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IKnight
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Hey folks.

Someone is offering me a defective Gtx 970 for free. Presuming I wanted to fix it, what could I try?

I've already thought of baking it in the oven and trying to take it apart to clean it. 

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1 minute ago, ImadKnight said:

I've already thought of baking it in the oven and trying to take it apart to clean it. 

Keep in mind that you can't use the oven for making food again after you used it to bake your GPU in it.

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2 minutes ago, GrayTech said:

Keep in mind that you can't use the oven for making food again after you used it to bake your GPU in it.

Why not, just curious?

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3 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

Why not, just curious?

I'm not 100% sure but I think this is the reason:

There are poisonous parts inside the GPU and when you bake them they get into your oven and appariently you can't get them out again. So you could get poisened and probably even die after eating food you made with this oven.

 

Linus made a video about baking a GPU and I think he explains it there. And there is a guilde to baking GPUs somewhere on the forum I think.

 

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11 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

Why not, just curious?

 

14 minutes ago, GrayTech said:

Keep in mind that you can't use the oven for making food again after you used it to bake your GPU in it.

Ok... Thanks for the heads up.. if that's the case, you may have just saved my life. 

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Just now, ImadKnight said:

 

Ok... Thanks for the heads up.. if that's the case, you may have just saved my life. 

I don't know wether my explanation is right or not but I'm 100% sure that it is dangerous.

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Anyways. If the card is free, just get it. Maybe it works after cleaning it.

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I know things like baking powder coat in an oven makes it not safe for food prep, I don't remember if Linus mentioned it in that video where he tried baking a card, but if he did then it was definitely to do with things like Toxic off gassing contaminating the oven and any food ever cooked in it again. The fact that they sell ovens SPECIFICALLY for the purpose of baking electronics would suggest something like that is happening.

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3 minutes ago, Daniel644 said:

I know things like baking powder coat in an oven makes it not safe for food prep, I don't remember if Linus mentioned it in that video where he tried baking a card, but if he did then it was definitely to do with things like Toxic off gassing contaminating the oven and any food ever cooked in it again. The fact that they sell ovens SPECIFICALLY for the purpose of baking electronics would suggest something like that is happening.

Ok damn. Think I'll pass on this GPU and save myself the effort of having to go and pick it up. Il stick to the good ol' 460 :P. 

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1 minute ago, ImadKnight said:

Ok damn. Think I'll pass on this GPU and save myself the effort of having to go and pick it up. Il stick to the good ol' 460 :P. 

what is the card doing anyway?

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18 minutes ago, GrayTech said:

I don't know wether my explanation is right or not but I'm 100% sure that it is dangerous.

I doubt you'll die dramatically, but cooking electrical stuff can release terrible chemicals, and you defo don't want to ingest or breathe them. Best bet is to keep a cheap crappy oven from craigslist in your backyard, and use that for cooking toxic stuff. 

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10 minutes ago, Daniel644 said:

what is the card doing anyway?

The gtx460? 

Light gaming. It handles GTA V at 1080p low settings at like 60fps. :D

 

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9 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

I doubt you'll die dramatically, but cooking electrical stuff can release terrible chemicals, and you defo don't want to ingest or breathe them. Best bet is to keep a cheap crappy oven from craigslist in your backyard, and use that for cooking toxic stuff. 

I live in Sweden, and in an apartment so i (sadly) don't think that's really possible. Good idea tho :D. 

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Just now, ImadKnight said:

The gtx460? 

Light gaming. It handles GTA V at 1080p low settings at like 60fps. :D

 

NO, you said the 970 was "defective", how is it defective? is it not outputting a video signal, is it suffering from driver crashing, does it show weird lines on the screen?

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1 minute ago, Daniel644 said:

NO, you said the 970 was "defective", how is it defective? is it not outputting a video signal, is it suffering from driver crashing, does it show weird lines on the screen?

 Not sure. I think it's just stone dead as in no response whatsoever. 

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Baking RARELY fixed a card

It was a method that worked for a while because a few series of nVidia chips had manufacturing flaws - reflowing those cards would get some of them working again at least for a while

cards with gtx 970 don't have those flaws. if the card won't work , most likely a chip or mosfet in the vrm circuit which powers the gpu chip or the memory has failed and would have to be replaced

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