Big ?
I don't think it's possible
Not only is your work outstanding, you seem to have a good general attitude.
I have watched all your vids, and after every one I yell at my self, "Send him my Titan card, NOW!" I really need to do that!
I too, know that feeling very well 😑
I have an EVGA rtx 3080 that wont post and after many close inspections and stabbing every possible component with my multimeter, Im completely stumped on whats causing the problem.
I need to send it to Mr. GPU Guru Guy here.
I have a Dell rtx 3080 to send as a spare donor gpu too but mostly just to see his reaction when seeing what happened to it. Im 99.9% sure its beyond repair but I'd Still be curious enough to know what his opinion is.
Yes you should!... lol
NRF business model is simple: fast and easy repairs = fast and easy money. Complicated repairs like data recovery, digging several board layers to fix a crack or reballing a core with stripped pads underneath it will result in the device returning for warranty. Krix fix Germany no longer provides some of these repairs because it is time consuming and mostly likely will return for warranty. I think you already encountered this with GPUs you have repaired. Once you start thinking about saving time and money, you would appreciate his approach 🤣
Alex himself said he cannot spare more than 15 mins for any repair as it wont be economically viable.
NRF business model works because there aren't many shops that do repair to the component level. YT is their positive avenue of exposure. Everything else is so so to really bad. And it doesn't take much to understand why. As Alex has said, family comes first.
Pretty much nailed it. It is what it is, Alex is optimizing for profit, he just doesn't have the time (or the desire, frankly) to grind through 7 layers of a PCB and do a bunch of stitching. Can't say I blame him.
I sent them a capture card years ago, took them months to reply (and only after I had nagged them once every two weeks for nearly 3 months), told me "an IC was ripped off the pads" and no fix. Charged me 50% of the repair attempt. I told them not to bother sending it back. In retrospect, knowing what I know now, I bet nothing was missing (I certainly didn't see any missing ICs!) and they just didn't wanna work on it so made up some BS. I wonder if I had asked them to send it back if they would've ripped an IC off just to CTA.
I love watching tony fix stuff others have deemed "no fix".... Northridge fix is an amateur compared to Tony, I've sent him many GPUs and he has fixed every one of them. Thanks Tony, keep up the great work!
Good job cannot wait for your okay to send my card in... your customer satisfaction and expertise is why I'm sending you my Asus 3060
What ended up happening?
Hey there , yah I get it you’ve re-balled more gpus than NRF replaces shorted mosfets and it’s probably boring for you, something you can do in your sleep. But it’s so satisfying to watch you do that every time ! Plus you have to remember your new viewers who never saw you work before . You literally make it look easy. Try an not skip it if you can ! Cool ! Thanks !! Love your vids !
That is because Big boss forgot to use their new solder sucker.
No need to since Big Boss is the Biggest Sucker.
No, because didnt use the glare lamp that is not in stock but big shipment coming
@@saciuwhat's wrong with big boss?
@@maklogetrich2378 Nothing. Some people take some light ribbing between friendly competitors a little too seriously.
Thanks to you too Tony. If it wasn't for you, I'd probably be hunting for a time machine to watch How It's Made.
"they're not key fobs". Burn!
Right?! lol Did he just toss some shade? lol Too funny.
Shots fired across the bow.
😂
Ahaahah
Another great job! Never gets old watching you fix these GPUs!
I have that exact card and I have swaped to 2mm thermalright pads and they worked nicely for 6 months, less than 14c delta to the hot spot. However, the backplate uses 2.5mm pads, not 1.75, not even 2mm. Then I blocked it with a biksky block and have been running it fine since then. Solid card. Original cooler is pretty anemic for it.
you nailed it with the pads in this one, nice delta hot spot, and nice memory temps.
I like watch these repairs even I'm not fixing myself.
I really enjoy watching you videos. Much better then Northridge fix!
Another great repair tutorial, really enjoy these. These gpus should come with a matrix that lists pad thickness, would save a lot if time.
Another lesson from the gpu master. Cheers...
You are welcome man. We are all very grateful for your videos.
