The thing that I've learned from this video is: "We don't do band-aids here". 👍

@brunodinis7454

11 ай бұрын

don't buy Gigashit

@NeonTheOne

6 ай бұрын

Better than factory

The cat playing the piano had me laughing. Thanks for all the great videos

@Mandrag0ras

Жыл бұрын

Yeah! Tony's work is amazing, but, sorry Tony, cats are more fun, they got my full attention :P

Thank you for going more in-depth. I have been watching a few different repair channels, you are on another level. I feel super welcomed in your videos, Like im sitting there with you. You have taught me all kinds of things. Your ingenuity is amazing. Thanks

I had issues like these with an RX590 after a bad maintenance during the time when I was experimenting with different dissipation mods. The way to fix it in my case was to simply do a proper maintenance. Consider that lowering the voltage also lowers the temperature output, and therefore the difference between edges and hotspot decreases. When the difference is higher, you get thermal stress on the material of the chip itself, causing the artifacts. So evening out the spread of good quality thermal paste could also solve the issue without the need to replace the core.

@crbielert

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of an old Geforce4 or 5 series I had back in the day. WoW started artifacting one day out of the blue, from then on until I could buy a new card, I kept the side of the case off and had a small desk fan with an icepack behind it blowing on my graphics card whenever I played, worked fine. Sometimes a core just gets some thermal damage over time that only shows up at higher temps, I guess.

@santiagocastro6701

Жыл бұрын

i don't want to stir the coffee, but still is a bandaid, because still has the issue

@JamesWSleight

Жыл бұрын

@@santiagocastro6701 It's not a bandaid. I had that card for 2 years after that an it worked perfectly, even withstanding overclock in both GPU and memory. I only sold it because I was ready for an upgrade after those 2 years.

@julyaaron3671

11 ай бұрын

@@santiagocastro6701 alternative bandaid?

@PaulHigginbothamSr

10 ай бұрын

Maybe

I subbed a few weeks ago to learn more about gfx repairs, and stayed for the commedic value xD I love how he makes it look so easy while having fun in the process.

I appreciate your humor in these video's. Not only do I get to learn something, you make it enjoyable too. Keep up the great work.

2:03 Linus moment

I love your sense of humor. BTW you have lowered GPU Frequency not Voltage in Afterburner.

I first found your channel a couple years ago i think then somehow I got shuffled to the other North numnuts dude until he started to get on my nerves talking about how successful he thinks he is so I've finally found my way back to your channel. SOO much better, actually subscribed this time!

I had artifacts like this (a bit more intense even) with an RX470 and only lowering the frequency would make it more stable, but driver would crash eventually and reset everything. It was such a pain.

@zushikatetomotoshift1575

Жыл бұрын

you pushed the core too hard only real fix is replacing the core what you did is only a temp fix not long term.

@Dandan-tg6tj

Жыл бұрын

Quite a few times, cleaning the video card fixed the artifacts. Only a very few times I had to replace the core. Anyway, replacing the core does the trick.

@KuntalGhosh

11 ай бұрын

Using the polaris bios editor you could have modified the bios to permanently lower frequency and voltage and flashed that on.. frequency does not make a big difference on gpu's so few mhz lower doesn't hurt fps and it is the cheapest "permanent" fix..

@Lucius4992

11 ай бұрын

@@KuntalGhosh actually I did that and tried other things too, but that card was doomed and would crash eventually. The only thing I couldn't do was replace or even lift the core because I didn't have the tools, and let's not mention a replacement. After a while it got worse and eventually stopped working. To make it even worse it was during the crypto bubble and a card like that was around $400.

@KuntalGhosh

11 ай бұрын

@@Lucius4992 you could have sold it with a very low frequency bios 🤣

this channel deserves more subs.

Great video. The temps have been fine on my Suprim 3090 Ti but i started undervolting. Great to see much less power being used and only lose a few fps.

Valley Benchmark is a real way to chill after these very tricky repairs, especially when the fixes are a success

I wish cards could come in the same format as the rest of a computer where you can just socket a GPU in there and even upgrade RAM etc, but we know all kinds of problems would come with it, apart from simply not being feasible and would be quite expensive. I didn't know before watching this video that a core could cause artifacts, I always thought it was a memory problem because every time that happens it's simply a memory replacement that fixes the problem.

@m8hackr60

Жыл бұрын

I've had the same thought in the past... This, unfortunately, would drive the cost and complexity way up. Cards would also be less reliable because of the extra stress and dynamics involved.

