As long as the card is fixed and works. The leds can go to hell. Not like the leds will give you more fps.

The reason why it appears that there's something wrong with the LED lighting is that there is a defect on the translucent tubing where they get cloudy over time and do not transmit light easily. The translucent tubing would need to be replaced. There is nothing wrong with the LEDs themselves

These ads are getting out of hand i had to wait 2mins to watch my favorite gpu guru

The LEDs are fine it's just the fiber optics cable that runs through the front plate went opaque over time because of heat, changing the fiber optics cable fixes this issue, this card uses 4mm cables.

Morning Coffee whilst watching northwestrepair, makes one believe anything is possible.

i just love watching people fixing stuff 😍and the gpus are really fascinating for me as a dev and a gamer , and recently started to go deep on learning electronics , thanks a lot for your content dude , and since you're not an electronic engineer you give us hope 💪to keep learning new stuff :D

this channel is good therapy - relieves my stress.

I have a MSI AIO 360mm with LED's. I ran a program called Signal RGB. It mad some of the LEDs to not work anymore. Even after uninstalling that program and installining the right program. It still didn't work. It took running my computer multiple tim3svand suddenly after a update. Everything started working again. You hooking up two GPUs told me that the owner has something on his computer that is causing this kind of very strange behavior. I just wanted to share that with you because you have given so much to us. Its only fair to share knowledge. Thank You for your program and going out of your way to help others to maybe start a better life down the road for themselves!.?

Absolute legend!!! Tell to eveyone you know and they like PC/GPU stuff and like electronics, about this guy!! You deserve much more subscribers than some other!!

Great video. Learning more and more with each one.

Your troubleshooting skills are top notch sir.

I own this exact card.. Still going strong! It gets new thermal paste & pads every year.

Loving all the 1080TI content! Best card ever created! can’t get enough of them lol I own 4

Hi there @northwestrepair great video as always, keep it up. After seeing the references to NRF (which made me smile :)) I have to say that Alex is not the right guy to fix GPUs. I think too many people have just put a trust to Alex hoping he's capable of repairing GPUs. Sometimes he is lucky and can fix them but the problem is that he spends way too less time for the inspection, he does not have enough knowledge nor tools to fix GPUs. Even though he is a good electronics technician, he's rather a general one. On the other hand, this is how his business model works. Fixing GPUs is not easy job so the best way is to go to a specialist. It's like choosing between a general doctor and cardiologist, which one would you choose when you have heart problems?

great work as always !

i love your background music, vid and music calm helps me sleep

Ty for Fixing !

LED light is normal.. you need to replace the optical fiber 4mm diameter

Love your work man

Hey thanks for the great video! Watching a few, i kinda noticed some ocasional funny "mentions" of some other channel NRF, so curiosity got the best of me and i had to see who it was lol. He seemed ok i guess... What i wondered, having seen your work first, is why he never did for example stress tests. I dunno, somehow his videos ended too fast always, he pointed at a somewhat blured screen,says its a fix, letters appeared, and thats it, its fixed i guess?.I wondered, well, couldnt the card display some issues under stress worth attending...? Maybe he just has too much work, seemed like 50 unsolved cases on his shelf lol

I own one of this. I think is the best graphics card ever created. I LOVE mine. Mine is been working perfectly for 6 years.

Interesting to hear about your experience with that 3060Ti 8GB>16GB mod! Only heard about it being done with 3070 and wondered if anyone would do it to a 3060Ti (which should have had 16GB to start with!). Scammers suck!

Such an entertaining video......... This is why you are the Kwisatz Haderach from Dune.........of all time...... Thanks.....

yup same problem with my Strix 1060, I had to buy $5 of optic side glow fibre and it is now like new.

1080Ti is a great little guy. 👍I found a little more performance in it with FSR and nvidia image scaling and such.

Nice repair! Almost everything connected to 5v buck converter received 12 volts apparently

I ran 2 of these in SLI for a few years. They were fabulous cards. I have since sold them and they are being used by new owners still. I have a couple of Kingpin 980Ti's I used to run in SLI also but they went dead (I used them to mine) I wouldn't mind getting those repaired so I can repurpose them. Seems such a shame to throw away such wonders of tech.

just vatching enjoyable stuff!

Northwestrepair : Something about NRF getting 20 4090s a week . I wonder how many get fixed? Northridgefix : Better than factory))

I love your stuff

Awesome video

thank you

replacing the 4mm side glo tube will fix the led issue, cheap from amazon and takes 10 minutes to do if that, super easy.

100k!!!! so close!!!

Good work sir

5:40 Richtek uses this weird marking on their regulators, its a RT6220 Synchronous Buck Converter. It is Always XX=MN DNN

LOVE U VIDEOS

do you have a list of the equipment you use somewhere ie soldering iron specifically

I have asus 1080 ti strix, and SU101 chip also has "burning" mark on it. I was concerned that it may overheats, so I put 2x3mm thick thermal pad on it and I also covered PGU1 and SU501 just to be sure, it need at leas 6mm thick thermal pads to get contact on heating fins. Only problem that I have with the card is that the memory can't run at its full speed, so I need to underclock it -350 MHz in MSI afterburner to not get crash and artifacts in games. In MATS memory test there is no errors :/. Otherwise, card is really great, low noise, I also undervolted it and lower the core clock to 1709 Mhz ant 0.8V and temps never gets above 40 C. I also need to replace light tube for RGB LEDs to work properly.