Another wonderful repair, had my curiosity since I own a 3090 zotac myself🙏🏻
Also thank you man being so true with us no one does this, they use to hide some steps ,you are amazing ❤
Do you think how the pad was setting on the GPU broke the solder joint?,,,,Thank you for the video 😃😎🧔🤠
It was causing core to overheating and shutdown due to overheating long before it would post so it would have no power by the time you get to the memory test.
Pads may have contributed to the problem because core was pressed on one edge.
@@northwestrepair The temperatures at the end were really good, hot spot crept up to about 73 then dropped a bit to 72-71. Only 11 degrees delta between core and hot spot, and memory temps way cooler as well. Nice job with the pads!
I'm sure Northridge could reball..If he wanted to. BUT dat "no fix" is his bread n butter!
I am sure northridge could at least place pads correctly…
comment for exposure
what I have learned is how good you are at fixing graphic cards!!!!
Good thing these broken solder joints seldom seem to cause any permanent damage to other components.
How not to watch your videos??........ In my opinion, they're extremely interesting and educational!! Amazing job sir!!
Making the daunting look simple. As ever top work.
always pleasure to watch troubleshooting
I'm embarrassed that I plan to send my two cards to Northridge when I was new to the channel.😄 Eventually, I found other GPU channels and this channel the last one subbed.
We love and appreciate you my dude 👊🔥
Thanks
And the pads are gone! the pads are gone
Nice! 😂
No wayyy you said that 🤣
😢
What can you do?
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I have never seen repairs like those
If u really wanna get blown away, watch one of his cracked pcb repairs, blew my mind first time 😊
@@ffftube-le8np ok freind
In answer to your question I think the abbility to charge for a no fix encourages the acceptance of product you know you do not expect to fix.
Hey Tony.. great diags as always, making it a real fix! excellent work.. keep it up! 👍👍
If I ever need a GPU repaired and or diagnosed I'll be sending it to you for sure.
that Zotac has decent temps when compared to the 3090 from earlier today
Why is the temp so good withbthis gpu.
u sneeky added discord notification sound at the start, making me look for new messages. lol
same
Does anyone else immediately check their discord after hearing the notification sound only to realize it's coming from the video? lol
Is it necessary to make northridge fix look bad when its possibly not his fault?
Hmmm, . . pads? . . or re-ball the core? . . . . why not both?
Amazing.
One of the secrets of re assembly by Big Boss
I have to admin, i only use newpipe utube player. Cuts out ads and spammy stuff. But i will use utube to leave a like, comment and thumbs up.
Great job. I always learn a lot form your videos.
Have you considered replacing the stupid power connector with an industrial screw terminal? Sounds fun
😂
@@northwestrepair I don't need emojis I need answers lmao. Surely you must have a hopelessly damaged but still somewhat working card laying around. That could actually work as a sarcastic video.
I'm glad that Tony knows his videos are wasting my time. I like them, but yeah... XD
What’s your lab setup? Tools you use. I would like to make a power supply like you have. Any plans on it?
Also. Are you just using an old motherboard for testing. Thanks. Great videos.
Thanks for your valuable contents 👌
Does Northridgefix do different types of fixes to northwestrepair?
Maybe those thermal pads were 2mm and got squished down to 1.75mm ?
No, because you could see the measurement was below 1.75. Also if they were 2.0mm then they would have worked.
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Impressive.
and the short is gone is hillarious please use it more often i love it
i m from pakistan love ur AI voiced videos and making fun northridge fix
Those pads were "BetTeR tHaN fAcToRy!!1!eleven!!!"
That discord notification at the beginning had me so confused for a second 😅
13:56 they accept it because they can charge a diagnostic fee. here is a better question, why would you send your GPU to them in the first place? you see their videos, you know they don't have the equipment for this. why send it? if there is a bad memory module or a broken solder joint on mem or core, they do not have the equipment to do anything about it.
It's kinda ironic because I didn't know ur channel until in one of Northridge videos, he mention you about a clever and sneaky editing when repairing a melted plug. Now I only watch ur videos and unsubscribe him. Lol
He accepts them to take the repair attempt fee
Any chance youd be willing to do only a re-paste and re-pad on several 3090s? I have this exact issue with overheating, they otherwise run great.
magical repair
Well, they cost as much as a keyfob.
