Bad Video cards - Reflow?

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  • ChaosLegionnaire
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    Re: Bad Video cards - Reflow?

    it depends on the video card. so for those x1650 pro video cards, i know they tend to overheat because of the crap coolers put on them. due to the age of these video cards, sometimes the fan also tends to fail silently and without any warning, making them fail fast from overheating due to a failed fan.

    exactly how have the two cards u have "died"? artifacts? not detected at all? hangs/freeze when loading the driver in windows? or 2d displays fine but running anything 3d hangs/freezes/artifacts the card? please explain how they "failed" precisly and clearly.

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  • stj
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    Re: Bad Video cards - Reflow?

    more likely to be the caps,
    they dont last forever - even if they arent used.

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  • bigbeark
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    Bad Video cards - Reflow?

    I have three Sapphire ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 512M DDR2 PCI-E DUAL DVI video cards which I bought as NOS in the original packaging. One was DOA, the other two have now died after almost no use.

    I'm thinking Sapphire is a crap brand but the caps are 2 Panasonic FJ series, 1 XON LZ series and 1 UD series with a halo logo which I think is Nichicon.

    Should I reflow these or are there any guides to fixing video cards?

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