If you need a repair, please contact me using a link in the description.

@RaphaelSwinkels

Жыл бұрын

i'm happy i've stumbled on your content, i liked the cod3rs switch/ps5 repairs too but he is going Apple nowadays so my interest is declined 4 good ;p. north ridge repairs was good to see too, but he does everything. doesn't really matter what broke.. this content of yours is more like i wanted, trying to fix broken graphics cards.. wow cool and you sound like i could learn a lot from watching you. not everything off course because its knowledge trough practice ;p but i like it. i'm considering to learn electronics repair too. i know things with my PC, software I'm kinda okay with and modified it like i wanted it. Same as my (gigabyte) gtx 1070 ;p modded it by putting big ass cooler on it (Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV), did this for noise control i did'nt like my pc ramping up and down with original cooler. then there was a chipset cooler that made lots of high pitched noise too ;p so ordered an copper block from china in +- the right dimensions. modded my pc kinda good i guess. ti-wrapped the copperblock on chipset with some thermal grizzly pad and it still works, while i took a lot of parts out of my pc ;p your voice is relaxing too..

When he said, "Expect for EVGA", my heart dropped knowing that they won't be a thing anymore in the graphics card department. 5:30

@GraveUypo

Жыл бұрын

i fully support EVGA though. FK nvidia

@klemendebevec8777

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I wanted to ask just to make sure... good news getting better.

@konchy

Жыл бұрын

@@klemendebevec8777 what's the good news?

@klemendebevec8777

Жыл бұрын

@@konchy Sarcasm...

@supriadiramlan5545

Жыл бұрын

YEP

Small correction: near the end of the video I claimed that card came with no pads over vram. In reality, pads were there but they were not thick enough and we're not making contact with the components as a result. This card was never opened before so I conclude it was a quality control or design flaw. Either way, exact same cards I had before did not have this issue.

@nexxusty

Жыл бұрын

Same with the 1080ti Extremes I have owned. Never any issue. Definitely a QC issue/ Friday run.

@samuelking1347

Жыл бұрын

Can you please do one for the PNY cards

@JomarsYT

Жыл бұрын

maybe quality contro, i have an aorus 2060 super and all pads where making contacts correctly, i just replace it just for fun for others more efficients.

@nexxusty

Жыл бұрын

@@JomarsYT Doing that is incredibly fun, isn't it? Lol. Actually ended up getting a world record on my RX 580 with the best pads I could find, and copper shims on the memory. That was a good day.

@JomarsYT

Жыл бұрын

@@nexxusty was fun because was my first time experience with changing pads and I nailed it, but actually is quite tedious.

Your extensive knowledge of the videocard components/electrical components is amazing. I watched the whole video out of curiosity and amazement. So cool to see how detailed you can be and repair such small parts. Nice! Thanks for that unique look into the process! Best of wishes

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks!

@michelvaillant_

Жыл бұрын

same goes here! nice :)

@ashleyjaytanna1953

Жыл бұрын

Are you sure you and Buildzoid are not related?

@Google_Does_Evil_Now

Жыл бұрын

@@ashleyjaytanna1953 It's not what you think.... Is he related to the It's not what you think guy? The same voice.

You're doing the world a service by keeping these GPU's going

@Embreh89

Жыл бұрын

simple as that!

@yeshuayahushua4338

Жыл бұрын

You are the Cringiest Dogo I have seen this entire day.

@trackingdifbeatsaber8203

Жыл бұрын

My exact card still running and I know people with older cards.

@Gzussss

Жыл бұрын

@@cgplays9 The amount of resources that go into each one of these cards is huge.

Just found your channel today and watched all your video's in a row. Your troubleshooting are repair is fascinating. New subscriber here. Can't wait to see more.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

amazing man..will keep supporting your channel..👍💪

Youre amazing. Love this type of detailed work

Took you a whole month to diagnose and repair just a single card... I don't know about others but, that's inspiring, bro. I've literally zero knowledge on electronics but what you did was inspiring.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

LOL, Diagnostic takes couple of minutes or more. I had to wait for parts to arrive and when they did, after replacing one part, another problem emerged and i had to make a new part order which took another month. I simply dont have enough spare parts or donor cards to use at this point. Otherwise it would have been maybe couple of days at most, considering the amount of work that was done.

@Google_Does_Evil_Now

Жыл бұрын

@@northwestrepair you're like the ifixit of GPUs. Or maybe that's what you could become? Maybe talk to them?

