I am thinking about a reball action for my 2 MSI Geforce GTX 260 Lightning BE.

1 of my 2 cards started succesfully untill a few days ago but showed artifacts today. After cleaning and taking the cooler of, it gave me a black screen (same as my nr.2 card).

 

I was wondering if anyone has done a reball for a graphics processor.

Is there anybody out there who has tried it? The gpu is a G200-103-3B.

 

I was wondering if anyone has succefully replaced a gpu as well.

Talk to 12 Maarten, I know they did a lot of that stuff with 8 series cards

I am a little confused. Talk to 12?

The Russian hardware master 12 ( Vladimir Malyshev )

I will start looking after my holiday, thanks

I was doing it for some time, reballing and chip resoldering - couple years ago. Problem with those chips is, that chip is damaged itself, not balls below it. It may work for a week or two after this operation and die without any reasons.

 

It would be better to replace chips from working reference cards...

Thanks, I was looking at that as well.

If I let someone do it, it is expensive.

Do you still have the skills?

For reballing need big big experience. It is science for itself. I talk about reballing with many people.

It's a conclusion is need very very expensive tool for reballing to do

that this thing done well. As far as I know Smoke do reballing for TEAM RUSSIA

Thanks for the reply.

I found a proffesional who does it over here.

But the the question is, is the chip worth it?

For reballing need big big experience. It is science for itself. I talk about reballing with many people.

It's a conclusion is need very very expensive tool for reballing to do

that this thing done well. As far as I know Smoke do reballing for TEAM RUSSIA

 

It can be done with 150$ hot air station and 25$ electric grill as a heater. Trust me Good flux, bunch of stencils and 60%tin/40% lead balls with proper diameter. It's not magic, just need some attempts and patience. Took me a month, day after day, to gain skills to resoldering gpus.

 

Point is, that chips have factory defect. Reballing will help only for a while. That's why I forgot about it. You're doing the card and after a month it's a dead again. Sometimes it won't help at all.

I do have a hot air station. But not the skills needed yet.

I guess the point is clear, "fixing" it won't do much.