Genuinely earned £15 from my bed by telling someone over the phone to turn their laptop off and on once or twice and all seemed to be resolved apparently
I actually kinda cringe a bit to be honest. lol The PCB might get slightly scratched with little bits of wood, and very small amounts of dirt might get onto the PCIe pins and go unnoticed.
I scored a GTX1080 from a yard sale over the summer for $5. It was an OEM version so had no obvious part numbers on it so the guy didn't know what he had. I was so excited. My son uses it now in his PC, works great.
It is his personality. I have a 3090 for work and don't do gaming and yet I watch most of his videos. The content is great, but completely irrelevant for me and yet here I am!
@@juliusfucik4011 I do gaming and have a 3090ti + i9-9900K all under liquid, But I'm a self proclaimed geek who loves anything PC related! And I was once in a position I couldn't afford high end hardware, Not even mid range, And I love content like this! Makes no difference the fact I can kit out a gaming rig with top components.. My interest doesn't die lol
I honestly love the ground rainbow in Warzone 2.0. I might have to find a mod or something for it. Good to know that the GTX 760 can still put up a fight.
the 4gb variant does, 2gb has more trouble with games now.
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One thing I really enjoy about your channel is that you have content that resonates with the real lifes of the majority of the people who play on pc. Budget builds, testing old cards people might still have on theor systems, etc. And allways very genuine! Found your videos on 2020 and still like to come back and chill watching your stuff. Only keeps getting bettee with time, congratulations!
The crazy thing about the GTX 760 is that A LOT of these cards have the exact same problem. I have one at home which I harvested from the junkyard, it had the same problem and the same heatgun-fix did the trick. It seems to be a manufacturing issue during this generation since SO many GTX760s are suffering from it. Anyway, I got a passive 7750 for 16$ instead (more reliant). Not the fastest thing in the world, but enough performance for the stuff I need it to do. :) (ubiart-style 2D game development, 2D graphics and vector animations) openGL performance is great, I run the game at 1440p120Hz, even with 20+ parallax layers, thousands of assets on-screen, tons of post-processing. no slowdown to speak of.
As far as I know, this heat gun trick only works with Nvidia gen 7xx and older, because they changed something in soldering technology in the 9xx generation It can sometimes help with newer gpus but it is because while you are heating gpu, you also heating surrounding memory modules
Your are totally wrong, it works on all the card, however it's a bit more complicated and very case to case dependent. Furthermore it's only since the Tesla era that they changed the process from leaded tin to ROHS type tin for soldering, it was back in 2006~2008. Also an heat gun should be prohibited.
@@TheQuentincc I don't agree with prohibiting heat guns. I do agree with teaching people safety practices. If they were prohibited then people like Louise Rossman would've had much more trouble getting into their line of business.
If you're taking suggestions for benchmarking, could you try doing benchmarks with Metro: Exodus in the future? The base version alone is a demanding title but if you ever get a 40 series RTX card then I'd love to see you benchmark the Enhanced Edition with all the RT options on!
Following this channel for a while, the high end definetly isn't the focus here. He has had Metro: Exodus in his benchmark roster before and I figure hes removed it because of its demand or problems with the graphics API 'cause many of the cards can't handle or even cant run newer games that work solely on newer API's. The roster is then limnited to DirectX9, 10 or maybe 11. That being said I recall Metro being in his roster of games to benchmark whenever its applicable, but I might be wrong.
Also the GTX-770 came in a 4gb version. Interestingly I had a 2gb EVGA GTX-670 die in the last few months of it's warranty and they sent me a 2gb 770 as a warranty replacement. It was still working perfectly when I sold it for $50 over the summer. ($25 less then I paid for the used 670!)
Managed to get couple months Ago Asus Direct CU II r9 280x 3gb for 20euros. It had rattling fan, used teflone and fixed it, cleaned it, it performs 2x better nowadays than its original competitor gtx 770, infact it mostly performs like GTX 1060 3GB in all new tittles. hd 7970/r9 280x aged really really well
@@zackburkhart8693 Only by online benchmarks, AMDs drivers lifted the performance significantly since the GPUs were originally tested. My HD 7870 XT got the same score in Unigine Superposition as a GTX 1080. 10823 score (720p preset), sadly the 7870 likes to overheat even at -200mV VDDC offset. The only thing is that the drivers are also shit at the same time and don't boost the GPU properly (501MHz max) so I had to use ClockBlocker to pin it at max clocks during the run...
Steve, always watch and enjoy your videos mate. It's nice to hear another English voice for tech stuff, given I'm Stateside and never hear one. I recently bought an EVGA GTX 1070 FTW, a Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3GB, and a Zotac RTX 2070 AMP that all had "failures." They would all post, but had varying issues. - The 2070 would only post in low resolution mode and when using GPU-Z wouldn't display any VRAM information. This was fixed by, get this, applying additional thermal pads for increased pressure on the memory chips, and increasing the stock fan curve on the card. - The 1070 would artifact and crash in a few games after a little while. This was fixed by, get this again, cleaning, repasting, and applying additional thermal pads to the memory chips, then increasing the stock fan curve. - The 1060 3GB would not display an image at all, and would not be recognized by Windows besides as a basic display adapter, however, NVFlash would find it as a 1060 3GB. After pulling the bios on the card it had been flashed somehow with a 6GB bios. After flashing it back to a 3GB, it exhibited the same VRAM failure as the other cards, which was fixed by, get this, adding additional thermal pads. It isn't entirely fixed considering only the HDMI port works, but it at least displays an image. Not sure if you've ever tried this with a GPU exhibiting VRAM failure, but it has also worked on a couple of AMD cards I did it too. After trying the baking method and having it end in failure too often, I resorted to finding other solutions and thought this might be a good place to share what I've found so far.
It's not the GPU you're aiming with the heat gun, BTW, it's the solder joints. Solder(newer lead free solder dries faster, so if you're ever planning to solder something, use leaded for longevity reasons) dries out and cracks, meaning no power won't get through properly, if it's not completely dry, heating it up will cause some of the still moist solder to melt and fill the gaps. Of course, dry solder is dry solder, so it'll eventually just crack again.
