knowing how much dedication you put into your work. I would not be surprised if you pulled out a string puppet and used that to do the work.@@northwestrepair
Whenever I feel a bit cocky like I have half a brain, I watch something like this in order to bring me down to an acceptable level. His work is a piece of work.
I almoast killed my gpu because of this lock. I couldnt reach it and it got stuck half way out.... So i had to use knife to press agaisnt it, if it slipped i would make hole into my MB.
@@bluecar5556 i wasn't being sarcastic. I live in L.A.... and the PC guys here are mostly just mild software guys and re-installers.... they DEFINITELY don't have any hardware skills.
@@CategoricalImperative It's a serious problem here in Ireland too. Most "IT Techs" here have at most a ComptiA+ or a couple Microsoft certs and have never been in the same building as a soldering iron in their lives.
I have no idea what I'm looking at but I'm fascinated, it's like watching aliens do alien techy stuff with their alien things and their alien stuff beyond our comprehension. He grabs his his dequeefalizer to digipotrate his hypermonotrator or something.
And the world record goes to this man for the world's steadiest hands. I could never in a thousand years. Thank you for keeping this GPU out of E waste.
@SordidusFellatio bro i have similar problem but i got it from my mom, for her it subsided when she gave birth (so she says). i dont have it as bad as you in certain sense as my legs are completely okay so its mostly my hands. my hands shake especially when im doing something precise, my fingers would randomly twitch, which makes me unable to feel im holding at the moment which usually makes me drop whatever. it sucks to know that every job u take people will look at u, possibly make fun of u even its mundane job.. even something as simple as giving change back which for others would take no thought whatsoever takes so much concentrated effort. i am also not good with people (idm being social but im just not good at interacting) so social jobs are out of question, that either leaves me with physical labour, IT or maybe even some trade(not sure which trade would not require steady hands)
I was an electronics tech before flat screen plasma and lcd was a thing. I have done PCB board repairs many times but never anything to this level. Multi layer PCB is well beyond anything I ever done. Certainly high level repair work done here. I was that dog in your video watching this. Unbelievable your able to repair such intricate tracing structures. Man you are amazing ! I was faced with socket damage on a Godlike Z690 LGA 1700 series. The CPU slipped out of hand and was dropped into the socket bending multiple pins. At least 40 pins was mashed in different locations. I was able to fix the pins using a burred medical needle as that was the finest point I could use as a tool. Hours spent resurrected the board and stress tested to ensure heat would not cause pins to lose connection. I thought I was pretty good until I seen this. Awesome work !
Not to take anything away from what you are saying about northwestrepair, from someone who only JUST managed to safely exchange his graphics card, what you did sounds amazing. Well played!!
but why is he grinding off part o the board that doesnt plug into anthing? doesnt he know that tab is just for alignment?? lol the gold strips are the only parts that actually coonects........ so as a pc tech of 35 years I'll tell ya most common causes of gpu death, over voltage or spike .. (kill caps on card) or its just given up cuz its old (rare these things last decades ON fulltime :-)
@@HarmonRAB-hp4nk Repair of broken tracings. That PCB is a multi layer board meaning not only tracings on either side of the board but also sandwiched in between. It will have at least 3 sets of tracings. To repair the inner tracings he has to grind away the board to get at them and bridge the breaks.
@@HarmonRAB-hp4nk Did you even watch the whole video? He had to restore and strengthen the tab before anything else so it could actually be safely installed and tested, THEN he got into the real work. I'm a PC tech of around the same amount of years as yourself, to a fairly senior level in the industry, that doesn't make us more knowledgeable than this man! What he does if far beyond the scope of regular 'PC techs' like us... I've done some intricate PCB work in the past, but nothing like that!
Beautiful work. It warms my heart that someone with your level of skill is out there and willing to dive deep into GPU repairs as you do and not just send it off to be “e-waste” if it’s not particularly profitable to approach the repair.
sorry, how could this level of expertise, the time invested plus all the equipment and the material used still make economic sense? how long can someone like him work on a gpu like this before the meter hits $1,000?
@@embreis2257 This... This right here is the proper question. The skill, equipment, time... has to be $100 an hour if not more. How many hours to fix? At some point, just as you stated, it becomes a lost cause due to time invested. On top of that, I wouldn't want my repair dude just hustling through a repair to ensure the bill isn't more than the card is worth to re-buy.
I didn't know people like this existed, or that GPU repairs were actually a thing. My understanding is that if you can't RMA a card under the 3 yr warranty, into the scrap pile it goes. One of the most impressive feats of craftsmanship I've seen in a long time!
There‘s hardware components that are dozens of times as valuable as this, you think companies just toss those if one breaks? Nah, of course there‘s specialists to fix what‘s fixable, and now that consumer grade components are starting to reach well into the four digit price range, it becomes increasingly worth fixing whatever is possible too.
It's not that people can't repair them, it's just that it's way too expensive to do so, so you might as well get a new card for the same/cheaper price. The only exception is people who do it as a hobby or people who have a youtube channel that gets decent views and can economically justify the repair that way lol.
