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From bare board to pretty packaging – Graphics card making quickly explained | igorsLAB

Today you get a little insight behind the scenes of an exemplary graphics card production at PC Partner. I have simply summarized the sequences and also joined in on the schematic appropriate. A must for any tech freak!

Not everything can be put on the board via SMT and that's where man comes into play now

Manual assembly is handmade. Logical.

By the way, we see very nicely that until almost the end two boards are traded as one unit. This is simply faster and it also explains where the funny demolition and cutting edges at the top edge of the board come from with many graphics cards. Now you know.

Twin pairs

Everything manually introduced still has to be soldered and this is exactly what the Wave Soldering ("wave soldering bath") is for. The screen shows very clearly the individual wellness zones from heating up with infrared eamrose and hot air to the actual soldering "bath".

Oven for Wave Soldering

Everything, white hot, must also be cooled down again. And what was not really firmly soldered, flies off again with this brute air pull anyway.

Laues Lüftchen? Of their very good!

The boards are later cleaned again and even "tropicalized" by some manufacturers, i.e. provided with a fine spray mist of a special paint. This is used for corrosion protection at high humidity.

Cleaning

After all these procedures there is a visual post-check and then comes the screwdriver brigade.

Visual control

Things, such as the slot bezel, are only screwed at the very end. From now on, it is no longer possible to rework the board itself.

Slot aperture skilled workers

At the very end, the coolers come onto the board. This happens at almost all companies on the carousel, whereby the shape and the right seat are guaranteed by means of suitable tools.

"Wedding Carousel"

Test the best? Here, all maps are subjected to a functional test and checked. At Zotac, for example, also the models Amp! and Amp! Extreme selected, depending on the achievable clock and then the BIOSe finalized. So these extreme models are really hand-selected! However, I could not photograph this very special process here.

Functional test on the living object

If everything works, then the product can also be put into a colorful box – including the usual bycatch such as adapters, DVDs, etc. Here, too, there are almost more watchdogs, pea counters and security than assembly line workers.

Off to the box!

It should also be mentioned that men always earn more than women, even if they do the same job. There is still a lot to change if social peace is to be maintained. However, it was rarely possible to speak directly to the parties involved, because the surveillance state with the social accounts of the perfect good behavior literally works down to the toilet.

To save honour, however, it must also be noted that the working conditions in companies such as PC Partner, MSI or Gigabyte are comparatively good to very good, if one compares it with the Chinese average. In addition to various social institutions, working hours are not excessive, if only to minimise the committee. I can't comment on the rest, because even as a visitor you are under permanent supervision. If you are even partially paranoid, you shouldn't fly there in the first place. Better is better.

And what remains as a conclusion? Production is just one part of the whole and, once enough material has been released, I will write about the development and things like the RMA. But I'll take that up for next time. That was enough input anyway.

 

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Igor Wallossek

Editor-in-chief and name-giver of igor'sLAB as the content successor of Tom's Hardware Germany, whose license was returned in June 2019 in order to better meet the qualitative demands of web content and challenges of new media such as YouTube with its own channel.

Computer nerd since 1983, audio freak since 1979 and pretty much open to anything with a plug or battery for over 50 years.

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