Agreed , Even i want to skip if thing has been frankensteined

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I believe for Tony it is a personal challenge to fix such a mess.

A customer sent it I'm sure after some jackass did this to it

@@kiwichess Challenge and good content. This man is a genius in every way.

In theory there is no no problem running wires over the board. Problem is that wires were in strange places, for example sequence and +3.3V rail definitely shouldn't be connected together, UNLESS either of those are redundant in this particular board design. And execution is poor, as wires ran over the board should be glued down and masked and cured properly, to fix them in place and protect them. Still, if properly executed, having long wires is not pretty, but it's electrically sound usually. Unless there's PCI-E dataline that needs to be phase matched to every other line, then your wire in that line also needs to be certain length, and it will create strange inductance stuff and noise, which may be within tolerance or not. I mean, inherently using wires to transmit power and in some cases even signals is okay. I still wouldn't do it. But hey, if it's 150 dollar card, and guy who did the shoddy work found it from a trash, it may just have been nice plaything to have, not a serious project to fix and sell. I do stuff like this myself, for myself, quite regularly, it's not meant to be sold. Of course if someone gullible stranger would offer money for my hacks that may work, I may sell, but there'd be no warranty lol. But I'd never market stuff like this as working GPU. Besides, if the core and memory chips are fine and dandy and seller knew it, they alone have some value. Who knows if this was meant just for parts.

It was probably too dark. Black UV resin doesn't cure properly if it's too black. The green UV mask he uses is a better color.

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Your story is both entertaining and educating 👍

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Lol

Looks like the 2 long wires were bypassing the sense circuit

@@brnmcc01 Jesus, so the solution to a ringing fire alarm is to disable the alarm (and ignore the fire)

​@@brnmcc01 they weren't bypassing it they were just connecting it since the traces were broken due to the crack.

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Technicians without a clue about this matter should use their time for other things instead. Watching Toni's videos beforehand would have provided a fundamentally better understanding. 😉

Mount your card vertical since modern GPU is just too heavy.

i had the same model too and ended up knocking two resistors off when i replaced the thermal pads. i have no idea how since i was extremely careful, my assumption is i bought the GPU used off ebay and the weak soldering of the resistors wasn't my fault but the past owners fault. I was VERY lucky and found a local guy that was able to fix it and only charged me $60 for the fix. It took him 3hrs to fix it because he kept getting distracted by the music he was blasting and the beer he was drinking the entire time, lol. Edit: I actually considered sending it to Northridge Fix but he quoted $300 and an additional $100 if I wanted it fixed in a week. And there was no way in hell i was paying $400 when i had just spent $560 on the GPU.

It took him more than two hours to fix this mess. 🥰 Some problem cases require even more time. 🤔 Streaming without knowing how long the work will take would be a huge challenge (he would then have to provide even more verbal conversation 😛). Both for him and for the viewer.

they are there for reconfiguration and diagnostic during rma .