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Baking cards that have artifacts?

UTmaniac

UTmaniac

UTmaniac

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The 200C for 10mins "trick" is pretty well docuented on the net for the G92, but what other cards have members had sucess with this "trick?"

Did the "cooking instructions" need adjustment?

Yesterday afternoon, I came across my old ATI 9700 Pro, while baking my 8800GTS 512 for a fourth time (sucessfully). This card was amazing at its time ~10 years ago, but sadly mine suddenly died with "seagull" artifacts around 2005. But for some reason, I did not have the heart to throw it away after replacing it with a short term fix of a 6600GT (which still works in the in-laws pc, my old "Barton" 3200 setup).

My MSI x48C Platinum mobo does not have an AGP slot, but I'm wondering about trying the "baking trick" and taking a trip down memory lane in my better half's pc, my old Opteron 165 system.

Anyone baked a 9700 Pro sucessfully?
 
I say as you're using the oven you may aswell cook yourself something too..

Keep some oven chips or something, throw them in.. A nice 'new' GPU and some chips, what could be better than that eh? :)
 
Presume its a joke about adding some food to the 'bake oven'?

Having done a few mobo bakes, there will be quite a pungent smell afterwards.

I wouldnt like that infused into my chips :D
 
i have done an 8800gtx a few times with great success that got me a good extra 6 months from the card. i did have to stick it in the oven a few times though and it became a real chore lol
 
Put my nephews Playstation 3 motherboard in the oven for 10 mins @ 100c the other night.. seems to have got it working again. Hope it lasts him until xmas when hes probly getting a PS4 :)
 
I already did this with 3 laptops MBs, 2 still working and 1 I had to do it again but it stop working after 2 months... so I would give it a go.

they way I do is... 10 minutes at 150C and then 10 minutes at 200C and leave it to cool down for at least one hour before moving the card/board.
 
You may get better results with some flux (ebay) and a heatgun, just do the Gpu and memory chips and put a couple of small coins on the Di's to compress the BGA and protect the chip....little messy and fiddly but with the flux there's a good chance is you could be nearly good as new ;)
 
Jakus said:
You may get better results with some flux (ebay) and a heatgun, just do the Gpu and memory chips and put a couple of small coins on the Di's to compress the BGA and protect the chip....little messy and fiddly but with the flux there's a good chance is you could be nearly good as new ;)
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the flux is a good idea, you can also use it with the oven trick.
the heatgun is a really bad idea, because you cannot control the heat, it heats up really fast and you can burn your chips.
 
Drangueos said:
the flux is a good idea, you can also use it with the oven trick.
the heatgun is a really bad idea, because you cannot control the heat, it heats up really fast and you can burn your chips.
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Indeed, I managed to badly burn some memory chips using a heatgun on my old PS3.
 
Krisali said:
I have never heard of this trick. Sounds like wizadry to me
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Not really, chips are mounted on hundreds of little solder balls called a (Ball Grid Array) BGA If the chips are run to hot etc etc those little balls can fracture or just loose connection similar to what is known as a dried joint.

Obviously you can not heat the solder balls directly so you have to heat everything around them to re-melt the solder, just the same as when the cards are manufactured.
 
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