@@niwohit's also knowledge. There aren't too many people out there who know their way around a PCIe GPU board, and you need to know exactly how they work to be able to do any kind of diagnostic that's more complicated than fixing a blown fuse or cap. The only people who can do this are GPU specialists that probably work at graphics card vendors and understand how to read these PCBs.
Wow! did not even think a repair like this was possible, at least not at this level.. bravo and thank you for pushing the boundaries of what can be done at home in a work shop.
@@Plant_Parenthood not just specialized tools but incredible knowledge on how these boards work and micro-soldering skills on a level not seen often, this man is a very skilled technician
OMFG - Seeing this repair was jaw dropping for me . I'm an electronic hobbyist and occasionally work with soic's but I had no idea humans could remove and resolder these incredible small and complex chips! I always thought that after their initial automated assembly that was the endo of the line (if issues- = swap out board). You must be getting these boards extremely hot...I was amazed.
It blows my mind that you could do this much labor on a card and have it be worth it rather than just replacing the card. I would assume 10-15 years ago problems like this both didn't happen because of limited complexity at the time and were not worth it at all with the lower cost of the components at the time. But today, your GPU is 50% or more of your whole system.
The PCB was always kind of complicated. It just got more complicated. Though it was a similar level of complexity 10 years ago. That was when we had 290x cards and Maxwell GPUs.
Tech changing so fast then also made it not worth it, if your GPU died a year later a new card had new features and performance that made it not worth repairing stuff all the time.
15 or 20 years ago you would be better just saving your money for another 3 to 6 months and buying the newer or cheaper tier card that equalled or blew the high end into the water
Being able to do these repairs is about as impressive to me as watch-making - perhaps more so because watch-making/-repair doesn't involve having to deal with electronics. But in both cases it's near incredible to me that people are able to fix these things. And it's also a bit frustrating, since it highlights the fact that lots of stuff we simply throw away could be repaired and then still be used. Same with mechanical watches where some cheaper movements are cheaper to replace with a fresh one than having the old one serviced or repaired.
I have watched many many of your repairs and they are amazing!...this one just came across my feed and godDAMN you blow me away every time! Respect and Honor! You Legend you !!!!
I found your repairing videos therapeutic, the humor and memes top it all 😄. I own a small computer shop and also do repair stuff but not on your level, im learning more each time from your videos. Kudos!
Wow, that was honestly an amazing repair. I know the realtime version would be hours long but I for one would love to see it, if for nothing else but to see the amazing steady hand soldering work on the ram chips. I was always convinced that when a memory chip went bad. . . that was it. . . :D Brilliant :D
I'm telling y'all this is the most relaxing channel I found in TH-cam. whenever I get stressed, I watch northwestrepair doing his magic. hope he continues for many years to come.
I wish I found this channel sooner! I had a pile of 20 series GPUs that have been pulled from systems I had sold under warranty. I usually just ate the price of a new card out of pocket, and threw away the dead or artificing cards. Even cards that still had mfg warranties the RMA process is usually such a hassle I swap and throw away.
Very nice to see subs rise, 1000 in a day I believe! Props to youtube recommendations, I never watched any GPU repair videos, but youtube recommended it to me, and I'm now hooked for months!
It is better to remove the pci-e safety pin if you had this kind of pin and hulk size gpu. Or mount your GPU vertical using riser. It is also pretty much a common knowledge to remove GPU if you plan to move your PC.
Or use a computer case that orients motherboard so the PCIe slots are on top rather than on side or back. I have Thermaltake Tower 500, the video card just "hangs" off the slot so there's no unusual stress on the side of PCIe slot. But I do hate the PCIe locking lever, it's a pain in the butt to reach under fat GPU and reach the lever to release the video card. Those were fine back in the old day when video card were just single slot, the early PCIe cards and AGP cards.
Yeah or lay the Case on it's side, then almost nothing can happen to the graphics card and the heatsink of your CPU. Never seen a graphics card that is so destroyed as what this one was, it looks to me that the case were the graphics card was in, has fallen from something on the ground, have had MANY graphics cards and never have had this, not even in my days i went to Lan party's. I have made many PC's now, and never had a PC that broke down.
@@madmatt2024 My last two motherboards just tore out the lever when I tried to release them. Why install them if they can't be removed by pressing down on the lever? Asus and Gigabyte boards.
Holy moly I never knew how advance and crazy the engineering behind just a gpu is! Thanks for doing this kind of work, literally a talent very few have or care to do
If you think the engineering that goes into the board is complex, wait until you see what goes into the GPU die itself. The board has thousands of components routed in tens of layers. The die has billions of components routed in hundreds of layers.
Lol why you think US and china are fighting over taiwan ??? Why world’s top country want chips to be made in their country and why 2nd powerful country can’t do itself and want to take over taiwan , the level of engineering involved in CPU,gpu making is crazy crazy , billions of dollars are need to setup a single plant and that only for some years and then repeated again . Many countries have nuclear weapons many are close to one but only 1 or 2 have the tech to makes the chips .