Yup probably had the same model, sc acx. Mine had a freak accident and a small smt transistor melted off and hit the ram pads and shorted one module. Now it's code 43 whenever drivers are installed. RiP
0:02 "A few days ago a friend challenged me to find a graphics card for just 20 USD. Alright, i'm lying. i have no friends. i challenged myself." 😂😂😂 that was funny
I had a 660 Ti which I had to use the heat trick on a few times to keep it alive for my son. However, rather than using a heat gun (which I like the idea of far better), I literally baked the card on a low heat in the oven. The card had a severe overheating issue (it was a blower-style, but I honestly don't know how relevant that is to the issue), and I suspect that the components around the GPU die would just get so hot that they would (partially) unseat themselves. I don't recommend this to anyone with anything less than huge minerals and heaps of caution, but if your card is already borked - it works a treat 90% of the time!
@PC_Modder I appreciate you trying to step in - even if it did come across as a little "aCkShUaLlLyY..." So a "simple reball" to what? If you don't know which component is the issue, you're suggesting every component around the GPU die be reseated and soldered? I mean, you don't perform a "simple reball" of 700 tiny little capacitors and resistors used for filtering on the top and the bottom of the card. Additionally, if that person doing work isn't local, then I'm also out of the cost of shipping. This is a story from nearly 8 years ago, when the 660 Ti was far more relevant.
thats a really good price! i managed to snatch a gtx 460 a few months ago on ebay for some retro gaming! I love seeing old cards still put a fight, as new cards are really expensive
@@Jasontvnd9 These days Crysis is retro for many. :D All depends on one's point of view, there are no absolutes. For me, retro is 1980s home micros ('cos I'm an old git), for others it's 1990s DOS PCs or Amigas, and so on. I own quite a few GTX 460s, great card, especially the v2, 1GHz+ core is easy, two oc'd in SLI thumps a 580 and almost beats a 680. The 2GB 460 was interesting, but alas the v2 never saw a 2GB release.
@@Jasontvnd9 I have a gt 9600 but the vga port broke. Also this one has newer drivers so I can play newer patches for older games (on Windows 7). Also i thought it. Also it can do a bit better emulating (doe I should upgrade my cpu)
My first GPU I ever bought was an EVGA 2gb 760 ( twin fan version ), which eventually got passed on to my brother and then my mom, before both of them moved on to upgrade. After that I ended up selling it to a friend for $50 before I eventually bought it back from him recently. I actually intend on framing it. I remember the interim between upgrading the rest of my build from a prebuilt to a system I built myself, I couldn’t afford to get a gpu upgrade but the prebuilt was so cpu bottlenecked I went from 25-30fps in witcher 2 to 60 on the same 760 before I was able to get a 970. That 760 got me into PC gaming though and was really great at the time.
The heat gun is used to reflow solder joints and help fix bad connections. Over time, some electronics suffer from cold solder points and the heat reflows and reconnects things.
I've heard the heat gun or toaster oven fix on a number of older Nvidia GPUs was not usually because of the BGA connections but because of connections between the bare silicon itself and the interior wiring that went to the BGA pads on the underside of the finished chip.
The real reason why this GPU failed is because the gtx 760's memory was notorious for failing memory chips. Heating up the memory (Random just happened to heat up the memory as well while doing this) can fix the issue for a very long time but its obviously not recommend to sell this off on ebay (unless you wanna be that guy LOL)
While I'm not an Apple user, I remember something about Nvidia GPUs clapping out on a number of Macs around 10 or 12 years ago supposedly due to internal wiring issues on the chips. The on-screen artifacts DID look like VRAM problems I've seen in the now distant past though.
"Alright I have no friends" Ahaha that cracked me up mate. As someone who has lost most of my mates over the past few years through my heavy drinking and bad behavior I would certainly like to have a friend like you that has an interest in computer hardware and software.
You most likely temporarily (sometimes can last forever tbh) fixed the memory issue, there is a leaked diag tool by NVIDIA called MATS/MODS that can run and check exactly what memory chip/channel is bad. Any time you see lines or error 43 its most likely a failed memory chip or (very unlikely) memory channel, a GPU that isn't detected is most likely a failed power rail, and a GPU that sometimes work but then randomly dies is usually a bad mosfet or physical damage. I recommend you take a peek at the channel tech cemetery, very good repair content. It could have been a faulty memory chip that you heated up on accident while heating the core, its usually never the core that dies when it comes to lines, usually the memory chip near the PCIE slot is the culprit as those will see the most stress.
I picked up the ACX SC version at goodwill for $10 last week. SUPER dusty but it worked. It's all repasted and cleaned up now, fairly quiet at full load, does the job in the games it was built to run. I had to get it just for a being a EVGA card.
remember buying gtx 980 back in 2016. For like 20$ had the same issue its fans weren't working and was fried. Upon heating and re assembling the gpu is still working and playing games on it since than.
@El Cactuar no its zotax. But yeah back in days it was common accurance. I had 8800 gt 9600gt and 9800gt from evga they had those issues. From there actually I got the experience of cooking the gpus. Back then I didn't had the heat gun. I used to cook them in oven.
I'll be your friend, if I ever get around to moving to the UK I'll buy the first pint! Btw the heat gun is the poor man's reflow oven - it fixes any corroded connections. It doesn't fix any damaged components so it's often a temporary fix because it was getting hot for a reason.
Broken graphics in WZ 2.0 is pretty much another entry in the game's extensive list of bugs. For me it was, for one game at least, looking at trees that emitted light so bright I couldn't see any enemies behind the trees.
Great card for the money. Might work nicely for a retro rig. It doesn't stop surprising me at hearing that 2gb is too little VRAM when I clearly remember being stoked when I got my first 12mb Voodoo card, and even further back to my old Tandy in the 80s.
