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The GPU oven fix

PCplod

PCplod

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I had a 465 that I completely bricked.... it wouldnt boot with drivers installed and only worked without drivers or in safe mode, tried everything and it would just get the the end of the windows logo and re boot.

Well I just put it in the oven following intsructions online for 8 minutes at 200 degrees, took it out to cool for half an hour put it back together and in me PC and WOW.... Its has good as new...

At first I couldnt believe it, but after looking more online the success rate is extrmeley high... and the more you think about it the more simple it seems, after all you are just re soldering the mini cracks within the GPU that caused the card to not work.

If you have a dead card with no warranty I recommend to anyone.... it really works (although there is obviously a chance that it will brick again)

And through my search on forums I didnt actually come across 1 person that tried it and it didnt work... some peopel had to do it a few times but I havent come across a failed attempt.

Happy :) (not too happy though... because I know it could brick again any time, but right now its as good as new)
 
Yay congrats mate !

Glad to hear you had success , ive got 2 old broken cards that i might try it with, purely for fun !
 
It will brick again. I had it 2 8800gtx's. Have done the oven trick. It did work - one last about 6 months, the other one about 4. So if I was you, I'll start saving for another GPU.
 
Titchy said:
Yay congrats mate !

Glad to hear you had success , ive got 2 old broken cards that i might try it with, purely for fun !
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Thanks :) Yeh why not mate, If you look on allot of forums about this then youll find tonnes of people who its worked for, nothing to lose!
I used my top oven, Although the card doesnt emit any fumes or burn in any way (is only in there long enough and a low enough temps to just about melt the solder and heat up the card) just to be safe I dont want to die of some sort of poisoning lol

mystes said:
It will brick again. I had it 2 8800gtx's. Have done the oven trick. It did work - one last about 6 months, the other one about 4. So if I was you, I'll start saving for another GPU.
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Lol ive got a 7970 arriving tomorrow, I was just using this for a few days between selling my 6970 and waiting for that to arrive (bought this for my lil bro's pc but havent got a PSU big enough yet)

Great card... is perfect now and even better than new after replacing thermal pads and paste, it isnt that far behind my 6970, overlclocks to 825/4000 mhz (but I am taking it back to 775/3800 just to be safe, although aslong as its not over 100 degrees it really makes no difference now the solder is completely fused) all on stock volts.

An the temps are amazing... 38 at idle and just 62 on full load.... cant believe the temps this cards meant to be hot but at the clocks above thats how hot it gets. When the room warms up it goes up to a peak of 69 but stays under 70, most of the time its at 62 max, very surprised.


Seems solid now and good as new, played many hours and stressed the hell out of it, unless I make the card change temps quick (for example make it go hot and cool hot and cool too much and too fast, idle/load, this is what bricks them and causes hairline cracks in the solder) And dont overheat it like 90 degrees plus and stay under that I think it will be fine....

At the end of the day it cant just magically break, if the solder is fixed its fixed. You have to either overheat the GPU or overheat it and have it throttle so it changes temps too quick causing stress to break it, if you dont then it cant break, theres no moving parts is there, its just lots of metal connected together and if it isnt hot enough (or had any repeated sudden change in temps) to be altered or caused stress in any way then it cant move or be damaged.
 
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That trick works very well, but it's not guarantee 100% success all the time, but I used it a few times, had a 7800 which lasted a further 2 years after being cooked.

But, reduced cooking time if your using fan oven, I forgot once that with my new fan oven.:D
 
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I cooked an egg on my broken laptop once, seriously lol thing was bloody hot burn my hands and completely muffed so we put an egg on it and took about 10 minutes to cook :p
 
PCplod said:
I cooked an egg on my broken laptop once, seriously lol thing was bloody hot burn my hands and completely muffed so we put an egg on it and took about 10 minutes to cook :p
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so your laptop wasn't overclocked, it was overcooked ? *sorry i'l get my coat ! :D
 
Lol, cringe-worthy!

I love a good cringe though me, you know what they say, life without cringeness is like life without a jar of reptiles
 
It doesn't last sadly but yes, it does work.


Nightglow said:
That trick works very well, but it's not guarantee 100% success all the time, but I used it a few times, had a 7800 which lasted a further 2 years after being cooked.

But, reduced cooking time if your using fan oven, I forgot once that with my new fan oven.:D
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It all depends why the card failed. If it was down to crap ROHS solder baking works. If you had a damaged power stage or bad memory or RAMDAC it doesn't work.
 
I bought a XFX 4870X2 back in Feb 2009. By July 2010 (after much overuse and watercooling), it started to artifact. I did the oven trick on it a number of times, but to no success. Needless to say the card was no more :(

I bought a 2nd hand HIS 4870X2 for £120 in Aug 2010. Within a month of having this card it too, started to artifact. In the end, to my anguish, I had no choice but to oven it. To my astonishment, the bugger has worked fine ever since *touch wood*. And I am still debating whether or not to upgrade the card to either a 6900 or 7900 based card. :D
 
Nice :) amazing the amount of stories ive seen it working for people, and I spose once you have done it and it worked and you did it long enough for the solder to completely fuse then as long as you dont over heat it or stress it too much it should be all good as if it came out the factory.
 
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