I know gpus are complex machines, but i wonder why every company decides to use those spaces as anything more than structural pieces... Like the pcie catcher tab must be the weakest stressed component on any card, it must be just as a F you, you damaged it so now but another card kinda move... Disgusting, and isnt like they can do much with that part either
Wow... you reballed the GPU. You're the man. I've only seen the AMD guys do that in their lab when they are trying to put their best cores on the best PCBs for overclocking competitions.
If only electronics were made to be repairable more easily. Big fan of your channel helping to reduce e-waste and save consumers money. Absolute legend. You and Rossman Repair Group are the shit. Keep it up dude
Most of new electronics are easy to break. They are not meant to be like that strongeest by the developer. So they can sell it again or repair it bring money
There's not much you can do with PCB to improve repairability. Only way is to improve design, so that critical connections don't run in fragile parts of the board (or just don't make 3KG GPUs).
Simply astonishing with a hint of comedic inserts😂😂😂. You’ve definitely hit the mark. This is pretty much anyone who watches this video, but knows nothing about how to repair a Electronics. I stare in amazement.
This literally just confirmed my worst fear about that stupid clip that PCI-E slots have. A lesson in patience when working on computers: don't rush and never try to rip your card out of its slot.
I don’t think people understand or even realize the amount of dexterity and precision needed to re-ball modern components. I struggle HARD on 202 components with decent tools! Mad respect to you sir! The confidence in your skills to make the repair are second to none.
You are a master my friend, not knowing much about this it's looking very mindblowing to me. If i had tons of cash i would definetly support this. Keep up the good work!
Absolutely wizardry. Curious how many true hours of labor this takes. Looks like several hours even with your skills snd equipment. Also, I'm glad to be out of the PC gaming race, these giant cards always seemed nuts to me, and now they're showing that my feelings are right. A little Framework board with a desktop case does all I need it to.
Excellent repair, and Great video. Only issue is that my eyes and brain ran out of buffer space to process the quick motion sequence at 9:21, and then some nausea ensued 😂
I’ve was sent to your channel today which I love. You are the real tech goat most these guys just say “gpu chip problem deemed this as no fix” 😂 you on the other hand show how delicate and hard this work is
You certainly have the skills, and I'll definitely be sending my GPUs if ever need be.💯💯 However, the real question is what is the repair cost vs. retail cost usually? With a skillset this highly developed, I can guarantee repair ain't cheap (probably be worth it for a rare or expensive card). I'm just wondering how on Earth this could be cheaper than just getting a new card when speaking of lower tiered GPUs. Damn fine work though!
His prices are quite fair (80-100$ don't quote me on that tho), at least that what he and his customers say in the comments. I mean he still fixes 1070's and made community post about testing AGP Graphics card so....
This is fascinating. The scale in which you can work dextrously is impressive. Man causally takes apart some of the most complex circuit systems in the consumer market like, "yeah I guess I'll start pulling modules and fix it"
How any person on this planet can have the patience to resolder those hundreds of little solder blobs on the PCB is absolutely beyond me. I couldn’t do 10 and would go insane (besides not having the ability to work on this micro scale)
Ikr? Like suggesting the back plate of the card is merged with the brace so the whole thing doesn't sag like a sideways house brick teetering on a ledge?
This is what impresses me, all these masters of repairs i see on youtube doing amazing stuff actually REPAIRING YOUR STUFF instead of just changing the board or module like a dummy wasting all the data you had
Your skills are mesmerizing and admirable. Fantastic. Do you have a lot of repairs come back after a time, or do they generally last well? If you see this comment.
That's one serious bit of BGA reowrk & repair. 100% respect to your sir, I know what it takes to get far less work done with far less faults, big up NWR.
@@SyncF It actually can happen with remarkably heavy GPU coolers, most of those stories I heard were with 4090s. But it's usually a small crack which is way less brutal than what we see in the video.
At first I was cringing at the "dog" and "ishowspeed" appearances, but as I continued watching, you stripping and re wiring the core itself, with such precision.. Such a clean job and so satisfying to watch. good job on that repair and good luck on future endeavors!
That's why no one usually fixes these things, because the amount of skill, experience and time it takes to repair these. It would cost almost the same as just buying a brand new card. I just picked up this exact card from Microcenter Center for$750.
Awesome work my friend my dad was a electronics engineer and he would amaze me with the stuff he would fix but your taking it to the next level of play it was a pleasure watching you work
Who ripped out a GPU out of it's socket like that as to rip off the retainer tab, tearing the circuitboard? I'm so glad to see someone able to go through so much to fix it.
He belong to a golden time in the 60 where all the technician and engineer build everything manually. But this is God level skill. Sadly those golden time is over is over. That why fry's is dead.
Man. Just started following you now! Amazing work! I fix graphics too but my knowledge is far away from yours! Learning too much here in your channel! Congrats!
WOW! just WOW! that was another level of repair, i was that dog throughout the video some real next level repair magic, amazing to watch, keep up the fantastic work, never seen repairs taken to that level before, simply incredilble....
