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Just baked a 8800GTX: it worked!
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Just baked a 8800GTX: it worked!
I have always used 350F and it works fine. I reflowed several components including a laptop and TV mobo using 350F. The downside is it never lasts that long. Typically a few months at the max. Also, a quick Google search shows electrical solder melts at 370F, not 400."The higher melting points of the typical Pb-Free
(Sn/Ag) solders requires reflow to occur above
240°C. The recommended soldering or reflow profile
must assure a minimum time above 240°C that takes
into account equipment temperature tolerances, and
with varying product and component size and mass.
Power semiconductor components can include larger
and more massive components as well as the standard
smaller components. This makes it more difficult to
optimize the reflow process for all components on
the PCB."
Apparently electrical solder will begin to reflow at ~400-420F. How people are doing this "Trick" at lower temps makes me scratch my head.
Heat source doesn't matter, as long as you're not melting plastics (I believe the plastics used in the construction of motherboards are of a very high heat tolerance to begin with). You can use an oven (gas or electric), heat gun, whatever, as long as you are careful.
I just baked a GTX 570 back to life. Gave it about 7 minutes under my heat gun, then let it cool for 10 minutes or so (I was heating it up outside, with a nice breeze here it cools off quickly).
Was previously giving artifacts at the desktop after it had a few minutes to warm up, and blue screening whenever given a 3D load to process.
Now it seems to be working normally, I ran several benchmarks (Aquamark3, 3DMark2001SE, 3DMark03, 3DMark05, 3DMark06) with multiple runs on each and it showed no artifacts and no signs of instability.
Post dated 4-17-2014
Neb, don't forget the anesthesia
Already ahead of ya Rob. I gave it a shot of the "good stuff" or did I give myself the shot? Can't remember...
*Update*
It worked! No wave overlay and no artifacting...yet. Just benching it with MSI Kombuster @ stock settings. Load temps don't exceed 57c. Looks like it'll live to fight another day!
Kinda redefines 'Shake & Bake'.
Good one Rob!! 'It's better than frying!'
That depends on how how fried you get....... LOL
Check for bulging caps. One of my older cards had similar symptoms,I recapped it and it works great now.i baked a msi 580gtx a couple of days ago. it was overheating and crashing immediately after running anything stressful. at first i thought i was golden. everything ran fine. ran kombuster and was gtg. but today it is gently artifacting just little pin pricks atm but we all know where this show goes. so much for running my 580s in sli again.
EDIT- hmmm, i just ran 3dmark with no issues wtf. it seems that it will artifact with an all black background but it runs just fine when i bench it? i dont get it. i wonder if its this monitor? even now as i type this im seeing little green dots popping up on the screen with black background? they come and go as i page up and down.
My 570 is done. Once I start a bench/game, I get these weird artifacts resembling dollar signs, lol! If I don't put a load on it, the card runs fine. I'll just save it to test mobos or something, but it's gaming days are done
Check for bulging caps. One of my older cards had similar symptoms,I recapped it and it works great now.