Artifacting GPU

[Robert Hooven]

Ok, I know the gpu is artifacting, I’ve done driver updates, clean installs and nothing. My psu is brand new, motherboard is new.

 

I want to know how to get access to a 1070 gpu chip (JUST THE PROCESSOR) so I can replace the one on mine. Asus ROG 1070 

[Hinjima]

11 minutes ago, Robert Hooven said:

Ok, I know the gpu is artifacting, I’ve done driver updates, clean installs and nothing. My psu is brand new, motherboard is new.

 

I want to know how to get access to a 1070 gpu chip (JUST THE PROCESSOR) so I can replace the one on mine. Asus ROG 1070 

Replacing a GPU die is a 100 times more complicated than swapping out a normal CPU / Processor.

I dont know where one could find a spare 1070 chip.. 

Artifacting is more likely bad VRAM and not the die / GPU itself.

Do you have the experience and tools required to change a GPU die or VRAM?
 

[Middcore]

Cannot feasibly be done, even if you could somehow source the chip. It's not sitting in there in a socket where you can just pop it out and put in a new one.

 

A 1070 is a $100 USD now at the most. You would be ahead in every way just to replace the whole GPU. 

[RONOTHAN##]

8 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

I dont know where one could find a spare 1070 chip.. 

Buy a for parts 1070 to steal the core off of and pray that it doesn't have a dead piece of silicon. That's your only option, since that part is something like 80-90% of the total cost of the GPU itself. Plus if it isn't dead silicon, it's almost certainly easier to just fix the parts card rather than to rework the BGA on both cards. 

 

Memory chips can somewhat be worth replacing if you can confirm they're dead and you have the necessary tools and skill, though the GPU core makes no sense to outside of edge cases like the KPE, HOF, or other rare/collectable GPUs. For this type of component level repair, generally if you have to ask, you shouldn't be touching it and instead taking it to a professional of some sort, though for a GTX 1070 it would likely cost more in labor than the card itself is worth. 

 

 

Just buy a new GPU at this point. This endeavor isn't worthwhile by any metric. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Youd need a bga rework station which can be built for somewhat cheap but itd problably cost near the value of the 1070 itself then youd have to buy some other solder equipment like the bga stencils, solder paste, flux, soldering irons, etc. Again not that much but combined with building a rework station itd problably cost almost as much as the gpu itself is worth or maybe even slightly exceeding the value of the gpu itself

 

if i were you id just buy a cheap 1500w heatgun and a temp gun that can read 200c+ and attempt to reflow the thing by following an actual reflow curve, youd probs still need to buy the flux but thats about it, like 15-20$ total and you have a chance of bringing the 1070 back to life which is what ill attempt to do in the near future with a gts 250 that i currently use as a display output card (driver doesnt work on it)

[Robert Hooven]

49 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

Replacing a GPU die is a 100 times more complicated than swapping out a normal CPU / Processor.

I dont know where one could find a spare 1070 chip.. 

Artifacting is more likely bad VRAM and not the die / GPU itself.

Do you have the experience and tools required to change a GPU die or VRAM?
 

I do have some of the tools, my friend has the rest and access to silicone for the replacement, I just can’t find any chips

[Robert Hooven]

48 minutes ago, Middcore said:

Cannot feasibly be done, even if you could somehow source the chip. It's not sitting in there in a socket where you can just pop it out and put in a new one.

 

A 1070 is a $100 USD now at the most. You would be ahead in every way just to replace the whole GPU. 

The asus rog strix 1070 is $150 used-like new on Amazon, and idk if I want to buy a new one or not

[Middcore]

3 minutes ago, Robert Hooven said:

The asus rog strix 1070 is $150 used-like new on Amazon, and idk if I want to buy a new one or not

 

That an "Asus Strix tax" you shouldn't pay.

 

Regardless, if the problem with your card is the actual GPU die then replacing the card is your only feasible option.

[Yua]

I know it feels wasteful to discard faulty hardware, but repairing it yourself is out of the question; reballing a core is extremely difficult.

The services and knowledge needed to repair a GPU are the same and won't come for cheap just because the card is cheap, so you are looking at spending the same amount of money to get it fixed as you would to buy another one.

 

I just checked on Ebay. $120 for an EVGA 1070 Ti. EVGA was considered the best brand of GPU to buy.

[Middcore]

34 minutes ago, Yua said:

I just checked on Ebay. $120 for an EVGA 1070 Ti. EVGA was considered the best brand of GPU to buy.

Only for their customer service. Nothing inherently superior about the cards themselves, they've had their share of problems. And now they're out of the GPU business. (Not that you could expect support for a card this old anyway.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

But yeah, the comparatively low value of this GPU makes anything except the most trivial repairs a poor use of money. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 hour ago, Robert Hooven said:

I do have some of the tools, my friend has the rest and access to silicone for the replacement, I just can’t find any chips

In that case if he has a rework station or atleast a heatgun + tempgun just reflow the gpu by following a reflow curve

 

If that doesnt fix the gpu just buy a new one, used 5700(xt) or 6600(xt) are usually around 120-150$ and they perform on par if not better than a 1080ti

 

 

If you still wanna do some bga rework anyways and swap the gpu chip just buy some broken gtx 1070(ti) or 1080 non ti for an acceptable price (<50$) and try the chip replacement, you do wanna look out for chipped/cracked dies though as thats a guaranteed dead gpu

 

Looking at vids of bga rework doesnt seem particularly hard, youll just need a stencil, solder paste/balls, rework station, rest of the soldering equipment like solder stations, etc. Maybe abit tedious but not something id call hard cause im pretty sure i could do that if i had the tools (which i will eventually buy and build a rework station when i have cash to spare mainly to screw around with northbridge and chipset swapping but also desoldering sockets, broken chipsets, etc.)