@aleksandrbmelnikov

Жыл бұрын

Sure, if you want it, i have a video card with memory slots. It's an old ISA card.🤣

@Dandan-tg6tj

Жыл бұрын

@@m8hackr60 Way up, you say? It would cost probably 10 bucks or less the part plus labor.

@EliteRock

Жыл бұрын

Using sockets/slots for GPU's and DIMMs would severely limit memory bus speed - notice that current DDR5 CPU's have similar transfer rates to GPU's from a decade ago.

@Dandan-tg6tj

Жыл бұрын

@@EliteRock I feel you, I do but what's the maximum frequency a CPU can reach while being on a socket? Is it 6GHz? Is it a workable DDR5 that reaches 7,2GHz stable? If it is, I don't see any unsolvable problem.

I love how you kept the jokes in a video to a tasteful level. I've seen some bloggers especially in the Philippines who overdo it by spamming giggles and other meme sound effects to the point of annoyance. :/

hi, i'm a recent viewer. i really love your videos, they are very explanatory. I'm not a gpu fixer but I specialize in consoles and find many useful tips that can also be applied in my field. I would like to ask you a question. I've recently been perfecting my skills in reballing processors and bought the right hot air nozzles for this job, so my question is this: what percentage or fan power do you use to detach the core from the board? is it the same one you use to reattach it too? I ask this because I have noticed that my hot air station transfers heat better to the boards when it is at low ventilation rather than at maximum. thanks if you answer

Thanks a bunch for the help on this one! The card has been running great in my fiancés build.

Considering how difficult (fidgety and hair-pulling frustrating) working with SMD's can be, you do make it look remarkably simple. I don't know how, but you do and it's a joy to watch. Could you perhaps share with us what solder wick you use? I know Goot is excellent but not always available. Cheers mate! 🤘

By shifting the V/F curve down you actually overvolted the core (lower frequency for each given voltage step). Great repair as always!

@JamesWSleight

Жыл бұрын

Look at the window with the curve. Top-left. The tab that is selected is "voltage". Also, carefully look at the other line jumping around, up and down, marking a horizontal line along the frequency axis. It matches the same frequency shown on the OSD where the FPS and temperatures are.

@MrSolvalou

Жыл бұрын

@@JamesWSleight Okay, but look at the curve now, stock curve is 700mV 1500MHz and he shifted it down to 700mV 1300-ish MHz, hence higher voltage for the same core frequency. If the core is unstable then feeding it less voltage for a given frequency would not work at all, to attain stability you would feed the core more voltage for a given core clock and it's exactly what Nortwestrepair did. It's just semantics.

@JamesWSleight

Жыл бұрын

@@MrSolvalou Look at the graph. Voltages 1025mv and 1250mv intersect frequency 1.8ghz at the same time. It doesn't make sense that all that range of different voltages would be applied to the same frequency at the exact same time when frecuency 1.8ghz is required. The graph is all messed up, but he actually lowered both voltage AND frequency, lowering the heat output, which was causing the artifacts from thermal stress. You can even see how the center of the chip is devoid of thermal paste precisely at the center where the hotspot is. 2:02

@MrSolvalou

Жыл бұрын

@@JamesWSleight Nvidia cards take these VF curves as suggestions when boosting, you can see that the card goes above 1.8GHz anyway. By adjusting the curve the way he did he underclocked and overvolted the GPU but it's still gonna boost into the power limit, if you want to reduce heat output you would have to manually reduce the power limit. To undervolt with Afterburner you would raise the whole VF curve up until it's at the edge of instability and also reduce the power limit if you want stock performance with less heat.

I enjoy watching you fixing. thanks for sharing. 👍

Didn't know the core itself can also cause artifacts, i thought it just works or it doesn't. Thanks for this 🙏 very interesting

@zushikatetomotoshift1575

Жыл бұрын

It happens when you push the core too much. Why I recommend undervolting.

@South_0f_Heaven_

Жыл бұрын

Most certainly can, fixed a ton of the HP dv6000/9000 series laptops with some in the family still working ten years later. Same with GPU’s

@South_0f_Heaven_

Жыл бұрын

@@zushikatetomotoshift1575 Undervolt all you want, they don’t fail in stock form cause someone “pushed” them too far.

Lov'n the cat on the piano. Great sense of humor combined with Pro Repair. 👍

you are amazing!!! i saw your videos all this week end and a love how you find solutions for strange issues. cool

The cat piano stole the show for me 😆

You earned a like for the piano playing cat synced to royalty free music

So do you think that was a bad core and not the solder joints? Whta would have caused that, overvolting and copper migration?

