Well, my gaming rig's video card recently died, it was a beautiful geforce 9800gt, about 2x more powerful than geforce gts450 and holds up to today's games nicely. There were artifacts over the screen, at 1600x1200 you couldn't even see a thing, screen was just filled with horizontal bars. 
Then i stumbled upon this one article on Reddit, which suggested that i should put it in my oven, at first i was like "dafuq?", then i read the comments, there were actually people who said that this works. :wacko:
Instead of dismissing them as trolls, i searched this up on google and found that this method is called "Reflow Soldering" and is pretty effective, with about 70% success rate, fixed cards lasting from month to two years.
Basically, over time cracks form in your gpu and it fails to work, melting some of the compounds it is made of, can fix the connections and make it functional again...
...or melt the whole card.
As i had nothing to lose, i tried it.
1. Remove fan, heat sink, thermal paste, everything else from the gpu.
2. Get the metal plate thing and cover it in foil.
3. Make 3 foil balls and support the gpu so it doesnt touch the plate. (the central die up!)
4. Put the card into a goddamn stove for 8 minutes @ 200 degrees C.
5. Let it cool for 50 min, without moving it.
6. Reassemble, play awesome games again.
While this might not work for everyone, it did for me and i can play awesome games again,
or you could do this with an old gpu for teh lulz...
Then i stumbled upon this one article on Reddit, which suggested that i should put it in my oven, at first i was like "dafuq?", then i read the comments, there were actually people who said that this works. :wacko:
Instead of dismissing them as trolls, i searched this up on google and found that this method is called "Reflow Soldering" and is pretty effective, with about 70% success rate, fixed cards lasting from month to two years.
Basically, over time cracks form in your gpu and it fails to work, melting some of the compounds it is made of, can fix the connections and make it functional again...
...or melt the whole card.
As i had nothing to lose, i tried it.
1. Remove fan, heat sink, thermal paste, everything else from the gpu.
2. Get the metal plate thing and cover it in foil.
3. Make 3 foil balls and support the gpu so it doesnt touch the plate. (the central die up!)
4. Put the card into a goddamn stove for 8 minutes @ 200 degrees C.
5. Let it cool for 50 min, without moving it.
6. Reassemble, play awesome games again.
While this might not work for everyone, it did for me and i can play awesome games again,
or you could do this with an old gpu for teh lulz...
