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!
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.
@@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.
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
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 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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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...
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 .
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?
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?
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.
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.
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)?
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.
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?
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?
I'm just waiting for my video card to break so I can send it to you. 😊 Its a gigabyte 3080. I didn't know anything about cards when I bought this s***. To be fair it's been a decent card for at least a year now I don't know maybe more
Got my hopes up I thought my balls were finally getting reballed after 28 years knew I shouldn’t have trusted that no clean flux , oh well maybe one day
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.
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 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
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.
I prefer to make my own cables, that way I control the quality and gauge of the wire and connectors, if you choose to go this route your going to need a crimper like the Lutro modded one
I wanted to but I don't know what those terminals are called. Type and gauge or why ever name they have. Otherwise I would have built my own cable set instead of wasting money buying overpriced junk.
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.
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?
I don't think there's a limit to memory chips you can change even if you replaced all the memory chips with faster ones because the chips will still run on same frequency, as long as they are otherwise with same IO specs. I know that some companies even fit different brands of memory chips to hardware, and get away with it simply by recalculating resistances, inductances, capacitances, so practically changing analog components accordingly. Firmware, driver, and memory controller all work in junction sort of, memory chip itself is kinda generic stupid IC. Card performance would be the same as with stock chips, unless the GPU is memory capped, and then you'd probably still need to overclock controller somehow if you wanted to raise that cap. I may be completely wrong though but this is what comes to my mind.
Just supporting your algorithm my man.
I appreciate that
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!
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.
@@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.
@Mike1984-lc9rhI think you’re wrong- look at the clones from AiXun
25:05 You're our favorite ball handler my guy!
Ngl i loved the design of those cards
They look like a gas stove lel
@@blakegriplingph my wife said that also
Reballing the balls seems quite a harsh body mod... Good one Tony!
😂
"I don't like that chip.. just something about the way it looked at me..."
This made my day 🙃
Love watching you work....when I can see you work. Quite a bit of video stuck on memory chart.
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
Picture of me ?
Where ?
@@northwestrepair LOL. It's not an actual picture. just in my mind's eye. lol
It's 5am and I've been binge watching your videos all night. I'm new here and enjoying your content.
I'm binging as well. Addictive and rewarding, intricate repairs! Love fixing neglected parts.
@@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.
great repair as always!
Thanks 👍
Please pump up your volume. Every time an ad interrupts, my heart stops for a minute.
so ads are louder ?
Impressive job handling them balls on that Titan.
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.
upgrade it to 16 GB VRAM so you can use it 2x the time nvidia intends you to 😂😂
@@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!
@@leowob2aol It's been done.
33:03 The thermalpaad for the mosfet got dubbelstackt so the Components next to it didn´t get a pad.
Yes I realized it when I noticed board did not want to sit flat.
It was fixed before the final assembly behind the scenes.
I love how you say "Lets put some balls on this thing", LMAO!!!
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
Without a doubt my favourite RUclips content 😀
Great Job man. Im Brazilian. Your channel is amazing. Big hug!
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.
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.
What brand?
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and time!
That thermal pad did actually went to a chip next to the one on board which had the therminal pad on it directly.
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.
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.
ur the man sir......nice repair....
Balls........ha. I hope you are enjoying your new surroundings. Thanks for the video
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 thought. Have a great day.
It's a small bump, not a solder ball.
@@northwestrepair That's what she said.
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
Leaving comments on your vids just for the algo. Hopefully more people will learn this wizzardy.
I love your humor !! Definetly 😃😀
Thank you! 😃
A repair video that does not just swap new parts! I'm hoping for millions of subs for this man.
i don't wanna be dealing someone else's balls damn i feel you on that 1!
Amazing. Hope you succeed in all you do.
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!
Ahahahaha 4:26 nice anti-ad for Northridge 🤣🤣🤣 Their pricing is just ridiculous
Anf the stuff is from aliexpress
@@TheGiuse45 so true. when he was showing his shipped goods they are all Chinese from Ali.
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...
a professional ball reballer right there
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 .
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?