You are a true gem; thank you for sharing. In so many countries, not just in Europe, this card would end up in the trash. Thank you, and many thanks to those who helped you become who you are today.
Man I tip my hat to you, but are you certain you were a surgen in you're past life?, because i can't beleave how much patience you have for this kind of work. Keep doing what you do because in my eyes this is the stuf of legend
Mad respect for this guy...he is an artist. Question is...wouldn't be easier and cheaper to just buy another gpu? This guy's artistry cant be cheap. That is some master craftmanship stuff going to.
Absolutely top tier fix! 90% of "specialists" i know would just say "its broken, cant do anything"... ...and i am just talking about cracked slot thingy :p Good job!
These types or repairs require a shit ton of expertise with the specific cards,of course your average dude wouldn't even know it's possible to repair it
Huge respect for anyone with the balls to reball a gpu by hand. Memory chips are risky enough alone. Excellent work.
Next level would be doing it by leg 🦵
I've watched so many of these videos and still don't really get how it is doable. 😆
@@northwestrepair if you really wanna push the limits, you could do it with your mouth too
@@JackPecker911😂
knowing how much dedication you put into your work. I would not be surprised if you pulled out a string puppet and used that to do the work.@@northwestrepair
I watched the entire video pretending I knew exactly what he was doing.
Whenever I feel a bit cocky like I have half a brain, I watch something like this in order to bring me down to an acceptable level. His work is a piece of work.
lmao
Chill bro! He is just cleaning the GPU.
Magic brother.
He's Gandalf the Silicon.
@@madworker1927 👈 this guy understands even less 😂
I am convinced you are some sort of silicon wizard.
SILICON SORCERER
Silicon warlock
Silicon Witcher.
Clearly more of a Silicon Micro-Necromancer.
No. This man is a phuucking troubleshooting GOD!!
This man cannot die yet, the world of gamers needs him..
Not yet. Maybe 10 more years 😜
how old are you?
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@@northwestrepairnah you'll live longer than queen Elizabeth
in any case he would just repair himself. w
@@northwestrepairwhere i come from we say, may you live 100 years more!
That was probably the greatest fix of all GPU fixes ever, you deserve a bloody 🏅
I have a lot more impressive repairs posted earlier
@@northwestrepair i would have thrown that card across the room about the middle of the video
@@northwestrepairyes, here you basically knew what to do, those confusingly confusing are the most impressive in my opinion.
I almoast killed my gpu because of this lock. I couldnt reach it and it got stuck half way out.... So i had to use knife to press agaisnt it, if it slipped i would make hole into my MB.
Greatest and possibly most expensive fix that costs more than just buying new card...
Oh… so you are one of the few ACTUAL pc repair people left in the world.
Hats off to you.
You should ask for his number.
@@bluecar5556 i wasn't being sarcastic. I live in L.A.... and the PC guys here are mostly just mild software guys and re-installers.... they DEFINITELY don't have any hardware skills.
@@CategoricalImperative It's a serious problem here in Ireland too. Most "IT Techs" here have at most a ComptiA+ or a couple Microsoft certs and have never been in the same building as a soldering iron in their lives.
Most people would just eat the loss, I'm SUPER impressed that someone is able/willing to save these expensive/hard to repair things.
This guy made that shit look easy lol
I have no idea what I'm looking at but I'm fascinated, it's like watching aliens do alien techy stuff with their alien things and their alien stuff beyond our comprehension. He grabs his his dequeefalizer to digipotrate his hypermonotrator or something.
And the world record goes to this man for the world's steadiest hands. I could never in a thousand years. Thank you for keeping this GPU out of E waste.
As impressive as this is, it's nothing! Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand,
@@LilMissMurder3409you’re r3tarded … this is talented
@SordidusFellatioessential tremor, look it up i have it too
I was pretty good, but still no match for this guy!
Sadly, arthritis in my fingers cut my career short. 😢
@SordidusFellatio bro i have similar problem but i got it from my mom, for her it subsided when she gave birth (so she says). i dont have it as bad as you in certain sense as my legs are completely okay so its mostly my hands. my hands shake especially when im doing something precise, my fingers would randomly twitch, which makes me unable to feel im holding at the moment which usually makes me drop whatever. it sucks to know that every job u take people will look at u, possibly make fun of u even its mundane job.. even something as simple as giving change back which for others would take no thought whatsoever takes so much concentrated effort. i am also not good with people (idm being social but im just not good at interacting) so social jobs are out of question, that either leaves me with physical labour, IT or maybe even some trade(not sure which trade would not require steady hands)
I was an electronics tech before flat screen plasma and lcd was a thing. I have done PCB board repairs many times but never anything to this level. Multi layer PCB is well beyond anything I ever done. Certainly high level repair work done here. I was that dog in your video watching this. Unbelievable your able to repair such intricate tracing structures. Man you are amazing ! I was faced with socket damage on a Godlike Z690 LGA 1700 series. The CPU slipped out of hand and was dropped into the socket bending multiple pins. At least 40 pins was mashed in different locations. I was able to fix the pins using a burred medical needle as that was the finest point I could use as a tool. Hours spent resurrected the board and stress tested to ensure heat would not cause pins to lose connection. I thought I was pretty good until I seen this. Awesome work !