The cat was a blast !

1:08 I think you meant to say underclocking instead undervolting. After lowering that voltage frequency curve, the GPU is now reaching a given frequency at a higher voltage than before.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

You may be right. This option is not available unless the voltage tweak is unlocked so I assume it was the core voltage.

I have a 2060 Super NVIDIA card that I've been using in my computer for about 4 years. The past 2 weeks i've started having several issues. I am using duel LG 32" monitors. Sometimes 1 or both of the monitors will go black for a second or so then come back. Sometimes They don't come back and I have to reboot. This has only happened twice. THe need for the reboot. Sometimes the right monitor will display a patch on the screen of artifacting. Usually some straight rectangular black and white lines in a pattern. Imagine a chessboard pattern where they are not squares but rectangles. This artifacting is always the same when it appears. The rectangular chessboard pattern. It happens on either monitor. Is this the video card? Seems like a clear case of a video card hardware issue. What do you recommend for trouble shooting this? Thank you

GPU artifacts *exist* owner: its the monitor, right? GPU: ... owner: its the monitor, right?

I wonder if he just re-balled the original GPU and solder it back down, the problem would go away. It could be an intermittent solder joint. Swapping out a GPU sounds expensive if there wasn't a spare GPU.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

No it would not go away.

@TheGameBench

Жыл бұрын

The fact that he had to undervolt to "correct" the issue points to degradation of the silicon, not a bad solder joint.

Keyboard cat got me. Another thumbs up for you!

Always a great vid to watch!

Just fixed a "dead" as is GTX 1060 6 gb, replaced thermal pads, thermal paste, did 3 x furmark test, all good. Heat dissipation is a must with a gpu.

Nice work. love to watch your videos thank you.

Lol at the keyboard cat. ❤❤😂

Thank you for the video

Thank you for the video and the good information that comes with it!

Yo can you tell me whats wrong with my pc ? - i have an rx470 4gb version nitro saphire , -i use atikmdag for driver issues because they dont appear themselves on windows so i have to use this program. - i dont think its because of the driver problem but after the pc starts and gives signal after 1 minute the screen is full of artifacts and then somethimes restart sometime gives BSOD and restarts and sometimes it just goes on worlking without restarting. The artifacts arent individualy showing they appear in a moment and then do the restart thing they are on the whole screen and they are diagonaly out ...

1:10 That is not really "lowering the voltage", you are shifting the V-f curve down, which results in a combination of lower max. clock and higher voltage at lower clocks. At no point along that curve does that result in a lower voltage.

@JamesWSleight

Жыл бұрын

Look at the window with the curve. Top-left. The tab that is selected is "voltage". Then, carefully look at the other line jumping around, up and down, marking a whole horizontal line along the frequency. It matches the same frequency shown on the OSD where the FPS and temperatures are.

bruh my gpu is artifacting while watching this 😐😐😐😐😐😐

Informative Video, thanks. does your instruction implies that if the problem solved by reducing the core voltage/frequency then all fault is due to the gpu and no wasting time on reballing and ram chips?

Can you do a vid just on how to lower the voltage?

you can probably find that card for $250 how much was the work is it worth it ?

@zushikatetomotoshift1575

Жыл бұрын

Good luck finding it at that price working.

@zetsubou3704

Жыл бұрын

Here they sell for 200-250 with 1 month seller warranty 🤔

@zushikatetomotoshift1575

Жыл бұрын

@@zetsubou3704 I will say if you want to risk it it's a good price.

So what do you think was wrong with the core? The solder joints cracked within the core or it is worn out from age? If it is worn out then if i'm not mistaken it would need more volts to become stable. Lastly could a reball with the original core have worked?

@babymantuck3256

11 ай бұрын

I had a similar issue and I did a reball, just of the gpu core. Card was out of warranty, so I didn't have anything to lose. I was surprised that process worked. I have had no issues since and just as a fail safe did under volt card after for 2 weeks. Gradually increased voltage back to standard. Applied quality thermal compound and pads.

Those stained fingers at the end tells me boss man buys the cheap toilet paper for the shop.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

its paint. i was painting porch earlier

Thank you for another wonderful upload.

this man goes out of his way to reball cores lmao. im starting to suspect all those hours of torturous reballing by hand has made you like it

Had a old xfx Nvidia card that would artifact on heavy load. Noticed temp was high and fan was not really spinning, changed fan curve to be really aggressive and it was fixed lol. But it became a jet engine lmao

Yeah, I've learned that if I don't have all the tools you have plus an extra GPU laying around, I can't fix my card :)))

but where can you buy a replacement core? or did you salvage it from a different card?

