Even though I felt really sorry for the buyer, I will never accept items from smoking households again. This time I first let the card air out in storage for 2 days after blowing through it properly once. I immediately shipped the packaging back there as well after taking the photos. This in advance as a request to the readers not to send such parts in the future. Not only is it an olfactory imposition, but it also damages the hardware immensely. Because such deposits are not only disgusting, but also harmful. But back to the card and the first inspection: Screen immediately black again, but no error message from the system, the fans don’t turn anymore either.
So all that was left was the slaughterhouse and careful filleting. What I then saw first was a loosely hanging, unconnected cable of the cover’s RGB lighting. I asked the buyer somewhat hypocritically (and with a certain intention) rather so incidentally, whether he would have liked the front illumination of the Red Devil and got as a spontaneous answer “What lighting”? Which means I can pretty much assume that the plug was already off when I bought it. We’ll see in a moment why it couldn’t hold at all.
I document (not only) the progress of such things very meticulously (which is why I use a smartphone with decent camera and 1 TB storage) in the form of photos and also videos. Firstly as evidence or inventory and secondly also as a guide for later, so that even after days or weeks you still know what belongs where and why. Keyword sequence and screw length. The fact that something important is missing below the connector can be seen even before disassembling the cooler. So keep the lens on it and move on.
If you turn the card over once, you will see two more things on the bottom. First, the fan connector (socket) is slightly askew because someone must have unknowingly and forcefully choked out the plug before, and the cable’s mount on the cooler took a hit as well. If you don’t know how to release such mini-plugs properly and don’t have the right tools (special pliers / spreader), you’d better not do anything like that. Things don’t get better by senseless use of force. Secondly, you can see that the PCB is already warped and the cooler is slightly bent.
You don’t have to be an expert to recognize from the picture below that such tear-off actions can also send the sockets to kingdom come. And we’re back to the RGB connector, which you can’t plug in anywhere for lack of a counterpart. Let’s keep that in mind.
And now we come elegantly to the thermal paste, which is admittedly a hobbyhorse of mine. The demolition image of the area allows us to draw several interesting conclusions. The thermal paste is no good and was also applied in far too large a quantity. The imprint and imperfection are evidence that the radiator was bolted improperly, resulting in faulty and uneven contact pressure. I’ll show you on the next page how something like this should look right.
You can also see the misery on the opposite side at the radiator, where Horst-Jason must have tightened the misery completely wrong. When something looks like this, thermal fiasco is not far behind. But it got much, much worse….
If we look at the thermal pads of the one voltage converter row, we can see strange gray residues and also pieced stripes. So it’s a replacement and no longer the original fitment with matching thermal pads. But what are these gray crumbs?
The first owner, that is our Horst-Jason (name changed) simply tore off the original, gray pads from PowerColor here. They stick quite well, and the hardware god created the spatula for exactly such cases on the very first day of creation. Well, but you just have to know that. the remains of the old pads are still stuck on the MOSFETS (Smart Power Stages, SPS for short) of the voltage converters and the new pad was simply stuck on. Clean? Seemingly overrated.
The second voltage converter row, on the other hand, was equipped with a too thin replacement pad and thus is unlikely to have enjoyed some cooling imprints? Yes how then, it was a simple air number with double gap.
I suspect that someone without any knowledge or technical skills has either tried to mod the RX 6800 (swap pads and paste), which is already crazy with the Red Devil, or it was a water cooling conversion that was then undone. Be that as it may, this is simply no way to deal with hardware. In order to be able to do real stress tests with proper cooling, I first treated the card as an outpatient. Please scroll on!
- 1 - Graphics card death, eBay and the circumstances
- 2 - Initial findings and head shaking
- 3 - Wound dressing and referral to specialist
- 4 - ELITKon who? Things that only the specialist can manage
- 5 - Disassemble, test and measure
- 6 - Flux, Reflow and the Miraculous Recovery
- 7 - Commissioning, summary and hospital address
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