Not to take anything away from what you are saying about northwestrepair, from someone who only JUST managed to safely exchange his graphics card, what you did sounds amazing. Well played!!
but why is he grinding off part o the board that doesnt plug into anthing? doesnt he know that tab is just for alignment?? lol the gold strips are the only parts that actually coonects........ so as a pc tech of 35 years I'll tell ya most common causes of gpu death, over voltage or spike .. (kill caps on card) or its just given up cuz its old (rare these things last decades ON fulltime :-)
@@HarmonRAB-hp4nk Repair of broken tracings. That PCB is a multi layer board meaning not only tracings on either side of the board but also sandwiched in between. It will have at least 3 sets of tracings. To repair the inner tracings he has to grind away the board to get at them and bridge the breaks.
No, you are also amazing
@@HarmonRAB-hp4nk
Did you even watch the whole video? He had to restore and strengthen the tab before anything else so it could actually be safely installed and tested, THEN he got into the real work.
I'm a PC tech of around the same amount of years as yourself, to a fairly senior level in the industry, that doesn't make us more knowledgeable than this man!
What he does if far beyond the scope of regular 'PC techs' like us...
I've done some intricate PCB work in the past, but nothing like that!
Beautiful work. It warms my heart that someone with your level of skill is out there and willing to dive deep into GPU repairs as you do and not just send it off to be “e-waste” if it’s not particularly profitable to approach the repair.
I bet it is profitable to repair, or at least make videos about repair.
133K views 1 month @@monad_tcp not bad haha
How much is Labor cost. Might as well get a new card?
sorry, how could this level of expertise, the time invested plus all the equipment and the material used still make economic sense? how long can someone like him work on a gpu like this before the meter hits $1,000?
@@embreis2257 This... This right here is the proper question. The skill, equipment, time... has to be $100 an hour if not more. How many hours to fix? At some point, just as you stated, it becomes a lost cause due to time invested. On top of that, I wouldn't want my repair dude just hustling through a repair to ensure the bill isn't more than the card is worth to re-buy.
I didn't know people like this existed, or that GPU repairs were actually a thing. My understanding is that if you can't RMA a card under the 3 yr warranty, into the scrap pile it goes. One of the most impressive feats of craftsmanship I've seen in a long time!
There‘s hardware components that are dozens of times as valuable as this, you think companies just toss those if one breaks? Nah, of course there‘s specialists to fix what‘s fixable, and now that consumer grade components are starting to reach well into the four digit price range, it becomes increasingly worth fixing whatever is possible too.
he maybe work for company before because just few people can fix gpu properly without experience
It's not that people can't repair them, it's just that it's way too expensive to do so, so you might as well get a new card for the same/cheaper price. The only exception is people who do it as a hobby or people who have a youtube channel that gets decent views and can economically justify the repair that way lol.
@@niwohtrue
@@niwohit's also knowledge. There aren't too many people out there who know their way around a PCIe GPU board, and you need to know exactly how they work to be able to do any kind of diagnostic that's more complicated than fixing a blown fuse or cap. The only people who can do this are GPU specialists that probably work at graphics card vendors and understand how to read these PCBs.
Wow! did not even think a repair like this was possible, at least not at this level.. bravo and thank you for pushing the boundaries of what can be done at home in a work shop.
He does seem to have some pretty specialized tools, though.
@@Plant_Parenthood not just specialized tools but incredible knowledge on how these boards work and micro-soldering skills on a level not seen often, this man is a very skilled technician
OMFG - Seeing this repair was jaw dropping for me . I'm an electronic hobbyist and occasionally work with soic's but I had no idea humans could remove and resolder these incredible small and complex chips! I always thought that after their initial automated assembly that was the endo of the line (if issues- = swap out board).
You must be getting these boards extremely hot...I was amazed.
It blows my mind that you could do this much labor on a card and have it be worth it rather than just replacing the card. I would assume 10-15 years ago problems like this both didn't happen because of limited complexity at the time and were not worth it at all with the lower cost of the components at the time. But today, your GPU is 50% or more of your whole system.
this is the level of stuff that was saw only saw on console repair shops when i was a kid
The PCB was always kind of complicated. It just got more complicated. Though it was a similar level of complexity 10 years ago. That was when we had 290x cards and Maxwell GPUs.
You never had so much weight dangling on the PCI-E slot....
Tech changing so fast then also made it not worth it, if your GPU died a year later a new card had new features and performance that made it not worth repairing stuff all the time.
15 or 20 years ago you would be better just saving your money for another 3 to 6 months and buying the newer or cheaper tier card that equalled or blew the high end into the water
I just clicked on video because of thumbnail. Watched full video. You got a subscriber.