@aaacomp1

Жыл бұрын

LOL, gigabyte does the same thing. It takes them a month to "repair" a gpu and send it back to the customer. Then, it shows up not even working right out of the box.

more power to techs like you sir. repair knowledge of all kinds should be a norm. It reduces waste, creates job, and saves resources.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Thanks !

Found you today, instant subscribing. Amazing work, thank you for sharing your videos

I love learning more about computer parts and your in-depth problem solving is really interesting to watch!

I just found this channel and is amazing! I hope we get to see newer cards, to see if they keep these bad practices or make some changes.

Glad I found your channel. I usually check gpu for proper thermal paste application. Now I will be checking all thermal pad placements too. Thanks for the thorough videos, keep it up. Going back to watch all your vids.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

Loving what you have to teach and share. Please keep going.

You're awesome. Been loving your videos, keep it up.

People like you are the reason I keep learning more and more about pc related content. Seeing you take apart the graphics card and soder compenents is fascinating. Keep it up man.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Yep Sir !

There's an actual guy who can fix dead graphics cards! If only there were more of you in the world. Hats off sir!

@The1rust

Жыл бұрын

I definitely wouldn't say "anyone can do it" but if you have a good understanding of electronic schematics and diagnostic equipment, a steady hand along with a good repair setup then you too can be like this guy. I can't do it though. I am big dumb.

@potatochobit

Жыл бұрын

there are hundreds of thousands of people that can fix graphic cards; they just dont want your minimum wage dollars.

@GraveUypo

Жыл бұрын

there are more than you'd think

@Way2go926

Жыл бұрын

U need to be able to understand how the pcb board works. Im pretty sure any pcb board engineer could troubleshoot this if they have enough experience and a lvl of understandings in electronics

@ha-itsme

Жыл бұрын

there are, but those repairs didn't come cheap and fast. some people rather buy a new one.

Such a nice attention to all those details. Great work !!!

bro you are so addictive i saw your mineing video and i couldn't stop watching rly keep it up and don't stop

"Except EVGA" unfortunately they won't be making graphic cards anymore

@RaphaelSwinkels

Жыл бұрын

never say never i still hope, i just think EVGA has such high standards, and Nvidea left no meat on the bone. maybe they will come back @ one point.

@gametestinglab8861

11 ай бұрын

@@RaphaelSwinkelsEVGA it’s exiting the business. Not only graphic cards. It’s shutting down all the lights.

@colchronic

11 ай бұрын

Msi is better than most

@swilleh_

11 ай бұрын

@@colchronic never was

@StewpidSixtynine

11 ай бұрын

​@@colchronic maybe more expensive than most

I am 71 and did many years in component level electronics but by the time i switched to network administration we attempted some crude surface mount repair. I could not be more impressed with your work. I find it very entertaining and educational. I am into these modern GPU's. Thanks again I look forward to your videos.

Appreciated genius work ❤️ love it...

Good vid! Thanks for the info.

Loving the content. Kinda sad that none of the big manufacturers make boards to your liking except EVGA who will not be making them anymore. Any thoughts on AMD only manufacturers like PowerColor or Sapphire, have you done repairs on some of those boards?

@siliconalleyelectronics187

Жыл бұрын

I have some limited experience with AMD's GPUs and would say that I've seen the most attention to detail from Sapphire. I'll likely be purchasing a Sapphire RX7000 series card for my personal system now that EVGA is no longer in the picture.

@eramires

Жыл бұрын

@@siliconalleyelectronics187 My last Radeon card was a Saphire, beautiful thing, love it.

@popodood

Жыл бұрын

I would also like to know more about this 🤔

@RaphaelSwinkels

Жыл бұрын

i'm running amd 5700x powercolor , it is good for me, i was considering sapphire too, but i went for the looks of the powercolor red devil, off course i'm not as knowledgeable as northwest repair ;p so i don't know 4 sure, for me i'm happy with it

I’ve always liked Gigabyte motherboards but their GPUs, well, that’s a different story. Had to take apart my RTX 3090 OC Gaming card due to overheating issues and found that a fan cable had gotten crimped and rendered two fans inoperable, badly applied thermal pads, and a power connector that almost melted down. After a quick fix and cable swap my temps went from 85°C under load to 67°C.

