IVIYTH0S Posted July 16, 2012 Posted July 16, 2012 (edited) My dad's 8800GT just outright took a dump and now I reverted him to his onboard graphics for now. I'm thinking of doing my first bake (which it seems odd that almost every card I see dying is an 8800GT and every first bake of people is an 8800GT or similar lol) He doesn't really game that much but I may back just to see if I'm not recycling this thing, I'll have pics of it all apart later. Gonna go check out the new Harbor Freight nearby haha Edited July 22, 2012 by IVIYTH0S Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishop245 Posted July 17, 2012 Posted July 17, 2012 I still havent baked my GTX 275 so good luck to ya on your 8800 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJCRO Posted July 17, 2012 Posted July 17, 2012 (edited) My dad's 8800GT just outright took a dump and now I reverted him to his onboard memory for now. I'm thinking of doing my first bake (which it seems odd that almost every card I see dying is an 8800GT and every first bake of people is an 8800GT or similar lol) He doesn't really game that much but I may back just to see if I'm not recycling this thing, I'll have pics of it all apart later. Gonna go check out the new Harbor Freight nearby haha All I have to say is Harbor Freight FTW! They opened up one in the Bronx near me and ever since then I don't have to get ripped off anymore on Chinese tools. Edited July 17, 2012 by MJCRO Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted July 17, 2012 Posted July 17, 2012 I've baked a couple cards with success.... just make sure you follow them well... too hot or too long and card = toasted. I cooked a gts250 that died shortly after I received it and its still going strong 4 years later... another I tried didnt last long and had to be RMA'd others i have done are still going I think as i havent heard anything bout it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted July 17, 2012 Posted July 17, 2012 I had great success reviving a broken 4870X2 from Ebay doing the baking trick...just don't do it for too long. Prepping properly is key as is the cooling of the card (too fast will damage it). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted July 18, 2012 Posted July 18, 2012 (edited) Here's the card apart, not cleaned off (I did the cooler while the card baked then the card and used AS5) Here's the little guy all ready to be baked. Oven Setting 375F-ish, 9:30min, oven off for 30secs and then cracked the oven open a smidge and allowed it to slowly cool for 1/2 an hr. Here's it plugged into my computer (didn't take pics of reassembly because we all know what an 8800GT looks like lol) And here's it booted in windows runninf perfect In addition to the 8800GT, I also brought my sister's old Macbook back from the dead (just needed a new harddrive, but I had to spend hours figuring out how to transfer her data from her "bad" harddrive to a better one I had sitting around in a Linux bootable environment.....stupid HFS+ ) All in all, a quite productive day!! Edited July 18, 2012 by IVIYTH0S 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
My_Inner_Fred Posted July 18, 2012 Posted July 18, 2012 Grats nice job at reviving your GPU and getting your sis's laptop up and running. +1 for Bat cat haha. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puck Posted July 18, 2012 Posted July 18, 2012 I had intermittent artifacting/refusal to boot on one of my 4870X2's and after a full cleaning, baking, and new thermal pads/paste, its running perfectly fine and all temps are lower then ever, even cooler then brand new. Currently living comfortably in my GFs rig, and hasn't had one hiccup since. I also think the pads on the voltage circuits are too thin from the factory(besides being terribly cheap), because the new slightly thicker 1mm pads I installed dropped the VDDC temps a TONt...and anyone with a 4870X2 knows that those things COOK themselves even at stock clocks...up to and over 105c . Now after playing D3 maxed out they never get above 77, thats a HUGE difference! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted July 18, 2012 Posted July 18, 2012 Grats nice job at reviving your GPU and getting your sis's laptop up and running. +1 for Bat cat haha. Haha thanks, sadly I think she found that picture and it's not her car (who looks identical) I had intermittent artifacting/refusal to boot on one of my 4870X2's and after a full cleaning, baking, and new thermal pads/paste, its running perfectly fine and all temps are lower then ever, even cooler then brand new. Currently living comfortably in my GFs rig, and hasn't had one hiccup since. I also think the pads on the voltage circuits are too thin from the factory(besides being terribly cheap), because the new slightly thicker 1mm pads I installed dropped the VDDC temps a TONt...and anyone with a 4870X2 knows that those things COOK themselves even at stock clocks...up to and over 105c . Now after playing D3 maxed out they never get above 77, thats a HUGE difference! How long since the bake, glad to see an X2 still around Yeah, those bastards are no doubt the reason my 4870x2 couldn't overclock one measly bit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted July 18, 2012 Posted July 18, 2012 Congrats on your first GPU souffle! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted July 18, 2012 Posted July 18, 2012 Congrats on your first GPU souffle! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shurman292 Posted July 18, 2012 Posted July 18, 2012 Very nice IVIY, congrats! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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