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so I've just docked into Taiwan at Taipei and this is the beautiful city of Computex we will be filming that a little bit later but today we're gonna be taking a look at how to fix your graphics card if you are in this magical city now behind me is gigabyte and horas and also behind them is msi now I just happen to have three faulty graphics cards on hand that is a gtx 1050 TI a gtx 960 and also a gtx 1070 but i'm told the best thing about these places is is if that they don't fix your card then you have to pay no fee at all so they're automatically talking my language and yes i did get a little bit of sleep so that means there is going to be a lot more used price-performance content coming to your sub box before Computex actually begins with that aside let's check out the faulty pouch of hardware and then see what's wrong with it or what I think is wrong with it and then go in and try and get it repaired and then after that we're also gonna try and get some other electronics that I have on hand either replaced or repaired as well so here's the three cards here the first one is a gigabyte gtx 750ti now this just gives out no signal at all so I'm very curious to see if they can fix the I guess the number one common problem of the faulty GPU and that is just everything looks fine nothing's gone up in smoke but it just doesn't give out a signal at all sometimes this can happen where the fan just spins up fully from when you start the PC or sometimes it can look like it's operating normally but again no signal then beside that we've got a card with the exact same problem this is the MSI GTX 960 and then beside that this one here I do believe they can fix this easily because what happened was I got this from a client who returned a PC and it had a backplate on him when I took that back plate off it had two of the SMD s on the back were burnt off so that's probably an easy fix I'm hoping at the very least they can fix this since it is a gtx 1060 and apparently they only charge 40 US dollars to fix these graphics cards if they manage to fix them so we're gonna go inside the stores which are literally just two steps away and see what they say so they're not gonna fix the msi car then the they need a telephone number but you only have an Aussie number so they're asking what happened with this card and I just told them spool but uh and if you guys remember from the last pots on ma Co he helped us out because he can speak the language healed and so he's sort of doing a bit of translation so apparently it's seven business days so that's why I got in really early with this because again this vlog will sort of conclude if I just get enough time to get these cards back before I go back to Australia that's why I budgeted the time and I said like this is probably cool we got these graphs guys fixed if we can now the good thing is is that these cars apparently are still under warranty even though I don't have the receipts the official Support Centre here will fix them for free which is absolutely awesome considering everything else so if this does go through I'll be over the moon now this one here spawn this one here no it's just a little cool it's got my info instead okay yeah just sign yep just sign there yep sign your life away okay while you're filming it coming yes they really cool they can they said I could film in here guys so don't worry I know there's some people in the comments like you shouldn't put a camera in their face it's like I asked him first but we know the trigger people we just put a camera in her face and we just got out of the Gigabyte service center and that was really good news because hopefully both those gravis cars will come back fixed and they won't cost me anything at all that's hoping fingers crossed but it's simply right next door with the MSI's door let's just go in there and see if they can fix that gtx 960 that's what we need to get a number okay so we just got out of the msi repair center and they were going to charge twenty seven US dollars to fix up that gtx 960 but one thing about that was they were really reluctant to accept the graphics card because it wasn't bought with in taiwan and another thing i've learned from this is that if you don't have someone that speaks chinese then you're going to have very little chance of getting your parts are made or fixed so especially in the case of the msi store like they did not speak one word of English and I'm lucky I had Markoff you guys don't remember Marko was featured last year and Computex used paths on he basically speaks fluent Chinese and so it was really good having him around except he's a little bit shy to appear on camera this time around due to all the positive comments he got in the last year's parts hunt but to tell you that up with those three grabs cards we've got two gigabyte cards though looking like they'll get fixed for free if they manage to come back in time and then the GTX 960 from MSI that hopefully will get fixed if it doesn't it's no cost if it does it's $27 but you're probably wondering where I am at the moment I'm in a very big district popular electronics store in Taiwan called the Guang hua electronics district and here's where I'm going to try and get some repairs on my microphone besides that I'm also gonna try and get some faulty pots which I don't have receipts for or anything like that just like the grabby Scots I'm gonna take them to the manufacturers here and especially in the case of faulty RAM I'm going to see if they do adhere to that lifetime warranty that we always hear about when you buy some of these pots without a side let's get rolling exactly right this second right kick and he's quick yeah he's quick so last year I came to this exact store and they fixed me up with a custom cable for recording for combi Jack's it's actually a life saver so I knew straight away to come back here again now what we've got here is an old 1980s vintage Japanese broadcaster mic now I picked this up on a deals hunt quite a while ago but you guys been complaining about the gold Mike saying you don't like it and it's time for a change and I think it's time for a very so I think I got this one for about ten dollars but the thing is on the used market they go for over $150 I believe so I'm not too sure but I have tested out the vocal properties with an adapter already and it does sound pretty damn good as well as having good noise rejection does take a double-a battery as well underneath that and is required to get that to work on my standard cameras whether it be a DSR or the one that I'm using now which is just the standard vlog cam and here's the original jack so this is a quarter inch Jack and we're gonna not only shorten the cable but we're also going to change that over to a 3.5 millimeter that will natively plug into my camera right now and you can see here just on-the-fly the service is so good they're pretty much just sold during on the new ends and like I said just earlier