From today's video I've learn that high level of alcohol in the blood ( may be too much IPA was used for cleaning, how I know? ) makes harder to be concentrated on what he is doing even for the really very good GPU Surgeon. And looks like it alsow makes more jelious toward his more succesful colegua. With all regards.

Hi and thx for the video, how much do you charge for this kind of reparation ? I have a gtx 1080ti that have the same issue....

I had one of those. Then I sold it got an Asus ROG 3080. Didn't notice a difference. Lil colder I guess. 😊

Just got a 1650 LP in that is having a no power issue. Only thing I can see is a nick on the card on one of the data lines. Cool thing is that eBay issued the refund and told me I could keep the item, so now I get to see if I can revive it.

half-working led light is not a problem, it will not affect the performance of gpu ) also i would like to remind you that LEDs are heating when working, so without LEDs card will be cooler.

hy bro, can u make tutorial to make power supply adjustable for the riser

So what if some LEDs wont work, I would be happy that the card works if it was my card.

Nice video! How many EVGA you re balled GPU and VRAM? From what I gathered MSI is kind on a first place on re balling, but is just my opinion.

You like comments and maybe you want to answer to my question :). Is possible that 1.2v cpu and memory controller voltage at xfx rx580 is fault of controler chip ? I have error 43 and memory is ok and i try 20 different bios. Only suspecting at board is high cpu and controler voltage

I have the same gpu, and I have there the same white screw. Does that come from manufacturer? 🤔

Hey Tony, what's that core always sitting up at the top of the screen by the copper wick? Is it a good luck charm? 🤔

I think it's not an led issue but an fiberglass/optic cable or the diffuser is the culprit?

this reminds me, I have a 1080TI that I used the wrong power cord on a HDMI switcher and fried it through the HDMI port. no other ports work, no video out. it's been sitting on a shelf for a few years now.

There are only 2 leds at the ends and a long diffusor. The rgb controller wasnt broken at all.

I have a 1070 strix I tried getting a 2070 super strix but couldn't find one so got a aorus

Hi! did you built that power monitor?

16:38 didnt expect that

Yes, the dead LED's on that model STRIX-cards is a known problem!

Very speciffic description and association reffering to this card. Do you have something to tell us ?

Can anyone please help me? I have Asus Strix 1080 ti, it seems to work ok with graphics. But the GPU fans do not turn on (even with new ones installed)...theres no power to fans even after hitting 80c+ on card. The solder on connector looks good, but zero fan power at all...Any idea please?

You don't use a hot plate? How?? Isn't the ground plane massive on those cards? Is that the Atten 808D or whatever?

The proper tool to control asus leds is armoury crate, it is a super heavy bloatware garbage. I hate leds so I just unplug the connector from the card.

the gpu surgeon

6J= is the richtek RT6220

"I do not have any shorts, and that's a fact" - northwestrepair 2023

That Problem of the LED is that, that the LED PCB sits @ the Back of the Cooler and there are only Two LED`s on the PCB. On that LED stick´s an Round Plastic, Acrylic Tube that emittes the Diode Light until the Front of the Card. My Vega 64 is from November 2017 and works the most of Day since then and it Works Perfekt since Day One.

Hairy leg gang rise up

What is the usual / average lifetime of a reballed GPUs? Some are dies after a month?

Hi. Do you know if a Strix 1060 will power on and work without the 8 pin cable inserted? Just for testing purposes. Thanks.

The easy ones get fixed. no reballs............

im interested in what you are doing here. im subscribed you scenic days ago and I'm very happy with your content. and i want to ask you for you diy equipment to made it by myself, any diagrams and parts name it will be more than useful for me. and if you give me some URLs for schematics for a popular graphics card i'll thank you for ever. im ready to pay for these stuff.

I have a 1080ti FE who died after i repasted it, all i could see when powering it on after repaste was the green led just flash and the card died😢

@ 0:17 - 01:08 If there was no video to back up the audio monologue, I'd swear I'd say I'm on a Red-Black Pill YT channel (& not on a computer repair one). 🤔😂😜🤓🖒🖒🖒

For your lucky day, here is a holy 🐄 for you =)

I cant with this intro 😂😂😂😂

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Surprised the economics of repairing a GPU that old still make sense.

is it really viable for you to reball the gpus (asking because of northridge not worth the time), I know for a fact that you enjoy doing your job more than anyone else

The problem is the led plastic strip are opaque just need to change them 😅

Same LED problems with my 1070 Strix.

Why not just drop the working core into that clean donor and call it a day ?

Hi, what is PEX power rail used for?

Speaking for myself I learned two things today not to trust eBay sellers with Hi-Tech components and not to care about cosmetics on video cards 😅

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Turning an 8gb model into a 16gb model requires not only a 16gb bios version, but also that you modify the board ID resistors. You probably already knew, but there is a chance that you didn't so I offer a comment about it.

For the algo.

15:00 I do!

For the eternal life.

I got hairy legs too..

Im just here to multiply the effect.

16:43 to much information about your legs, hehehhehehehehehehehe

all of those strix cards do the same thing about the LED lights, a friend of mine had an RX480 strix that did the same stupid thing with dead LED's. asus quality disappoints me every time.

Wish the guy with the dark glasses and beard would come back this guy keeps hijacking it

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I wonder how many get fixed if u watch not many he looks at most and says ya not worth it

6J 4J

Why there are no GPU double sandwich 5 slots instead of SLI or whatever 😂.

NRF related comment

Second

17/20 4090 are no fix n still charged cause not comically 🎉 economical 😂.