Can you do a video where you combine all the graphicscards you have tested like on a chart witch is on the video. From worst to best. Could be to much work for that i understand but it could be nice to see
the issue is that the rest of the system may not be the same. he tends to sell hardware after a while, so it's harder for him to run an apples-to-apples comparison
I have a video idea for ya. Elden Ring is really demanding on older CPUs, could you try a bunch of old CPUs and see which ones are able to maintain Elden Rings 60fps cap?
Right now, power usage is a real thing for me since electric has gone madly priced here in the UK so this 760 with an 8pin + 6 pin is just horrendously bad for the performance. But then again I'm not a budget user either but love your videos and the information revealed.
I played Call Of Duty Warzone 2 on my Intel Pentium G7400, with the UHD 710 graphics, and it had the same glitchy textures. Not including it got about 20 FPS at 640X480 on the lowest settings, with and without FSR or dynamic resolution.
Got an "untested" Dell 6gb GTX 1060 off Ebay 5 years ago for £15 with possible water damage. Cleaned it with IPA, fresh thermal paste and I'm still using it.
reflowing the cpu does fix some cards depending on the level of damage, maybe you can try using dxvk for DX11 and vkd3d for DX12 games and see if the card does better.
I picked up 2 RX 560s in the past few weeks for $30, a gtx 970 for $30, and a RX 580 4gb ITX FOR $50 Did also get a RTX 2080 with 1 broken fan for $50 a few months prior as well
If manufacturers had stuck to pins instead of ball grid array soldering we wouldn't be having these problems. It's all about maximising profits for the card manufacturers. Heating balls and cooling puts tiny fractures in the soldering after time. It's thermal stress. I just wish they'd sort these problems out.
I got one in a old dusty untested pc for $30. Came with a gigabyte mobo, i5 2500, 12gb drr3 and a 650watt PSU. Sold the other parts for profit, 760 is now in a pc with a fx 6100 and 16gb ram i got for $15! Definitely good for how cheap you can get it with good deals
I paired this card with a i7 4770 for my first gaming system and it was very capable though the issue with the GPU dying, blowing loudly is real. I've upgraded since to a 1650 and then to a RTX 3060. I've since swapped the CPU for a i7 4770k haven't felt a need to upgrade further
The best way to bake a card is to get it up to like 180c in an oven, then pull it out and heat the GPU to 250, put the card back in, turn the oven off and open it slightly
I had a Dell XPS laptop with a discrete gpu that behaved similarly. I had to boot the system up and play a video/movie using the intel CPUs , iGPU, until I could hear the fans singing. After that the discrete nvidia GPU worked normally.
I actually used this heat gun method to revive a trashcan mac pro which had failing graphic card. It still works now after about 2 years. My method was a bit more aggressive, I used plastic clamps that can grab asymmetrically and can be tighten, and only then I used the heat gun, then let it cool with the clamps still tight pushing the gpu to the board
Oh my goodness! I've waited for this moment for years! So fun story, I have that exact same graphics card. 2GB GDDR5 and blower style. Required an 8pin and a 6pin. It's currently on display since it was technically the first GPU I ever bought. I was trying to be extra thoughtful on my first system and someone at some point convinced me to go with a blower style cooler since it would blow air out the back of the case instead of spreading it in the case making everything hotter. I hated it. I mean, I loved it. It was my first GPU and it went into my first PC. I have it on display for a reason. But I hated it! It was annoying even on idle! It had this annoying hum that wouldn't go away. There were times I felt it was driving me actually a little crazy. I eventually got a Noctua NH-C14 (as a gift) I let the fans run at max speed to drown out the sound of the annoying hum of the GPU on idle. Imagine getting a premium quiet CPU cooler only to deliberate make it louder to drown out the sound of another component... Eventually I got a GTX 1060 6GB. It was EVGA's Super-clocked version that had heat-pipes and fin-stacks rather than just a singular heat-sync. That card only needed a single 6pin and provided such a massive boost in performance and I could turn down the speed of my CPU cooler to a much quieter speed. Okay I'm going to actually watch the video now and see what your experience is like! Edit: I hear it... The hum... It's back. It's back and it actually brings me a sense of dread to hear it again. I'm adding this video to my favorites. Also I'm amazed it can even run RDR2 considering my current RX 5700 XT can't exactly max it out.
Lol I don't blame you for ramping the noctua fans to max. I'm often surprised when my own GPU fans kick up to 60% (user defined curve) as they're pretty audible. The blower style stuff is truly something else. I wouldn't want to be subjected to that constantly. It's bad enough that I get to hear it in videos lol
instead of using a heatgun you could also use your oven (take cooler off remove thermal paste put on baking paper then on baking tray with baking paper bake for 30 minutes on 180°C)
G'day Random, Yeah the heat method is a bit Hit & Miss, I'd rather look for one that is 100% working, but in a time when people are paying well over 1000Whatevers for a GPU "'cause I gotta have this to game" this shows how even midrange older GPUs still give a fun playing experience. I have a nVIDIA GTX *60 collection which is almost complete just missing a 960 as Human Malware sent prices to Infinity & Beyond when I was ready to get one, but am searching for a good one again now, the 760 I have is a EVGA GTX760SC ACX Cooler 4GB (Boost: 1150MHz)
Grabbed an R7 260X 2GB card for a budget GTA 5 machine, £16 and fully functional. Throwing it together with an Xeon E3-1230,8GB RAM,256GB SSD and 500GB HDD. £40 for the whole lot.
I found a Palit GTX 770 at the dump and stole it from there. Luckily it was summer and it was not exposed to rain. It had a brokern wing on one fan and i disabled it by snapping the wires. After cleaning the vape gunk I gave this card to the girlfriend of one of my best buddies. She loved it because now she can play Planet Zoo. :)
Dunno if you've done this, but trying one of those ultra budget builds using i.e. Aliexpress cheap Xeon CPU's (or similar) + a creative gpu purchase. In today's economy, interesting to see how down low one can go.
