i 3d printed the dumbbell just to make that shot 🤣

Saphire is goat among AMD branded cards

As other people have said, Sapphire is where to go if you want a quality AMD product. Much like how EVGA used to be for nvidia.

Tony's skill is nuts

I have the Power Color Red Devil 7900XTX in an EK water block. It's been well supported it's whole life. May it never grace your bench.

Sapphire is just in another level, if they made Nvidia cards they would also be the best of the best is the EVGA of AMD

Alright, you have convinced me. I will use this GPU as reactive armour for my tanks. Thank you!

The subtle digs at Alex is hilarious

That's basically proves that repair technicians naturally would know which combinations of AIB/Model are bad, but rarely would see what models are good. Just because good ones much less likely to need a repair.

The first Videos I saw about GPU repair used a machine and lasers to position the GPU to finish the reballing without misalignments, yet you do it with your own hands. And the RAM as well!!! A true Master with tons of experience.

2:22 I can see at least two colors and can also read. !!! :D

This was like watching a professional athlete. You don't understand the skill that was just demonstrated until you try it. It is only then you can drop your jaw, clap your hands, and say bravo.

Love the almost subliminal subscribe messages in the timelapse ;)

Thank you for explaining some of the things that you were doing during the video, it helps explain processes steps that often get lost in translation.

I have a Sapphire 3850 AGP and a 3870 that I bought many years ago that still works just like the day I got it, And a 4870x2 as well!

As a fellow strength trainer, I'd really like to know how the customer managed to drop a dumbbell on his GPU which, presumably, was inside his PC? Please tell 🤣

Tens of thousands of people peer over your shoulder as you work and you don't even get nervous ! 😆

Great repair work Tony.. You managed to fix the back panel to as parallel as earth's surface.. beautiful! 👍👍

Experience, skills and talent. You are amazing with the repairs you do. I love this channel.

Like everyone says...Sapphire is the EVGA of AMD, the GOAT if you want an AMD card. I have owned 6 Sapphire AMD cards. None of them have failed on me so far. And I still have 4 of them in perfect working condition. The other 2 were given away to a friend and a family member. Those 2 are also still working.

Great job. Amazing that there weren't any torn pads or cracked traces.

I was along time EVGA fan, right up until they quit making GPUS. They had the best quality and best support of any electronics manufacturer. I was so sorry to see them withdraw from the market. My replacement has been Sapphire. They're about as close as anyone gets to EVGA.

Awesome! when i want to get an upgrade i'll look for one of these!!

So satisfying to watch. Glad you're giving new life to hardware, and sharing your knowledge around through videos. Many thanks

Your skills amaze me...props to you!!

I really like these montage videos with music. A lot more fun to watch than the non-montage ones.

Tbh I was expecting Alex's clip with the hammer with that backplate 😂😂

Sapphire is amazing, I knocked 2 capacitors off while replacing the paste on my 7800 xt pure, and its still running today.

Always a joy to watch your repair videos.

I actually bought a sapphire nitro+ 7900XTX first AMD card, and I’ve been happy with it. It’s in a water block now.

Good job on the fix and nice repair video.

Good Work!

I'm glad that you resoldered that one capacitor.

That message blip at 2:44 killed me and i just had to slow it down to read it. Therefore subbed.

One of our customers had two laptop screens destroyed by dropping a flower pot on them. Dumbbell is new though. On a GPU. Inside a PC. People are strange.

Wow! This video had some good quality!

As ever, excellent work. And excuse me for disturbing you: could you say the temperature and airflow you use to solder the GPU, please? Thanks a lot in advance.

I hope the dumbell was ok after landing on that GPU

well tony if i have to ever have my 1080 ti or 1650 fixed or just having the thermal paste and pads done i will happy send them ur way because you are a legend at repaires

Awesome work

Great video as always

My first high end card is a Sapphire Vega 56 because I was so impressed and it is the first with the flow-through cooler design. I then bought Sapphire RX 570 and 580s Nitro+, the cooler on Nitro+ powerful overkill nice.

PowerColor and Sapphire are the best from AMD side, and both of them have great performance and also have best designs as for quality, i remember northridge had 6900XT from sapphire with burnt connector, solders didn't have any additives to help with melting so he had to weaken those to remove 8-pin, i think that's the only case in GPU repairs i saw technician not being able to melt solder just like that

Great repair as usual! Hopefully I never need to send my ASRock Phantom Gaming 7900XTX to you for repair, it's been rock solid so far.

I think you did a phenomenal job. I would have to be pretty desperate to try a free-hand reball like this. This is like actual magic to 90% of all technicians in the field.

EDit: ignore bracket part, I see it was a dropped card, poor thing. They are heavy! I'm glad I shelled out extra for this unit at end of 2023. I RMA'd first one due to coil whine, second one is much better, while being slightly worse at UV. Only downside to an amazing card and I usually ALWAYS buy the reference cards from AMD. Both cards do 3GHz+ in real world loads and t-delta is well under 10°c. They also sip power using chill, under 160W at 4k/120 in older titles is hilarious.

I generally buy used Sapphire Nitro+ GPUs for the quality of the build. I bough a 6700XT Nitro+ that runs stable for daily gaming at 2910MHz and stays cool with a slight fan curve tweak. Its about 5% faster than stock 6750XT. Sapphire makes the best AMD GPUs by far.

