KrisFix successfully fixes broken Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card by drilling a hole and restoring a trace.
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The fix should have no effect on performance whatsoever. Either the fix is good enough to achieve the signal integrity and timing required for whatever the signal is to make it through at whatever timings the firmware is setting or it isn't and causes glitches.However, the video report does not touch upon whether the manipulation of the memory trace length affects performance.
Could have been trapped water from a PCB cleaning step, such as one of those pressure-washed ex-mining cards. (Haven't watched the video, just guessing.)The problem was odd, a damaged via connecting a pad under the GPU to 13th layer. It looked like corrosion. I'm not sure how a via, could get damaged, especially in such a place.
Could it potentially affect overclocking? I.e. the limits of what the fix can support are sufficient for stock settings, but still worse than the limits of the original trace?The fix should have no effect on performance whatsoever. Either the fix is good enough to achieve the signal integrity and timing required for whatever the signal is to make it through at whatever timings the firmware is setting or it isn't and causes glitches.
Anything that might possibly screw around with signal integrity can do that. Though if your GPU just got brought back from the dead, I'd imagine most people wouldn't be in such a hurry to send it back to hell after shelling out however much the guy charges for his repairs.Could it potentially affect overclocking? I.e. the limits of what the fix can support are sufficient for stock settings, but still worse than the limits of the original trace?
Baking PCBs is a legitimate thing to try when you suspect you are having a cracked ball type issue and the next stop would otherwise be the e-waste bin.Please please please don't let this drilling 'fix' propagate like the oven baking 'fix'.
A singularly weird temporary fix for a single specific part, for a singularly weird fault on a single specific part.
True, but we see FAR too many people propose that as "The Fix", for a totally unknown and probably unrelated problem.Baking PCBs is a legitimate thing to try when you suspect you are having a cracked ball type issue and the next stop would otherwise be the e-waste bin.