My mom once phoned me because her iMac (2012) behaves strangely. It turns out that she didn't turn her iMac off (and all of her running programs) for rouhly 9 months... the page file of her browser is a whopping 120G (on a 500G HDD). Even though she only watch videos and some web browsing with her iMac, I decided to upgraded her iMac with a SSD and 16G RAM (origianlly 4G).... it's a fun experience though...
That card is suffering from vram issues. A simple mats test and would reveal what chip is damaged, and a replacement chip would be around $15-$20 shipped. I’d beT if you got the card repaired, most of the texture issues that were had (like in war zone 2) would be corrected. The card would be more stable as well as it wouldn’t be generating errors every frame Also, I thought nvidia added dx12 support for all cards back to the 500 series?
Not bad, though older, non DX12 GPUs aren't really that good for modern titles anymore. Also 2GB VRAM isn't enough either. Speaking of cheap graphics cards... I think I found a GTX 460 for £20 and a GTX 570 for £25 in one of the local CeX stores I last visited. Don't know if they're still there now, but still, even if it is a cheaper GPU, it'll do for something.
If you can find the laptop gpu adapter, you can use a gtx765m and I have found that it is faster than most modern cards, it comes in the asus rog g750jw
I wonder if the gpu would run longer than the oven method, that one fucks up the caps but just the heat gun resolders the gpu die so makes sense it would last some time if not being abused.
I did this trick to fix one my gpu but it didn't last as long, I did it again but added liquid flux underneath the die by syringe and heated it evenly and it's working fine for two years and more to go!
bought a saphire rx470 nitro 8GB mining edition for 20 euro, all i had to do was a little soldering to connect the hdmi port to the pcb. The hdmi port is already on there, just not connected to the pcb yet. works perfectly, gave it to my sister to replace her hd6870.
I picked up a GT710 from CEX for £20 the other day I mean it’s no power monster but does the games I want. Also for that £20 a 2 year warranty is included however I may venture on to eBay and see what’s on there if I need a upgrade.
The 700 series cards can be really good for making an ultimate Windows XP era gaming system with an old Q6600 or something like that. They are on par, if not better than the best graphics cards of that era (like the 8800 GT) with a whole lot less power draw comparatively. Also could try them on a Linux build using proton, but I don't think they are as competitive as the Radeon series line up.
Hey we're all friends here! :D
Damn, I gotta get my heat gun out, I got like 10 dead GPUs 😅
I lol'd with warzone 2 ahahaha
I imagine fixing a gpu with a heat gun is a little like telling a customer to turn their computer off and on again and suddenly all is resolved 😂😅
It definitely is 😂
Genuinely earned £15 from my bed by telling someone over the phone to turn their laptop off and on once or twice and all seemed to be resolved apparently
I work in IT support, you wouldn't believe how often that is the case.
@@MrAndinho1 Strange but who's to argue with complete and utter logic? 😂😂
The oven has saved a ton of GPUs and Mobos for me over the years.
The glamour shots of the GPU's in the garden are really nice, more partners and companies should do this too.
I actually kinda cringe a bit to be honest. lol The PCB might get slightly scratched with little bits of wood, and very small amounts of dirt might get onto the PCIe pins and go unnoticed.
For me it is part of the charm, really
@@arnox4554 ye thats why its good
I scored a GTX1080 from a yard sale over the summer for $5. It was an OEM version so had no obvious part numbers on it so the guy didn't know what he had. I was so excited. My son uses it now in his PC, works great.
And here I thought my goodwill gtx 960 for $5 was a nice find
@@ffwast i found a rtx 4090 on the side of the road and it works perfectly
@@IslamIsLikeAnorexia I found a Quantum Computer outside my window and it works amazing
@@ekay4495 🥶
I wouldn't have let the seller go without handing more ngl. Like $100-150 if it was this summer.
They were like 300...
Huge respect from a viewer a bit nearer to London than yourself. To build a channel so large and just from home takes some doing. Nice one bud.
Thanks mate :)
@@RandomGaminginHD Can't wait to see that 500k plaque... would be a great Xmas present
It is his personality.
I have a 3090 for work and don't do gaming and yet I watch most of his videos. The content is great, but completely irrelevant for me and yet here I am!
@@juliusfucik4011 Yeah but generally that's how content works? Challenges like these are made for mostly entertainment.
@@juliusfucik4011 I do gaming and have a 3090ti + i9-9900K all under liquid, But I'm a self proclaimed geek who loves anything PC related! And I was once in a position I couldn't afford high end hardware, Not even mid range, And I love content like this! Makes no difference the fact I can kit out a gaming rig with top components.. My interest doesn't die lol
I honestly love the ground rainbow in Warzone 2.0. I might have to find a mod or something for it. Good to know that the GTX 760 can still put up a fight.
Yeah it’s just about hanging in there!
RGB ground. 20% more performance
Those are just flowers !🤣
the 4gb variant does, 2gb has more trouble with games now.
One thing I really enjoy about your channel is that you have content that resonates with the real lifes of the majority of the people who play on pc. Budget builds, testing old cards people might still have on theor systems, etc. And allways very genuine! Found your videos on 2020 and still like to come back and chill watching your stuff. Only keeps getting bettee with time, congratulations!
The crazy thing about the GTX 760 is that A LOT of these cards have the exact same problem. I have one at home which I harvested from the junkyard, it had the same problem and the same heatgun-fix did the trick. It seems to be a manufacturing issue during this generation since SO many GTX760s are suffering from it. Anyway, I got a passive 7750 for 16$ instead (more reliant). Not the fastest thing in the world, but enough performance for the stuff I need it to do. :) (ubiart-style 2D game development, 2D graphics and vector animations) openGL performance is great, I run the game at 1440p120Hz, even with 20+ parallax layers, thousands of assets on-screen, tons of post-processing. no slowdown to speak of.
As far as I know, this heat gun trick only works with Nvidia gen 7xx and older, because they changed something in soldering technology in the 9xx generation
It can sometimes help with newer gpus but it is because while you are heating gpu, you also heating surrounding memory modules
and I think it would be even riskier on GPUs with HBM
Your are totally wrong, it works on all the card, however it's a bit more complicated and very case to case dependent.