@ZDY66666

Жыл бұрын

While high end gigabyte motherboards are good, gigabyte is also known to make the worst boards as well. Esp in the budget end products are known for lots of kinks and random inconsistent compatibility issues

@zharnadir3473

Жыл бұрын

Also had to re apply thermal pads to my gaming oc 3080 , its really good now

@user-tz8yq3jy8s

Жыл бұрын

I heard some people use copper plate to cool vram, maybe you should try it

@amirulizzat7395

Жыл бұрын

@@ZDY66666 true though. I once have the Gigabyte B450I Aorus Motherboard after coupled with the RTX 3070 eagle from also Gigabyte got a lot of constant stability issues, BSOD constantly. Id send the Motherboard for RMA while the I sold the GPU during the Crypto Craze. After getting back the Motherboard and coupled with my old MSI GTX 1060 is when the issues stop but later did returned. I got fed up with it and sold off the Motherboard and upgraded to an ASUS ROG B550. Previously I didnt get any issues with Gigabyte but since then I promise i wont buy from them again.

@Z4d0k

Жыл бұрын

Thankfully my Gigabyte RTX2080 is still going strong with no issues. Margins are really slim for Nvidia AIB partners, so I’m not surprised that they’re all taking shortcuts.

nice work i enjoy your fixes it the best 😉

Very strong work here. Thanks for the nice close ups.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Thank you too

You definitely have a future customer if my card goes south. You’re a damn legend.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

hopefully it will last

Gigabyte's Vega 56 8GB has been a heavy use/daily driver in my main rig for 3+ years running 4 monitors, lots of multitasking, and it can game if I want it too. Son's 5-year old rig has been swapped from AMD to Intel, but has used the same Gigabyte RTX 2080 which gets very, very heavy use (he's a 15-year old PC gamer). No complaints here...

@desktorp

Жыл бұрын

it's a crap shoot.. I had one of the last AGP Radeon cards Gigabyte ever made and it seemed to be good in the time I had it, but later I had a PCIE GeForce 9800 that was an absolute piece of junk.

Man I wish I had this skill, nice work!

I love your work man!

I would genuinely love to see a whole series of these, "why I hate (AIB partner)" for every single one of them, highlighting the build and design flaws in each partner's design. Including EVGA. These are incredibly enlightening, and could help inform consumers better on their high end GPU purchases and what to do to "fix" some of the blunders in the design like adding thermal pads or improving on the ones pre-included.

@unrelentingpest

Жыл бұрын

Maybe don't include Evga now :P

@temporaltomato3021

Жыл бұрын

It's too bad EVGA is leaving the graphics card industry, but it makes sense. They generally do a really good job of cooling cards properly/achieving good clock speeds and not skimping out on certain board components, which I'm sure is why they felt their profit margins off of Nvidia were too slim. Every time I've bought a card new, if EVGA had a model that wasn't too much more expensive, I went for them. Never been disappointed.

@serphvarna4154

Жыл бұрын

Probably depends a lot on the models, meaning cheap models of good brands could be very bad over worse reputation brand's mid tier gpu model

@ElysaraCh

Жыл бұрын

@@serphvarna4154 oh yeah for sure, for example the Strix and TUF coolers from ASUS have completely different designs

And EVGA no longer will make nvidia GPUs at the very least.

Awesome video !!! you are very knowledgeable, thanks for sharing

Great knowledge and work!

Have you ever worked on Sapphire cards? I have several and they have never let me down. Been very happy with them.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

No i have not, but i owned few in the past. Good cards.

@arnoldshmitt4969

Жыл бұрын

love sapphire cards , they are built like hard bricks , never a fault on them , no corners cut

An amazing video and detective work. Gigabyte have been sucky of late with customer warranties and their attitude towards them. In saying that it must be very stressful being an AIB partner with Nvidia for Gigabyte, sadly for EVGA they have had enough Nvidia's treatment and bailed after being Nvidia's top AIB partner for decades.

TNice tutorialS WAS SOOOOOO HELPFUL!!

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

LOL i didnt even do a tutorial, i just showed how i fix it. Maybe ill do a tutorial some day.

gonna comment for the algorithm. good job man. keep it up. love seeing this videos where u explain why something went wrong and how to fix em.