Such ASMR just by looking at the motion.

That’s crazy! This is around the time my Gigabyte 5700 xt started to slightly artifact

cool channel. Sad I don't live in the US but in Austria.

Impressed it worked. Nice job.

Amazing job as always! I wish you could fix my old m/b. It got pcb scratches behind it, so it turn on and off all the time. That's the only fault with it.

Awesome fix and the music is the cream 😊

deteriorated memory controller. owner of the card was very luck that you had that core in stock. Good job mate.

I have learned that some people replace gpu cores like I change socks....😮

Very interesting lower core helps rather then lower memory clocks

Seems like the gpu core suffered electrical migration where voltage going somewhere where it shouldn't that why undervoltaging works temporarily. Seems to me that voltage to core seems to be the culprit where higher voltage is not shown but explains the artifacts relation to voltage set too high or the core hates the voltage given to it after it degraded over time

I love the cat theme song!

my rx 6600 had artifacting since day one, lowering stuff in MSI does nothing, clean driver install neither, as long as i have no driver there is no artifacting. as soon as I install one its back. i dont know what to do

I had this issue on 2 brand new out of the box AMD R9 280X, after that I switched to nVidia and I'm never looking back - the "fix" was lowering the core clock by some small amount (~100Mhz if I recall)

Thanks for the video! Very interesting. Would you expect the band aid undervolting solution to fix the symptoms for very long? Or does it only buy youa a bit more time before the gpu degrades further?

@zushikatetomotoshift1575

Жыл бұрын

Only long term fix is replacing the core. When you first buy the gpu you should undervolt it. If you have not I would now. Undervolting saves lifespan and power.

@era7928

Жыл бұрын

@@zushikatetomotoshift1575 Or simply to not "buy" overclocked card that are pricier. Their lifespan is also quite low, like 2 or 3 years before core or memory dying compared to 10 year that might be possible if you undervolt it.

@zushikatetomotoshift1575

Жыл бұрын

@@era7928 You can oc a little with undervolt and have longer lifespan.

@Roman00744

Жыл бұрын

@@zushikatetomotoshift1575 might be true for top end cards that are pushed over the limit by the manufacturer but maybe not even then, I have a gtx 960 that I bought in 2015 or 16 and it's been working in 1 of my PCs since, still going strong, never undervolted it and even OCed it for a bit. All that said this days I undervolt my card too but not for longevity reason but for noise and temps reason.

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

The problem is, for higher demanding games, you will have to lower the voltage even more. Sooner or later, you will end up loosing too much performance and judging by what others were saying, its only going to get worse.

What if I have some flashing artifacts in one particular place of one particular game and they go away after switching to DLSS balance/perf/ultraperf?Is it a hardware issue or a software one?The game is Horizon FW and the card is EVGA 3060 XC.Undervolting/underclocking to absolute minimum does totally nothing and the card successfully passes any kind of benchmarks or stress tests

welldone. wish you 1m subs :D

Out of curiosity, how did you know it wasn't a bad memory chip? Experience I presume? Didn't see you run a memory test in the beginning (but yep, you said no typical bad Micron memory). So I presume that means damage core and why it had to be physically replaced.

@zushikatetomotoshift1575

Жыл бұрын

The type of artifacts it was showing Core artifacts are different than Mem artifacts. Both look and act different.

@zushikatetomotoshift1575

Жыл бұрын

Also big common issue that causes this is when someone pushes too much clocks or volts or both.

@zushikatetomotoshift1575

Жыл бұрын

I recommend Undervolting all gpus I even recommend undervolting cpus.

@era7928

Жыл бұрын

00:05 seconds. Little sticker from the bottom.. Core worn out from the factory overclocking.

@zushikatetomotoshift1575

Жыл бұрын

@@era7928Nope it's due to user not factory OC. With doing research on how stuff works you would know it's due to heat manual OC and Volts.

The thing that I've learned from this video is: I aint buying a broken gpu for fraction of the price and try to fix it at home

Lol my friends 3070 ti is experiencing the same issue. Similar artifacting and the symptoms are somewhat alleviated when undervolted.

Only time I seen this was due to the gpu dye. Dropping clocks is a sign for dying it will have a short life span. You was smart replacing the core.

@zushikatetomotoshift1575

Жыл бұрын

The person who owned it it would mean the user pushed the clocks too much causing a short life span. I seen this issue a ton.

