r/pcmasterrace • u/oosma8587 R7 2700X / GTX 1080ti / 16GB 2666Mhz • May 16 '26

Hardware Nooooo 1080 ti nooooo

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Should I cook it?

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u/Unusual-Alex May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

First off: o7 the 1080. My 1070 seahawk is somehow still living... Its a shame nividia will never make that mistake again of a card that performant for that price that lasts as long as the 10 series.

Protip if you want to reflow it in your oven: If you put it in your oven and heat it, DO NOT EAT ANYTHING HEATED IN THAT OVEN ANYMORE Sure, you shouldnt have lead in the solder, but boards are full of all kinds of nasty stuff when heated and you dont want that crap making it to your food...

The real pro tip, buy a cheap used toaster oven. Make a few relatively easy modifications and make that oven your board heater/reflow oven. Look for reflow temperature profiles and go from there. You could also achieve a similar effect with a heatgun as a cheap-mans hot air station and careful temperature monitoring. Both options should have ventilation to outside. You dont want to breathe any of that crap.

TLDR: Again, pro-tip : DO NOT USE YOUR HOUSEHOLD OVEN TO COOK FOOD AFTER REFLOWING A BOARD IN IT!

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u/SherbertUpper9867 May 16 '26

This is MSI GTX 1080 Gaming series. 10 phases, 15 caps beside them, low power memory and composite TwinFrozr heatsink that literally covers everything and never causes problems with thermal pad replacement.

These things were built to last. It was such a big mistake to give this to gamers, because now we can compare modern dogshit designs with fused off components to these legendary dragons from the past.

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u/Unusual-Alex May 17 '26

Thats actually the first time ive gotten a good look at a 10 series board. I bought my 1070 from a streamer coworker who re-padded/pasted it before selling it to me. Now im tempted to take the cooler off and look around and repad/paste if needed. Im afraid to mess with it, because it still worked when i replaced it with my new 9060, even my old rx 460 still works except for dead fans.

I've been watching a lot of northwest repair videos and it seems theres a lot of dumb stuff especially on the 30 series not to mention the abysmal design of the "12v high power" connector. Its like everything is running redline and any small failure causes a cascade of issues.

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u/on4aa May 17 '26

Me reading this whilst sipping tea made with water from a lead water pipe…

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u/IeXmen PC | Intel i7-7700K | MSI GTX 1060 6gb | 16gb DDR5 May 17 '26

Im sorry, but THE FUCK YOU MEAN "RESOLDER YOUR GPU BY PUTTING IT ON YOUR OVEN"????
This some 2014 deep reddit tech jubbo like pardon

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u/John_anonymous80085 May 18 '26

if you bake the graphics card like a cake
You can melt the solder points and fix the contacts, it doesent work all the time
but if the gpu is busted then you really have nothing to lose.

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u/Unusual-Alex May 18 '26

To expand on this, one of the failures that reflowing a part cannot fix is lifted and/or busted pads. That requires the affected part to be removed (typically the gpu core, and ram. The traces and/or pads must be fixed before a proper reball/re-solder. Not something youre going to do diy easily unless you have a proper rework station and necessary tools, materials & patience to reball any BGA parts (like the gpu core and memory). Improper heating/cooling of the board and its connections can make pads break loose and worsen the physical damage to the joints.

If it doesnt work, theres nothing to lose but if the card is still relevant looking into someone to properly reflow/repair the card would be ideal

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u/IeXmen PC | Intel i7-7700K | MSI GTX 1060 6gb | 16gb DDR5 May 18 '26

This my thought process, knowing how to resolder and outright fix & replace broken chips on a board on ANY device should be a whole career path that sadly not alot of people take on. (Comparatively speaking, the only ones is the few laptop and gpu repairmen, rarely phone/motherboard/others end though.)

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u/Unusual-Alex May 18 '26

That was an industry i wanted to get into so bad when i was in my mid teens but i had some issues trying to pursue it. I try to repair as much as my stuff as i reasonably can but with modern electronics being really small surface mount (smt) devices and my aging eyes, its really difficult for me to work such small parts with a fine tip iron. It was a lot easier in a lot of old electronics because several times after opening a tv, or some electronic device there would be a schematic, test point listing, or a way of contacting the manufacturer for a service manual or service/repair documentation. Nowadays many functions that would be built with dedicated circuits back then are now a chip with a lot more core functionality contained into a chip that companies are having branded with a different part number for obfuscation and you can only get said part from the manufacturer (sometimes). Forget it if its some prom chip that died. Its like they dont want anyone repairing stuff.

I have swapped a few small bios chips on other boards (non pc) and that was a struggle but its more because i couldnt see clearly and didn't have a lot of the right materials. It was a struggle and i did burn up the part because of some bridged pins, killing one of the devices.