8800 GTX is baked and Comes back to life!!!!

lulz

fake

no silicon product that can survive 400f +

personally I'd send the card back if its under warranty. If it isn't, it would be worth a try.

I have heard some people did that with their VGA too

a good example of nvidia being far superior to ATI^^ an ATI card would melt after 10-15 seconds.

Seriously, enough.

The thinking is for the balls to melt and reattach itself, from their earlier broken condition. Could work, but it really needs to be done card by card, and refined better

Dude what im saying is true. Its all facts. 110% true factual evidence.

You call me a nvidia fanboy and you are a dead hard ATI fanbou yourself ;P

That is false. I am neutral. I use both cards and purchase the best card for what I want to use it for.

There is nothing wrong with favoring one company. Many people on this forum favor one brand. But there is something wrong with bashing the other.

The 5870 was not intended to beat the GTS295. The 295 is a dual GPU solution, and the 5870 is not. It was ment to replace the 4870. ATI's next dial GPU solution will replace the 4870x2. You are comparing two different classes of video cards.

Also, the 5xxx series is now. So they will carry a premium price. Just like every other new card that is introduced from either ATI or Nvidia.

then how do you think they make the boards?

hint: print the solder paste, place the components and run it through a 400f+ reflow oven.... and repeat for the other side

@okini you have no clue how electronics are manufactured, do you?
Even the ati boards go through a 400f+ reflow, saying they would melt is just plain wrong.... granted the pcb gets a bit soft at the peak temperature but that happens to all of them...

well take your mess somewhere else

The Xbox and PSx boys have been doing this for years and it works for VGA cards. I've lost the threads but I have pointed two posters here to this solution to the same problem and both have replied that it works.
Should you doubt me just google reflow or check out Ebay for reflow ovens, as I did when I did not believe it the first time

if you had read the article it says he baked it at 385.

anyway, interesting stuff. i should have kept my old x850 to try it on

Yeah, if the balls dont form completely like before, theyre already set again to fail, and theres no control over it whatsoever

It works! I just did it with my olg 8800 gtx AND gts both now work.

The plastic parts have gone a little cream/yellow color and strangely, the stickers are still white, all but 1 anyhow, that one burnt into a brown crisp. The dvi ports are now yellow/brown and the fan power plastic thino is yellow now. ANYHOW it works! and I've tried it with WIC for 8 hours max settings and no crash. Today I've been playing Left for dead 2 and no problems! 1 week and its still going

BEST FIX EVER! THANKS!