before last time I got a cable here it was it's just been rock-solid it last was so long and they just do a really good job of making everything work and of course it doesn't break the bank at all so awesome and of course if you guys have followed me for a while you know that I can't solder for Jack so this is going to solve one problem very quickly and we'll give it a quick test as well testing one two this is the new broadcaster mic for Computex and I believe it is working because the volume bars on the camera moving and we are getting signal on both the left and the right also quickly let us know in the comment section below are you enjoying this vlog and are you enjoying the new vintage 1980s microphone so we're now back in Australia and I tested out these three graphics cards that I got fixed up and the 1050 Ti it works absolutely fine but one interesting thing about this card is that it says m9 bad on the card itself so I'm not sure what that means if someone out there in the audience knows what m9 bad means I'd actually love to know another cool thing about this card was when I was at the repair center they had this actually giving out a signal initially and when I first saw it I was like no way because before I do deem a card faulty or bad I do test it out in a variety of situations and just when I was there I said to them can you please run a benchmark on this gtx 10:50 TI and so they started up heaven and it wouldn't even boot and this and then the car just crashed out and then after that it wouldn't give out a signal at all so then they said okay we've got to repair this thing and ship it off and then it came back about five days later saying with the gtx 1070 but in the case of the 1070 they didn't even fix it up they just gave me a whole new card and it had a new backplate on it because I didn't bring the back plate with me because I thought it wasn't needed and so there must have been more to that card than meets the eye because I thought it was just to faulty resistors on the back but obviously there might have been a bit more wrong with the car because they just replaced it entirely and that card 2 is now on the test bench it's working a hundred percent it's all good to go and I did take off the plastic wrapping after everything worked just for those people who got OCD about it and then last up here we had the GTX 960 and this came back all ok as well just like the other two cards but MSI also replaced the faulty fan blade I wasn't really faulty it was just missing a fin and they replaced that entirely and the funny thing about these fan blades is that they do cost a bit on the new market so what's good to see that they not only fix the card but they also replaced the fan blade for 25 US dollars roughly I think it was about 800 NT dollars so I'll quickly put the transfer prices up here for you guys you get an idea of how much it cost but overall we had three faulty cards that came in and three cards that are pretty much brand new come out and that's a really good thing because it gives sort of an option for people on what to do with their faulty cards instead of sticking them in the oven which I know a lot of us have tried in the past and pretty much the hit rate on that is really pretty low in my experience so you can get them to come back to life that in a lot of cases I think there's more to a faulty graphics card than just the GPU dye itself in a lot of the cases in times of m9 I'm not sure that means and in the case of this MSI board I'm pretty sure they did not replace the GPU die I'm pretty sure it was something else on the card that was faulty and so really hit home with me when these cards are made in Taiwan and it makes sense if you've got a faulty card to then go get it fixed in Taiwan because I think if you're in America Australia or UK for example when you go to a repair centre there they sometimes ship it all the way back to Taiwan anyway and it gets repaired there and then shipped back to you and of course the transit times can be pretty bad and in case of the card if it's actually out of warranty then they'll probably charge you a lot more as they otherwise would have charged you if you were in Taiwan in the case of fixing the GTX 960 $25 is actually a pretty good price gtx 750ti and also gtx 1070 getting fixed for free is needless to say one of the best bargains of my life considering I picked these up on the used market in the case of the 1050 TI I thought I got hosed by gigabyte and the service made it so I didn't get hosed and I got a really good deal in the end and in the case of that 1070 that was a faulty card that came back I've already replaced it for the person who bought a PC of me but ultimately it's a really good experience I know my expressions on my face and the way I'm talking probably isn't as excited as I should be but that's because I just got back from Computex and that was just nine days of straight full-on burnout maybe if you see a faulty card and especially if it's something like a GTX 10 series card or a new Radeon card or something like that and it says faulty and is going for really cheap then you can pick that up and if you're in Taiwan or in that area then those service centres are really good to deal with though I will state in the case of MSI I did have Marco there and it did speak Chinese and I think if he didn't speak they wouldn't have taken the turn in and they wouldn't have repaired the card so that is something to come out of that so if you do go to Taiwan make sure you've got a friend who's local and who can take you to the service center and just organise the RMA and get the card fixed as tase's gigabyte service that was really top-notch it was a different experience and they didn't know who I was when I walked in there they were just really friendly and they like really receptive and helped me out and said okay these cards are actually still under warranty technically and we'll fix him for free for you and I was like wow that's really cool service so the case of gigabyte was awesome I think he could have got away if you didn't speak Chinese but in the case of the msi service center you definitely want someone there who can speak the local language but also in regards to the other faulty parts i had with the faulty memory the faulty SSD and stuff like that i just did not get time to go to those service centers and initiate the RMA as I ran out of time during Computex so I would have loved to have updated you guys on that but keep in mind I do believe the service for repairing parts in Taiwan is actually really good at least what came out of these graphics cards here because these are more expensive units than memory so I imagined they wouldn't have a problem repairing SSDs and things like memory as well but you guys that's it for today and repairing GPUs in Taiwan massive success if you guys have any stories of your own about repairing pots or you got any questions be sure to drop a comment 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