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Dead gigabite gtx 1080

Gerard said:
To say the least, sounds really far fetched.
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Of course it is. They just charged him for 'fitting' 2 VRAMs and a capacitor ;) The VRAM are BGA chips which can't get damaged that easily unless he broke them with force. It wouldn't be easy to get replacement GDDR5X chips.

All they probably did is solder the lifted leg of capacitor back onto the pad. There is no need to change it if it wasn't damaged.
 
VRAM or VRM?

To be honest it just sounds like you borked the card fitting the AIO and never noticed at the time, then with the cap out of the circuit it messed with the voltage somehow and that inturn destroyed some VRMs over time.
 
right ok,
the story on the card!

i fitted a H100i cooler and modded corsair hg10 a week before the card crapped it self, ill capitalise A WEEK, was playing games, and testing just fine at 50-60 degress under stress loads
i was doing a stress test, the halfway through a valley benchmark (std clocks) the temp shot up to over 100 degrees instantly
(h100i Pump still fine been tested)

card died, just froze! not even emergency shut down,
on removing the cooler, a capacitor was hanging off,
so i sent it off, to have the a new cap soldered to the board, and two new vram chips
the first company, deal with ASUS, had the VRAM modules shipped over!

come back plugged it in just dead, no boot, no post nothing VGA light on my MB, meaning no power to GPU,

tried new cables and psu, still the same,

sent it off to another well known UK company,
they checked it over, and baked it,
tested it again, the actual pascal chip is dead!

unless gigabyte what to send me a new card, which is highly doubt full,

im in the process of looking into funny ways on how to destroy the card, im thinking a bucket of molten metal, and dunking it in,

lesson learned dont buy a card on release date as they have been put together too quickly to get them out the door,
looks on ebay, 4 other dead cards, with the same problem, components falling off!

just strange that iv been building pc's for about 15 years, changing blocks, and NEVER had a problem!
 
general baxter said:
right ok,
the story on the card!

i fitted a H100i cooler and modded corsair hg10 a week before the card crapped it self, ill capitalise A WEEK, was playing games, and testing just fine at 50-60 degress under stress loads
i was doing a stress test, the halfway through a valley benchmark (std clocks) the temp shot up to over 100 degrees instantly
(h100i Pump still fine been tested)

card died, just froze! not even emergency shut down,
on removing the cooler, a capacitor was hanging off,
so i sent it off, to have the a new cap soldered to the board, and two new vram chips
the first company, deal with ASUS, had the VRAM modules shipped over!

come back plugged it in just dead, no boot, no post nothing VGA light on my MB, meaning no power to GPU,

tried new cables and psu, still the same,

sent it off to another well known UK company,
they checked it over, and baked it,
tested it again, the actual pascal chip is dead!

unless gigabyte what to send me a new card, which is highly doubt full,

im in the process of looking into funny ways on how to destroy the card, im thinking a bucket of molten metal, and dunking it in,

lesson learned dont buy a card on release date as they have been put together too quickly to get them out the door,
looks on ebay, 4 other dead cards, with the same problem, components falling off!

just strange that iv been building pc's for about 15 years, changing blocks, and NEVER had a problem!
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lol you ghetto modded your card and then blame the manufacturer?? ROFL... priceless
 
general baxter said:
i would post another photo, but its at my local pcb repair company, who is putting a new cap on, and checking the traces
but you can clearly see that the arms which were meant to be soldered on, was just sitting ontop of some solder!

iv just watched the video, you can see the **** poor attempt at fitting the same cap on that video 6min 20 seconds of the video, you can see them just sitting ontop of the solder!
im not going to RMA it, due to they will just say its damaged, i already have a new 1080 on its way! if the new cap works for the repair, ill just watercooled SLI it lol
ill report back tomorrow on what the pcb place says!

im just a little worried why it instantly shot up to over 100degrees, im just hoping that it did some for of emergency shutdown to stop it frying!
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well this repair has definitely voided the warranty.

lol posted before finishing reading the thread.

should have took gigabyte up on their offer. sometimes companies can surprise you. just look at this thread some people saying they would do the easy way out which gives them the chance to cast doubt on that opinion.

take pics of it and show us the VRAMs they changed for you. im pretty sure them VRAMS could fecth a nice price of they are so rare.

EDIT jsut dont get why you needed the card as a founders edition and then stuck and aftermarket cooler on it.
 
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Nvidia good quality control and great performance per watt. 1080s king of GPUs, capacitors falling off, chips baking and vrams frying up.

Priceless.
 
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