[SOLVED] Resolder display port?

[Toxic_Cobra]

Good evening everyone!~~~

Recently a friend of mine was using my computer and he tried to unplug the display port cable from my 1080 ti, unfortunately he is not tech-savy and he told me he pulled on it as hard as he could (he didn't know there's a clip on display port cables >:/) and the clip on the graphics card side broke off, now the cable can be inserted and pulled out easily without using the button on the cable. I work at a electronics repair store and was wondering if I can buy a new display port piece and remove my broken display port so I can solder on the new one. I am very familiar with soldering hdmi ports onto ps4's and xbox's, infact I even have a customer who brought in a xbox series x for hdmi port soldering. What do you all think?

Thanks~

 

[USAFRet]

You're the only one who knows the extent of the damage and your skill level.

 

[Toxic_Cobra]

You're the only one who knows the extent of the damage and your skill level.

It's really simple on consoles, but that's just hdmi ports. Would this display port be much more difficult?

 

[USAFRet]

Again, you're the only one who knows the extent of the damage.
Might be easy, might be hard.

 

[AntonyLovric]

Re-soldering a display port it not trivial. I've done some USB, VGA and DVI ports but many HDMI and DisplayPort surface mount solder adapters are pretty fine / small. I would be tempted to call a repair shop (or card vendor - repair/refurb) and ask for a quote.

You need solder, wick, flux, a heat gun, magnification device, multimeter, fine motor skills, and a replacement Display Port. (BTW, most of the aforementioned will exceed the cost of a new GPU)

Or try to find someone who wants to buy it for bitcoin mining.

There is ONE possible / good outcome. If you can find a donor (dead) card, you can have a source of parts and practice?

Side note: You probably have two HDMI and one DisplayPort left, why not just leave the card as-is and use the other ports?