Exactly. People are weird.
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?
I found your channel last night and now I'm bingewatching your video card repair videos. What the hell is wrong with me??
"Ever since I laid my hand on it" LOLOL
I came for the repairs but I stayed for the drama.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Cheers m8.
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.
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.
you sound tired. thanks for making the video. good job.
It's late. Am trying to keep it quiet
Just watching and relaxing! Awesome skills!
24:46 perfect ball handling
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)?
_"could it be assumed that chip is fine and could be just put back on"_
No, the chip itself had ripped pads.
Great no fix repair
25:14 knew that one was coming lmao.
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.
You're a wizard, Harry!
All your videos are entertaining
Love the content!!!! Please keep making videos!!!!
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?
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?
Have you ever tried upgrading the memory modules to a faster or bigger capacity and have a success?
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?
Discord
How did you clean the pcb? IPA bath, Ultrasonic? just curious what your preferred method is. Thnx. Cheers!
Soap and water and alcohol
@@northwestrepair Distilled water?
I very much care and would love to know the answer to where the cut off point for replacing the memory would be.
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?
Amazing!! How could you figure out which memory chip was wrecked? I wonder how much do you charge for this kind of repair?
I run the test, look at the results.
This repairs was 105
@@northwestrepair your pricing is incredibly reasonable!
Amazing as always brah
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
Chip staring into your soul made me laugh.
I'm just waiting for my video card to break so I can send it to you. 😊
Its a gigabyte 3080. I didn't know anything about cards when I bought this s***.
To be fair it's been a decent card for at least a year now I don't know maybe more
My mans a true baller
why does your vids have northridgefix tag? same shop?
Am not sure. I think it helps to get views ?
Got my hopes up I thought my balls were finally getting reballed after 28 years knew I shouldn’t have trusted that no clean flux , oh well maybe one day
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?
Great video, as always. There IS an audience for knowledge and expertise w/out RGB. Glad I found your channel.
Is there any beef between northwestrepair and northridgefix? :))
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.
Not hard. Aliexpress has tons.
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....
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?
weird issue like what ?
@@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
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.
that is why you always put faster module.
@@northwestrepair Makes sense. Great video!!!
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.
I prefer to make my own cables, that way I control the quality and gauge of the wire and connectors, if you choose to go this route your going to need a crimper like the Lutro modded one
I wanted to but I don't know what those terminals are called.
Type and gauge or why ever name they have.
Otherwise I would have built my own cable set instead of wasting money buying overpriced junk.
Your content is great as is.
Tony you don't need a heat plate, just flip the board upside down and have the hairy donut running ..
U are true Pro ball Handler!!!!!!!!!
This content insane please moar.
Is that red PCIe slot you plug the card into a GPU mining card?
Sir you got skills
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.
"Better than Northridgefix!"
Allways awesome video
What bandwidth and sampling rate oscilloscope we need minimum?
100MHZ is plenty 1 GSa/s sample rate. 200mhz is what i have
Great job as always!
Whats the name of software for testing vram pls? Good job 😊
Mats
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?
What does “pex” mean? I always see him check, but I’m clueless.
I do enjoy the entertaining version of your videos with the picture of a boot, etc. But if you're not in the mood to edit a video thats OK as well.
Really love your work. Waiting for my salary increment then I will purchase repairing instrument. I am also interested in learning only gpu repairing.
the thumbnail made me laugh so hard, good job
Genius stuff
What multimeter test leads do you use ?
I don't think there's a limit to memory chips you can change even if you replaced all the memory chips with faster ones because the chips will still run on same frequency, as long as they are otherwise with same IO specs. I know that some companies even fit different brands of memory chips to hardware, and get away with it simply by recalculating resistances, inductances, capacitances, so practically changing analog components accordingly. Firmware, driver, and memory controller all work in junction sort of, memory chip itself is kinda generic stupid IC. Card performance would be the same as with stock chips, unless the GPU is memory capped, and then you'd probably still need to overclock controller somehow if you wanted to raise that cap. I may be completely wrong though but this is what comes to my mind.