Sapphire HD 6990 with missing pcb components; fixable or not?

[Mat_95]

A re-post to seek help with my HD 6990, can anyone help with the card?, below is the attached picture of the 2nd core/GPU.

The 1st of the pair is fine, nothing missing.

 

the cards specs are reported all over the place in gpu-z too, 

again; any help/suggestions, would help greatly.

 

I received the card like this, so no hate please, I would like to know what’s possible and what could cause this to happen.

 

thanks again, in advance 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

16 minutes ago, Mat_95 said:

A re-post to seek help with my HD 6990, can anyone help with the card?, below is the attached picture of the 2nd core/GPU.

The 1st of the pair is fine, nothing missing.

 

the cards specs are reported all over the place in gpu-z too, 

again; any help/suggestions, would help greatly.

 

I received the card like this, so no hate please, I would like to know what’s possible and what could cause this to happen.

 

thanks again, in advance 

 

Doubt it's something you can fix yourself, surface mounted caps require specialized equipment. 

[Mat_95]

Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Doubt it's something you can fix yourself, surface mounted caps require specialized equipment. 

I guess, is it worth even getting them replaced etc? 

 

Any idea what what could do that to the card, one of the two gpu specifically? 

[MedievalMatt]

Somebody at AMD.  THIS CARD NEEDS ALL THE SURFACE MOUNT CAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

like, holy crap.  you may (if can can get the details of those caps) solder on a replacement.  But those look blown.  So that GPU may be damaged, or wont clock properly.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Just now, Mat_95 said:

I guess, is it worth even getting them replaced etc? 

 

Any idea what what could do that to the card, one of the two gpu specifically? 

The sad part is that the 6990 is not a bad card in my mind... Heck even Austin used one for scrapyard wars so it's still got some life in it for gaming. But finding someone who has the skills to replace those ain't going to be cheap. 

[it_dont_work]

Unless you've got good xfire support in games, the 6990 is slower than a 1050 today.

 

And most likely the thing got to dam hot, I've had two 6990's fail in a similar way, one after a couple months of purchase, another years later with an arctic cooler on it. It'll make a good desk ornament now

[Mat_95]

It don’t look too bad otherwise, how expensive would it be to fix? I paid £30 for it and I did watch the scrapyard wars stuff, my 1070 is overkill and well, my 800 watt psu isn’t being utilised that much, plus it’s my first dual gpu card (a tech dream/goal for me)

 

i planned to get it to well; diagnose and or something but the dude didn’t mention anything about caps, just that he also got it As is, and it didn’t work properly. 

 

Any idea what to do; could generally using it cause that to happen? I mean; it’s a 375w Card, so heat maybe; as it_don't_work said 

 

pictures attached of current condition 

[cowpker4life]

I think it's done for..having parts in the back of the gpu blow most likely the gpu has been damaged serverily if you ever heard of buildzoid you could try talking with him about it he has a lot of experience with pcbsand modding them.

[Mat_95]

Alright; I’ll go have a look, 

thanks for the suggestion 

[Mat_95]

9 hours ago, cowpker4life said:

I think it's done for..having parts in the back of the gpu blow most likely the gpu has been damaged serverily if you ever heard of buildzoid you could try talking with him about it he has a lot of experience with pcbsand modding them.

How would I go about contacting buildzoid (sorry if that sounds silly) ?