The amount of time it takes to do even a simple fix for pads is so much it's hard to justify opening business and not charge repair attempt fees and charge more for repair

​@@northwestrepairto tag onto this, I'd open the business and charge the fees. The cost savings for the end user is worth the repair in most cases. Working on other consumer electronics is also a possibility as well to supplement things.

second option is to take the northridge way and sell me a flucking magic short killer at only 99.99 $ !

@@northwestrepair Thanks for the reply. I understand it is not easy and requires time in addition to risk. Just my opinion from the outside looking in, you know your shit. Not if but WHEN another GPU shortage hits, either because of a crypto or AI boom, people will pay what the GPU is worth to have it repaired. Not speculation, actually happened with the last mining boom. GPU's are becoming less luxury and more essential with corporations buying them and AI cloud computing right on the horizon. When there is a GPU shortage, there will also be a technician shortage.

@@renegade_patriot You forgot Covid. The whole world stayed inside their houses for close to 2 years. Tech companies over-hired and the big layoffs happened. Instead of opening a shop, Northwest should focus on KZfaq. Make more money that way and way less risks.

I try

The rare Sting lines. Well done.

Could someone translate this for me? I swear I spoke broken English when I was still a teen.

I did not know that having no pancreas makes you nauseated while eating. That sucks man. Do you know why does that happen?

My XFX R9 380 also still runs perfectly

Thanks, will do!

Well my old R9 380 from XFX still runs great and is pretty decent quality wise, so I guess they only made shitty 5000 series cards… but this channel seems to be kinda biased towards Nvidia…

@@Simoxs7 Yeah biased for sure all well , im still going to pick amd over a completely toxic anti consumer brand even gonna look at intel gpus next gen.

Neither did I 😂

XFX used to be good, but man oh man they have really gone down hill, and it started a long time ago too. I definitely don't trust them, but I think some of their cards are still good, just depends on the model. It's not good to blindly trust any brand, even the most reputable ones. It's always best to check independent reviews for the exact model of a graphics card before buying it.

i am trying

If masterlock starts making GPUs, we're in for a treat.

That sounds familiar. I think most of the 5700 XT cards had perfectly good coolers though. I definitely remember researching them when helping a friend to build a computer. I remember that the Sapphire Pulse and Powercolor Red Dragon were both definitely good models, offering an excellent balance between price and quality, with the Pulse being probably the best version of the 5700 XT in terms of value per dollar, but with many other cards not far behind it. The cheapest Powercolor model was pretty crappy though. It's sad when the worst models are often only about 10 or 20 bucks cheaper, but significantly worse. However, prices can fluctuate a lot, so never assume that a more expensive card is actually better. Also, it's never good to blindly trust even the most reputable brands, and even the worst brands can sometimes make good versions of a card. Also, a model with a major flaw does sometimes get a revision which fixes the flaw. It's always best to find a good review of the exact model of card, to verify if it's worth what it's priced at, before buying, if at all possible.

The Thicc III was the fix with triple fans and new coolers. It actually had the best performance of any card in the 5700XT line up.

Xfx rdna 2 line up are one the best , especially the 6800xt , see hardware unboxed review on it

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@@northwestrepair awesome

I used the "drop method' since I can remember. Always had nice spread of thermal paste. I always check even if this means I need to use double quantity of thermal paste. Spreading works for almost liquid thermal paste (like liquid metal). For normal paste, I put a drop, assemble the heat sink, disassemble, check, repaste then completely assemble.

My ASUS RX 6800 XT doesn't even get above 60c with 50% fan speed, but it's undervolted to 1030 mv.

@@iseeyou1312 That's a 6800xt and they have much beefier cooling than a 6600 non xt

Try using a good thermal paste that helped me a lot, my friend's card ( rx6600) was dropping frames when he played some intense games he gave it to me I changed the thermal paste I used mastergel maker from cooler master it dropped the temperature by 15°

@@yaniayache5132 I bought the card not long ago which is why I haven't yet, I shouldn't really need to. By the sound of it though they just come with crappy paste from the factory. The only paste I have was the stuff that came with my Dark rock pro 4 cooler. I reckon that would still be better though.

@@yaniayache5132 I couldn't help myself and did it. My god. It was the worst factory paste job i have ever seen, it's a wonder the thing wasn't crashing constantly (though it did sometimes). I used to get up to 89c on the gpu hotspot before in games that hit the cpu and gpu hard. Now i haven't seen it go over 65c.

Cool

Well the stock pads on 580 nitro+ are 0.75mm but they are almost unobtanium. That's why you should research what thermal pads the card uses before you even open the card (or at least measure the old ones).

@@cryspin7 i did do my research which why i settled with 1mm at first expecting i could squeeze the 0.25mm difference. Just didn't expected the nonbranded pad i first bought to be as stiff as a plank lol. Bought a 0.5mm coolermaster pad afterward and it's pretty soft that maybe if i bought the CM's 1mm pad first I don't have to redo it

I bought the Gelid Extreme 1.0mm pads for my 580 Nitro+ as I learned that the Extreme is squishy enough not to cause a no contact issue. Just do NOT use the Ultimate 1.0 as it is way too hard and WILL cause a no contact, overheating issue! I actually haven't tried them yet as the card seemed to run fine yet and I temporarily put it in storage anyway for now. Funny how Sapphire recommends using 1.0mm pads if you can't find the .75mm ones...and who can...but they forget to mention to make sure that they are squishy enough to compress correctly!

@@arthurmann578 my guess is they're also using 1mm pad, but squeezable ones and not the stiff ones.

@@OcDmn The hard ones (sounds "dirty" ...LOL!) will prevent the core from making proper contact with the heatsink. You need the squishy ones to be able to compress enough so that the two make proper contact. I guess it is best to test it first by adding some thermal paste to the GPU, screwing it down properly, and then taking it all apart again to see if the paste got properly compressed. It does waste paste but it is WAY cheaper than needing to buy a new graphics card and you could always try it with a cheaper paste first, if you have it on hand, and THEN use the good stuff when you know it compresses properly.👍👍

I guess so.

the gpu ran at 61,the hotspot is 90.the fan curve is set depending to the gpu temp not the hotspot,still 90 with new thermal paste is worrying

Undervolt it with MSI Afterburner curve adjuster. Ez to do and effective.

thermal design isn't that great if thats the case. but then again, zotac is one of those brands that offer cheap cards so i don't think they'll do a good job at designing their cards anyway.

Zotac has terrible design choices in general, probably a terrible heatsink

Not worth it 😞

Nvidia

Both are from EVGA, on SSC and ftw model