Is there anything worth salvaging?

[Alex_Baker]

I recently bought a broken GTX 1060 3G on ebay for a price that I do not want to share  . I knew it had some damage/burnt components, but the VRM heatsink hid the extreme damage that is a hole burnt almost all the way through the PCB.

I think it goes without saying that this card is e-waste at this point and I lost my money, but I just want to know if there is anything worth saving from this card.

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[Messtechniker]

Use it for a soldering exercise. Unsolder and then
resolder the connectors, for example.

[wraper]

GPU chip and RAM likely are fine with such sort of failure, and its what's worth the most on such card. So this card still has significant value as a donor.

[ignislion]

Mosfets. Inductors. Ram\Chip if it is alive

[TMM]

I'd salvage the power inductors and heatsink/fan  if I was keen. Rest goes into the trash.

[Ian.M]

If you've got the storage space, and intend further adventures with similar second hand graphics cards, keep it for parts, intact till you need it to save time locating the used part, and avoid wasting time desoldering stuff you'll never need.  Trust me, you do *NOT* want to become David Sparks!   

Otherwise I'm with TMM - sh!tcan it, although it *MIGHT* be worth recycling it as art!

Art option:
Get a shallow wooden box, a somewhat larger nice picture frame, a smallish flat on one side magnifying lens and a windscreen chip repair kit, to build a cautionary wall hanging  display case:

CAUTION
Do *NOT* bid

on Ebay tat!

with the magnifier lens bonded to the glass over the damage!

[Rasz]

You can easily sell it at ~$100 for parts as is with a burned hole. Someone in Russia will fix it/reuse the chip.

[amyk]

GPU and RAM itself will still be worth a bit.

[Kleinstein]

New RAM chips of that type may be worth quite a bit, but soldered to a board the value is quite a bit lower.

Desoldering is quite some stress to the parts and it need reballing before using them again. There is also a real chance the parts are damaged from excess voltage during the failure.
Unreliable parts are not what you want in a circuit that used multiple of these chips.

[tszaboo]

GPU chip and RAM likely are fine with such sort of failure, and its what's worth the most on such card. So this card still has significant value as a donor.

As a GTX 1030? The card is only useful to display desktop, I would argue that most CPUs have more capable graphics integrated.
Most used computer stores sell working cards for like 20 EUR.

[wraper]

As a GTX 1030? The card is only useful to display desktop, I would argue that most CPUs have more capable graphics integrated.
Most used computer stores sell working cards for like 20 EUR.

It's GTX 1060

[Alex_Baker]

My original intent with this card was to put it in a small storage server I have built with various parts, it has a few random terabytes of hard drives and two xeon x5675s in it. I mostly store video on the server so I wanted to do some video editing with the CPUs, but I wanted a GPU to make everything go smoother.

As for the initial failure, It looks like the original short was on the input side of the VRMs, so my hunch is that when the short happened the card just shut down immediately without causing any damage to the core or memory, but since the computers PSU didn't shutdown immediately the short kept burning for a few seconds before it OCP'd.

If anybody has any quick and dirty methods of making sure that the core is not completely toast let me know. Also, if I were to sell this as a donor board(I likely won't), where would I sell it? I don't see anything of the sort on ebay.

oh, and the cherry on top is that that original fan on the heatsink of the card had a blade missing, which was shown in the listing but I didn't notice it until It arrived. Had I seen the missing blade I probably wouldn't have even have bought the stupid thing!

[wraper]

If resistance across Vcore is more than 0.1 Ohm and resistance over RAM Vdd more than 80 Ohm, then most likely they are alive. Due to very low resistance over Vcore, it may be troublesome to get sensible reading.

[Alex_Baker]

I don't have a meter that is accurate that low on the resistance scale, when the probes are shorted together it reads anywhere between 0.6 and 0.2 ohms depending on the weather, 

I don't think it is worth my time at this point for me to do anything with this card other than stick it in my junk bin, I just wanted you people on the internet to tell me if there was anything I could do with the card before I but it in my junk bin.