This man is a National Treasure. He must be protected at all costs.
Agree.
Just by seeing these can be repaired makes a huge impact.
Just seen one of your videos for the first time and I am like awestruck by your work. Totally amazing! The look on my face was like the dogs!
Not really interested in doing any of this but it is fascinating to watch someone really good at something do that thing.
Yeah I'll never attempt repairs (no steady hands), just love watching a professional at work
Same.
I'm cursed with being incredibly interested in this while knowing I will never be able to fathom the complexities.
@@nickgreenhow5513 he'll get there eventually. Gotta wait at least 10 years and people will be walking with computer chips implanted in their brains
Man, your channel needs more attention. This was an amazing work!
Protect him at all costs, the patience he has is astonishing 🔥🔥
This is utterly fascinating. Video well edited too. I'm subscribing.
Awesome, thank you!
Being able to do these repairs is about as impressive to me as watch-making - perhaps more so because watch-making/-repair doesn't involve having to deal with electronics. But in both cases it's near incredible to me that people are able to fix these things. And it's also a bit frustrating, since it highlights the fact that lots of stuff we simply throw away could be repaired and then still be used. Same with mechanical watches where some cheaper movements are cheaper to replace with a fresh one than having the old one serviced or repaired.
You had a stroke reading this
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@@nimamaster6128Nah bro you're just illiterate
@@nimamaster6128 Anyone who had a stroke reading this can't read.
@@nimamaster6128 why, are you used to incorrect orthograph everywhere or is it because it's a wall of text?
I have watched many many of your repairs and they are amazing!...this one just came across my feed and godDAMN you blow me away every time!
Respect and Honor! You Legend you !!!!
I found your repairing videos therapeutic, the humor and memes top it all 😄. I own a small computer shop and also do repair stuff but not on your level, im learning more each time from your videos. Kudos!
Wow, that was honestly an amazing repair. I know the realtime version would be hours long but I for one would love to see it, if for nothing else but to see the amazing steady hand soldering work on the ram chips. I was always convinced that when a memory chip went bad. . . that was it. . . :D Brilliant :D
I'm telling y'all this is the most relaxing channel I found in TH-cam. whenever I get stressed, I watch northwestrepair doing his magic. hope he continues for many years to come.
this is AMAZING, if I can have my meal time while watching this video, this channel just deserves WAAAAAAY more views and subs. 10/10 fixing dude!
It's amazing to see the dedication to repair here. So much skill and effort to fix the GPU.
I wish I found this channel sooner! I had a pile of 20 series GPUs that have been pulled from systems I had sold under warranty. I usually just ate the price of a new card out of pocket, and threw away the dead or artificing cards. Even cards that still had mfg warranties the RMA process is usually such a hassle I swap and throw away.
Dude…far out that is a repair for the ages. Well done. Quality of the video matches the repair too. Nice. Thanks for posting.
JFC this is amazing, all of your videos are amazing to watch. I love when people can fix stuff.
Very nice to see subs rise, 1000 in a day I believe!
Props to youtube recommendations, I never watched any GPU repair videos, but youtube recommended it to me, and I'm now hooked for months!
A lifetime ago, I was an Electronics Technician. The level of skill displayed here is off the charts.
It is better to remove the pci-e safety pin if you had this kind of pin and hulk size gpu. Or mount your GPU vertical using riser.
It is also pretty much a common knowledge to remove GPU if you plan to move your PC.
Or use a computer case that orients motherboard so the PCIe slots are on top rather than on side or back. I have Thermaltake Tower 500, the video card just "hangs" off the slot so there's no unusual stress on the side of PCIe slot. But I do hate the PCIe locking lever, it's a pain in the butt to reach under fat GPU and reach the lever to release the video card. Those were fine back in the old day when video card were just single slot, the early PCIe cards and AGP cards.
Yeah or lay the Case on it's side, then almost nothing can happen to the graphics
card and the heatsink of your CPU.
Never seen a graphics card that is so destroyed as what this one was, it looks
to me that the case were the graphics card was in, has fallen from something
on the ground, have had MANY graphics cards and never have had this, not even
in my days i went to Lan party's.
I have made many PC's now, and never had a PC that broke down.
There shouldn't even be a safety pin anymore, or at least design it in such a way that it's easy to release when a mid-size or large GPU is installed.
@@madmatt2024 My last two motherboards just tore out the lever when I tried to release them. Why install them if they can't be removed by pressing down on the lever? Asus and Gigabyte boards.
just dont use the safety pin .....will keep it safe ..
I genuinely didn't think this was possible. Couldn't tear myself away. Very impressive!
Holy moly I never knew how advance and crazy the engineering behind just a gpu is! Thanks for doing this kind of work, literally a talent very few have or care to do
If you think the engineering that goes into the board is complex, wait until you see what goes into the GPU die itself. The board has thousands of components routed in tens of layers. The die has billions of components routed in hundreds of layers.