I really like the music played by the cat

Could this issue be possibly fixed by just resoldering the chip? Maybe the old one wasn't really that bad. Idk, you should do a video on it

KITTY!🐈 Ok. Now you earned the thumbs-up.👍😉

hmm, strange one, you lower the speed to not get artifacts, but the voltage was not sufficient, it looks like to me a old (already push GPU), OR the power delivery was not up to spec and the power controller (VRM) was damage, just saying this because the siphons looks like a bypass resistance on the power to force the card to give more power without hitting the power limit, that can push the core too much or the VRM's. Sure changing the core will fix it, but if I'm right that card will return

@northwestrepair

Жыл бұрын

Not according to the stats but who knows.

@custume

Жыл бұрын

@@northwestrepair , true, lets see if my theory is right or wrong, 😉

WOW this guy is the REAL deal ! Replaced the core! WHAAATTT

But why exactly this happanes ? We know that artifacts usually comes from VRAM but in this case looks like comes from GPU Core (didnt know it was posible) but can you explain why this happens ? Thanks

I am fascinated by how easy it all seems. Great work! Keep up the great work. Quick question for you: I have an motherboard that has a bent pins on the cpu socket and I was wondering if it something that you could fix? I don't really want the board back, it could be given to a charity or someone in need as I have a CPU for it and memory. It's not cutting edge but if it could help someone instead of collecting dust here, that would be great. Thanks

@legendmaster1989

10 ай бұрын

hey man no response for 1 month do you mind i give it a try to fix?

your workshop looks very clean sir, can u make tour video?

my 1060 6gb had some artifacts.but after restaring the pc,it does not make into the desktop.goes black screen right after the windows loading screen.what could be the issue?

Appreciate your work. What kind of station you prefer to doing this thinks. aixun t3a or aixun t3b? Thanks in advance for your opinion.

I have a hp pavillion laptop. It's showing this status access violation error on any web browser i use. When i gave to repair they're telling it's the issue of gpu and it's dying. Ive runned all the stress test as you showed in this video and my gpu performed very well. This artifacts issue happens only in web browsers not anywhere else. What should i do?

Hello im currently expirencing artifacting but i've ran furmark for a good 3 hour i didnt get a single crash what could be causing the problem

Artifacts! Sound more like a job for Indiana Jones.😁📽 When you see any strange crystals or clay jars, leave them alone. It never ends well.🎬

i think what it keeps big silicon still alive is watercooling

1:08 I never noticed till now that Valley does not report the correct current core clock speed.

Same issue on my catmed 1070ti Meaw was on point

could a faulty/not strong enough power supply also cause this? I recently got a new graphics card and all of a sudden I've got loads of artifacts in most of my games, and It's been a while since I've upgraded my power supply.

Great work

If the core is the issue, where can you get a replacement??

woohoo..another happy customer

My gtx 980ti is artifacting when i boot into os. And then not long after it just crashes.. I tried booting in safemode and using msi afterburner to lower voltage, but it won't even register on afternurner..

Why didnt u just reheat the old processor? may be it was just cold solder joints

i didnt really understand what the problem is. bad gpu passed through QA at factory ?

Plis help me i have a issue with my amd grafics card, games that use fxaa or taa look grany, just look awful mostly the vegetation, cant find any solution to fix these grafical artifacts

this guy is awesome

Awesome video! What is the purpose of placing that wire near the core when you’re removing and replacing it?

@sqrl1980

Жыл бұрын

i think that wire is a temperature ntc, so he can monitor the temperature how hot it gets

how much would a repair like this cost?

@imthesubscribeggar2470

3 ай бұрын

I heard from my friend that contacted northwestfix and he charged for like $140 with 2 months waiting time

im having same issue with gigabyte 6800xt oc, do you think its the brain on the card causing this artifact too?? are they easy to get hold of???

You weren't doing any undervolting but rather underclocking. To really undervolt you might wanna click a point at like 900/950mV and press L then increase clock to reach the stock clock. Then you can say it's an undervolt :) Also FYI I previously had similar issues, in the end it was core voltage regulation being too unstable... It was caused by 12v input filtering capacitor being bad/not effective enough

@JamesWSleight

Жыл бұрын

Look at the window with the curve. Top-left. The tab that is selected is "voltage". Also, carefully look at the other line jumping around, up and down, marking a horizontal line along the frequency axis. It matches the same frequency shown on the OSD where the FPS and temperatures are. He was correctly manipulating the voltage. You're confused because the curve editor changed.