Ultimately I learned my lesson, I was hoping to get a card that had simple common MLCC failure like that popular thread on a 1070, but instead I spent almost 75 bucks on a paperweight, don't make that mistake!

[wraper]

I don't have a meter that is accurate that low on the resistance scale, when the probes are shorted together it reads anywhere between 0.6 and 0.2 ohms depending on the weather, 

I don't think it is worth my time at this point for me to do anything with this card other than stick it in my junk bin, I just wanted you people on the internet to tell me if there was anything I could do with the card before I but it in my junk bin.

Ultimately I learned my lesson, I was hoping to get a card that had simple common MLCC failure like that popular thread on a 1070, but instead I spent almost 75 bucks on a paperweight, don't make that mistake!

You should be able to sell it for $50+ easily, maybe even more than you paid for it.

[Pete66]

Stick it in your junk bin.  One day you may need some mosfets or other component on there.

[Rasz]

Stick it in your junk bin.  One day you may need some mosfets or other component on there.

how often do you stick $100 bills in your junk bin?

[Alex_Baker]

how often do you stick $100 bills in your junk bin?

Hey! don't rub it in! LOL

I try not to do it very often! I cant afford to.

I have already stripped a bunch of things off of the board, so at this point I don't think it has any value to neither me or anybody else. Thanks for everybody's comments at least! 

I really need to get better at soldering on stuff like this, I really struggled to get enough heat into the giant copper traces/planes to get stuff to come off the board.

[Pete66]

Stick it in your junk bin.  One day you may need some mosfets or other component on there.

how often do you stick $100 bills in your junk bin?

You should read the original post before you respond:
"I think it goes without saying that this card is e-waste at this point and I lost my money, but I just want to know if there is anything worth saving from this card"

I think I answered the question.

[wraper]

Stick it in your junk bin.  One day you may need some mosfets or other component on there.

how often do you stick $100 bills in your junk bin?

You should read the original post before you respond:
"I think it goes without saying that this card is e-waste at this point and I lost my money, but I just want to know if there is anything worth saving from this card"

I think I answered the question.

Being non-repairable, does not mean it isn't worth money. OP simply doesn't know any better. For example, there is no other way to get GPU chip for replacement other that salvaging from other card or buying salvaged by others. Card with damaged PCB is worth more than card with damaged GPU. Latest post from OP where he said that he removed some components, significantly decreases it's value though. I would be very skeptical buying PCB which was ravaged by others.

[Alex_Baker]

Stick it in your junk bin.  One day you may need some mosfets or other component on there.

how often do you stick $100 bills in your junk bin?

You should read the original post before you respond:
"I think it goes without saying that this card is e-waste at this point and I lost my money, but I just want to know if there is anything worth saving from this card"

I think I answered the question.

Being non-repairable, does not mean it isn't worth money. OP simply doesn't know any better. For example, there is no other way to get GPU chip for replacement other that salvaging from other card or buying salvaged by others. Card with damaged PCB is worth more than card with damaged GPU. Latest post from OP where he said that he removed some components, significantly decreases it's value though. I would be very skeptical buying PCB which was ravaged by others.

I would be skeptical of buying a GPU that had damage at all, especially if there was a failure in the VRMS, who knows if the GPU is fried or not, there is no way to test it except for hedging your bets and putting it on a new board.

But what do I know, I am not in the repair business. I will take your word that it still had some value, though I think that point is long gone now.

[bobbydazzler]

Anything related to the switching stuff is probably worth saving - inductors/chokes/mosfets.  I'd leave the rest maybe one day you find someone who needs the gpu die/ram.

[JacobPilsen]

Maybe there's still a chance to repair that card.
If you carefully mill the burned area to a healthy material.
Then you could start figuring out which paths were interrupted.

Are the four chokes due to four different voltages, or is it a four-phase converter?

[Alex_Baker]

I think it is a four phase DC-DC converter.

I appreciate your interest and your suggestions but I am not going to repair this card, for several reasons.