Lol why you think US and china are fighting over taiwan ??? Why world’s top country want chips to be made in their country and why 2nd powerful country can’t do itself and want to take over taiwan , the level of engineering involved in CPU,gpu making is crazy crazy , billions of dollars are need to setup a single plant and that only for some years and then repeated again . Many countries have nuclear weapons many are close to one but only 1 or 2 have the tech to makes the chips .
You have a wonderful skill. You have my respect and admiration. Thank you for the great videos. I find them so entertaining and educational.
I know gpus are complex machines, but i wonder why every company decides to use those spaces as anything more than structural pieces... Like the pcie catcher tab must be the weakest stressed component on any card, it must be just as a F you, you damaged it so now but another card kinda move... Disgusting, and isnt like they can do much with that part either
I always thought that that hook was just a plastic hook 😅
@@furikakezme too
Man, you do the repairs most aren't brave enough to do like they were nothing! Excellent work!
Wow... you reballed the GPU. You're the man. I've only seen the AMD guys do that in their lab when they are trying to put their best cores on the best PCBs for overclocking competitions.
C'mon, this is absolutely jaw-dropping! I couldn't even think that this type of maintenance was possible...
If only electronics were made to be repairable more easily. Big fan of your channel helping to reduce e-waste and save consumers money. Absolute legend. You and Rossman Repair Group are the shit. Keep it up dude
Most of new electronics are easy to break. They are not meant to be like that strongeest by the developer. So they can sell it again or repair it bring money
There's not much you can do with PCB to improve repairability. Only way is to improve design, so that critical connections don't run in fragile parts of the board (or just don't make 3KG GPUs).
The heaviest thing on GPU is the cooler@@panjak323
Simply astonishing with a hint of comedic inserts😂😂😂. You’ve definitely hit the mark. This is pretty much anyone who watches this video, but knows nothing about how to repair a Electronics. I stare in amazement.
This literally just confirmed my worst fear about that stupid clip that PCI-E slots have. A lesson in patience when working on computers: don't rush and never try to rip your card out of its slot.
I don’t think people understand or even realize the amount of dexterity and precision needed to re-ball modern components. I struggle HARD on 202 components with decent tools! Mad respect to you sir! The confidence in your skills to make the repair are second to none.
Dude I absolutely love all your video's. You're the big reason I started getting into repairs so much 👌
Johnson and Johnson thank you for keep our q tips in business lol, you really have the digital hands of God
That repair was incredible to watch. Simply mesmerizing.
Awesome choice of background music too.
Definitely subscribing.
Yeah I loved the middle part with the Blade Runner dystopian cyberpunk BGM
You are a master my friend, not knowing much about this it's looking very mindblowing to me. If i had tons of cash i would definetly support this.
Keep up the good work!
and to think, they want to put the power connector next to that lock tab hah.
with how big and heavy modern gpus are, its an absolutely terrible idea.
Absolutely impressive and incredible work. Wow. Just wow.
Absolutely wizardry. Curious how many true hours of labor this takes. Looks like several hours even with your skills snd equipment.
Also, I'm glad to be out of the PC gaming race, these giant cards always seemed nuts to me, and now they're showing that my feelings are right. A little Framework board with a desktop case does all I need it to.
Wow just wow on this repair. Your professionalism and your attention to detail is fantastic.
Excellent repair, and Great video.
Only issue is that my eyes and brain ran out of buffer space to process the quick motion sequence at 9:21, and then some nausea ensued 😂
I’ve was sent to your channel today which I love. You are the real tech goat most these guys just say “gpu chip problem deemed this as no fix” 😂 you on the other hand show how delicate and hard this work is
You certainly have the skills, and I'll definitely be sending my GPUs if ever need be.💯💯 However, the real question is what is the repair cost vs. retail cost usually? With a skillset this highly developed, I can guarantee repair ain't cheap (probably be worth it for a rare or expensive card). I'm just wondering how on Earth this could be cheaper than just getting a new card when speaking of lower tiered GPUs. Damn fine work though!
Reading my mind
His prices are quite fair (80-100$ don't quote me on that tho), at least that what he and his customers say in the comments. I mean he still fixes 1070's and made community post about testing AGP Graphics card so....
@@zetsubou3704nice! Wow
It's obvious that you have low tier trash there is little reason to try to fix that
This is fascinating. The scale in which you can work dextrously is impressive. Man causally takes apart some of the most complex circuit systems in the consumer market like, "yeah I guess I'll start pulling modules and fix it"
How any person on this planet can have the patience to resolder those hundreds of little solder blobs on the PCB is absolutely beyond me.
I couldn’t do 10 and would go insane (besides not having the ability to work on this micro scale)
Hundreds? Try thousands. The GPU die itself has about 3600 contact pads :)
This is like a work of art watching. You have your paint brush and canvas. Your a different kind of Bob Ross
I don't know...maybe don't run any traces through that part of the pcb and maybe reinforce that section...just a thought.
You have gone completely mad,these ideas are ridiculous
Ikr? Like suggesting the back plate of the card is merged with the brace so the whole thing doesn't sag like a sideways house brick teetering on a ledge?
