Even though I just bought it not long ago. . . . Do you guys think it’s still be repaired?.
That GPU took a lot of my savings and I don’t want to put any more holes in it.
If you think it can’t be repaired, recommend me something that i can buy for $150 or so. Right now I’m using Geforce 605 I pulled from my old pentium machine for emergency. And it is verryyy slow it is painful to draw with it.
That looks more like damage from overheating, but hard to tell. Don’t think it can be repaired when the board itself is damaged and if repairing is cheaper than buying a replacement.
Aw man, that sucks Looks like you’re in a really tight spot.
It’s hard to assess the damage. If it’s only the component mounted on the surface, then maybe it could be replaced, but graphics card PCBs are really complex, so it may not be feasible. At any rate, you would need a specialized shop that could do such a repair, I think. Meaning, it would cost a lot too. Also, if they can’t make out what component that was, they will likewise be out of luck.
Can you confirm these marks are caused by heat / burn? Rather than something spilling on the PCB and causing a short? If something is deposited on the surface, you could perhaps clean it up. But if these marks are the coating “bubbled up” from extreme heat, then it’s possible everything inside is likewise melted. And I think this region of the card is where the PCI slot power comes in, so the overheating damage theory is plausible.
It looks heat like damaged to me from what I can see in the photo especially if it wasn’t there before. I can’t see capacitors on that side that could leak. I imagine it would not be economical to repair unfortunately.
after checking it again, i think something did melts. . . if the repair cost is more than 30% of the price, I would probably just sells it for parts and getting new card with no external power pin requirement. (just to make sure nothing like this would happen again).
The photo isn’t very good, but I’d also say that PCB is toast, thus low chances to repair it with reasonable effort.
In any case, if you (or someone else) attempts a repair, don’t test it in your system first. You’re probably lucky only the video card got damaged, whatever caused that burnt spot may not actually be in the visually damaged spot, and who knows what happens when you repair the visual damage but not the cause of it, you could easily damaged your mainboard or power supply too.
Looks like you’re in a really tight spot.