Which hotspot?
It’s always nice when a plan works! Let’s take a look at the temperatures, which didn’t look any different even after an hour of testing. The before values are deposited as gray curves. The GPU temperature also drops from 80 °C to a more tolerable 75 °C, which is already a nice bonus. Nothing can be seen (and heard) of the 110 °C hotspot and the roaring fans after crossing the thermal Rubicon. The unbelievable 30 Kelvin temperature difference shrinks to a bit under 20 Kelvin, resulting in a hotspot temperature of around 93 to 95 °C. Thus, the card is even on the level of the MBA card with phase change pad and large vapor chamber!
The PCB can also visibly benefit in terms of temperatures. Actually, all areas are now significantly cooler, even the memory. Yes, this has really paid off completely!
Summary and conclusion
What does this article tell us? It’s two things. PowerColor has completely failed in three places during the manufacturing process: Wrong paste was senselessly applied manually, the cooler was even more senselessly screwed together and the quality management was forgotten, which should have noticed such errors before delivery. QC (outgoing) would have been the least they could have done. That’s not possible at all, because the card repaired today is unfortunately NOT an isolated case. The second thing we take away for ourselves is the possibility of fixing such negligence ourselves.
It’s up to the customer to decide whether he or she is bothered by the really superfluous seal. As a manufacturer, I would be happy if the customer would save me the costs for the RMA. But we have already discussed this: In addition to the hard factors, business management also knows the so-called soft factors, which cannot be exactly summed up. But the loss of image is really enormous. Here, the manufacturer should really think about what went wrong and take countermeasures.
Since I am allowed to look at the new factory on Taiwan on 02.06.2023, my questions will certainly be included in a suitable place. Until then, let’s wait and see what else happens and who responds.
The video to the article
The video shows again all necessary steps and is almost a manual. Who has not yet, may also leave a subscription! At some point I would have liked to crack the 100k. So as a small benefit for filming 🙂
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