"This is why I only like EVGA cards" - 8 days later EVGA announces they are stepping out of the Graphics cards game :D

Randomly landed here, new to your channel. Right away when you mentioned gigabyte cards at the beginning I was thinking "I wonder if he is talking about poor QC with the thermal pads and/or thermal paste". I only ever owned ONE gigabyte graphics card because it was only option left in stock when the 2080 came out. Never again. I had to RMA it because it was overheating, and then it happened again a months later. I ended up replacing the paste and the pads myself and it went on to function for a few years without issue. Not only did it come bad from the factory, when it was sent back, they still didn't do it properly. Gigabyte does make decent motherboards though.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Yes they do make decent but not the best motherboard. ASUS is the guy to go to for a motherboard, but for a GPU, neither gigabyte or asus are particularly good at it. I'd go with MSI and ONLY if they have AMD GPU and not NVIDIA. Why ? Because MSI had been in the manufacturing cards with AMD processor since long before AMD bought out Radeon. MSI+Radion is an iconic combination.

found this channel a few days ago..i have only watched a couple of videos so far.I have to say this type of content is somewhat relaxing to watch and informative at the same time.cheers :)

Good job. Love watching your vids

"Except for EVGA" Well, guess no good gpus will ever be made again then lol

@skrattzerat5831

Жыл бұрын

RIP

And now EVGA is gone... :(

@noname-oe9jy

Жыл бұрын

I know. It's Sapphire for AMD cards and WAS EVGA cards for NVIDIA. Guess I'll have to switch back to team red.

Great job and thank you for the detailed explanations.

amazing work! how insightfull!

It's sad EVGA is going to stop making video cards (NVIDIA at least). I stripped my 1080 down and replaced it with an Artic Cooler and fan assembly 3 years ago when the fans started rattling. I saw then it was really well made. With the new assembly and undervolting, the card is still working like a dream 6 years after purchase.

Finally, someone who understands my burning hatred for Gigabyte products. They always gimp their products be it hardware or software. Went though their motherboards, laptops and gpus as a pc flipper. Their quality leaves a bad taste in my mouth every time I disassemble and refurb them.

If I ever need a card repaired I would want it done by you because of your attention to detail and you quality of work!

awesome video, awesome jawdropping content, thanks.

Very useful information - especially since I have one of these!

Thanks for the informing video. As always interesting to watch.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

thank you for watching

Great video Learning more about what cards to buy in future for my next build . This helps me make better choices when building a gaming rig. These videos are very imformative. I love how you explain and show what things really are .Ive done some techy stuff with cars and computers .

This is very interesting new sub keep doing the good work 👌

Love your videos! Thank U 😊

very interesting work! thank you ❤

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Thank you too!

wonderful video! I wish I had that kind of skill and knowledge.

Just here to write a comment... this repair was awesome, keep up the good work!

love this channel!!

Great Work!!

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

Great content and insight into these products. Keep up the great work 😊

Genius. love the dedication, keep it up

This is awesome, really well explained in your problem solving. Subscribed!

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Thanks !

insane job brother

Awesome. Keep up the good work.

I just subscribed, Great Job man, I did start fixing GPU but I dropped as even faulty GPU are expensive plus as you said it takes time especially when you need parts.

I'm amazed by your work.

You're very knowledgeable. Why haven't I found you before? Definitely will be watching your videos from now on.

Nice video !! Keep going

Amazing vid man 👌

Man your videos are great. Learned alot on how to fix my own gpus.

What a great job. Must be a labour of love for you!

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

It is!

NICE WORK! 🤗

You do a good Job again. Awesome every time.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that

Really like your explanations ! Iwill tzke i'spirztion from you innorder to repair my toys!

Wow this is amazing! :O

Thanks for your work

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure

I love these videos of yours

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

Keep it up man

thanks for the information

awesome video. always curious about the power delivery they have in those video cards. feeling like I am picking up a few things.

s and a couple EDM and Dubstep goals for myself, and I guess I better start learning sowhere. Thanks for the great vid!

Curious and patience....nice job.

Great video, you are very fun to watch.

Great work!

Great Job!

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Love your stuff

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Great work 👍

Subbed - you earned it!

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Stayed up till 3AM for that. Thanks !

Nice work!

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I'm new to your channel (I subscribed) and until recently I never knew there were engineers like you that repair graphics cards. I am very impressed with your knowledge and work. If I ever have a malfunctioning graphics card I'll be sure to ask you for your repair services!!!

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Thanks !

Very interesting and nice videos, thanks! :)

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

I am amazed how well people receive this. Not even sure whats so great about it to be honest.

Great work there.

I'd love to see you repairing some of the newer cards, great videos

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

I buy cards with my own money and new cards are very expensive to buy even broken once. For that reason, i dont have allot of experience with them. Maybe if my channel gets enough views to start monetizing it, i will be able to afford to take that risk.

@DozoD

Жыл бұрын

@@northwestrepair well, can't wait for that to happen then! Good luck!

Nice video I love to watch your videos💖

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

I am just starting into tech repair and am just waiting for my Microscope then all is good to start... Excellent video and very informative... Thank you

great content keep it up