I've got the XFX version of this card with the cast aluminum shrouds, Thankfully XFX had the sense to design its own support bracket that actually does a stellar job.

Have that exact same model. Only converted to water cooling.

It passed the dumbbell test, lets go! On a serious note, Sapphire is the best AIB AMD has, they make good stuff.

i have this exact card and i put it in an alphacool waterblock aio combo... it survived an 18 wheeler wreck when the case and motherboard were mangled

Nice beats!

I knew it would be a Sapphire card when i saw the title of the video. They produce highest quality AMD GPUs for years. The only minor issue is that they do audible coil noise under load

My EVGA 2080 ti was used as a ladder. It's gotta really nasty bend but still working. Been a year since it happened

I love your videos even though I have no idea what you are doing half the time. I also love Sapphire cards. Due to limited availability and cost I went with the Asrock 6900xt oc formula instead. Very happy with it but it lacks the Sapphire design!

About the boot time, the graphics card is detected with PCI 3.0 instead or 4.0 with x16 lanes. I have the same issue with my motherboard cannot get it to work in 4.0. But try to force into gen 3 in the BIOS menu it should reduce the boot time.

Exquisite skill on display

yes! I can see two colors!

Magical!

the vapor chamber meme 😂

I got a rx 580 from saphire which got damage pcb on a side and its still running solid . sapphire is goated

My man, using that Stirri flux I see! Which one do you like best? I just ordered up some V3-TF and have really liked it so far. The only thing I'm not too big on with it is that it's similar to V2 in terms of cleaning. While it does come off, it takes a bit more work and alcohol than ASM. Even though they label these as 'no clean' my ocd would never allow the risks involved with flux residue.

Soo glad I went with the same model, awesome card and by the looks of the internals Sapphire outdid themselves.

Thanks for the video. I had to slow it down to 75% to watch it more easily.

Sapphire X1650 Pro 512Mb was my first GPU i ever bought myself.

I bought that one a few months ago, it's a beast for sure!

Magical! 😁

battle tank.... I'm a proud owner of one of these

Yes i have had many Sapphire gpus and they where all great.

ever seen a 7900xtx taichi in repair? looks like a sturdy build

Sapphire Nitro cards are worth the upcharge imo. 👍I picked up a used Nitro+ 6700XT early last year and it's so well engineered.😍

"Magical" lolol i died on that one lol

I have this card, and it's awesome!

I got this model for my birthday! 😃

first gpu i saw with underfill for the bottom chips

2:26 Why do you use LT-HF-TF it is for Tin or Bismuth low temperature solder ? Btw could you make a video about Flux ? I see you use Stirri please let us know which is the best :)

Hammer is my preferred tool for GPU install.

best gpu surgeon out there. i'm always at awe at your skills. it's like the reverse grim reaper lol.

As long as Kitty gives it a thumbs up . . . that's all I care about.

What's your thoughts on the XFX Speedster MERC310 7900 XTX Black Edition? I'm very happy with mine, but I don't know what the repairability/build quality looks like since I haven't had any reason to take it apart.

If you value quality over bling bling then Sapphire is the way to go

I agree that Sapphire makes good AMD cards, but i think the saving grace here was the fact that this card is likely very new and has not been put through many many heating up cycles like a card that has seen constant use for a year or more. Those heat cycles weaken everything in the card and over time it will get more and more susceptible to dumbbell damage.

Did you drop a dumbbell on it to flatten it out again?

Tony - "This may be the best AMD GPU..." Me: *insta-click* Tony: *shows Sapphire Nitro+ RX 7900 XTX* Me: "YESSSSSS THE EXACT CARD I USE!" I'm beyond happy with my purchase some months ago of this particular GPU. I've undervolted my particular card since I want it to last for the next several years. Happy to see it also now has the Northwest Repair "Seal of Approval", too. :D

Can you do the sapphire pulse version next?

NWR and Sapphire doing God's work, love it

I just got 6700xt nitro for like 210usd (used of course). Suprised at it's power efficiency after underclock compared to my 2060.

Good work 👏 and good GPU

2:22 yesyeysysys no video output

Shappire has been best for quality price on AMD carda since RX470/480...

Ok - had you ever a card send in for damaged caused by a dumbbell before? Just out of curiosity how often that heppens. xD Thx 4 the video.

yeah its defently one of the best. they have allways made insane cards.

I'm glad I got the same model for my GPU

That long boot was because of gpu driver hanging or trying to recover something

6:01 the solder joint looks cracked at the top of the cap. Third component from the top.😅

I have the 7900XT version of this and sadly the RGB lighting mcu failed(rgb strip fails to light up) and also fails the fan health check on their Sapphire Trixx software. I had to Return it to the shop. and yes this thing is built like a tank. I might switch to another brand since the shop has no stocks of this card.

The Sapphire was the best card I ever had. Now I have an MSI, and it's okay, but in my opinion, Sapphire is two classes above. I can say that it is better than the vast majority of Nvidia graphics cards.

My sapphire rx580 8GB still rocking til today

Sapphire for sure and no driver issues over here in linux world.

Magical