Furthermore it's only since the Tesla era that they changed the process from leaded tin to ROHS type tin for soldering, it was back in 2006~2008.
Also an heat gun should be prohibited.
@@TheQuentincc I don't agree with prohibiting heat guns. I do agree with teaching people safety practices. If they were prohibited then people like Louise Rossman would've had much more trouble getting into their line of business.
If you're taking suggestions for benchmarking, could you try doing benchmarks with Metro: Exodus in the future? The base version alone is a demanding title but if you ever get a 40 series RTX card then I'd love to see you benchmark the Enhanced Edition with all the RT options on!
i was literly just thinking this.
@El Cactuar dawg this is youtube not harvard chill out
Following this channel for a while, the high end definetly isn't the focus here. He has had Metro: Exodus in his benchmark roster before and I figure hes removed it because of its demand or problems with the graphics API 'cause many of the cards can't handle or even cant run newer games that work solely on newer API's. The roster is then limnited to DirectX9, 10 or maybe 11. That being said I recall Metro being in his roster of games to benchmark whenever its applicable, but I might be wrong.
@El Cactuar *no *bitches
@@bruhmoment8388 lmao💀
Also the GTX-770 came in a 4gb version. Interestingly I had a 2gb EVGA GTX-670 die in the last few months of it's warranty and they sent me a 2gb 770 as a warranty replacement. It was still working perfectly when I sold it for $50 over the summer. ($25 less then I paid for the used 670!)
Nice :)
Managed to get couple months Ago Asus Direct CU II r9 280x 3gb for 20euros. It had rattling fan, used teflone and fixed it, cleaned it, it performs 2x better nowadays than its original competitor gtx 770, infact it mostly performs like GTX 1060 3GB in all new tittles. hd 7970/r9 280x aged really really well
Nice :)
How did you fix the rattling fans with teflon? Asking because I have a 1070 with the same issue that I have yet to bother taking apart to fix.
@@capsulate8642 use the teflon to reduce vibration by putting it behind the fan
@@capsulate8642 try to put some oil on the noisy fan (the spot is on the fan behind the sticker)
@@zackburkhart8693 Only by online benchmarks, AMDs drivers lifted the performance significantly since the GPUs were originally tested. My HD 7870 XT got the same score in Unigine Superposition as a GTX 1080. 10823 score (720p preset), sadly the 7870 likes to overheat even at -200mV VDDC offset.
The only thing is that the drivers are also shit at the same time and don't boost the GPU properly (501MHz max) so I had to use ClockBlocker to pin it at max clocks during the run...
Steve, always watch and enjoy your videos mate. It's nice to hear another English voice for tech stuff, given I'm Stateside and never hear one.
I recently bought an EVGA GTX 1070 FTW, a Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 3GB, and a Zotac RTX 2070 AMP that all had "failures." They would all post, but had varying issues.
- The 2070 would only post in low resolution mode and when using GPU-Z wouldn't display any VRAM information. This was fixed by, get this, applying additional thermal pads for increased pressure on the memory chips, and increasing the stock fan curve on the card.
- The 1070 would artifact and crash in a few games after a little while. This was fixed by, get this again, cleaning, repasting, and applying additional thermal pads to the memory chips, then increasing the stock fan curve.
- The 1060 3GB would not display an image at all, and would not be recognized by Windows besides as a basic display adapter, however, NVFlash would find it as a 1060 3GB. After pulling the bios on the card it had been flashed somehow with a 6GB bios. After flashing it back to a 3GB, it exhibited the same VRAM failure as the other cards, which was fixed by, get this, adding additional thermal pads. It isn't entirely fixed considering only the HDMI port works, but it at least displays an image.
Not sure if you've ever tried this with a GPU exhibiting VRAM failure, but it has also worked on a couple of AMD cards I did it too. After trying the baking method and having it end in failure too often, I resorted to finding other solutions and thought this might be a good place to share what I've found so far.
It's not the GPU you're aiming with the heat gun, BTW, it's the solder joints. Solder(newer lead free solder dries faster, so if you're ever planning to solder something, use leaded for longevity reasons) dries out and cracks, meaning no power won't get through properly, if it's not completely dry, heating it up will cause some of the still moist solder to melt and fill the gaps. Of course, dry solder is dry solder, so it'll eventually just crack again.
alternatively it can help with cracked memory i believe. or something
im pretty certain a card of mine had memory problem and it helped with that
My last gpu was actually a Evga GTX 760, (although my one had dual fans) and it was actually pretty good for the price!
Yup probably had the same model, sc acx. Mine had a freak accident and a small smt transistor melted off and hit the ram pads and shorted one module. Now it's code 43 whenever drivers are installed. RiP
0:02 "A few days ago a friend challenged me to find a graphics card for just 20 USD. Alright, i'm lying. i have no friends. i challenged myself." 😂😂😂 that was funny
I would go for the hd 7750 in that case.
Edit: HOW THE F*CK DID YOU FIND A GTX 760 FOR £14
I paid 80 bloody quid in 2021 for a gtx 770. I just updated to a 5500xt 8gb and it cost 96 pounds.
@@RichardMontgomeryYT crazy how cheap those 5000 series are getting
@@jonnyc429 yeah, the 5600xt is going for 130 to 160 pounds as well, not bad but sadly a little too much out of my budget.
I had a 660 Ti which I had to use the heat trick on a few times to keep it alive for my son. However, rather than using a heat gun (which I like the idea of far better), I literally baked the card on a low heat in the oven. The card had a severe overheating issue (it was a blower-style, but I honestly don't know how relevant that is to the issue), and I suspect that the components around the GPU die would just get so hot that they would (partially) unseat themselves. I don't recommend this to anyone with anything less than huge minerals and heaps of caution, but if your card is already borked - it works a treat 90% of the time!
