In article op.wiud2ya3ytk5n5@i7-940,
"Lieutenant Scott" writes:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:37:43 +0100, dennis@home wrote:



"Lieutenant Scott" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:43:22 +0100, Brian Gaff
wrote:

I'd have thought this outcome was pretty obvious. think about the
soldering.
When its done its fast and localised to the parts needed to be soldered.
One
cannot heat the whole card up and expect it to survive.

It is stated on the internet that several people managed it. However the
original fault of mine was unknown.

I thought professionally it was still with the whole thing in an oven,
perhaps faster though.

Its relatively easy if you have access to a vapour phase soldering bath.
They don't take anywhere near 9 minutes and you don't fit your through hole
din edge connectors, etc. first as they tend to melt.
They are usually flow soldered afterwards.

I have a broken Nvidia GPU on a Samsung laptop to fix so I may get the
daughters hot air craft gun on it.

This was a Nvidia aswell. It broke when it reached the low 90s C when in use (poor cooling design by Inno3D). Radeons don't break like that. They run at 100C for hours without breaking, they just start making graphical errors. Why can't they make them with a thermal throttle like the Intel processors?


My nVidia GPU has a thermal throttle at 125°C. The value doesn't
appear to be configurable (at least, not via the GUI).

It normally ran at 47°C, but the fan is now knackered and it climbs
to 65°C every few months, until I pull the fan apart and clean out
the bearing again, and then it's back down to 47°C until next time.

I've bought a replacement card, but the driver doesn't like it.
Haven't got around to updating the driver yet.


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