Gigabyte: "La la lala laaaaa, sorry we can't hear you"
This is what people called, a repair specialist..... thumbs up
Wow, i am blown away at how you manage to fix these cards. How long did it take you to learn all of this?
This is what impresses me, all these masters of repairs i see on youtube doing amazing stuff actually REPAIRING YOUR STUFF instead of just changing the board or module like a dummy wasting all the data you had
Your skills are mesmerizing and admirable. Fantastic. Do you have a lot of repairs come back after a time, or do they generally last well? If you see this comment.
It's not common but returns do happen.
@@northwestrepair Of course it will happen! Nobody is perfect. ;) Good to know this kind of repair can have solid longevity though.
I hereby declare this dude the GPU Jesus
First! Another gpu is fixedd ^^
Confirmed
That's one serious bit of BGA reowrk & repair. 100% respect to your sir, I know what it takes to get far less work done with far less faults, big up NWR.
I gotta know how much a repair like this costs
Yeah I would love to know this too! Even if it is expensive I'd pay just for the enjoyment of getting to watch the video of it being repaired.
About three fity.
I genuinely have no idea what reballing is or what I'm seeing when you're doing it, but I just love these damn time lapses 😍
Nice 🙂
How do people destroy cards like this. Did they uninstall it with a hammer?
Nope the weight of the card just cracks the pcb sometimes without a support bracket
@@Fate025 That literally never happens.
@@SyncF It actually can happen with remarkably heavy GPU coolers, most of those stories I heard were with 4090s. But it's usually a small crack which is way less brutal than what we see in the video.
@@Fate025 no thisd was damaged by not unlocking the pcie safety tab
At first I was cringing at the "dog" and "ishowspeed" appearances, but as I continued watching, you stripping and re wiring the core itself, with such precision.. Such a clean job and so satisfying to watch. good job on that repair and good luck on future endeavors!
That'll be 2,000 dollars please
That's why no one usually fixes these things, because the amount of skill, experience and time it takes to repair these. It would cost almost the same as just buying a brand new card. I just picked up this exact card from Microcenter Center for$750.
Awesome work my friend my dad was a electronics engineer and he would amaze me with the stuff he would fix but your taking it to the next level of play it was a pleasure watching you work
9:50 but it was only giving 9 FPS 😭
Who ripped out a GPU out of it's socket like that as to rip off the retainer tab, tearing the circuitboard?
I'm so glad to see someone able to go through so much to fix it.
He belong to a golden time in the 60 where all the technician and engineer build everything manually. But this is God level skill. Sadly those golden time is over is over. That why fry's is dead.
When you put all your skill points into repair and electronics. Godlike repair, amazing hands and eyes
Wow, just wow. I tried to learn how to repair PCBs and failed miserably. You make it look easy. Great job.
Man. Just started following you now! Amazing work! I fix graphics too but my knowledge is far away from yours! Learning too much here in your channel! Congrats!
WOW! just WOW! that was another level of repair, i was that dog throughout the video some real next level repair magic, amazing to watch, keep up the fantastic work, never seen repairs taken to that level before, simply incredilble....
Based on the views in the amount of time, I'd say this video is underrated. More people need to watch this video! Very impressive!
You are a true gem; thank you for sharing. In so many countries, not just in Europe, this card would end up in the trash.
Thank you, and many thanks to those who helped you become who you are today.
This dude is a damn wizard. Subbed
man that was insanely intricate and satisfying to watch.
Your tools and skill are amazing.
I don't understand how people who send you their cards break them like this, but your repairs are awesome.
You are not repairing it, you are healing it to reborn
Man I tip my hat to you, but are you certain you were a surgen in you're past life?, because i can't beleave how much patience you have for this kind of work. Keep doing what you do because in my eyes this is the stuf of legend
You sir are a professional, I've never seen such intricate work and detail. Kudos!
DAYUM you got it going man, that are some serious skills at work there.
That's me at 05:39.
I have no idea what sorcery it is that you're doing, but it's fascinating to watch!
I like the doggy’s 😮 expression in 5:40
Glad to see the most legit technician on TH-cam is gaining lots of love.
Absolutely nuts! The level of work this requires is insane.
Very!
Mad respect for this guy...he is an artist. Question is...wouldn't be easier and cheaper to just buy another gpu? This guy's artistry cant be cheap. That is some master craftmanship stuff going to.
I thought my Solder skills will good. But dang, your skills are superb!! Very well done.
I love the background music. Totaly keeps you involved.
This is satifying. Wonder why youtube only show me your channel now.
This man cannot die yet, the world of gamers needs him... I gotta know how much a repair like this costs.
Absolutely top tier fix!
90% of "specialists" i know would just say "its broken, cant do anything"...
...and i am just talking about cracked slot thingy :p
Good job!
These types or repairs require a shit ton of expertise with the specific cards,of course your average dude wouldn't even know it's possible to repair it
@@yeahnvmnvm1331 most of dudes here would stop on broken insert... Not even mention fixing threads which is completely different level...
@@yhnops yup.