@PC_Modder "Simple reball"
@PC_Modder I appreciate you trying to step in - even if it did come across as a little "aCkShUaLlLyY..." So a "simple reball" to what? If you don't know which component is the issue, you're suggesting every component around the GPU die be reseated and soldered? I mean, you don't perform a "simple reball" of 700 tiny little capacitors and resistors used for filtering on the top and the bottom of the card. Additionally, if that person doing work isn't local, then I'm also out of the cost of shipping. This is a story from nearly 8 years ago, when the 660 Ti was far more relevant.
@PC_Modder it just sounded like you meant it as a DIY like the heat gun
thats a really good price! i managed to snatch a gtx 460 a few months ago on ebay for some retro gaming! I love seeing old cards still put a fight, as new cards are really expensive
GTX460 isnt retro gaming. unless your rocking a couple of voodoos it's not retro.
@@Jasontvnd9 These days Crysis is retro for many. :D All depends on one's point of view, there are no absolutes. For me, retro is 1980s home micros ('cos I'm an old git), for others it's 1990s DOS PCs or Amigas, and so on.
I own quite a few GTX 460s, great card, especially the v2, 1GHz+ core is easy, two oc'd in SLI thumps a 580 and almost beats a 680. The 2GB 460 was interesting, but alas the v2 never saw a 2GB release.
@@Jasontvnd9 I have a gt 9600 but the vga port broke. Also this one has newer drivers so I can play newer patches for older games (on Windows 7). Also i thought it. Also it can do a bit better emulating (doe I should upgrade my cpu)
My first GPU I ever bought was an EVGA 2gb 760 ( twin fan version ), which eventually got passed on to my brother and then my mom, before both of them moved on to upgrade. After that I ended up selling it to a friend for $50 before I eventually bought it back from him recently. I actually intend on framing it. I remember the interim between upgrading the rest of my build from a prebuilt to a system I built myself, I couldn’t afford to get a gpu upgrade but the prebuilt was so cpu bottlenecked I went from 25-30fps in witcher 2 to 60 on the same 760 before I was able to get a 970. That 760 got me into PC gaming though and was really great at the time.
Would love to see some challenges between you and Budget-Builds official. It's been a long time since I've seen a budget battle.
Yeah, I miss those
I snagged an R7 360 for $30 recently, but man! That's a steal!
thought that 'n' in 'snagged' was a 'h' for a second..
@@arnz5050 tech prostitution
The heat gun is used to reflow solder joints and help fix bad connections. Over time, some electronics suffer from cold solder points and the heat reflows and reconnects things.
I've heard the heat gun or toaster oven fix on a number of older Nvidia GPUs was not usually because of the BGA connections but because of connections between the bare silicon itself and the interior wiring that went to the BGA pads on the underside of the finished chip.
The real reason why this GPU failed is because the gtx 760's memory was notorious for failing memory chips. Heating up the memory (Random just happened to heat up the memory as well while doing this) can fix the issue for a very long time but its obviously not recommend to sell this off on ebay (unless you wanna be that guy LOL)
While I'm not an Apple user, I remember something about Nvidia GPUs clapping out on a number of Macs around 10 or 12 years ago supposedly due to internal wiring issues on the chips. The on-screen artifacts DID look like VRAM problems I've seen in the now distant past though.
Have you seen the RX580's on Aliexpress for $70? 8gb ones too
"Alright I have no friends" Ahaha that cracked me up mate. As someone who has lost most of my mates over the past few years through my heavy drinking and bad behavior I would certainly like to have a friend like you that has an interest in computer hardware and software.
Nice to see you rocking that awesome minisforum in the back!!
Ps what about some couch gaming video? Like best gpus for tv sets yada yada yada
You most likely temporarily (sometimes can last forever tbh) fixed the memory issue, there is a leaked diag tool by NVIDIA called MATS/MODS that can run and check exactly what memory chip/channel is bad.
Any time you see lines or error 43 its most likely a failed memory chip or (very unlikely) memory channel, a GPU that isn't detected is most likely a failed power rail, and a GPU that sometimes work but then randomly dies is usually a bad mosfet or physical damage.
I recommend you take a peek at the channel tech cemetery, very good repair content.
It could have been a faulty memory chip that you heated up on accident while heating the core, its usually never the core that dies when it comes to lines, usually the memory chip near the PCIE slot is the culprit as those will see the most stress.
I picked up the ACX SC version at goodwill for $10 last week. SUPER dusty but it worked. It's all repasted and cleaned up now, fairly quiet at full load, does the job in the games it was built to run. I had to get it just for a being a EVGA card.
remember buying gtx 980 back in 2016. For like 20$ had the same issue its fans weren't working and was fried. Upon heating and re assembling the gpu is still working and playing games on it since than.
@El Cactuar no its zotax. But yeah back in days it was common accurance. I had 8800 gt 9600gt and 9800gt from evga they had those issues. From there actually I got the experience of cooking the gpus. Back then I didn't had the heat gun. I used to cook them in oven.
I'll be your friend, if I ever get around to moving to the UK I'll buy the first pint!
Btw the heat gun is the poor man's reflow oven - it fixes any corroded connections. It doesn't fix any damaged components so it's often a temporary fix because it was getting hot for a reason.
Broken graphics in WZ 2.0 is pretty much another entry in the game's extensive list of bugs. For me it was, for one game at least, looking at trees that emitted light so bright I couldn't see any enemies behind the trees.
It's a good-looking card, impressed with how it ran cyberpunk.
Dude you made crack down from laughing 🤣 at the beginning of the video
Great card for the money. Might work nicely for a retro rig.
It doesn't stop surprising me at hearing that 2gb is too little VRAM when I clearly remember being stoked when I got my first 12mb Voodoo card, and even further back to my old Tandy in the 80s.
I still use 2 GB
"alri' im lyin', i have no friends" bro first 10 seconds already too real fam
3:05 "It's supports DX11 and no more..." and then you run CP2077 in DX12 mode 🤣🤣🤣
I always find your thumbs hilarious. Graphics card up against a tree on wet soggy dirt 🤣
Nice score! The heat gun trick seems a lot more efficient than putting it in the oven
Really, your approach to repair was more technical than some. I think many of us would have baked this puppy in the oven.