Not a key fob 😂🤣🤣😂.
Seriously now Tony, if you did anything else for a living it would be a sin 😉
Hey there, I wanted to mention that your discord notification sound keeps tripping me out, I keep thinking someone had messaged me until I realize it's from your video. lol!
Good work 😅🎉
Magical
Thanks for the video. Just a small request -- any way to filter out the discord beep notifications from the audio track?. It causes me to pause your video multiple times to see if I've got messages 🤣
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Amazing job!
cleaning the septic tanks!? you mean making a poop smoothie!! mmmhhh smells like money!
🎉🎉🎉🎉
Is this a war or what 😂😂😂😂
indeed
Should be called Northridgescam.
14:05 this is how Alex can afford a million dollar house. Take everything they can and even if it's a "no fix" they still charge a bench fee.
the thing is northridge charges for a nofix you dont
Great video
🥳🥳🥳
Another poor Zotac... 😢
Northridgefix scams not so smart people. He takes those cards knowlingly they will mostlikely be a no fix to make some quick money. Compared to northwestrepair .... northridgefix looks like an amateur. I know you both dont have any beef or so but YOU deserve the big numbers in customers - not them - simlpy because you care and alex does not care about fixing something that takes longer than 5-10 minutes.
How does he know that the card will be a no fix without taking it in? Telepathy? Or asking the card its opinion?
I don't know why you call it a scam. He spent time trying to repair it. This guy mentions Alex almost in every video because he is jealous that i can understand. But why are you talking about him like that!
@@sarahkatherine8458 Have you seen Northridgefix videos on how he diagnosed GPUs? He just skim over physical damage, if he sees no physical damage, he will test it and if it does not boot he immediately say it no fix. And if physical damage is too complex such as break near the PCI-E connector he also immediately say no fix. It is too quick and too many to be deemed no fix for him because he got so many orders and his motto is "Time is Money" so he will ignore complex repair and go for easy one (usually fixing connectors). Then for device that is declared "no fix" you need to pay him not-so-cheap "Diagnostic Price".
Although I do not agree with Northridgefix "scams" people, I do agree that he is ripping people's money with so little effort to repair by declaring most of GPUs that came as "no fix" and charge the people for "Diagnostic Fee" or some kind. He is more of busy person with too many repair orders rather than scammer, so he prioritizes easy and fast repair one. Spending hours or even days for just fixing one GPU is a big no for him, but it is what NorthWestRepair does, so a big difference.
how much repair attempt fee (or bench fee) did NF charged?
good video
Alex is making TOO MUCH money
he can't waste time fixing GPUs when he can do a yacht's motherboard for a thousand dollars
👌👌👌👌👍👍
Tony- so the lack of GPU support probably caused the original problem you think?
So where are you located? Sweden USA? Maybe Brazil?
It is a goof idea to know if i want to send you something.
man your discord ping got me
i was thinking i got pingd
How great that you bank on getting views by trash talking others. how about you focus on yourself and growing your business without letting your jealousy of others get in the way? Say what you will about NRF, at least he doesn't get his customers by putting other people down. this really shows your character buddy.
nah bro you coping so hard
🙂👍
usually thoses beeps means no graphics card detected...
I had to do a few crazy sizes in my zotac to keep it from running hot, 3mm 2.5mm and 2mm all on the same card smh
Awesome video
Why does the thickness matter, they look compressable enough to make 0.5mm difference disappear. Not an expert, just asking.
bigboss did dodgi job vith pads this time
Wow that fix probably took like an hour max but Northridge just charges for the attempt to essentially rob it's clients
Big Boss repair!!! hehehe
How do you know that card came from NR-Fix?
Ahh from the owner...
@@BobDevVthank you for your nice comment. Now refresh the comments and see that I responded to myself when I reached the end of the video. Who is not paying attention now?
he writes on the core
@@northwestrepair thank you.
@@marcinnowak7811 Bruh, stfu. Just delete the entire comment.
So lets say I wanna make 2mm pads, 1.75mm, what do I do? Cake roller? Rol and re-measure, I don't wanna buy a spaghetti maker to change my pads
big boss can't put cards back together
hahaha
Maybe the pads went into the oblivion