Can you do a video where you combine all the graphicscards you have tested like on a chart witch is on the video. From worst to best. Could be to much work for that i understand but it could be nice to see
the issue is that the rest of the system may not be the same. he tends to sell hardware after a while, so it's harder for him to run an apples-to-apples comparison
Id buy that for 20 quid just to display on a shelf.....working or not !!! Thats a handsome looking GPU right there
I have a video idea for ya. Elden Ring is really demanding on older CPUs, could you try a bunch of old CPUs and see which ones are able to maintain Elden Rings 60fps cap?
Right now, power usage is a real thing for me since electric has gone madly priced here in the UK so this 760 with an 8pin + 6 pin is just horrendously bad for the performance. But then again I'm not a budget user either but love your videos and the information revealed.
I wish we knew more about RGHD personally, cuz all we know is some of his game preferences, the general region he lives in, and that he loves tech.
Those first 15 seconds, gold! That's what she tells me too...
The GTX 760 comes in 2GB, 4GB, and even 3GB variants.
The 3GB variant is OEM only, and the one I found was an an Asus prebuilt.
I played Call Of Duty Warzone 2 on my Intel Pentium G7400, with the UHD 710 graphics, and it had the same glitchy textures. Not including it got about 20 FPS at 640X480 on the lowest settings, with and without FSR or dynamic resolution.
Got an "untested" Dell 6gb GTX 1060 off Ebay 5 years ago for £15 with possible water damage. Cleaned it with IPA, fresh thermal paste and I'm still using it.
reflowing the cpu does fix some cards depending on the level of damage, maybe you can try using dxvk for DX11 and vkd3d for DX12 games and see if the card does better.
I have fond memories of this card! Just sold mine on eBay for $50 dollars US. Awesome content!
I picked up 2 RX 560s in the past few weeks for $30, a gtx 970 for $30, and a RX 580 4gb ITX FOR $50
Did also get a RTX 2080 with 1 broken fan for $50 a few months prior as well
If manufacturers had stuck to pins instead of ball grid array soldering we wouldn't be having these problems. It's all about maximising profits for the card manufacturers. Heating balls and cooling puts tiny fractures in the soldering after time. It's thermal stress. I just wish they'd sort these problems out.
You are looking so healthy, sir! Love your videos and your beautiful accent. Always a pleasure!
Thanks mate :)
How many broken cards did you have to go through to get one working at that price?
This was the first haha. The broken 1660 was next but the heatgun couldn’t fix that 😂
@@RandomGaminginHD that at least was lucky and saved you wasting money
"I'm lying, I have no friends..."
Lol self roast.
I got one in a old dusty untested pc for $30. Came with a gigabyte mobo, i5 2500, 12gb drr3 and a 650watt PSU. Sold the other parts for profit, 760 is now in a pc with a fx 6100 and 16gb ram i got for $15! Definitely good for how cheap you can get it with good deals
I paired this card with a i7 4770 for my first gaming system and it was very capable though the issue with the GPU dying, blowing loudly is real. I've upgraded since to a 1650 and then to a RTX 3060. I've since swapped the CPU for a i7 4770k haven't felt a need to upgrade further
Very sensible approach, only upgrade if what you have literally can't do what you want. All too easy to get sucked in by the hype train.
dang you don't have me laughing outload very often but your i lied i have no friends killed me good job buddy
😂
The best way to bake a card is to get it up to like 180c in an oven, then pull it out and heat the GPU to 250, put the card back in, turn the oven off and open it slightly
1:46 That looks like you left the GPU on the sun for too long. . Should have harvested before it fell down from the tree! :(
Just the other day i saw a GTX 960 2GB going for 30€ used on FB Marketplace and it makes me think of how lucky you can get with deals sometimes.
Just done a fortnite/apex/minecraft/roblox box with 760 and i5 4670. Nice video, not everyone can afford the latest and greatest kit.
Nvidia is still supporting the GTX 750 Ti.
I used to have a 1GB GTX 750 non Ti back in the day.
I bought a GTX 750 2GB for $35 here in the US back in spring. It runs fine.
Just sold a perfectly fine working MSI Twin Forza 760 for $20 the other day lol.
Very nice
I had a Dell XPS laptop with a discrete gpu that behaved similarly. I had to boot the system up and play a video/movie using the intel CPUs , iGPU, until I could hear the fans singing. After that the discrete nvidia GPU worked normally.
I actually used this heat gun method to revive a trashcan mac pro which had failing graphic card. It still works now after about 2 years. My method was a bit more aggressive, I used plastic clamps that can grab asymmetrically and can be tighten, and only then I used the heat gun, then let it cool with the clamps still tight pushing the gpu to the board
nice wallhack on warzone 2.0 dude it mimght help you spotting enemy easier :))
Oh my goodness! I've waited for this moment for years! So fun story, I have that exact same graphics card. 2GB GDDR5 and blower style. Required an 8pin and a 6pin. It's currently on display since it was technically the first GPU I ever bought. I was trying to be extra thoughtful on my first system and someone at some point convinced me to go with a blower style cooler since it would blow air out the back of the case instead of spreading it in the case making everything hotter. I hated it. I mean, I loved it. It was my first GPU and it went into my first PC. I have it on display for a reason. But I hated it! It was annoying even on idle! It had this annoying hum that wouldn't go away. There were times I felt it was driving me actually a little crazy. I eventually got a Noctua NH-C14 (as a gift) I let the fans run at max speed to drown out the sound of the annoying hum of the GPU on idle. Imagine getting a premium quiet CPU cooler only to deliberate make it louder to drown out the sound of another component...
Eventually I got a GTX 1060 6GB. It was EVGA's Super-clocked version that had heat-pipes and fin-stacks rather than just a singular heat-sync. That card only needed a single 6pin and provided such a massive boost in performance and I could turn down the speed of my CPU cooler to a much quieter speed. Okay I'm going to actually watch the video now and see what your experience is like!
Edit: I hear it... The hum... It's back. It's back and it actually brings me a sense of dread to hear it again. I'm adding this video to my favorites. Also I'm amazed it can even run RDR2 considering my current RX 5700 XT can't exactly max it out.
I love reading these fond memories of terrible tech... And this section is filled with them LOL
Lol I don't blame you for ramping the noctua fans to max. I'm often surprised when my own GPU fans kick up to 60% (user defined curve) as they're pretty audible.
The blower style stuff is truly something else. I wouldn't want to be subjected to that constantly. It's bad enough that I get to hear it in videos lol
I do have this card. It severed be well when it was in use. Its now a video output for a home theater PC
The "I don't have friends" joke just hits home way too much man
instead of using a heatgun you could also use your oven (take cooler off remove thermal paste put on baking paper then on baking tray with baking paper bake for 30 minutes on 180°C)
G'day Random,
Yeah the heat method is a bit Hit & Miss, I'd rather look for one that is 100% working, but in a time when people are paying well over 1000Whatevers for a GPU "'cause I gotta have this to game" this shows how even midrange older GPUs still give a fun playing experience.
I have a nVIDIA GTX *60 collection which is almost complete just missing a 960 as Human Malware sent prices to Infinity & Beyond when I was ready to get one, but am searching for a good one again now, the 760 I have is a EVGA GTX760SC ACX Cooler 4GB (Boost: 1150MHz)
Grabbed an R7 260X 2GB card for a budget GTA 5 machine, £16 and fully functional. Throwing it together with an Xeon E3-1230,8GB RAM,256GB SSD and 500GB HDD. £40 for the whole lot.
Why did I instinctively laugh at "alright I'm lying, I have no friends. So i challenged myself..."
"I'm lying, I have no friends..."
I'm being personally attacked! 😭
I found a Palit GTX 770 at the dump and stole it from there. Luckily it was summer and it was not exposed to rain. It had a brokern wing on one fan and i disabled it by snapping the wires. After cleaning the vape gunk I gave this card to the girlfriend of one of my best buddies. She loved it because now she can play Planet Zoo. :)
Dunno if you've done this, but trying one of those ultra budget builds using i.e. Aliexpress cheap Xeon CPU's (or similar) + a creative gpu purchase. In today's economy, interesting to see how down low one can go.
Great video, challenge completed
My mom once phoned me because her iMac (2012) behaves strangely. It turns out that she didn't turn her iMac off (and all of her running programs) for rouhly 9 months... the page file of her browser is a whopping 120G (on a 500G HDD). Even though she only watch videos and some web browsing with her iMac, I decided to upgraded her iMac with a SSD and 16G RAM (origianlly 4G).... it's a fun experience though...
That card is suffering from vram issues. A simple mats test and would reveal what chip is damaged, and a replacement chip would be around $15-$20 shipped. I’d beT if you got the card repaired, most of the texture issues that were had (like in war zone 2) would be corrected. The card would be more stable as well as it wouldn’t be generating errors every frame
Also, I thought nvidia added dx12 support for all cards back to the 500 series?
Not bad, though older, non DX12 GPUs aren't really that good for modern titles anymore. Also 2GB VRAM isn't enough either.
Speaking of cheap graphics cards... I think I found a GTX 460 for £20 and a GTX 570 for £25 in one of the local CeX stores I last visited. Don't know if they're still there now, but still, even if it is a cheaper GPU, it'll do for something.
Your voice is better than any ASMR channel tbh. It must be said.
Yeah and the accent... by god
I love doing this. I used to collect video cards. I'd try and run Ark on each one. Ark will run on anything with 4 gigs of ram.
If you can find the laptop gpu adapter, you can use a gtx765m and I have found that it is faster than most modern cards, it comes in the asus rog g750jw
Just got a r9 290 for $38 usd because one of the fans doesn’t spin, absolute steal
warzone on LSD lol great video bud
It's incredible how far did the apu advance. Nowadays ryzen 6xxx and 7xxx are pretty much comparable to what this card did like ... 10 years ago?
"This is what I see when I don't wear my glasses."
Man, that got... _dark._
Working?! Thats a stretch. You had to heat this thing up to the temperature of the sun😅😅😅 haha
The last GPU I got for $20 with postage was a GT 740, 2GB of GDDR3, it's a real beast...
0:51 Try the over next time, less heat, more even, reballs other chips too
I think you might have been getting confused with the GTX 960 - that came in 2GB and 4GB variants. Never heard of a 4GB 760 though.
I can confirm 4gb 760s do exist, I still have two that I ran in sli back in the day when they were new.
I wonder if the gpu would run longer than the oven method, that one fucks up the caps but just the heat gun resolders the gpu die so makes sense it would last some time if not being abused.
I did this trick to fix one my gpu but it didn't last as long, I did it again but added liquid flux underneath the die by syringe and heated it evenly and it's working fine for two years and more to go!
yeah flux its far more better when heating the gpu die, then dry heating
bought a saphire rx470 nitro 8GB mining edition for 20 euro, all i had to do was a little soldering to connect the hdmi port to the pcb. The hdmi port is already on there, just not connected to the pcb yet. works perfectly, gave it to my sister to replace her hd6870.
I picked up a GT710 from CEX for £20 the other day I mean it’s no power monster but does the games I want. Also for that £20 a 2 year warranty is included however I may venture on to eBay and see what’s on there if I need a upgrade.
The 700 series cards can be really good for making an ultimate Windows XP era gaming system with an old Q6600 or something like that. They are on par, if not better than the best graphics cards of that era (like the 8800 GT) with a whole lot less power draw comparatively. Also could try them on a Linux build using proton, but I don't think they are as competitive as the Radeon series line up.
They are fine with i3 7th gen or pentium. I'm using g4560 with GTX 750 and it plays many games from PS3 era at 1080p/60fps most of the time.